This feature was first posted on Den of Geek UK in July 2013. Great care has been taken to remove spoilers from this piece to encourage as many people as possible to visit the show, but some, rather like nuts from a factory-line, may remain. ‘If you’re lucky, you’ll remember the little moments… like this… that were good.’ Tony Soprano At its heart, The Sopranos was a show was about family, both gangster and blood....
In a seemingly surprise tweet today, popular game media host Geoff Keighley confirmed the Steam Games Festival: Autumn Edition. While Valve hasn’t mentioned anything official yet, it’s probably safe to say it’s fact. Keighley has hosted many of the top events in the industry as in definitely in-the-know. The Autumn Edition is currently planned to run from October 7-13 and will feature exclusive game demos and previews. Valve is planning another Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition this Fall, running October 7 – 13....
A Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition comparison trailer was posted on Friday, showing gamers what the three remasters will look like at launch. Although not everyone was happy, most people seemed pleasantly surprised by the visual upgrades. Usually, nice visuals come at the cost of heavier specification requirements. Although in this case, that isn’t true, as the system requirements for GTA: The Trilogy are surprisingly low....
CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 is one of most critically acclaimed RPGs of all time, and with the Complete Edition adding next-generation performance to the equation there’s never a better time to play. As if there wasn’t enough content in the game already to get stuck into, though, the completionists out there can look forward to a huge number of The Witcher 3 achievements and trophies to unlock. And if you’re one of them, here’s a handy overview of exactly how to go about doing so....
The Street Fighter series rolls on with more fan-pleasing action as an arcade version of the acclaimed fourth incarnation of the series gears up for release. Capcom starts location testing in Japan for the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV soon and news has leaked that the game will receive an even larger roster of characters to choose from than the retail version. There were numerous old characters added to the roster as Street Fighter IV grew to Super proportions, including the two newcomers Juri and Haken on consoles....
SUPERHOT is coming back with a new Japanese themed game called SUPERHOT JP which is being developed by Japanese studio GameTomo under the guidance of the SUPERHOT team. The name SUPERHOT JP is currently a placeholder until something better pops in their heads. The game will be a standalone release which they say will be “priced reasonably”. Thanks IGN.
Nightdive Studios has released a new pair of videos showing off its upcoming remake of System Shock, one showing off the updated version of the game’s Cyberspace as well as talking about its new dismemberment system. The videos, which you can see below – show off the neon-lit virtual reality of Cyberspace you’ll enter as you attempt to hack into the digital realm that evil supercomputer SHODAN calls home, with a literal glow-up to the original 1994 version of the space complete with a pulsing electronica soundtrack....
A few days ago, Take-Two Interactive expressed its desire to pick up Codemasters, the UK-based game developer. The publisher priced the acquisition at a cost of $973 million, and was set to inquire about a takeover. Now, the acquisition has received the go ahead as the two companies agree to a deal worth $994 million. That figure won’t be paid straight up, as it’s split between a cash price and shares cost....
Take-Two is an early supporter of Nintendo Switch, promising to launch a version of NBA 2K18 on the platform in September, but CEO Strauss Zelnick isn’t ready to begin investing heavily into the system. “With regard to Switch, we’re excited about Switch,” Zelnick explained in a Q&A following its Q3 earnings call overnight. “We’re supporting Switch with NBA 2K18. We’ve said we’re supporting the platform. I’ve said over and over again that when Nintendo comes to market you never want to count them out....
Take-Two, owner of Borderlands publisher 2K and Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar, has announced it will purchase mobile games giant Zynga for around $12.7bn - making it the most expensive video games acquisition of all time. Best known for its ever-popular Farmville, Words with Friends and CSR Racing franchises, Zynga will now become part of the Take-Two empire, though continue to make games under its own brand name. Zynga’s other big success stories include Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, Merge Dragons!...
It seems to be quite the day for unusual roster additions to beat-em-ups as Namco Bandai announced today that they’re teaming up with Square Enix to bring Final Fantasy XV protagonist Noctis to the King of Iron Fist Tournament in an upcoming DLC for Tekken 7. Revealing the news via trailer, Noctis Lucis Caelum, to give him his full title, will come with his own stage based around the Hammerhead Station, and as per the description will be wielding ‘his signature Engine Blade’ which seems a bit unfair, but then this is also a series that famously features fighting bears and at least one character who’s a literal devil so it’s all relative, I guess....
Character power-ups are a staple in many different games. Sonic can transform into Super Sonic thanks to the Chaos Emeralds and Link can turn into Fierce Deity Link by putting on the mask of the same name, as a couple of examples. The most iconic video game series featuring power-ups (which also popularized the concept) is, of course, Super Mario. In 1985, Super Mario Bros. introduced the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman....
Do you love trading card games? Perhaps Magic: The Gathering is your go-to game? While older than many of its players today, having first launched in summer 1993, this deep and complex game is more welcoming to new players than ever. Wizards of the Coast is making a sincere effort to open the entrance gates wide, and many products are tailored to new players just getting a grasp on how to be a Planeswalker....
586 years since the first Lego blocks were sold, the Denmark toy manufacturer is still going strong. Considered the largest toy company in the world, Lego’s revenue for the 2017 financial period was a whopping $5.8 billion, easily making it the most successful company in the industry. Despite a large number of products being sold, overall sales were slightly down in 2017, not that you’d notice with the amount of new Lego products hitting shelves....
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. If you’ve watched more than a handful of Chinese martial arts films, you’ll be familiar with the iconic Shaw Brothers logo that adorns so many credits sequences. The brothers in question – Runme, Runje and Runde, later joined by little brother Run Run – set up the first incarnation of their film studio (Tianyi) in 1925 and, by the 1960s, dominated the Chinese film industry....
The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep will be making a late-summer appearance on digital storefronts. Developer inXile Entertainment announced that the fourth entry in the long-running series is releasing on September 18 — months earlier than the console ports. The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep is a return to the series’ roots, according to inXile. The franchise has built a dedicated following over its thirty-plus year history, thanks to humorous writing and solid first-person dungeon crawling....
What a century this last decade has been. Seriously, the pace of change over the last 10 years has been steadily rising, and has been somewhere between “dangerous” and “murderous” for the last 3, and that isn’t just about geopolitics: the comics world of today is certainly recognizable to a time traveller from 2010, but it would look extremely weird. – Webcomics and medium press publishers are EVERYWHERE now. – Marvel has embraced multiple restarts of its line....
Visual Novels are an interesting part of gaming culture that combines storytelling with diverging paths and investigation styled gameplay. The medium has been seeing increased popularity during the past few years thanks to series like Danganronpa and Steins;Gate gaining popularity among the anime community. If your looking for a game that will keep you busy for long periods of time and want a break from the action-packed Triple-A title’s then visuals novels are a great choice....
Star Wars and video games can sometimes be a volatile mix. We see versions of the space epic that we might not be fully comfortable with. The Famicom version of Star Wars is about Luke repeatedly fighting fake Darth Vaders who constantly turn out to be alien monsters in disguise. Darth Vader and Yoda once visited Earth during the 17th century to fight over the Soul Edge. Jabba the Hut held his own Twisted Metal tournament....
After all of that complaining about Pokémon Sword & Shield during the build to the games’ release, the games enjoyed one of the best opening weekends in Nintendo history. It might be due to the fact it is now a lot easier to make our voices heard on social media, or maybe because fans are harder to please, but it feels as if people are complaining about things far more often than they used to....
