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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Has Another Big Night and Wins “Game of the Year” at the 2025-2026 DICE Awards
- 2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress
- The Game Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Racks Up Nine Wins, Including “Game of the Year”, at the 2025 Game Awards
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
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Capcom will unveil Resident Evil: Project Resistance at Tokyo Game Show 2019
Capcom has announced that they plan to unveil Resident Evil: Project Resistance (which is probably just a working title) at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.
The official website for Project Resistance promises that the first teaser trailer for the game will be available to view online at 11:00 AM (Eastern Time) on September 9th. The site also said that fans attending this year’s Tokyo Game Show (which runs from September 12th through the 15th) will be able to watch a gameplay demonstration at Capcom’s booth, as well as pre-register for a chance to test out the demo for themselves at the show.
Resident Evil: Project Resistance is currently in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and we’ll learn more about it next week.
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Tagged Resident Evil: Project Resistance
Castle Crashers Remastered will bash its way onto the Switch on September 17
The Behemoth promised that Castle Crashers Remastered would make its way onto the Switch this Summer, and it looks like they’re going to keep that promise… though just barely. Today, the developer confirmed that the well-loved beat ’em up will make its Switch debut on September 17, with a PS4 release to follow soon after.
They put together a cheeky new trailer to mark the occasion, and it’s been embedded above.
The Remastered edition of Castle Crashers will include a number of improvements over the original game, including a graphical overhaul (according to The Behemoth, “the game is five times more beautiful”), the Back Off Barbarian minigame, 60FPS gameplay, and all previously-released downloadable content. But getting all of this content onto new platforms was a tad more difficult than the developer had anticipated, as they explained on their official website:
Although Castle Crashers Remastered has been around for quite some time, we haven’t brought a game to a Sony system since the PlayStation 3, or a Nintendo console since the GameCube. We’ve gone generations in between then and now, and while we’re beyond excited to be bringing Castle Crashers to modern consoles, making that leap has come with a number of difficult development challenges. Some of these challenges took us longer than expected to work through; in fact, the PlayStation 4 version of the game is still going through it’s final approval processes, which is why we are not yet confirming it’s exact launch date. However, we wanted to take our time to make sure that when we launch the game it is complete, polished, and the best quality it can be.
And if you’re heading out to PAX West this weekend, be sure to stop by The Behemoth’s booth to give Castle Crashers Remastered a try.
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Tagged Castle Crashers, PAX West 2019
Shovel Knight gets upgraded to 16-bit as Yacht Club Games announces Shovel Knight Dig
Shovel Knight is back! After ceding the spotlight to three members of The Order of No Quarter in Plague of Shadows, Specter of Torment, and King of Cards, the blade-wielding hero is returning in a full-fledged new sequel.
Shovel Knight Dig picks up right where the first game leaves off, as Shovel Knight chases the diabolical Drill Knight down underground in an SNES-styled game that features “meticulously crafted” levels stitched together using procedural generation, so every playthrough will be slightly different. Yacht Club has more details about Shovel Knight Dig, which has been in development for “more than a year,” at their official website:
When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knight’s peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunnelling after them! Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
Shovel Knight Dig will feature new Knights to battle (including the aforementioned Drill Knight and the mushroom-themed Spore Knight) and other new characters to interact with. But don’t worry, plenty of familiar faces can be found in the Announcement Trailer, which has been embedded above.
Shovel Knight Dig is being co-developed by Yacht Club Games and Nitrome, with Jake Kaufman once again providing the soundtrack. The game still has “quite a ways to go,” so we have no clue when it’ll be released, but we do know that it’s in the works for the PS4 and Switch (and likely the PC and Xbox One as well).
Attendees at this weekend’s PAX West convention will be able to test out Shovel Knight Dig for the first time at Yacht Club’s booth.
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Tagged PAX West 2019, Shovel Knight Dig
Shovel Knight Showdown will brawl its way to release in December
Shovel Knight Showdown began life as “Battle Mode,” a distant Stretch Goal that was added to the very end of Shovel Knight‘s Kickstarter campaign. But with the platformer’s final expansion nearing release, developer Yacht Club Games has finally been able to more fully turn their attention to the four-player brawler.
For starters, Shovel Knight Showdown has moved well beyond its beginnings as a simple “Battle Mode.” The full-fledged game got a new full-fledged trailer today, with glimpses at the game’s single-player Story Mode, as well as the addition of Mona, Plague Knight’s potions expert. Yacht Club talked more about it on their official website:
Shovel Knight Showdown has grown to be a robust and delightful multiplayer and singleplayer adventure. It’s full of new stories and revelations, goofy humor, great multiplayer level design, beautiful character art, varied playstyles, and frenetic battles. We really put our all into crafting this wholly new experience and we can’t wait for you to give it a shot!
Shovel Knight Showdown will be available as a free download this December if you own Shovel Knight on the PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, or Xbox One. It’ll also be available as a standalone download on the PC, PS4, and Switch, and as part of the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove retail compilation for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Fans who are staking out a spot at this weekend’s PAX West convention in Seattle will also want to swing by Yacht Club’s booth to try out Shovel Knight Showdown before its released.
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Tagged PAX West 2019, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight Showdown
Shovel Knight: King of Cards will be released in December
Yacht Club Games delivered Shovel Knight to fans all the way back in 2014, and they’ve spent the rest of the decade fulfilling a Kickstarter campaign promise to produce additional campaigns starring three of the game’s villains. Those expansions did a lot to fill out the world of Shovel Knight and they’ve helped make the main character something of an international superstar.
But now the developers are ready to close the book on Shovel Knight’s first adventure this December with the release of Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
A fittingly jampacked new trailer for King of Cards has been embedded above, as the developer said (on their official website) that the expansion will be the biggest Shovel Knight adventure yet:
King of Cards marks our grandest adventure yet, and we hope the trailer whets your appetite for the banquet of adventure which awaits! It has more levels, mechanics, secrets, and content than any Shovel Knight game to come before it. It’s a spectacle, crammed to the coffers with ideas- it’s the biggest game we’ve ever made, and we can’t wait for everyone to finally, finally play it. We’ve used everything we’ve learned in the past to make this game shine. We hope that you’ll find it both a delightful return and a fitting sendoff to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
Shovel Knight owners will be able to download the King of Cards expansion for free for the 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Vita, Wii U, and Xbox One, though it’ll also be released as a standalone game for the PC, PS4, and Switch.
And if you haven’t dug into the Shovel Knight series yet, Yacht Club will package the original game and all four expansions together into a special retail edition, known as the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
In the meantime, fans will be able to test out a demo of Shovel Knight: King of Cards at this weekend’s PAX West convention.
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Tagged 3DS, PAX West 2019, PC, PS3, PS4, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Switch, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One
XSEED Games will bring five demos to PAX West 2019
XSEED Games has announced they’ll be making the trip to PAX West for the first time this year, and they’ll be bringing five playable demos for attendees to try out.
Their PAX West lineup of titles includes Edelweiss’s Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, FuRyu’s Heroland, Cygames and Arc System Works’s Granblue Fantasy: Versus, Grasshopper Manufacture’s Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes – Complete Edition, and G-Mode’s BurgerTime Party!
PAX West 2019 will be held at the Washington State Convention Center from August 30th through September 2nd. And you can learn more about XSEED’s PAX West demo offerings after the break. (more…)
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Tagged No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again, PAX West 2019
Capcom announces Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection for January 2020 release
Capcom has released three Legacy Collections for the expansive Mega Man saga so far, and early next year they’re dipping even deeper into their archives with the release of the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection in January.
Originally released for Nintendo handhelds throughout the 2000s, the six games in the Zero/ZX series (Mega Man Zero, Mega Man Zero 2, Mega Man Zero 3, Mega Man Zero 4, Mega Man ZX, and Mega Man ZX Advent) are well-regarded by Megafans for their challenging platforming sections, interesting visuals, and unique story that takes place hundreds of years after the X series.
Capcom will give Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection players the option to tone down the franchise’s famous difficulty with an optional Casual Scenario Mode, as well as mid-mission save points. All six games in the Legacy Collection will receive an optional graphical upgrade, and Capcom is also adding a Gallery with more than 600 pieces of production art, a Music Player with original music and new arrangements, and a mysterious new Z Chaser Challenge Mode:
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection brings the Zero and ZX series’ challenging boss battles, fast-paced platforming, and precise combat from hand-held to full-sized screens for the first time. Nostalgic players can choose to play using the original sprite art, or they can bash some bots using the new optional HD-smoothing filters. New players looking to cut a path through the Zero and ZX series’ stories can also use the optional Casual Scenario Mode to reduce each game’s difficulty, and Save Assist system to create save points mid-mission for a more approachable narrative experience.
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection will be released for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One on January 21, 2020. An Announcement Trailer has been embedded above.
Mario Kart Tour will be available to download on September 25
Nintendo has announced that the first Mario Kart game for mobile devices, Mario Kart Tour, will be available to download beginning on September 25.
It looks like in addition to familiar Mario Kart locales like Rainbow Road, Mario Kart Tour will give players the chance to race around real-world locations like the Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triomphe in Paris:
In Mario Kart Tour, players can experience the endless racing fun of Mario Kart while collecting drivers, like Mario, as well as karts and gliders. Players can choose which drivers, karts, and gliders to use in races across a variety of courses, including new takes on classic courses and special City Courses. City Courses, special in-game event courses inspired by real-world locations, will be available during specific time periods at launch and beyond. In addition to courses based on iconic locales, some Mario Kart characters will get variations that incorporate the local flavor of cities featured in the game.
Like most of Nintendo’s mobile offerings, Mario Kart Tour will be free-to-play with some kind of microtransaction-based ecosystem on both iOS and Android devices. While we don’t know how all the costs will shake out just yet, you can sneak a peek at a new Teaser Video and Gameplay Trailer for the game after the break. (more…)
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