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Just as with the Silent Hill franchise in 2024, Konami has revived its flagship tactical espionage action video game series with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. As the title suggests, the game is a remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, built from the ground up for modern gaming platforms. But whereas […]
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Read MoreAfter eight long years that felt like 80, the sequel to Team Cherry’s Metroidvania classic Hollow Knight is finally here! Hollow Knight: Silksong was announced almost immediately after the release of the first game in 2017, yet it took so long in development that many fans wondered whether it was a tangible piece of software […]
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Read MoreBetween the release of 2023’s Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has reinvigorated its Metal Gear legacy after years of dormancy. While this has particularly renewed the discourse and reappraisal of 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3, it also brings to mind how long 2001’s Metal Gear […]
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Read MoreNintendo’s breakout title was not Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda, but rather Donkey Kong, with the eponymous ape headlining the company’s 1981 arcade game that helped Nintendo establish a prominent foothold in the American gaming industry. Since then Donkey Kong has become a fixture for the company, either as a supporting character for […]
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Read MoreThis article contains mild spoilers from the Fallout game series. One of the best video game adaptations on television has been Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic epic Fallout, based on the iconic Bethesda Softworks game series of the name. With Fallout returning for its eagerly-anticipated second season this December, Prime Video and Kilter Films have provided first-look […]
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Read MoreWhile fighting game franchise Under Night In-Birth has been around since 2012, the series is really gathering momentum globally, particularly in North America, with its 2024 installment Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]. Developed by French-Bread and published by Arc System Works, the sequel has been praised for its gorgeous art style, fast-paced and unique combat […]
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Read MoreJust a year after its launch, the 2021 fighting game Guilty Gear Strive had already become the best-selling title in the Arc System Works franchise’s entire history. Four years after its launch, Guilty Gear Strive has gone on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide, with over 3.5 million users worldwide, and the hit game […]
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Read MoreWhile the full breadth of the fighting game community came together to celebrate the Evolution Championship Series, more commonly known as Evo, in Las Vegas this August, one developer was particularly prominent and prolific at this year’s event: Arc System Works. The Japanese video game studio had three games represented at the tournament’s main stage […]
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Read MoreAs the Mortal Kombat 1 era comes to a close, the wider Mortal Kombat franchise finds itself at a bit of a crossroads for how to proceed after its 2023 reboot. Digital Eclipse, which has handled well-received classic video compilations like Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, has […]
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Read MoreLast year’s Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics compilation notwithstanding, there hasn’t been a new Marvel fighting game since 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. That distinction is coming to an end with the upcoming fighting game Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, developed by Arc Systems Works and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2026 for […]
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Read MoreOver two years since its initial release, Street Fighter 6 is showing no signs of slowing down, with the popular fighting game getting a fresh set of updates, including a third season of DLC characters. Announced by Capcom at Summer Game Fest 2025, this new season not only highlights classic fighters from across the Street […]
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Read MoreThe modern gaming landscape is filled with big stories and bigger ideas. Many AAA gaming titles are as packed with lore as a Homeric epic. Hell, FromSoftware even brought in Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin to fill out the expansive narrative corners of Elden Ring‘s the Lands Between! That was not always the […]
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Read MoreAfter providing a hands-on preview of Dying Light: The Beast at Summer Game Fest 2025, acclaimed video game publisher Techland invited Den of Geek for a more extensive look at the game in Los Angeles and an interview with franchise director Tymon Smektala. Continuing the story of the survival horror series’ original protagonist Kyle Crane, […]
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Read MoreThis week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Shuttle to Kenfori,” saw Captain Pike and Doctor M’Benga visit an abandoned science outpost, because that is always a great a plan. It wasn’t long before they discovered that the episode title was a sneaky roundabout reference to the Korean movie Train to Busan, because this outpost was […]
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Read More“Ironically or not, I’ve never really seen myself as the assassin guy,” Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick films and Netflix’s upcoming Splinter Cell series, admits. Instead, it all comes down to characters. “One of the things that I like about Sam Fisher, John Wick, and Hutch Mansell [from Nobody] is that, yes, they’re […]
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Read MoreOne of the most engaging and fresh spins on zombie survival horror games has been the Dying Light franchise, with the best-selling inaugural game commemorating its 10th anniversary this year. After 2022’s standalone sequel Dying Light 2, publisher Techland is returning to original franchise protagonist Kyle Crane for the series’ third installment, Dying Light: The […]
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Read MoreWhether it was the $500 sunglasses, the cockiness, or the one-liners—though I’m pretty sure it was the sunglasses—Johnny Cage was the epitome of cool to a certain age of movie-watcher in the mid-’90s. This viewer was of a specific and discerning variety too; the kind who was old enough to have played Mortal Kombat II […]
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Read MoreThe Hero of Time has arrived, and he’s not anyone that we expected. Via social media, Nintendo‘s legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto announced the leads for the upcoming live action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. “I am pleased to announce that for the live action film of ‘The Legend of Zelda,’ Zelda will be […]
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Read MoreHearthstone’s The Lost City of Un’Goro’s expansion has quickly proven to be every bit the “sequel” to 2017’s Journey to Un’Goro it was billed as. Those expansions share numerous thematic elements, gameplay mechanics, and, somewhat surprisingly, many of the same problems. While Journey to Un’Goro is generally considered one of the best Hearthstone expansions ever, […]
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Read MoreFrom major studios to indie developers, Summer Game Fest 2025 was an all-around celebration of video games across all platforms and scales. To wrap up our SGF 2025 experience, we spoke to the developers of two very different titles, the first-person survival horror sequel Dying Light: The Beast and the hack-and-slash extraction game Mistfall Hunter. […]
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