Maverick coming to play peekaboo as Rainbow Six Siege’s next Operator

Operation Grim Sky teases blow-torch bearer Ubisoft has released a teaser trailer for the second Operator coming toRainbow Six Siege’supcoming seasonal content;Operation Grim Sky. This time it’s a new attacker, going by the call-sign “Maverick”. Maverick is a young American merc who has seen some shit, brother. After going MIA whilst investigating a missing reporter, Erik Thorn emerged, two years later, armed with a blow-torch and the recon intel needed to topple a nefarious organisation....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Gary Johnson

Monopoly GO: All Bullseye Boom rewards and milestones

Monopoly GO’sBullseye Boom tournament has arrived to mark the second half of theSunken Treasures dig event. Unlike usual tournaments, it is a two-day event that allows you to get thousands of dice, last-minute pickaxes, and some stickers to help you complete your Making Music card albums. Here’s the complete list of Bullseye Boom rewards. All Monopoly GO Bullseye Boom tournament rewards and milestones Monopoly GO’sBullseye Boom tournament has 30 rewards to obtain until May 26....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 283 words · Gordon Jones

Monster Hunter: World gets PS4 beta details and intro video

Join the hunt next week PlayStation Plus users will gain access an exclusive PS4 beta for Capcom’s upcoming open-world adventure titleMonster Hunter: World. The company have released some details ahead of time about the trial run. The beta starts December 9 at 09:00 PT / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET and ends December 12 at the same time. Requirements to take part in the action are a PlayStation 4 with a PlayStation Plus account, internet access, 5....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Louis Anderson

Music get: free Bar Oasis download on Dtoid’s SoundCloud

Koreans know their game music We’ve got a special treat for you today. We wrote about theBar Oasis 2soundtrack inNote Worthy 005, and since that time, the team at Corners Studio has put together a special compilation album featuring remastered selections fromBar OasisandBar Oasis 2with additional remixes titled theBar Oasis Official Bootleg. We’ll have a review of the album in an upcoming issue of Note Worthy, but in the meantime, Corners Studio has given us permission to offer one of the remixes from the album, “To the Oasis,” as a free download via ourSoundCloud....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 146 words · Cindy Gonzales

New releases: God of War: Ascension keeps the faith

Plus Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Darkstalkers Resurrection, and more Another Monday rolls up, acting like it’s the boss of the week, so that can only mean one thing: a week of new releases. I’ll be saving my cash this week, not really seeing anything to interest me, but I may grabGod of War: Ascensionsomewhere down the line, if I ever pick up the third one. It is meant to be rather nifty....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 229 words · Mark Brewer

New Stranded Spawns System in Overwatch 2, explained

Time for fewer stagger kills Season 4 ofOverwatch 2launched on June 10, 2025, and with it comesa host of changes. While the addition of new hero Lifeweaver has grabbed headlines, another significant change has arrived via the Stranded Spawns System. In short, spawn rooms that would normally shut down after capture or a lost objective will remain active for seven seconds. Hero swapping is still off-limits in this state, but the opposing team will be locked out of entering the room....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 257 words · Joshua Brown

Nintendo Switch sales clear 139M units heading into 2024

Nintendo has frequently stated that they want their hybrid console in every home. The latestconsolidated financial highlightsfrom Nintendo reveal the Switch is still in the running to be the best-selling console of all time. Its sales figures surpass what was once Nintendo’s innovative money printer, the DS, which the company claims to have soldover 154 million units of.The Switch is not too far away, having shipped a near unbelievable 139.36 million lifetime units as of June 27, 2025....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Geoffrey Sandoval

One of the best anime shows, Lodoss War, is getting a 2D sidecroller

Deedlit! Record of Lodoss Waris celebrating its 30th anniversary since the birth of the original series of novels (which spawned an OVA and follow-up TV series), and they’re celebrating in a small, but very welcome way. The developer behindShin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue(that fake but actually realSMTsidescroller), Ladybug team, is working on a newLodoss War2D platformer and they have a short video showcasing some teaser artwork for it. It’s very early yet, but the clip gives us a look at the elf Deedlit’s sprite with some brief animation reels, as well as some concept art, an example environment, and a quick combat demonstration....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Austin Thomas

Overwatch’s Doomfist update is live on PC and consoles

Less dupes in Loot Boxes, too It’s another big day forOverwatchasDoomfistfinally joins the live game. Blizzard has an update out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One that introduces the offense hero and tweaks existing characters. If you’ve kept up withOverwatchchatter these past few weeks, a good portion of today’s patch notes will seem familiar. Notably, Loot Boxes won’t give out as many duplicates as before and the highlight system is more robust, allowing you to create your own 12-second clips at the press of a button....

June 19, 2025 · 4 min · 667 words · Andrew Bell

PlanetSide 2 just got a big makeover

See what’s been revamped in the Amerish update PlanetSide 2is looking a little different today. Here’s what’s new. The Amerish revamp sees a number of performance optimizations that makes the overall object count and polygons per object more optimized. There’s new base layouts too, and facility satellite outposts have been converted into stand-alone outposts. The Lattice System has been implemented, which will optimize map flow and repositions outposts. Lastly, nine new outposts have been added, and original outposts have been redesigned to reduce spawn camping and increase room for vehicle battles....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Casey Nelson

Protect traffic and keep your city moving in Urban Flow, out now on Switch

Go with the Urban Flow Urban Flowis a new Switch exclusive with an unusual premise. The game gives you a bird’s-eye view of busy city streets filled with colourful vehicles great and small. These roads will quickly descend into chaotic pile-ups without your guiding hand. Your job is to control the traffic lights, restoring order to the urban sprawl at the flick of a switch. It’s easier said than done, however....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Michelle Snyder

River City Girls 2 trailer includes Marian, Provie, and, best of all, new shopkeepers!

School Hall World Brawl As part of this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show festivities, WayForward released a new trailer for its incoming sequelRiver City Girls 2.The new previewintroduces us to the action-RPG’s sequel Japanese cast, and also gives us a quick look at some of Kyoko and Misako’s running buddies as they dole out Street Justice in the avenues and alleyways of River City. Opening with footage from the original game and its delightful manga-esque cinematics, the video then transitions to some rapid-fire cuts from the upcoming sequel....

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Elizabeth Jones

Rolando 3 canned because of ngmoco’s free-to-play model

We’re not sure if App Store mega developer ngmoco’s unique free-to-play model is making the waves the studio hopes it is. But we do know that the recent move broke the original plans forRolando 3. Speaking toIGN, co-founder Neil Young said the nextRolandowasn’t meant to be a free-to-play game and was cancelled because of it. “When we made the decision to go free-to-play,” Young said, “we said to ourselves, ‘Look — if we can’t make the game free-to-play, we’re not going to release it....

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Samuel Zimmerman