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Developer Insomniac Games has unveiled an Easter egg long concealed within Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. Despite more than four years passing since Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart launched on the PlayStation 5, seemingly few, if any, players have found it in the game. View the full article

The Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 livestream is set to occur soon, as the turn-based RPG by HoYoverse moves closer to the end of Version 3.3. The developer has not yet revealed many details about its upcoming patch and will likely do so during the livestream, highlighting its release date, the new playable characters, the character banner structure, story updates, events, and much more. Because of the ongoing beta tests, there have been a lot of Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 leaks, which have detailed the gameplay kits for its three new confirmed playable units, for example. View the full article

Call of Duty and Battlefield may only occasionally dip into the Second World War these days, with CoD's most recent Nazi battering entry being 2023's Call of Duty: Vanguard, while Battlefield hasn't so much as sniffed an M1 Garand since 2018's Battlefield 5. But there are plenty of other shooters dedicated to replicating history's most destructive conflict in virtual form. One such example is Team17's well-regarded 2021 shooter Hell Let Loose, which is letting players enlist for free over this weekend... Read more.View the full article

The Witcher 4 is being developed with consoles first in mind, as developer CD Projekt Red aims to avoid a similar fiasco to the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. A recent Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 tech demo gave us our first big preview of how the new RPG is shaping up, and it certainly looks stunning. But the showcase was running on a standard Playstation 5, rather than the typical PC demos we're often used to seeing for such presentations, and the studio says this decision was a result of the "many problems" it encountered during its previous release. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Witcher 4 release date estimate, trailer, gameplay, and latest news The Witcher 4 gameplay is here, as CDPR shows off a new technical demo New Witcher 4 'beta test' is a scam, CD Projekt Red warns View the full article

Back in May, SCS Software shared a 22-second video of a coach pulling out from behind a big rig in Euro Truck Simulator 2, and it sent the community into a frenzy. That's because players have been asking for coaches in ETS2 for years, even going as far as to mod them in themselves instead of waiting. Now, SCS has finally confirmed that coaches are in development, and they're definitely a game changer. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Euro Truck Simulator 2 teases a new way to play that could change the game The best ETS2 mods 2024 The best truck games on PC 2024 View the full article

CD Projekt RED has given a new update on The Witcher 4's development, which could prove to be bad news for PC gamers. It's obviously far too early to get all doom-and-gloom about The Witcher 4, but this latest update will definitely come as a disappointment to those planning to play the game on PC. View the full article

The Vibrant Visuals update is gorgeousView the full article

Grand Theft Auto 3: The Definitive Edition has returned to the PS Plus service with several improvements. The game is part of the GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition bundle, which features remastered versions of three of the franchise's most iconic titles. This marks the second time some PlayStation players can access GTA 3: The Definitive Edition for free, following its original debut on the now-discontinued PlayStation Now service in 2021. However, reception has been much more positive this time, despite the game previously being labeled by many as the "worst version." View the full article

A Genshin Impact chart has revealed the overall sales difference between the two currently featured five-star characters: Inazuma's Raiden Shogun and the Saurian hunter Kinich. Genshin Impact always features two different banner cycles, each including double banners that allow players to pull for two separate five-star characters at the same time. View the full article

Red Dead Redemption John Marston actor Rob Wiethoff has teased some "exciting news" for fans to get hyped about. Although Wiethoff is unable to reveal what he's talking about yet, it appears he could be talking about something Red Dead Redemption-related. View the full article

The new farming simulator, Grow a Garden, has reached 16,000,000 concurrent players on Roblox. It recently shattered several records, including becoming the first Roblox game to surpass 5,000,000 players. Apparently, this is just the beginning for the indie title, as it now seems poised to compete with some of the most popular games in the world. View the full article

Whatever it is, it's been on Rob Wiethoff's mind, "especially playing this game"View the full article

Forget modern day, Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile takes the detective to the 1970s, and it works way better than I thought it wouldView the full article

Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn moreView the full article

Mina the Hollower is a classic in the makingView the full article

In the episode, we discuss our time at Summer Game Fest 2025, including previews for Pragmata, Crimson Desert, Onimusha, Code Vein II, and a lot more. Plus, all the news of a busy week. View the full article

The developer of Another Crab's Treasure has announced that its new game Peak will come out on June 16. In addition to Aggro Crab, which developed the indie hit Another Crab's Treasure and the roguelike Going Under, the project involves Landfall, the developer responsible for other well-known independent games Content Warning and Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. View the full article

Fortnite fans have come together to share enthusiastic posts and images showing their love for the new skins of Hank Hill, Bob Belcher, and Cleveland Brown in the popular battle royale. Epic Games recently launched Chapter 6 Season 3 of Fortnite, which kicked off by bringing iconic superheroes like Robin and Superman to the island. View the full article

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33is an incredible experience already, and developer Sandfall Interactive has been diligent about improving the experience since launch. Sandfall has proven that it's open to introducing new features that elevate the gameplay experience and give players more options to enjoy the game. One missing feature that I've completely changed my tune about after initially thinking I wouldn't have very much interest in it is a co-op mode. Clair Obscur is an excellent single-player experience, and the logistics of implementing a co-op mode are kind of tricky by design. View the full article

s part of The Witcher 3's 10th anniversary celebration, CD Projekt Red spoke to GamesRadar about the "secret sauce" that made its quests so special. Maturity was cited as the main ingredient by Paweł Sasko, a quest designer on The Witcher 3, because the majority of its developers were entering their 30s and 40s. Also, importantly, they were Polish... Read more.View the full article

The ultimate marriage of horror and cozy farming sim is coming in 2026, and its name is Grave Seasons. Set in the town of Ashenridge, players take on the challenge of starting a new farm and becoming a part of their local community, until a grisly ******* puts their peaceful life in danger. Harvest crops, catch fish, build relationships, and discover which villager is secretly murdering their neighbors over the course of four seasons. View the full article

A Marvel Rivals leak revealed a feature similar to Overwatch's endorsement system, and it might be coming in a future update. As a PvP hero shooter, Marvel Rivalsfeatures a cast of incredible superheroes with different abilities who bring exciting variety to each team-up. View the full article

The ending of Deltarune Chapter Four had us all on the edge of our seats. Whether you ended your playthrough with Susie confiding in you or a chilling voicemail from Carol Holiday, there's so much to look forward to in the following chapter and many possible shenanigans for Kris and Susie to get up to at the festival. Many fans have already started theorizing about the next steps the story may take. View the full article

I feel like money laundering is one of those concepts you see in a lot of crime TV shows but it's not really something that seems to come up much in games. I certainly can't think of any games that feature money laundering as an actual mechanic, but I'll be able to add one to the list next week: GTA Online. The multiplayer game is getting a new update this coming June 17th called Money Fronts, and is literally all about buying up small but generally lucrative businesses that you can sneak some money through. Read more View the full article

Like with any board game, adapting Monopoly to the gaming world is a challenging proposition. You can slavishly stick to the original formula or turn it into a nightmarishly exploitative mobile game—or both. At least that seems to be the trend these days. Well, travel back two decades with me to find a lovely gem for an exception – one that used the Monopoly license as a springboard to create something unique. Monopolizing my free time While the gameplay and execution are quite imaginative for this Monopoly tycoon game, its title—Monopoly Tycoon—most definitely is not. But hey, we are talking 2001 here, a time of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon and Tycoon Game Maker Tycoon (ok, that one might be fake), so it made sense to capitalize on the craze. And it’s not like it’s an inaccurate title. You are looking at a business sim, one that takes the Monopoly game board and reimagines it as distinct plots of land that you can build businesses and apartments on. Your utilities and railroads are also present, and – here is the key part – every square of real estate can go up for ***** at an auction. The city is your oyster. Screenshot by Destructoid Otherwise, it would be like any run-of-the-mill business empire, plopping down shops based on what the peeps would like to buy, adjusting (read: jacking up) the prices wherever possible and jockeying for space and market share with your business rivals. But things get a whole lot more hectic once the auctions roll around, giving you an opportunity to outright buy specific map squares, which will stop anyone else from building on them (and force them to pay you rent for the shops that are already there), and should you get a monopoly by buying up all squares of the same color, make them watch helplessly as you buy out their stores at discounted prices. Apartments, hotels, and bankruptcy also come into play, making for some fun chaos. The presentation also adds a lot to the charm. Your opponents are all based on the various classic Monopoly board pieces. Battleship is a captain with a navy hat, a white beard, and a funky shirt. Top Hat is a magician. Iron is a kind old lady with a tea set. Racecar is a racer with a moustache so Tom Selleck that he must be compensating for something. Cannon is a cigar-chomping army man. You get the point. A colorful cast. Screenshot by Destructoid The shops themselves appear out of nowhere and expand rapidly, accompanied by the sound of an air pump, giving everything a cartoonish vibe. In what must be the wet dream of a marketer somewhere, every citizen is carrying a colorful tote bag based on whose shop they last spent money in, making it easily identifiable who is dominating any given area of the city. Whenever a ***** is made, green bills literally fly into your account in the top right corner, accompanied by cash machine sounds and a nice bit of dopamine. As the dreaded 6am timeslot approaches – this is when you pay your utility bills and stock up your stores, so it’s often a huge expense – a scary alarm signal plays as you get ready to watch your money disappear. It’s all good fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I flew the camera to the luscious park in the middle of the city, sook out the giant statue of Mr. Monopoly, and asked it for advice. Also, goodness me, the soundtrack has no right to slap this hard. Every day is a five-year ******* in the game, and each decade has a separate soundtrack – from the mellow trumpets of the ‘30s to the ‘70s disco vibes and the “we’re almost in the future” electronica of the ‘90s, it’s banger after banger after banger – and the main menu theme makes me want to run to the nearest shop, buy out its owner, and embark on a business adventure right here, right now… [Hidden Content] It’s as American Dream as it can get. Capitalism for dummies Returning to the game as an adult, I found that it does a good job of getting some basic capitalistic tenets across. You have a near-infinite free line of credit, meaning you can go very far into the red, with the caveat that if you have a negative balance at midnight, you have to end the next day in the ****** or get eliminated via bankruptcy. So the optimal strat is to go nuts on your business empire in 1930, risk bankruptcy in 1935, barely make your money back by 1940, then repeat the process again. It also doesn’t hurt if you find the real moneymakers of the game: residential buildings and taking advantage of monopolies. Whatever cash is, it certainly is not king. Screenshot by Destructoid You can build apartments to house the residents of the city – there are no private homes at all, making for a somewhat dystopian affair. They pay their fees at 6am, giving you a good cushion for that dreaded time of day. It’s a good racket, but it won’t win you the game – you want to secure a monopoly at any cost—and the AI will make you pay top dollar for each property as you get closer to this goal—then wait for the rental payout the following day before buying out your opponents’ stores. This will usually crush them in whatever business metric the scenario calls for while bolstering your own, so all you need to do is not go bankrupt. The fact that monopolies also allow you to build hotels to get exorbitant income for each visitor is just a cherry on top. I always found that the light brown locations (Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road) are the best way to go for your first monopoly: you only need to secure two of them, and they are nominally the cheapest on the board. From then on, the world is your oyster. Scenarios range from daily profit quotas to total business empire value to getting a certain number of sales or winning elections, but this approach will always serve you well. I got quite far into the game as a kid, but never quite cracked the code – and while I think I found the optimal strategy, I’d still struggle on the later levels if I were to force myself to try something else. But even if that’s the only reliable way to win, it is a ton of fun to execute the strat over and over again. I wonder how cutthroat the game would be in a proper multiplayer setting—which the game does support, but, you know, good luck finding a game these days for something that relied on GameSpy. Monopoly Tycoon was a commercial slow burner, but it ultimately sold almost two million copies by 2006, five years after its release. Unfortunately, developer Deep Red Games (now DR Studios) has never quite lived up to its promise with their later projects, though I was surprised to see that they apparently developed Terraria’s mobile and console ports. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go back to listening to the soundtrack. 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