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Players that enjoy the Mortal Kombat series and the lore surrounding it may be surprised to see how Noob Saibot in Mortal Kombat 11 looks without a mask. A Reddit user and player of the game was able to remove the mask of the former Lin Kuei member to reveal what he looks like. Mortal Kombat 11 is starting to see its share of fan edits as Reddit user KantoHo has posted a photo of a customized Noob Saibot into the Mortal Kombat Reddit page....

With gamers hoping that the much-anticipated Kombat Pack 2 for Mortal Kombat 11 will be announced soon, leaks and rumors abound as to what new fighters the next year could bring for the popular fighting game. While returning fan favorites are pretty much a given, Mortal Kombat 11 and its predecessors are no strangers to inviting surprising guests to its roster, with characters like Kratos from God of War, Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, and even the Xenomorph from Alien making appearances in Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X....

The partnership between Call of Duty and Mountain Dew is still going strong. Longtime fans of CoD are probably aware of the union between the brands. Mountain Dew and Doritos get sleek packaging promoting the latest CoD game, and players of that game get some kind of boost for buying the snacks. That promotion is returning for the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. In fact, fans can already cash in for an exclusive operator skin....

PC gaming is a market that only continues to grow, and an area that is expanding faster than ever before is the laptop space. Each year, companies look to best their competition with the top products for consumers. The 2022 version of the MSI Raider GE76 gaming laptop is the Taiwanese computer giant’s attempt at just that, and we received one to test and review. Of course, when it comes to buying a gaming laptop, there are a lot of things to consider....

NBA 2K20 has suffered a great deal of criticism since its launch last year, but in the wake of the tragic death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, the game is bringing fans together. All over the Internet are stories of NBA 2K20 players paying tribute to Bryant with their online opponents in-game, and 2K Sports itself has added its own tribute to the star basketball player that appears as soon as players boot up the game....

EA is considering expanding this year’s Need for Speed with more than just car packs, executive producer Marcus Nilsson has told VideoGamer.com. While Nilsson refused to be drawn into specific DLC plans, he revealed that the team had “pretty significant plans” to keep fans playing this year’s racer longer than any previous game in the series. “I want Need for Speed to modernise,” Nilsson told us at Gamescom last week. “I want Need for Speed to not feel like a November 3 title every year....

Today Idea Factory released a new trailer of the upcoming Nintendo Switch version of Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars. This time around, the trailer is all about gameplay, so we take a look at the popular heroines from the two franchise and their flashy ninjutsu in action. On top of the trailer, we also learn that the PC version now has a release date. It’ll launch on May 11....

First off, this is nothing about baby poo. The “nappy” in Haifaa al-Mansour’s soapy new-start rom-com is the one Sanaa Lathan’s character sees on her own head – an untameable afro that represents everything wrong with her old life. There’s more to it than that of course, but not a lot. Lathan is Violet Johnston, a successful Atlanta ad executive, a rich socialite and (thanks to her monster of a mother), an obsessive control freak who measures the orderliness of her life by the straightness of her perfect hair....

Capcom has announced that its second teaser for demonic hack-’em-up sequel Devil May Cry 5 is now available to download for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The demo will give you access to Nero, one of three playable protagonists in the game. Josh went hands-on with newcomer V recently, and came away rather impressed to say the least. Nero first appeared in Devil May Cry 4, and despite not being as popular as Dante, has managed to prove he’s a capable demon slayer in his own right....

Today Square Enix and Luminous Productions celebrated the Game Developers Conference with a new trailer of the upcoming action JRPG Forspoken. The trailer focuses on showcasing the tech used to create the game, including AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution on both PC and PlayStation. You can check it out below. If you’d like to see more, you can check out the original reveal, another look at the technology powering the new game, another trailer, and one more....

It’s not just movies, TV, games and comics we love, over here at Den Of Geek we’re also keen on a good old read. New books are coming out all the time so we’ve asked our friends at a range of publishing houses to recommend the latest in horror, fantasy and sci-fi. We’ve read some, but not all of these so these aren’t reviews but more a pick of the most interesting looking and buzzy genre novels coming soon in the UK....

Berlin indie studio Jo-Mei has revealed more of Sea of Solitude at EA’s E3 conference this year. Sea of Solitude has been floating around and picking up admirers for a couple of years; it was picked up by EA in 2016. Sea of Solitude follows a young woman called Kay, who is so accutely alone that she has become a monster. The game is about balancing your emotions, and realising that you should not suppress any one of the parts of your human nature, but equally shouldn’t give in to one of them more than the others....

The latest update in the popular battle royale game NEW STATE MOBILE recently went live and with it comes a host of new features. NEW STATE MOBILE is a battle royale game published by KRAFTON, that is available on iOS and Android devices. The latest update of the game is already live but in case you missed some of the new features here is everything new you can experience below: PvE Mode is now Live in NEW STATE MOBILE One of the most exciting new additions to NEW STATE MOBILE is the PvE mode called Siege Mode....

There’s a new Stranger Things 3 game on the way, and it will tie into the third season of the popular Netflix show. Announced last night at The Game Awards, Stranger Things 3: The Game is being developed by BonusXP, the studio behind the first Stranger Things: The Game, which released on mobile. This new game will be available for ‘all platforms,’ according a tweet from Netflix. Fittingly, it’s a pixellated 16-bit action game, the likes of which you might find filling the arcade in Hawkins, Indiana....

Seeing another world through your phone is about to become a lot more popular as Niantic launches its small business-friendly AR (augmented reality) beta test next month. This service will let small businesses create a digital-only signpost to let people playing AR games know that the spot offers in-game rewards and benefits. It’s not just a pipe dream to think about looking through your phone and seeing a fantasy world everywhere you turn, either....

Nintendo has been ready to close the Wii U eShop for years, but was waiting for the console’s upcoming 10th anniversary to pass. That’s according to a new report published by Nintendo Life, which cites a former Nintendo of America employee speaking anonymously on the inner workings of the company. Earlier this week, Nintendo upset the internet when it announced it would remove the ability to purchase digital 3DS and Wii U games from March next year....

While Kojima Productions has long since been the main developer behind the most iconic entries in the Metal Gear Solid franchise, it looks like another prominent Japanese developer has taken the reins on the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Rising. According to a rumor, Platinum Games, the developer behind titles like Bayonetta and Vanquish, has taken over development duties for Metal Gear Solid: Rising with Hideki Kamiya now in the Director role....

Players of No Man’s Sky now have access to another exciting tool to personalize their planetary bases. With update 2.24, developer Hello Games has added the ability for gamers to create music and add sounds to their personal abodes. Explorers in No Man’s Sky spend a large amount of time in the game building and customizing their bases. The ability to add music is one of the most frequent requests received by Hello Games....

That’s right, it’s that time again in Fortnite where you can earn free stuff. No Sweat Summer has been teased for a couple weeks now, and it has finally arrived. Players will be able to complete the No Sweat Summer quests to unlock different styles for a Slurpee-like back bling. The event has gone live with only two possible quests, one for simply landing and the other for interacting with the event’s “No Sweat Signs” that all quests will seemingly use in different ways....

The more emotion-driven a TV series or movie, the more important the soundtrack. And boy is Normal People, the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel of the same name, driven by the emotion of its characters and world. Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world....