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Nightdive Studios (the studio behind the troubled development of the System Shock remake) are working on an enhanced version of System Shock 2.  “You asked for it and we are working on it,” reads a post on the Nightdive Studios’ Twitter account. “System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition coming soon!!!” The studio doesn’t offer any additional

The much-hyped Minecraft Super Duper Graphics update is now officially dead.  “Some of you might remember us announcing the Super Duper Graphics Pack during E3 2017. Super Duper was an ambitious initiative that brought a new look to Minecraft,” reads a post on the Minecraft blog. “Unfortunately, the pack proved too technically demanding to implement

Blizzard has launched a new forum designed to help you find your old World of Warcraft friends and perhaps meet up with them again to try out World of Warcraft Classic.  The forum, which you can find right here, is called “Classic Connections” and allows people to either look for their old Alliance teammates, find

The Turbografx-16 is coming back to the market, with Konami following the trend of re-releasing retro consoles as miniature modern products. The Turbografx-16, which was initially released in Japan in 1987, will be reborn as the Turbografx-16 Mini. This trend of tiny retro consoles, of course, has already seen the NES Mini, SNES Mini, and the PS

Walmart is reportedly asking store employees to remove certain references to violent video games in the wake of the recent El Paso shootings.  Some Walmart employees have taken to social media to share screenshots of an internal memo which requests the removal of “signing and displays reference violence.” It then goes on to request the

A recent email sent to members of Capcom’s RE Ambassadors program suggests that the studio is working on a new Resident Evil game.  “Hi Resident Evil Ambassadors,” reads the email. “Today we’re reaching out to recruit potential testers from our loyal RE Ambassador community to try out a new game in early development.” The email goes

A supermassive black hole has 2.25 billion times the mass of our sun.  “Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, astronomers have captured an extraordinary glimpse of a huge swirling disk of cold, dense interstellar gas rotating around a supermassive black hole.” Read more at Inverse. Danny Trejo became a real-life hero

Nintendo Switch Online is the subscription service for owners of, you guessed it, the Nintendo Switch. The portable games console’s snazzy membership club launched properly in September 2018, and, although membership isn’t essential to enjoying the Switch, it does connect you to some pretty cool stuff.  In terms of pricing, single-user membership to Nintendo Switch

Fans are wondering what’s going on after Death Stranding was removed from an official list of upcoming PlayStation exclusives.  As users on the ResetEra forum first noted, Death Stranding is not listed as an upcoming PlayStation exclusive on PlayStation’s Australian website. The funny thing is that it was listed as an exclusive on that website

YouTuYouTuber SupMatto recently claimed that Borderlands 3 publisher 2K Games sent private investigators to his house over information he reportedly leaked. The claim was serious enough to prompt fans to take to Twitter and start a #BoycottBorderlands3 campaign. Now, in a statement to IGN, 2K confirms that the YouTuber in question has indeed been under investigation. 

The Entertainment Software Association has confirmed that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are working together on a new policy that will require all games that appear on their platforms to disclose their loot box odds.  “I’m pleased to announce this morning that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have indicated to ESA a commitment to new platform policies

Developers Ben Wasser and Rebecca Cordingley reveal that they’ve been receiving threats from fans over their decision to make PC game Ooblets an Epic Store exclusive.  “We don’t take ourselves too seriously and maintained that throughout our multiple communication channels. It’s been that way for as long as we’ve been around,” says Wasser in a post on Medium.

One of the Fire Emblem franchise’s primary strengths is that it moves you via story and gameplay to become emotionally attached to every single character in your party. Fire Emblem: Three Houses ups the ante by putting you in the role of professor tasked with teaching and mentoring the young women and men in your class as well as

Sega has announced that the Sega Genesis Mini is launching this autumn, promising to pack “40 legendary games” into a smaller version of the iconic home console. As one of the major platforms of the video game industry’s golden age, it’s about time Sega officially brought back the console. This tiny version of the Genesis

A cryptic video released via Twitter has gotten gamers buzzing about Hotline Miami 3. However, Devolver Digital has stepped in to confirm that they are not actually developing a sequel to the revolutionary indie title.  “This is a very cool fan film (or teaser for one maybe) but rest assured there is not another Hotline

A man in Reno (who was, based on early reports never shot by Johnny Cash for Cash’s own amusement) named Scott Amos was rummaging through the attic of his childhood home when he found a copy of Kid Icarus that turned out to be worth quite a lot of money at auction. Released in 1986

The Halo live-action TV series is a go at Showtime. The 10-episode series, which will begin filming in Budapest in Fall 2019, takes place during “an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant,” weaving “deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future,” according to a statement

We’re a month or so into Mortal Kombat 11’s Kombat Pack 1 DLC right now. So far we’ve been given Shang Tsung and they’ve announced two returning characters (Nightwolf and Sindel), one guest character (Spawn), and have been vague about two more on the way (probably Ash Williams and the T-800). With Evo 2019 kicking

From Doom to Half-Life to World of Warcraft, few platforms have been as instrumental in the evolution of gaming as the powerful PC. In the early days, it brought us grand text-based adventures and the very first examples of dungeon crawlers. By the early ’90s, we were enjoying real-time strategy titles, role-playing games, and the

Gamescom 2019 arrives at the tail end of summer, closing out what has been a busy games season that kicked off with an explosive E3. While Gamescom isn’t quite as big as E3 in terms of game reveals and announcements, it is a source of news and new footage for the year’s upcoming fall and

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

Thanks to an incredible (i.e. insane) fan effort, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall has been remade in the Unity engine.  Developer Gavin “Interkarma” Clayton has been working on a Unity version of Daggerfall for years, but he only recently put out a build of the game he felt was worthy of the “Alpha” tag. Thanks to

The Fortnite servers are having some scheduled downtime on Aug. 1, as Epic Games prepares its popular battle royale title for its highly anticipated season 10 content. With today being the official Fortnite season 10 release date, we’re expecting this content to go live soon.   Here’s everything we know about the update: Fortnite Season 10

Patrice Désilets, who created Assassin’s Creed with Jade Raymond and Corey May at Ubisoft, has been talking about his upcoming projects in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. Perhaps most surprisingly, he wants to tell the story of the catastrophic 2010 Haiti earthquake in video game form. Désilets founded his own company, Panache Digital Games, back in

Since the early ’00s, the Evolution Championship Series has been like the Olympics of one-on-one fighting games. The three-day event will return once again and take place August 2-4 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Formerly called the Battle by the Bay, this will be the 18th official Evo tournament (not counting the recent Evo

As if Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Team Sonic Racing, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe weren’t enough, another iconic-character-led karting game has been announced The French software company Microids will launch Garfield Kart: Furious Racing for PC and current-gen consoles this November. This game will be the sequel to Garfield Kart, which launched in 2013 on Android,

Release Date: July 26, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), XBO, PC, Switch, StadiaDeveloper: MachineGames & Arkane StudiosPublisher: BethesdaGenre: First-person Shooter At first glance, the novelty of Wolfenstein: Youngblood is that it takes the frenetic, modernized gameplay from the MachineGames-developed titles in the series and adds co-op functionality. But what makes the game truly unique and memorable is the way the two-player co-op

Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Pillars of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas, have revealed their next game.  The Outer Worlds is billed as a joint venture between the original creators of Fallout (Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky) and the makers of Fallout: New Vegas. Based on the game’s debut

Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm is getting a rare new update that may help breathe a little life into Blizzard’s nearly dead MOBA title.  As detailed by Destructoid, the highlight of this upcoming update is a significant change to how ranked play works in Heroes of the Storm. There will no longer be demotion games

Microsoft is rolling out some changes to the Xbox One, with an altered Home page for the console being trialed among members of the Xbox Insider Program. As well as cosmetic updates, users will also experience an altered relationship between the Xbox One console and Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana. Bradley Rossetti, who works for Microsoft