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Brilliant puzzle game Blue Prince is getting one final major update before Dogubomb and director Tonda Ros move on. Blue Prince launched in April to widespread critical acclaim, becoming one of the highest-rated new game releases of the year. It also debuted as a day one release on both PS Plus Extra and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, giving many more gamers the chance to see what all the fuss is about. View the full article

Blizzard has revealed new details about some of the endgame content coming in Diablo 4's upcoming Season 9. While players will be able to test this new Diablo 4content during the 2.3.0 PTR between May 27 and June 3, the finished product will be coming in Season 9. View the full article

Newly released card battler Monster Train 2 has different clans to explore, and not all of them are equally effective. Knowing how the clans and their respective cards work will allow you to win more battles and progress deeper in your runs. Out of the five clans in the game, only two are available at the start. You can work gradually towards unlocking the rest of them by completing in-game achievements, which will allow you to try out new cards. Here's a ranking of all five ranks based on my early in-game impressions of all of them. 5. Underlegion Screenshot via Shiny Shoe I am not a fan of the Underlegion clan, despite its ability to swarm enemies with multiple units. The objective is to use the Funguy on every floor and have more units than the enemies. The core spell cards rely on buffing up the Funguy. Using Propagate will allow your Funguys to apply different effects when they're killed or summoned. There's nothing wrong with the Underlegion cards, but they take a lot of time to power up. You'll have to go all the way in with this clan and unlock the best possible cards to make your life easier. It's better to avoid this clan if you're still learning the different mechanics. 4. Pyreborne Screenshot by Destructoid Pyreborne is an incredibly flexible clan that works on the backbone of Pyregel's ability. This ability causes enemy units to take more damage, and you can stack them as much as you want. While Firestarter applies Firegel on the enemy, your units will do amplified damage in turn. This is a hybrid clan that offers a bit of both offense and defense. The only downside is the amount of time Pyregel takes to build up, and you'll want to use the heavy hitters from Banished to make the most out of this clan. 3. Banished Screenshot by Destructoid I am skewed towards the Banished units because I love how you can move them constantly to build Valor. Valor is the strong point of this clan, as it will buff up your units pretty quickly. This clan can be slightly confusing if you're not playing the right cards at the right time. Many Banished units have the Shift ability, which means the more you move these cards, the more Valor they earn. Earning Valor is key as it will protect your units and also cause more damage in turn (based on the ability of the cards). Since the Banished is one of your two starter clans, you'll find it easier to unlock all the cards to complete the collection. 2. Luna Coven Screenshot via Shiny Shoe The Luna Coven is going to be the first clan to unlock for most of you in Monster Train 2, and the units are extremely strong. This is the best clan if you want to play cards with magical abilities. The cards and their abilities depend on controlling the moon cycles between Full and Half. You'll also want to increase your Conduit stacks, which will raise the power of your spells. While Luna Coven units work great for any playstyle, they're weak to begin with. Hence, I recommend this clan for those who have already spent a few hours mastering the mechanics. Combine this clan with another like the Banished, which offers good defensive measures. 1. Lazarus League Screenshot by Destructoid The Lazarus League is chaos personified in Monster Train 2, as it relies heavily on randomness. However, that factor makes this clan a fun one to use, and your units are almost never going to die. The backbone of this clan is the Reanimate ability, which brings your dead units back to life. Your resurrected units are also going to keep all the buffs alive, making the cards feel like cheat codes in some sense. That said, the cards will have an essence of randomness in how they work, and players who love consistency in terms of in-game effects might not be fans. However, I love using the cards, and it only gets better the more you level up this clan. The post All Monster Train 2 clans ranked appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

After the success of its follow-up entry that set new records for the franchise, the original Space Marine is getting a shiny new port to celebrate the origins of the series with the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Master Crafted Edition. While the enhanced edition isn't a full-blown remake, it still offers several remastered features that make it more than worth revisiting. Whether you've played countless hours of the original Space Marine, just the sequel, or are completely new to the series, the Master Crafted Edition offers the ultimate way to experience one of the highest-rated Warhammer games yet. View the full article

The Independent Fallout Wiki and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) have announced a new partnership joining the two endeavors. Both sites' curation, expansiveness, and, crucially, user experiences with minimal/unobtrusive ads make them cherished resources on the internet of 2025... Read more.View the full article

It all sounds great, as long as you're not expecting to pop one into your gaming rig anytime soon. Dubbed the Micron 9650 Pro, the SSD is still very much in the test-bench phase. It was spotted by Tom's Hardware at Computex 2025, housed in a chunky metal enclosure and... Read Entire Article View the full article

Stardew Valleyis all about becoming part of a community, and doing that means befriending all the various villagers that live in and around Pelican Town. While players will eventually want to earn hearts with every character in the game, players on a new save or starting Stardew Valley for the first time should spend their very limited socializing free time wisely and become friends with the villagers who give the most valuable friendship rewards. View the full article

Level-5's newest RPG has already sold over 500k units worldwide across all platforms within two days of launching. View the full article

Have you ever immediately wishlisted a game on Steam based on aesthetics alone? I ask because that's just happened to me with All Living Things, a stop-motion game inspired by The Ripley Scroll, a 15th-century alchemical manuscript. Doesn't that just seem like a guaranteed feast for the eyes? Developer MOXO self-describes it as an "animated art-book puzzle game", which feels perfectly apt for it. The general presentation is simple, this strange, alluring art book on a ****** background waiting for you to click around. Read more View the full article

WWE 2K25 contains a line of voiced dialogue that incorrectly identifies Brian Pillman as a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. While the late Brian Pillman doesn't appear in WWE 2K25, his real-life son does, and a recorded line from longtime commentator Michael Cole piles an accolade on Pillman's career that has yet to be bestowed. View the full article

It seems like PlayStation's upcoming live-service title Fairgames is not faring very well in closed playtesting, as per a recent report. Fairgames developer Haven Studios saw a major leadership shake-up just last week, and now, there are signs that the game itself could join the growing list of PlayStation's doomed live-service projects. View the full article

Thor and Jeff are suddenly some of the most controversial heroes in Marvel Rivals. Netease Games has outlined major changes coming to the tank and healer very soon with Season 2.5, and both heroes are getting some huge nerfs to their survivability and kit. This hasn't gone down well with players so far, who're worried that each character could become much less viable going forward. Netease has taken notice, though, and followed up the recent hero balance adjustments with deeper breakdowns for Jeff and Thor, so you can see exactly how they're going to play in the future. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The 37 best Marvel Rivals skins Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 adds six Team-ups, Ultron, and a surprising new mode All Marvel Rivals codes and how to redeem - May 2025 View the full article

Lightyear Frontier launched into early access a little over a year ago, and it generally seems to have trudged along reasonably well since then. It's not quite ready for 1.0 just yet, but a new update was announced by developers Frame Break and Amplifier Studios earlier this week that sounds like it'll be bringing in some much needed changes. Read more View the full article

The next Total War Warhammer 3 DLC will bring a notorious legendary lord to the tribes of Norsca. In a new developer update, Creative Assembly head of community Adam Freeman is joined by Warhammer 3 DLC game director Todor Nikolov, art director Stoyan Stoyanov, and Tides of Torment lead designer Vasil Nikolov to discuss the upcoming expansion and, in particular, the introduction of Sayl the Faithless. The team also talks about greater Norsca reworks that are on the cards, as well as more upcoming changes for Slaanesh. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Total War Warhammer 3 patch notes buff Kislev and Tzeentch again The next Total War Warhammer 3 DLC finally adds a new Slaanesh legendary lord Total War Warhammer 3 patch 6.1 arrives with full Kislev and Kairos reworks View the full article

Inquisitoractor Alix Wilton Regan recently talked about the backlash regarding Dragon Age: The Veilguard, saying that she was “absolutely devastated” by the backlash it received from some fans. Dragon Age: The Veilguard was one of 2024’s most polarizing games. While many critics and players loved it, a large part of the fanbase was greatly disappointed with the RPG. View the full article

It's no secret that Xbox Game Pass has been on a hot streak as of late, and luckily for subscribers, its momentum doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. Microsoft upset many subscribers when it made the decision to split Xbox Game Pass into multiple tiers, reserving most of the day one releases for the Ultimate tier and PC Game Pass, but on the bright side, the day one games have been defying expectations. View the full article

Fallout creator Tim Cain has explained all the challenges that would be faced if a remaster of the original game were created. Released back in 1997, the original Falloutwas met with acclaim, although its aged gameplay has made it a popular fan choice for a potential remaster. View the full article

Elden Ring Nightreign has given gamers their first official look at the new Executor class, which appears to be capable of dishing out a lot of damage while also blocking attacks with their blade. Players looking forward to jumping into Elden Ring Nightreign won't have to wait much longer, as the upcoming title releases on May 30 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. View the full article

I wasn't expecting it personally, but it seems like the new hotness is Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, 'ey? Sure, it's from a studio like Level-5, who've made massive games from Yo-kai Watch to Professor Layton. I just didn't expect a sequel to a 3DS game from over a decade ago to do so well. In fact, it appears Level-5 is so happy with how much money everyone's given them, it'll be giving away a free bit of DLC for the RPG at some point in the future. Read more View the full article

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has surpassed 500,000 sales, Level-5 has announced. While Fantasy Life i still has ways to go to match the studio's most successful titles, it's already looking like a big hit in its own right. View the full article

You ever wonder who the first person to put peanut butter and chocolate together was? Part of me feels like whoever it was must be loaded; I mean, you’ve combined two already great flavors into something that Reese’s would more or less build a whole brand on. And then part of me thinks it plays out like the hypothetical guy who invented the Chicken McNugget in The Wire. A pat on the back from a big shot, and then it’s back to the basement to figure out a way to make the fries taste better. I don’t know the answer; I hope it's the former. But every now and then, you come across an idea, a combination of things, that’s so good that you wonder how nobody’s ever done it before. And every time my squad and I sprinted back to our time-traveling dropship, stopping only to deal with the Time Reapers that stood in our way, I wondered how the hell nobody had ever said “Hey, what if we combined Overcooked and Gears of War?” pre-Pizza Bandit. Pizza Bandit’s setup is pretty simple. You’re Malik, a former bounty hunter with dreams of being a chef who is pulled back into the bounty game when he’s scammed out of his pizza shop and his former crew needs his help to get out of a jam. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. I can’t get mad when Albert, the android that upgrades your weapons, tells me he doesn’t know how to apologize for what happened to my pizza shop because he’s just an android, or when my pilot waxes nostalgic about how he misses the fog, or when someone utters the odd nonsensical line. It’s too silly, and the whole setup is just there to, well… set up Pizza Bandit’s wackiness. See, you’re not just any bounty-hunting crew. You’re a time-traveling bounty hunting crew, and that means you’ll be going all over space and time to get the job done. Don’t ask me how any of this works. All I know is that pizza heals and bullets kill, and that the Time Reapers — ****** little buggers that seem to be invading every timeline — don’t want this pizza shop owner to make any dough. And that’s not gonna fly. Pizza Bandit’s writing is pretty silly, but that’s part of the charm. What makes Pizza Bandit unique is that you’re not just shooting stuff. You’re also, well, kinda playing Overcooked. After squading up, my first mission saw my crew (you can play with up to three friends) heading to the Restaurant from N owhere, a hidden outpost run by another bandit crew. Our job: fulfill the pizza orders for other bounty hunting teams, and send them off in time-traveling rocket pods. That meant putting together the right type of pizza, getting it to the oven, making sure we were getting their drink orders right, and adding some extra bullets for when things got spicy, cramming it all into a pod, and doing it on time while fighting off the Time Reapers, who really, really don’t like supporting small businesses. And that’s where the other part of the Overcooked/Gears of War marriage comes into play. See, the Time Reapers mean business, and you’re not going to talk them out of some time reaping. That’s their whole bag. The only solution, fellow bandit, is incredible violence. I’ve played several builds of Pizza Bandit at this point, and let me tell you, your arsenal is up to the task. You start with your choice of assau lt rifle, minigun, and sniper rifle, but the fun really begins when you start unlocking your secondary weapons by completing jobs. They start simple: landmines, grenades, that sort of thing, but once you unlock the disco ball that attracts enemies and gets them dancing before it explodes? Whew, buddy. And the sentry turret? Perfection. You could slice and dice them Time Reapers with a katana, but have you ever considered using a pizza slicer as big as a man? It’ll change your life. And the Time Reapers will force you to use everything in your arsenal. You got your standard guys who will just run at you, but there are also Time Reapers that’ll crawl around on all fours, Terminator-looking ones that will leap at you, giant ones with hammers, guys who throw fireballs (these can really ruin your day), the works. You gotta prioritize. Pizza Bandit is at its best when you’re with a good team, calling out orders. A good match should be shouts of “We need a pepperoni pie!” and “I’m on the Coke!” and “I’m down!” interspersed with lots and lots of gunfire. Simple choices, like when to call down your own, once-a-mission rocket pod full of pizza and supplies, and more complex ones, like where to put it (you can block off a stairway, for instance), spice things up, too. And here’s the thing: so far, I’ve just talked about Restaurant from Nowhere, which is only the first level. Pizza Bandit isn’t a one-trick pony. One of my favorite levels has you taking over a sushi joint and making sure you have the right stuff on the delivery turntable for your customers. Sometimes that means running downstairs and grabbing a big ol’ tuna, taking that bad boy upstairs, and chopping him up before the Time Reapers whack you and you drop him. Other times that means frying an egg, or making a cucumber roll. You gotta stay ahead of the curve, because new customers are prioritized over old ones, and the Time Reapers aren’t gonna sit there and wait for you to plate your masterpiece. Sometimes, you’re not even cooking food at all. Another favorite level, Wizard’s Tomb, has you exploring a magically booby-trapped tomb in search of a sarcophagus. You’ll have to navigate the tomb’s traps, solve basic puzzles to reveal the way forward, and take out the arcane heart powering the whole enterprise before getting to the sarcophagus itself, which you’ll naturally transport with jetpacks before booking it back to your ship. It isn’t enough to get any given job done; you gotta get home, too. Just another day in the life of a pizza bandit. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. There are more, of course: in one, you’ll defend a cabin with Dr. Emmert Browne (Great Scott, Jofsoft, I see what you’re doing here, and I like it!) while he invents the time travel device that makes your whole business profitable. Winning it all means keeping him warm, satiating his hunger with rabbit or venison, and stopping all those ****** Time Reapers (and Wendigos?) who are trying to stop time travel from happening. You’d think that the Time Reapers would understand time paradoxes, but I guess not. Can’t reap time if there’s no time to reap, y’all. Or maybe you’ll break into an enormous safe with a laser drill, like you’re roleplaying the opening scene of Michael Mann’s Thief with a drill that’s constantly exploding. That seems safe, right? But hey, apparently there’s a magical cookbook in that vault whose recipes can alter reality, and we’re being paid to get it, exploding drill or not. A Pizza Bandit always gets the job done. And there’s always time to do your best Breaking Bad impersonation and help a couple of guys cook some “magic powder” and hide it inside some chicken. Oh, and you have to kill and cook the chickens. Only fresh, never frozen, baby. Pizza Bandit is always ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s never less than fun. Between missions, it’s back to Pizza Bandit (your restaurant), where you can acquire and upgrade your weapons, decorate Pizza Bandit itself, use the ingredients you find during missions to bake and share a pie for some stat boosts on your next run, or get some spiffy new duds for your bounty hunter. The milk carton backpack is a classic choice, if I do say so myself, but I’m still saving up for one of the cat ones. The things we do for fashion, am I right? Then it’s right back to it. A bandit’s work is never done. Sometimes, you don’t know you want something until you get it. I didn’t know I wanted Pizza Bandit until the first time I played it at PAX two years ago. It was one of those games that generated a lot of word of mouth, but it’s one of those concepts that doesn’t seem like it’ll work until you get a controller in your hands and everything makes sense. I don’t know why we’ve never gotten something like Pizza Bandit before, but once I played it, I knew I wanted more. Pizza heals, bullets kill, and Pizza Bandit rocks. If Jofsoft can stick the landing, we’re in for a tasty slice of New York pie. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The start of the Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 beta tests has resulted in massive leaks about the new characters that will be added with the update, both confirming previous rumors about their abilities, as well as providing new insights into how they will work in combat. Version 3.4 is the next patch for HoYoverse’s turn-based RPG. The developer has already confirmed that three new playable characters will be joining the playable roster. The first of them is Phainon, a Chrysos Heir who has been accompanying the Trailblazer’s adventure on Amphoreus since their arrival in The Eternal Land. View the full article

Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker has 100% perfect reviews on SteamView the full article

Neowiz and Round8 Studio have published a full Lies of P Orchestra Concert on YouTube featuring nearly two hours of performances. View the full article

Give it some credit: it's not every game that lets you edit the text in its installation wizard while you wait for setup to conclude. But Big Rigs dares to be so bold. It is also so bold as to allow you to accelerate to literally infinite speeds by holding reverse, to have absolutely zero collision, and to splatter a .bmp of a three-handled trophy on the screen whenever you reach the end of a track, underlined by royalty-free WordArt reading "YOU'RE WINNER.".. Read more.View the full article