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By 2016, Pokémon X and Y had already transitioned the franchise into the new visual realm made possible by the 3DS, meaning that Sun and Moon would have to do something drastic to stand out from their predecessors. Thankfully, the combined powers of Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company came up with something pretty special

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai caused a bit of a stir today when he suggested that Fatal Fury star Mai Shiranui may be too sexy to be a DLC character. “You may have noticed that a very important character from the Fatal Fury series was not included,” said Sakurai during a recent livestream. “Yes, Mai Shiranui.

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games has denied rumors that they are working on a Banjo-Kazooie sequel.  “We hate to be the bearers of news that isn’t what you want to hear, but we thought it best to come out and say we aren’t working on a new Banjo-Kazooie game and we remain an independent studio,” says Playtonic via

Valve and Apple are reportedly working together on a new AR headset.  DigiTimes reports that Apple has revived its AR headset project and seems to have enlisted Valve’s help in order to see it through to completion. The two companies have previously collaborated on VR support functionality for macOS, but this project, if it is

W.C. Fields famously said: “Never work with children or animals.” For Bruce Willis, that mantra probably reads more like: “Never work with Kevin Smith or video game developers.” Willis’ “creative differences” with Smith are well-documented – and there for the world to see in their ironically titled movie Cop Out – but Bruce’s fateful foray

Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Death Stranding studio Kojima Productions is interested in expanding into making movies.  “In the future, Kojima Productions will start making films,” says Kojima in an interview with BBC Newsbeat. “If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well.” Kojima goes on to explain that this eventual

BlizzCon 2019, the biggest Blizzard celebration of the year, is finally here! And this is where you can keep up with all of the big announcements, watch new gameplay footage and trailers, and even catch the esports action from your favorite Blizzard games. You can catch everything on Nov. 1-3. Check out the full schedule

Release Date: October 25, 2019Platform: Xbox One (reviewed), PC, PS4Developer: Infinity WardPublisher: ActivisionGenre: First-Person Shooter Call Of Duty hasn’t taken a year off from its annual release schedule since the franchise began all the way back in 2003 – but there had been suggestions that the series had become stale. Thankfully, this year’s title, Modern Warfare,

Diablo 4 has officially been confirmed at Blizzcon 2019.  The opening trailer for the game shows adventurers wandering into a dark and ominous dungeon. At the end of their journey, they come to a room of sacrifice where we watch the torturously slow calling of Lilith, the daughter of Mephisto, Lord of Hatred. It’s a stunning

The next World of Warcraft expansion is called World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. After the latest update to Battle of Azeroth saw the Horde and Alliance arrive at a temporary peace agreement, everything seemed to be relatively quiet in the world of Azeroth. However, the first trailer for Shadowlands shows Sylvannas Windrunner make her way to

The next Hearthstone expansion is officially titled Descent of Dragons. Considering that Hearthstone‘s current content year is called the Year of the Dragon, it’s appropriate that the final expansion of the year will focus on dragons. Specifically, it sees the League of Explorers and the League of E.V.I.L venture to a World of Warcraft staple

Overwatch 2 is real and it turns out that many of the rumors surrounding the game were true. First off, the biggest draw of Overwatch 2 will indeed be PvE content. Overwatch 2 will feature a series of co-op, story-based missions that will seemingly focus on the Overwatch team getting back together to fight a

Netflix has wrapped production of The Witcher season 1. Series star Henry Cavill made the announcement on Instagram, saying “Season 1 of The Witcher has finally come to an end,” he wrote in the caption. “And although I’m pulling a face here it has been an incredible journey!” Further Reading: 25 Underrated Video Game Soundtracks The

This article is sponsored by NVIDIA. When it comes to immersive, realistic graphics in PC gaming, ray-tracing is the new frontier, and no other tech company is leading that charge like NVIDIA. With its new line of GeForce RTX GPUs, powered by Turing GPU architecture, NVIDIA is bringing players the most advanced, high-end graphics currently

The designer of Payday and Payday 2, Ulf Anderson, has started a new studio called 10 Chambers Collective. His first project will retain Payday‘s four-player co-op gameplay but will add an element of horror that only exists in Payday when someone screws up the vault drill.  GTFO is described as a “terrifying 4 player co-op

Marvel announced in January 2017 that it has signed a multi-year, multi-game deal with publisher Square Enix to develop titles based on the popular superhero universe. The first title in the works is Marvel’s Avengers.  According to Marvel, the game will feature a completely new and original story, and will introduce a universe gamers can play

Earlier this year, Den of Geek launched two new PC Gaming series, one focused on the History of PC Gaming as well as a PC Building Guide meant to help our readers create their own powerful rigs to play the latest releases at the highest graphical settings and efficiency. The latter series has allowed us

Diablo is going mobile with Diablo Immortal. Described as a “full-fledged action RPG,” Diablo Immortal will serve as direct follow-up to Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. That means that it will complete the stories of certain characters that appeared in that game as well as continue some of the storylines that weren’t necessarily addressed in Diablo III. However, it feels

The biggest event of the year for fans of World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, Hearthstone, and StarCraft is here! BlizzCon 2019 is the one-stop convention for Blizzard Entertainment. Held over one long weekend in November, BlizzCon will bring you all the latest news regarding your favorite Blizzard games, and this year’s con promises to be the

A report by ESPN suggests that they have acquired leaked information regarding Overwatch 2.  ESPN claims to have secured a training document from Blizzard’s upcoming BlizzCon event which reveals some intriguing new details about the previously rumored Overwatch sequel. While ESPN doesn’t reveal how it secured these documents, it’s worth noting that many of the

Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, will be a playable character in the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers from Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montréal,sandr and Square Enix. This news was originally announced at New York Comic-Con, where a trailer revealed the character and Sandra Saad was confirmed to be playing the role. The super-stretchy teenage superhero Ms. Marvel

This article originally appeared at Den of Geek UK. Ring, Audition, Dark Water, Onibaba, House, Kuroneko... Ask most film fans to name a prominent Japanese horror, and one of those titles would probably come up. Ask most video game fanatics to name a Japanese horror game, and they’d probably reply with Resident Evil, Silent Hill,

Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s subscription service for Xbox One owners. It’s designed to be like a “Netflix for games,” where you pay a simple monthly rate and get access to loads of games for download. It’s not to be confused with the Xbox Live Gold membership, which gives users a selection of free games each

I am Iron Man… for 10 minutes or so. After watching Robert Downey Jr. swoop around the big screen for over a decade, who wouldn’t want to step into the iconic red and gold armor to take flight in Iron Man VR? When the upcoming experience was being demoed on the show floor at EGX

When it was announced that The Outer Worlds would let you assemble a squad of companions, few people knew exactly what to make of that information. After all, the popular narrative surrounding The Outer Worlds concerned its status as the spiritual sequel to Fallout: New Vegas. While there were companions in Fallout: New Vegas, their

The next game in Ubisoft’s hacking-focused open-world series is called Watch Dogs Legion, Ubisoft confirmed ahead of E3 2019. Watch Dogs Legion will be set in a dystopian “post-Brexit” version of London.  “Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near-future, dystopian version of London,” reads the game’s leaked description. “It’s a post-Brexit world in which society, politics, and

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Ah, the ’80s. The decade of video nasties, The A-Team, Boy George, and Ronald Reagan. A time of conspicuous consumption and voluminous hair, the ’80s were also the decade when video games rapidly evolved, from the blocky 8-bit computers and consoles at its beginning to the more powerful

Goichi “Suda51” Suda (creator of No More Heroes and Killer 7) and Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro (creator of the infamous Deadly Premonition) are teaming up to work on a new horror game seemingly known as Hotel Barcelona.  Everything about this announcement is strange, so you’re going to have to bear with us as we try to sort

We’ve stopped laughing long enough to bring you news that Bethesda is now offering a monthly (or yearly) subscription plan for Fallout 76.  For either $12.99 a month (Hahahahaha) or $99.99 a year (Bwhahahahaha) you can access a premium Fallout 76 subscription plan known as Fallout 1st. What do you get for that tidy sum?

Release Date: October 25, 2019Platform: PS4 (Reviewed), Xbox One, PCDeveloper: Obsidian EntertainmentPublisher: Private DivisionGenre: RPG Nostalgia can be dangerous. It encourages us to immortalize what was when we actually should be trumpeting how those things made us feel and pushed us to discover new experiences. We end up spinning our wheels in the same mentality while the world changes around