Mintrocket is making the most of Dave the Diver’s third anniversary month, packing today’s Dev Dive showcase with a DLC send-off, a kaiju revival, and a pair of mobile announcements. The devlog-style event, hosted by CEO Jaeho Hwang, covered everything the Seoul studio has cooking, and there’s a lot on the plate.
The headliner remains In the Jungle, the expansion arriving June 18 as Dave the Diver’s biggest to date. The DLC offers around 10 hours of content, new systems, skills, and minigames, plus an entirely new biome to explore, hunt, fish, and tame. Mintrocket also revealed that numerous in-game collaborations are baked into the expansion, including Cut the Rope, which popped up in the launch trailer at the PC Gaming Show. In a stranger twist, the launch comes with an accompanying short film from The Asylum, the studio behind Sharknado and other mockbuster classics, premiering with IGN on June 17 before a global release alongside the DLC. Steam preorders open today with a 10 percent discount that disappears at launch, while the base game drops to its deepest discount yet at 50 percent off.
The showcase also recapped Bancho the Chef, which immediately got my attention when it was revealed at the June 2 State of Play. The RPG-meets-cooking simulator follows a young Bancho trekking across Asia to master regional cuisines alongside lauded chefs, and Mintrocket says it’s dialing in DualSense haptics and adaptive triggers so players feel every movement through their most invaluable tools: their hands.
The bigger surprise came for mobile players. Hwang formally unveiled Godzilla Defense Force: X, a strategy management game built from the ground up on the foundation of its predecessor, which launched seven years ago and amassed over 10 million players. Spanning decades of Godzilla history dating back to 1954, the game has players defending cities worldwide from kaiju with bases and weapons, eventually summoning monsters from the franchise’s past to fight alongside them. Closed testing begins later this year ahead of an early 2027 release.
Dave the Diver itself is also finally going mobile, launching on the App Store and Google Play in August following a successful debut in China, with preregistration details promised in the coming weeks. Rounding things out, Mintrocket showed off new merchandise with Fangamer and Madrinas alongside the Collector’s Edition coming to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2, and confirmed that anyone who buys Dave the Diver or the In the Jungle Content Pack on the Epic Games Store gets the Dave the Diver Outfit and Dave’s Oxygen Tank Back Bling in Fortnite starting June 25 at 5:00 PM Pacific (8:00 PM Eastern). Between the jungle, the kaiju, and the cosmetics, Mintrocket’s plate looks about as full as Bancho’s.
