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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is getting a remake for the Nintendo Switch. The news was revealed during February’s Nintendo Direct presentation. The game features an all-new 3D art style that celebrates the classic top-down perspective of the iconic Game Boy title. Nintendo didn’t go into detail regarding the extent of the upgrades for

In the spirit of the infamous Wii Fit series, Nintendo is releasing new fitness software and hardware for the Nintendo Switch.  Stick with us, because this is odd and pretty fascinating. The software is called Ring Fit Adventure, and it serves as the companion to a new exercise peripheral that’s basically a giant, round workout cable

Team Ninja is working on a sequel to their well-received Souls-like title, Nioh. In a way, it’s not too surprising to hear that Team Ninja is working on a sequel to Nioh. After all, the game reportedly sold even better than they were expecting it to sell and performed especially well on PC where the developers had

This Walking Dead article contains spoilers.  Much has happened since Telltale’s The Walking Dead, an episodic adventure game based on Robert Kirkman’s hit comic book series, first launched in 2012. Not only did the success of the first game spawn several follow-up seasons, but it also allowed developer Telltale Games to branch out to other

Civilization 6 is getting a battle royale mode because it’s 2019 and game identity has disappeared faster than me trying to play a battle royale game. Seriously, though, this new mode (known as Red Death) is pretty interesting. In it, 2-12 players compete to be the last civilization standing on a map that becomes smaller

Google has announced a brand new online gaming platform called Stadia, which will allow players to stream both high-end AAA and indie games on any device without the need for a console, a disc, or a hefty download. The company has long been teasing its “vision for the future of gaming,” and the exact specifics

Hideo Kojima has revealed that Death Stranding will have a “Very Easy” mode.  “Normally there’s only Easy Mode, but we added Very Easy Mode for movie fans since we have real actors like Norman, Mads, Lea starred in,” said Kojima via Twitter. “Even Yano-san who never completed the 1st stage of PAC-MAN, was able to

A new camera hack reveals that the ghostly figure Lisa, which terrified many players in Hideo Kojima’s P.T., was actually behind you the entire time.  In case you aren’t familiar with P.T. (a title that we called the video game equivalent of The Exorcist), allow us to explain a few things. See, P.T. forces the

Capcom has launched a new website for the next Resident Evil game, and early rumors surrounding the project are absolutely fascinating.  The website itself reveals that the game will be called Project Resistance (unless that proves to be a working title) and that we’ll see more of it at the 2019 Tokyo Game Show on

Fortnite seems to be gearing up for another movie crossover, with the appearance of ominous red balloons in the game seeming like a fairly massive clue that It Chapter Two content is coming to the iconic battle royale game. Epic Games hasn’t yet announced the Fortnite/It Chapter Two crossover, but it does seem like a match

The Madden NFL series has brought in more than $3 billion in revenue for EA over the last three decades. In that time, the game has transcended both the video game industry and even the man who originally lent it his name. “Madden” to most people these days is not a legendary head coach and

Release Date: Sept. 6, 2019Platform: XBO (reviewed), PCDeveloper: The CoalitionPublisher: MicrosoftGenre: Third-person Shooter If 2016’s Gears of War 4 was the Star Wars: The Force Awakens of the franchise, a sequel hellbent on feeding our nostalgia for the original, then Gears 5 falls squarely in The Last Jedi territory, a follow-up that branches out from an established

Nintendo will no longer release classic games (which now include NES and SNES titles) on a monthly basis via their Switch Online Service.  The news initially appeared on Nintendo’s Japanese website, but it gradually spread to their US site and other outlets. In a statement to Vooks, Na Nintendo representative said that they do intend

PlayStation is releasing a series of special edition covers designed to celebrate some of the PS4’s best exclusives.  It’s called the Only on PlayStation collection, and so far it includes Spider-Man, God of War, Bloodborne, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us Remastered, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Last Guardian, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted 4,

Steve Mayles, the creator of the Banjo and Kazooie characters, spoke via Video Game Chronicles about how pleased he is that the characters have been added to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster.  “Now they have returned in Smash, I’ve been surprised by the reception,” says Mayles. “Part of it is being away for so

Deadly Premonition 2 was quietly confirmed during the loaded Nintendo Direct that also featured Overwatch, the Jedi Knight games, and SNES games coming to Switch Online. While it may not be quite as high-profile as some of those announcements, the fact that we’re getting a sequel to Deadly Premonition is one of the most pleasant surprises

At the Gamescom 2019 conference in Cologne, Germany, precisely 237 days prior to the release of Cyberpunk 2077, Den of Geek was ushered into a darkened cinema to watch close to 45 minutes of gameplay from CD Projekt Red’s upcoming sci-fi RPG. With one member of the development team playing the game live and another

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is currently in the middle of its run of DLC, which is an exciting guessing game because you never know who’s joining the fight next. They can be from any game! So far we’ve already seen the Piranha Plant from Super Mario Bros., Joker from Persona, Hero from Dragon Quest, and

Kotaku is reporting that Overwatch is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year.  The site claims that sources have informed them that the rumors of Overwatch coming to Nintendo Switch are true and that Nintendo should formally announce the port during their Direct stream later today. Information leaked from retails suggests that it will

Actor and former WWE star Dave Bautista will appear in Gears 5 as a special playable character who is scheduled to be added to the game on September 15.  Bautista confirmed his appearance in the game by sending out a tweet that included the words “It’s about damn time.” That’s seemingly a reference to his vocal

Popular streamer Ninja has caused the quite the stir by joining World of Warcraft Classic and playing World of Warcraft for the first time.  Twitch streamer TimTheTatMan and fellow streamer members of his WoW guild spoke to Tyler “Ninja” Blevins this morning and convinced him to hop on their WoW server after much speculation regarding

This article is part 4 in our History of PC Gaming series. It’s not easy explaining what exactly EVE Online is in a single paragraph or why it’s so important to the estimated 500,000 people who play it. On the surface, it’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that takes place in a galaxy

Release Date: August 30, 2019Platform: PC (reviewed), XBODeveloper: Bloober TeamPublisher: Bloober TeamGenre: Psychological Horror It made all the sense in the world to me when I heard that Polish studio Bloober Team was developing a psychological horror game inspired by the Blair Witch franchise. The studio’s brilliant Layers of Fear games are some of the

The PC has been a staple of the video game industry for decades. Consoles come and go, talk of new generations pop-up every handful of years, and companies continue to try to get in on the nostalgic classic console scene, but the one constant that remains is that you’ll never be able to experience the

Bungie has shared more information about how Destiny 2‘s upcoming season will work, and the upcoming changes to the game’s format include the introduction of what is essentially a battle pass.  “With every Season Pass, you will get everything you’d expect from a Destiny Season (new activities, rewards, a storyline, et cetera), not just the new Season

With the arrival of World of Warcraft Classic, longtime players can once again quest through the game’s original versions of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. The two continents have been restored to what they looked like before Deathwing reshaped the world with 2010’s Cataclysm expansion. Part of the Classic restoration includes the return of many

Cyberpunk 2077 will be CD Projekt Red’s first game outside The Witcher universe, and its first foray into science fiction. Based on the Cyberpunk series of tabletop games, it is, as its name suggests, inspired by the pioneers of the cyberpunk subgenre – namely William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. We can, therefore, expect plenty of cyborgs, AI, benighted cities, and

The Matrix came to us courtesy of two largely unknown creators. It wasn’t based on a comic, novel, or TV series, and it wasn’t a remake/reboot. Yet, somehow the studio managed to sell people on the movie based on an ambiguous marketing campaign that refused to reveal just what the movie was about. It’s the

There has been a surge of success and popularity in the horror games genre over the past several years, led by breakout experiences like Outlast, P.T., and Five Nights At Freddy’s, and supported by countless indie horror titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, IMSCARED, and Lone Survivor. We’re at a saturation point where players have

Sega has released the reveal trailer for Yakuza 7, and it’s already clear that this upcoming sequel will represent a significant departure for the series.  Let’s get right to it: according to an interview translated by Gematsu, Yakuza 7 will feature a turn-based combat system. Given that Yakuza‘s real-time brawling combat is one its trademarks