Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove will expand on December 10 with two new games–Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown. The two games, which are both available to purchase separately as well, will bring Treasure Trove collection to a total of five games. When this happens, the price will increase to reflect this, but if you buy the game right now it’ll be $15 cheaper.
Time is running out to pick up 5 Shovel Knight adventures for the price of 3! On December 10th, we’re introducing 2 brand-new games to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, and raising the price to $39.99. Until then, it can be yours for only $24.99 — consider it a pre-order discount! pic.twitter.com/y17lyrrJFZ
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, which is available on just about every platform (but which has sold best on Nintendo Switch,) currently costs $24.99 or regional equivalent. From December 10, that price will go up to $39.99 and stay there. If you want to get the game at a cheaper price, you’ll want to act fast–anyone who buys the Treasure Trove before King of Cards and Showdown release will receive them in a free update.
Shovel Knight is one of the most celebrated indie games of the last decade, and recently received a jazz tribute album. These final two games in the Treasure Trove will launch alongside a trio of amiibo.
Another Shovel Knight game is in the works, Shovel Knight Dig, but it will not be included in the Treasure Trove collection.
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Sony’s next big news event, the State of Play briefing scheduled for Tuesday, December 10, will bring multiple game reveals and new gameplay footage, making it a can’t-miss event for PlayStation 4 fans. But one thing it will not have are any new details on Sony’s next-generation console plans.
As a reminder, Sony has said, “Don’t expect any updates related to our next-gen plans” during the State of Play. This means we won’t hear about the PlayStation 5 or any of Sony’s strategy plans surrounding the console and the wider ecosystem.
Unless there is some news about the PS5 at The Game Awards on December 12, it appears fans will be waiting until 2020 to find out more about the next-generation console. The system is scheduled to go on sale in Holiday 2020.
As for what viewers can expect from Tuesday’s State of Play, Sony said the briefing will deliver about 20 minutes worth of “new game reveals, release date announcements, new gameplay footage, PlayStation Worldwide Studios updates, and more.”
Artwork for a Resident Evil 3 Remake recently leaked on the PlayStation Network, so this could be one of the reveals scheduled for the State of Play event, though this is not confirmed. GameSpot will have a full rundown of the news and reveals as they’re announced.
The show begins on December 10 at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. That works out to 2 PM in London and 1 AM on December 11 in Sydney. You can watch the briefing live on GameSpot.
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Redbox has announced that it no longer plans to offer video game rentals at its kiosks, as it will be shifting it’s focus solely to movie rentals in 2020.
While video game rentals are no longer available as Redbox kiosks, some locations will still offer discounted games that can be purchased outright before they are removed for good at the end of the month.
First discovered by Redditors, Redbox confirmed on Twitter that it will be transitioning out of the gaming service by the end of the year. In a statement to The Verge, a spokesperson reiterated that Redbox will be “permanently transitioning out of the games business,” but will still allow customers to purchase remaining games “through the end of the year.”
We empathize with Doctor Manhattan; the show is scripted and shot in such a manner that it’s impossible to feel otherwise. But even so, his negatives are evident: He has a casual, almost callous indifference to the immediate effect his actions have on other people. This is encapsulated by his Europa experiment, and the multiple people he created to live in his manufactured paradise. Once he grew emotionally discontent with their unfailing worship and regard for him, he abandoned them, and left them without a purpose to continue existing.
Part of the reason for this mindset is his perception of time. As in the comics, Doctor Manhattan experiences all time–past, present, and future–simultaneously. In his mind, that which will happen has already happened, and there’s nothing he can do to alter the path or change it.
And so, when Doctor Manhattan discusses the “optimal outcome” with Will Reeves, it’s important to remember that a semi-god like Doctor Manhattan thinks in big terms. A million lives might be a drop in the bucket next to a billion lives, and it might be necessary for evil to win in the short term so that good can triumph later on. His callous abandonment of Europa could be part of this–he traumatized these people he created, knowing that they would subsequently keep Veidt imprisoned, against his will, for nearly a decade as part of some larger plan.
In the final episode of Watchmen, prepare for the worst (even though this, in the larger scheme of things, is also relative). As Will Reeves commented to Lady Trieu, Angela is going to hate him once all is said and done. Senator Keene may become superpowered. Millions or even billions more people may die. But in terms of scope, it might actually be the “best outcome,” even if we struggle to see exactly how.
One lucky winner will get the chance of a lifetime to attend to a special screening of the anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog film that will be opening in February 2020. We are teaming up with the #SonicMovie team so 12 twitter followers get the chance to win incredible prizes every day until December 20. We’re kicking it off today, December 9, with a package that includes:
Round-trip, economy flights for two to Los Angeles
Two hotel nights
Private sedan transfers to/from Los Angeles International Airport
Prepaid gift card for meals
Two Hop-On-Hop-Off Los Angeles tour passes
$25 arcade gift card to local arcade
Two passes to the Sonic the Hedgehog family event
Limited travel insurance for two
But this is only the today’s prize. Additional prizes include gift cards to Fandango, AMC & PUMA, exclusive Sonic merchandise and apparel, gaming systems from SEGA, a VIP trip to the movies for five, and more!
To enter the giveaway you have to retweet the below tweet from @SonicMovie but remember that the prize changes daily so if you want the trip to the special screening you must RT today before 11:59 PM PT. And if you don’t win today, you still have 11 more chances to RT for a chance to get one of the prizes.
You can check the complete list of prizes per day by checking the official rules of the giveaway. Good luck, everyone!
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There are a couple weeks left in the year, and new kid on the block, Disney+, still has plenty of content coming to its streaming service to close out the year, and there’s more than just new episodes of The Mandalorian. Check out everything coming to Disney+ between December 18-27.
On Thursday, December 26, Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi arrives–and it’s still on Netflix right now. Sadly, this is six days after The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters, so you won’t be able to binge the entire Skywalker Saga before Episode IX’s December 20 release date. However, with the arrival of Episode VIII, all the main Star Wars movies will be available on Disney+. The last Star Wars movie that needs to come to the service–aside from Rise of Skywalker–is Solo, which arrives July 9, 2020.
The final two episodes of The Mandalorian will arrive during this time period. Episode 7 of the show arrives on Wednesday, December 18 instead of its normal Friday release schedule. The “Chapter 7” synopsis reads, “An old rival extends an invitation for The Mandalorian to make peace. This episode will include an exclusive sneak peek at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in theaters everywhere on December 20.”
As for the season finale of the show, that will air on Friday, December 27. The official synopsis reads, “The Mandalorian comes face-to-face with an unexpected enemy.” Obviously, the synopsis doesn’t give much away, but we do know that Cara Dune (Gina Carano) will appear in this episode.
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These are the 10 best games of 2019, across PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch.
As a result of multiple rigorous deliberations over the past week, we at GameSpot have narrowed down the huge list of impressive 2019 games down to just 10 nominees for our Best Game of 2019. Every nominee listed below is qualified to be our game of the year, but, of course, there can be only one. On December 17, we will unveil which of these very deserving games takes home the honor, but until then, we want to give each of the nominees a moment to shine and hear your thoughts on what we consider to be the most memorable, innovative, and exciting games of the past year.
Our Best of 2019 award isn’t all we have prepared for the end of the year–far from it! In the lead up to our big reveal, we are also looking back at platforms and weighing in on the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, and try as we might, the very broad landscape of PC gaming. We are also reflecting on the trends that defined games in 2019. Subscriptions and services took off, politics and games clashed in a more pronounced fashion than usual, and perhaps more than anything, the big players in the industry paved the way for 2020, a year that is sure to be full of excitement around the new console launches from Sony and Microsoft.
To find all of our current and upcoming content, check out our Best Games of 2019 hub, and be sure to check back every day for new content looking back on one of the most enjoyable years in gaming, as well as glimpses into the future. 2020 is almost upon us, and the flow of games isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
On to the nominees!
Editor’s note: the following list is ordered by release date.
It feels like something we say every year, but boy–mobile games have come a long way. With mobile devices being refreshed on an annual basis, the hardware you find inside of a phone improves too (however incrementally that might be). The kinds of technological feats you can expect from a phone constantly grow more impressive, and as a result, the kinds of video games you can find on there does too.
This year, another shift changed our ideas of what we’ve come to expect from mobile games. In late 2019, Apple released its mobile game subscription service, Apple Arcade, which allows access to over a hundred games whose mobile exclusivity sits with iOS devices (on top of being available on Apple TV and Mac computers).
There were a number of notable mobile releases outside of Apple Arcade, of course. Nintendo released Mario Kart Tour, CD Projekt finally released Gwent, Capcom surprised us with its crossover card game Teppen, and Valve released a port of the incredibly popular auto-battler, Dota Underlords. But all these titles, and many others like them, had one thing that’s now become commonplace in the mobile game market–they all lean heavily on in-game microtransactions.
The big gamechanger with Apple Arcade is that all games on the service are free of in-game advertisements and microtransactions. It might seem like only a minor perk, but it’s seemingly resulted in a wonderful selection of standalone game experiences that rarely outstay their welcome, and focus on being the best games they can be. The Apple Arcade lineup is a welcome injection of no-strings-attached creativity for the mobile game scene.
It’s no small coincidence that the GameSpot staff’s picks for best mobile games of 2019 are all Apple Arcade titles, with just one notable exception. These are all games that bound us to our phones and gave us immense joy, and if you haven’t played any of these titles yet, we sincerely hope that you do.
