Tag: Shovel Knight
News Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon Plunders PS4 on 13th December
DLC in development
Didn't get enough Shovel Knight with the beloved platformer? Developer Yacht Club Games has been beavering away at spin-off Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon for years now, but it's finally ready. The game, which combines dungeon crawling with block puzzles, releases for PlayStation 4 on 13th December. We've embedded a trailer from...
News Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon Digs Up Action Packed Puzzles on PS4 This Winter
Block chaining
Shovel Knight remains an iconic indie game hero, but he's not been out on a new adventure for a good while. A duo of spin-off titles were announced by Yacht Club Games last year, and we've not heard a peep about them since. Until now, that is. While things remain quiet on Shovel Knight Dig, the developer has just dropped a new trailer...
News Fall Guys Teases Crossover with Fellow Indie Hit Shovel Knight
Digging deep
Fall Guys, the game everyone wants to collaborate with. Any game worth its salt has a crossover of some sort with the 60-player platformer — Portal 2, Cuphead, and Among Us are just some of the titles represented. So, what's next in line to be immortalised in jelly bean fashion? Well, if our headline didn't give it away, this teaser...
News Falling Block Puzzler Meets Dungeon Crawler in Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon on PS4
Yacht Club Games mixes things up
Yacht Club Games is finding all kinds of ways to keep the Shovel Knight love alive. Last year, it unveiled Shovel Knight Dig, and it's now announced another spin-off title starring the spade-wielding hero. Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon had its debut earlier today, and it's an interesting departure from the norm. As...
News Shovel Knight Dig Is the Latest Adventure from Yacht Club Games
Going down
Yacht Club Games has been beavering away at content for the regular Shovel Knight game for years, but it seems it's time for the pixelated hero to tackle a new quest. In collaboration with Nitrome, the studio has announced Shovel Knight Dig, and it's coming to PlayStation 4. Shovel Knight Dig is a 16-bit platformer that's all about...
News You'll Be Waiting a While for Shovel Knight's New Stuff
But there's a physical copy coming
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove’s final two add-ons, multiplayer brawler Showdown and mini-campaign King of Cards, will both launch on 9th April next year, meaning you’ve got a while to wait before the bumper bundle wraps up. Yacht Club Games can be forgiven for taking its time, though, as it’s compiled one of...
News Shovel Knight Showdown Brings a Chaotic Conclusion to Treasure Trove
But not coming to PS Vita
Yacht Club Games is wrapping up Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove with a final instalment named Shovel Knight Showdown, a chaotic platforming fighting game featuring 16 characters from the popular property’s universe. The four-player free-for-all has primarily been designed with multiplayer in mind, but there is a single...
News Shovel Knight's Boxed PS4 Release Digs into Stores Later This Year
It even has a manual
Shovel Knight has been a bit of a runaway success for developer Yacht Club Games. The digital release has shifted over 700,000 copies, and that's allowed the studio to launch the retro platformer in a physical form on PlayStation 4. You can read our review of the brilliant Shovel Knight through here The boxed version of the...
Dig in
Funded through Kickstarter and developed by a team of less than ten people, Shovel Knight was one of 2014's unexpected Game of the Year contenders. Indeed, the retro jump-'em-up was met with praise from game journalists and YouTube personalities alike, and now that it's finally made its way to PlayStation, not much has changed – it's still...
News Shovel Knight Ploughs a Path to EU PlayStation Platforms
Spade in the USA
It may have only been a day overdue, but let's be honest: Shovel Knight shouldn't have been late in the first place. Fortunately, we can all take solace in the news that Yacht Club Games' critically acclaimed side-scroller is finally available in Europe – apparently it managed to break free from SCEE's infamous QA limbo, which...
News Sorry Europe, You're Not Getting Shovel Knight Today
SCEE strikes back
Costume Quest 2 is finally out in Europe six months after the holiday that it was produced to promote, so what are you whinging about? Oh, that's right: Shovel Knight, which everyone expected to be part of today's European PlayStation Store update, is actually not due out in the Old World until, er, tomorrow. Maybe. Why? We're...
News Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows Unearths Free Additional Campaign
A plague on your spade
Here's another reason to dig into Shovel Knight when it launches on PlayStation platforms in April: it'll be succeeded by a free expansion named Plague of Shadows. Due out in Q2 2015, the complimentary campaign will see you assume the role of the Plague Knight, a "villainous master of alchemy" seeking to concoct
News Shovel Knight Digs a Path to PS4, PS3, and Vita from 21st April
Knight fever
Yacht Club Games' critically acclaimed side-scroller Shovel Knight will tunnel to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita from 21st April in North America. The hugely successful title originally deployed on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U last year, but was announced for Sony's systems at PlayStation Experience in December. There's no...
