In Red Dead Redemption 2 Online Moonshiners and Bounty Hunters can recieve bonuses, discounts, and boosts this week, plus this season's limited-time clothing is now available. All Moonshiner and Bounty Hunter missions and free roam events are offering double role XP, plus 50% more cash for Moonshiner Sell and Bounty missions, including legendary bounties.

The MoonShiner Shack and Bounty Hunter License both are discounted by 5 Gold Bars and role items for both are 35% off. The new seasonal clothing items are now available as well, with the full list on Rockstar's official website or below.

Every new piece of clothing in the first DLC

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Fate/Grand Order brings Ragnarok and some much needed UI touch-ups in its latest update.

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Max Temkin, one of the original eight co-creators of Cards Against Humanity (and perhaps the most public of them) has resigned his position after numerous former employees came forward with allegations that he was the “harbinger” of a toxic work environment at the company’s Chicago offices.

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There's a whole lot to find in The Last of Us Part 2--and if you want that coveted Platinum Trophy, you'll have to scavenge every last scrap. Finding every trading card, coin, note artifact, and workbench can be a massive chore, but we're here to help.

Below you'll find a roundup of our guides to The Last of Us 2 that will help you find every collectible in the game. It starts with our complete spoiler-free walkthrough, which walks through the location of every collectible as you play, without discussing story beats or most encounters. But we've also got specific guides for just about everything, to help you lock down whatever you're missing as you work through the game. And if you're looking for more help, we've got it-- check out our full The Last of Us Part 2 guide roundup.

Following today’s reveal of the Warden DLC for Samurai Shodown, SNK featured the first gameplay during the New Game + Expo.

Not only we get to see the Warden in action, but we also learn more about the gameplay from game designer Kaito Soronaka.

You can see the Warden in action below together with a few official screenshots from SNK’s press release while you wait for the DLC’s release tomorrow, June 24.

Street Fighter V’s online multiplayer has struggled ever since the game’s 2016 debut, but the longstanding issues have finally come to a head now that the official Capcom Pro Tour has moved to the digital realm. During a recent Capcom Cup qualifying event, two finalists decided to drop out rather than continue to…

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The makers of Bloodstained today announced their old school Castlevania-style adventures will continue with Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon 2. This is the follow-up to a small game they made as stretch goal for the Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night crowdfunding campaign. Where Ritual was all about Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night vibes, Curse called back to Castlevania’s early 8-bit days. I’ve heard good things, and evidently it’s popular enough for ArtPlay to make a sequel to a spin-off.

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The makers of Dying Light 2 have publicly cut ties with writer Chris Avellone following allegations from several women of sexual harrassment, sexual assault, and abusing his industry prestige as a sexual predator. Avellone is known for writing on games including Planescape: Torment and Fallout: New Vegas. Several other upcoming games he was known to have written for, including Bloodlines 2, have clarified they were not currently working with him anyway.

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While gamers continue to hold their collective breath for the first full Nintendo Direct of the year (what a sad sentence), fans of the house that Mario built have been satiated with smaller looks into games such as Animal Crossing, Paper Mario: The Origami King, and more recently Pokémon.

That trend continues as Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company, ended last week's Pokémon Presents digital event saying they were set to announce another secret project on June 24.

Will we see the return of Johto in the vein of the Let's Go games, or will Game Freak surprise us with something completely different? Join Ben Reeves, Dan Tack, and me as we react with you in chat and witness what's next for the world of Pokémon.

We went live earlier, but you can catch the full archive of the stream above! And remember to subscribe on YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, Twitter, and Facebook to get notified when we go live.

A new Sega and Atlus survey has appeared, and it asks people about the companies' series and game subscription services they use.

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After what seemed like an eternity, but was actually close to 10 days, Go Battle League Season two will finally return to Pokemon GO. A few days ago it was shut down thanks to an exploit discovered (and used) by trainer JesusG1310. This glitch let him get more energy for charged attacks during his opponent’s charge attacks.

Along with the announcement that the GO Battle League will return today, Niantic also released some information on how they’ll make up the downtime to Pokemon GO players.

The first one will let you participate in six sets of battles each day for the remainder of season two. That means you’ll be able to do a total of 30 battles per day instead of the standard 25.

Also, the GO Battle League leaderboard will be temporarily disabled for the foreseeable future. This will stop cheating players from seeing how fast they’re climbing the ranks and may make it easier for Niantic to identify players who may be cheating.

Finally, there will also be two parts of what Niantic is calling boosted GO Battle League rewards running from June 23 at 1 PM PT until June 30 1 PM PT. The first one will completely remove Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott from the encounter reward pool.

Many trainers have expressed their disinterest in the Unova starters as rewards since they’re easily obtainable in the wild. The second part of the boosted rewards moves the Rare Candy rewards in the Premium track from fifth to fourth. This should make it slightly easier to earn Rare Candies in the GO Battle League.

This part doesn’t seem to be changed, but you can check out the most recent schedule update for GO Battle League Season two below for a little refresher (All times are 1 PM PT).

While it may be surprising to see DLC in a Pokémon game for the first time, Sword and Shield’s Expansion Pass is definitely preferable to its traditional model of following up the latest game with another full-price version just to deliver some new content and a few improvements. The Isle of Armor, the Expansion Pass’s first of two bundled DLC additions, provides an entertaining reason to revisit the Galar region with over 100 returning Pokemon (plus a few new ones) and an enjoyable new Wild Area. But this island getaway is otherwise pretty bare bones and disappointingly brief.

Like the free-roaming Wild Area in the main Sword and Shield campaign, The Isle of Armor’s is complete with an excess of untamed Pokémon wandering around, dozens of dens for Max Raid Battles, and plenty of items to find and collect. Without the usual Gym structure (or even linear Routes), this DLC’s main quest line instead has you running missions throughout its open space – it’s much more freeform than the usual Pokémon experience, which feels like a natural and not unwelcome progression after the first Wild Area showed how well an “open world” Pokémon could potentially work, even if the story here is too fleeting to really savor it.

Nyjah Huston, Aori Nishimura, Riley Hawk, and others join the fray

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Four years ago on this day, The Caligula Effect made its debut for the PS Vita in Japan.

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Just yesterday, the identity of the mysterious ARMS character coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was finally revealed. Min Min joined the roster in an incredible fashion, quite literally beating her fellow ARMS cast members to the punch and snagging the invite for herself.

But Min Min’s reveal means a lot more than it seems like at first glance – she’s opened the door for a bevy of other popular characters to get a chance to go toe-to-toe with gaming’s greatest as well.

You see, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has, since launch, included a wide variety of Spirits – collectible images of characters from across a wide swath of gaming history.

But while some saw another way to honor gaming history, others saw a death knell – surely no character featured as a Spirit would also be a character.

For a long time, that assumption held true – no character already featured as a Spirit ended up being a playable character in the base game of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

When the same held true for the first Fighters Pass of Joker, Hero, Banjo-Kazooie, Terry, and Byleth, none of whom had been Spirits, it seemed all but confirmed, and made Spirit Events like the Resident Evil one feel more like cullings than content.

Today, during the New Game + Expo, NIS America showcased the first English gameplay of Nihon Falcom’s JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV.

The gameplay showcases our familiar heroes from the earlier games of the series. It was played on PS4, which is the first platform getting the game later this year.

While this is pretty spoiler-free for those who already played the first three games of the series, you may want to skip the video if you haven’t finished The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III.

You can enjoy the video presented during the show below.

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Insomniac Games has responded to allegations that it protected multiple "sexual predators" in response to a claim from a former employee. The Marvel's Spider-Man developer tweeted that it had taken "numerous steps to address" the allegations.

"We were aware of the allegations made in a former employee's tweets today and had taken numerous steps to address them. For legal and privacy reasons we will not respond to individual allegations about specific former employees," the company wrote. "We are a workplace family that has actively promoted diversity, inclusion, representation and equality for our entire existence. We will continue to do so every single day."

The fifth entry in the Shiren the Wanderer retro RPG series, the Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate, is coming to Nintendo Switch and PC in 2020. The game was originally released exclusively on the PS Vita in North America in 2016.

Developer Spike Chunsoft announced that the port is enhanced with exclusive new dungeons. The game features retro-style graphics and roguelike gameplay. The original Shiren the Wanderer game was the sequel to the first Mystery Dungeon game, which has spawned a number of licensed spinoffs, including the Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon series.

The announcement came during the New Game+ Expo, where Western release dates for Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV and Ys IX: Monstrum Nox were also announced.

Supergiant Games has released a new update for Hades and it's one of the game's largest to date. In both the full patch notes and trailer for the update, Supergiant reveals that this will be Hades' final update in early access--there will be one more follow-up patch "to address any lingering issues" but the next full update will be the official launch of the game.

This latest update adds a boss fight, hidden forms for certain weapons, enemies, mini-bosses, boons, and new types of upgrades to Hades. It also implements new art and visual effects, such as updated character models and animations, as well as more story events to play through. You can see a lot of these additions in the update's new trailer, which is embedded below.

The patch notes for this latest update are a doozy. We've listed out the full notes below for anyone looking to scroll through it all.

Developer Beethoven & Dinosaur has offered a fresh look at its striking rock music platform adventure The Artful Escape, which is being published by the ever-reliable Annapurna Interactive and is heading to Xbox One, PC, and Apple Arcade later this year.

As Beethoven & Dinosaur explains in its new gameplay walkthrough below, The Artful Escape tells the story of teenage guitar prodigy Francis Vendetti - the nephew of legendary folk icon Johnson Vendetti (said to be the equivalent of Bob Dylan in-game) - who embarks on a cosmic journey to craft his stage persona.

The Artful Escape begins on Earth - in the town of Calypso, Colorado to be more precise - on the eve of Francis' first live performance. Beethoven & Dinosaur says its opening chapters are designed to introduce players to Francis' hometown and the legacy of his uncle, with the townsfolk he talks to along the way offering advice, history, as well as some ill-omens.

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The Pokemon Company has collaborated with Samantha Vega to bring a new Pokemon-themed fashion line to Poke-fans everywhere. The lineup, now available from the Samantha Thavasa shop, includes purses, handbags, charms, bracelets, phone cases, and more.

Pre-order sales are starting today and will officially begin to sell at Samantha Vega stores nationwide on July 15. You can also get yourself a cute Pokemon tote bag if you spend over 15,000 yen, which equates to about $140 USD.

The YouTube channel for Samantha Vega uploaded a commercial that shows off a couple of the different items that are part of this new collaboration. You can watch it below:

The Blood Price update is here and it is the last major content update before Hades leaves Early Access.

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By now, some of you have wrapped up The Last of Us Part 2, which came out last week for the PlayStation 4. You may be weighing a second playthrough, which begs the question: Really? Are you… okay?

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The next game in the Trails of Cold Steel saga is set to release in just a few months, and it will bring the popular JRPG sub-series to a close. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV will launch worldwide for PlayStation 4 on October 27, 2020, with Nintendo Switch and PC ports planned for 2021. The Cold Steel arc, which is part of the Trails series and The Legend of Heroes franchise, kicked off in 2015 (in the US) with the release of Trails of Cold Steel on PS3 and PS Vita, so Trails of Cold Steel IV will give fans a finale that's been five years in the making. If you can't wait to get your hands on the game, pre-orders for Trails of Cold Steel IV are live now, and there are a couple of editions with various pricing to consider.

Trails of Cold Steel IV's story picks up two weeks after the battle at the end of Trails of Cold Steel III, as Juna, Kurt, and Altina awaken to realize Rean has been captured by Chancellor Osborne. Now led by Juna, Class VI sets off to rescue Rean and put an end to Osborne's plans, which will bring about the end of the world, once and for all. The turn-based gameplay remains the same, although Trails of Cold Steel IV introduces new S-Craft techniques as well as powerful Lost Arts for each character in combat. The game also boasts the largest roster in the series' history, with returning characters from the Trails in the Sky trilogy and the Crossbell arc.

During the New Game+ Expo livestream, game director Goichi "Suda51" Suda showed off some brand-new gameplay footage of the Nintendo Switch exclusive No More Heroes 3. Unfortunately, getting a good look at the never-before-seen gameplay was a challenge, as Suda obscured the entire sequence.

While discussing the power of video games as an entertainment medium before getting to the NGPX announcements, the screen behind Suda began playing some No More Heroes 3 gameplay. It's difficult to parse what was on screen, with Suda sitting directly in front of the player's field of vision. We do see protagonist Travis Touchdown battling a boss, some sort of luminescent robot capable of controlling dimensions. Never once during the approximate two minutes of footage does Suda mention the No More Heroes 3 gameplay going on behind him.

You can check it out below, where Suda also admits that Super Mario Odyssey is still on his backlog.

Today is a huge day for SpongeBob fans everywhere. It’s the release date of the very-much anticipated SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, a suped-up remaster of the 2003 collectible-filled platformer.

Enthusiasts of the popular television series can now explore the depths of Bikini Bottom, collect tons of things, and hang out with iconic SpongeBob characters in HD for the first time.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, let’s dive under the surface and investigate the world of SpongeBob memes.

If you’ve ever aspired to be a real-life Mark Watney—collecting samples of rocks and dirt on Mars—now is your chance. With NASA’s AI4Mars project, you can take a virtual trip around the red planet in the Curiosity rover.

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Revealed during the May Xbox 20/20 showcase of upcoming Xbox Series X games, Call of the Sea is the debut title from Out of the Blue Games. When developing Call of the Sea, Out of the Blue Games co-founder Tatiana Delgado said that the team wanted to specifically "target the next gen" and designed the game to take advantage of the tech afforded by consoles like the Xbox Series X.

"We wanted to target the next gen," Delgado told USgamer. "As soon as we saw what was possible, we wanted to do it because although we have a stylized, visual style, so it's not realistic but we wanted to get as much as possible from the graphics side. And I think we can benefit a lot from the next-gen and, we're kind of different for what you would expect from a next-gen game."

Delgado added that Call of the Sea takes advantage of next-gen tech in subtle ways that players may not immediately notice--the sheer amount of assets the game manages to fit on-screen at a time, for instance, or the many layers to the lighting. These aren't features that many players are typically looking at when watching trailers for next-gen games, but they do represent an aspect of the technological jump between console generations.

The latest update to Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare makes some changes to the playlist, and introduces another fan-favorite character to the multiplayer mode. The Gaz Operator Bundle includes a new operator skin featuring the British Special Forces operative.

Along with the operator skin, the Gaz bundle includes skins for your assault rifle, handgun, and watch, a custom finishing move, calling card and quip, and a Union Jack emblem. It's available in the in-game shop.

The update accompanying Gaz also changes up the current playlist:

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Super Smash Bros. Melee refuses to die. Over 18 years after it first arrived on GameCube, it continues to draw massive crowds at tournaments across the globe and enthrall both newcomers and veterans with its lightning-fast, execution-heavy gameplay. Thanks to a new fan project, this popular fighting game finally has…

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