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Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon has been announced with its first trailer. The developers at Yacht Club Games, overseers of the Shovel Knight franchise, have teamed up with the developers at Vine to make this intriguing new game a reality. It’s apparently “a Roguelite Puzzle game hybrid”, with the team at Yacht Club Games explaining that

The Diablo 4 development team shared some updates that they’ve added to the game in response to some of the fan feedback that they’ve received thus far.  At this time, it seems that most of the major updates revolve around the game’s UI and aesthetics. Specifically, Blizzard notes that they’ve altered Diablo 4‘s inventory screens

The developers at DeNA have announced some big new additions to the Pokémon Masters mobile game, including a single-player survival mode called Battle Villa. This will be music to the ears of gamers who called for more single-player content at the time of the game’s launch in August last year. “Battle Villa is a new

In February, Den of Geek descended into a dungeon-like underground bar in Paris to take part in a preview event for Baldur’s Gate 3. Journalists sat on pews in a chapel-like room to watch Larian studio head Swen Vincke play through a few hours of the highly anticipated RPG. We didn’t get a chance to

Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode has just received its biggest update yet. There’s quite a lot to cover here (and you can read the full details here), but the headline of the latest Battlegrounds patch is the addition of dragons to the mode’s roster of minions. Despite being one of the most popular minion types in Hearthstone’s constructed

After releasing multiple quality collections of the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X games, Capcom has turned its focus to yet another Mega Man subseries with the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection. Despite the somewhat awkward title, this is the best collection of Mega Man titles yet. The Zero and ZX games are among the

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Team Ninja’s superhero brawler game that launched exclusively on Nintendo Switch last year, is getting its third major DLC package – and this one promises to be fantastic. It will center on the Fantastic Four going into battle with Doctor Doom. Set to launch on March 26, the new DLC

Mortal Kombat 11’s first Kombat Pack of DLC characters is almost at an end. So far we’ve seen the familiar with Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel. We’ve had special guest stars in the Terminator and the Joker. That leaves the sixth entry, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. McFarlane’s been wanting his creation to show up in a

Three Fields Entertainment has announced that Dangerous Driving 2 is in the works. This, of course, is the sequel to Dangerous Driving, the high-octane racing game that was developed by a lot of people that previously worked on the Burnout franchise. The crashing-heavy Dangerous Driving launched in April 2019 and is widely considered to be

The latest Nintendo Direct focused on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and revealed quite a few new details about the upcoming title.  There’s a lot to cover here, but the gist of what we larned is that New Horizons is going to be a bit different from some of the series’ most notable titles of the

Fortnite is once again crossing paths with Marvel, with the famously mouthy comic-book mercenary Deadpool appearing in the iconic battle royale game as an unlockable skin in the latest Battle Pass. There have been a few crossovers between Marvel and Fortnite in the past, including last year’s Stan Lee-homaging Avengers: Endgame event, but this one

Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish) is officially set to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the popular Borderlands video game franchise. “I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio,” said Roth in a press release. “I have a

Netflix has confirmed the names of returning and new members of The Witcher‘s cast ahead of the show’s anticipated 2021 season 2 release date.  Every major member of the show’s original cast will return for season 2 (including Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, and Anya Chalotra), so it’s the new cast members that have really caught everyone’s attention.

Our friends at ModMyMods, who helped us build our official Den of Geek PC last year, have released a new product called ModWater, a coolant that is specifically designed to help fuel the liquid cooling system in your PC. DIYers will likely be familiar with the water cooling systems that have become more common in today’s

Sonic, X-Men, Transformers, and The Little Mermaid will headline a new series of retro Tiger handheld LCD gaming devices that are set to release later this year.  Now, we’re temporarily going to assume that you, valued reader, may not have any idea what we’re talking about when we talk about LCD gaming devices. If that’s the

The spaceship-stuffed game No Man’s Sky is continuing its trajectory from shaky launch to really interesting piece of work, with the latest update to the space-exploration experience adding funky biological spaceships into the mixer. The game’s previous big update, No Man’s Sky Beyond, launched in August 2019 and added a multiplayer mode. And now, going live

Release Date: February 14, 2020 (Street Fighter V originally released on February 16, 2016)Platform: PS4 (reviewed), PCDeveloper: Capcom, DimpsPublisher: CapcomGenre: Fighting The Capcom release model for fighting games is simple. Release a game, then release a bigger version of it again and again until it’s time to move on. This has been Street Fighter’s bread and

Larian is preparing to reveal the gameplay for Baldur’s Gate III, the long-awaited new installment in the iconic RPG franchise. The existence of this new entry in the Dungeons & Dragons-based video game series was announced with a cinematic trailer at E3 2019, but the public has yet to clap eyes on any fully-fledged gameplay

Games based on the popular James Cameron film Aliens are a bit like buses: you wait for ages for them and they don’t turn up, and you later learn there were meant to be two of them on the way. Okay, maybe that metaphor doesn’t work, but please stick with us here because this news

Two of Blizzard’s biggest franchises, Overwatch and Diablo, could be getting the animated series treatment, according to information revealed by Nick Van Dyk, the president of Activision Blizzard Studios, on LinkedIn. On his resume, Dyk confirmed that he worked on both animated series — an Overwatch cartoon and a Diablo anime, the latter of which

Here’s some bad news for the bank balances of gamers around the globe: reports suggest that expensive components are making it hard for Sony to drive drown the price of the PlayStation 5. The next-generation console is meant to be launching in the holiday season at the end of 2020, at a similar time to

The opening cinematic for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake has been released, and it’s already causing quite a stir.  This remade cinematic is not exactly a 1:1 remake of the original opening cinematic of the game. However, there are quite a few similarities between the two, and nearly every shot in the original opening is remade. 

Professor Oak is wading into battle for the first time ever in a game, with the legendary Pokémon Prof being added to Pokémon Masters. The strategy-based mobile game, which launched in August last year, pits the player against a series of trainers that are paired up with just one Pokémon. As you progress, you add trainers

There was never any doubt that Castlevania would return for a third season on Netflix. After all, not only has it turned out to be a successful series for the streaming service but it’s one of the best (if not THE best) adaptations of a video game franchise to date. And, if the official trailer

The Nacelle Company, the studio responsible for the popular Netflix series The Toys That Made Us and The Movies That Made Us has announced a partnership with Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films which will see them produce a documentary about Magic: The Gathering.  “We’re honored to be producing this documentary, which is sure to introduce the iconic game to

Remedy, the studio behind games such as Alan Wake, Max Payne, and Control, has confirmed that they are working on three new projects, one of which is described as a live service game.  We already know that the first game is a single-player campaign for CrossFireX. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, don’t be surprised. The

Video game host and personality Geoff Keighley has caused quite a stir by announcing that he will not be participating in E3 2020.  “For the past 25 years, I have attended every Electronic Entertainment Expo”, writes Keighley in a letter posted via Twitter. “I have made the difficult decision to decline to produce E3 Coliseum.

In a fascinating speech at the 2020 DICE Summit, Sean Shoptaw (senior vp games and interactive experiences at Disney) stated that Disney wants developers to explore the creative possibilities of their various franchises.  “I’m here for one specific reason: to empower you to do really unique things with our [catalog],” Shoptaw says. “We want to tap into

The Entertainment Software Association has revealed its plans for E3 2020, which be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 9-11. Tickets go on sale on Feb. 15. at 11 am ET and can be purchased here. Two different tiers of badges will be offered for this year’s show. Gamer Badges, which give

Nvidia has announced that Activision Blizzard has decided to remove their games from GeForce NOW.  “As we take GeForce NOW to the next step in its evolution, we’ve worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games,” reads a statement from Nvidia “This means continually adding new games, and on occasion, having