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For Honor, Darkest Dungeon, and Backbone are the first Xbox Game Pass titles to be announced for June. On June 3, Ubisoft’s For Honor will arrive on the service for both cloud and console. Backbone will follow on June 8. In this day one title, you play a raccoon detective named Howard Lotor who is down on his luck a bit. In the game, which is set in a dystopian Vancouver, he stumbles upon something “so massive that it will shake the very fabric of society....

You’ll need to stop folk trying to escape The Loop in Fortnite: Chapter 2 Season 5 but before you do any of that, you’ll need to try out a new feature to complete some of this week’s challenges by talking to a character. This is an entirely new feature in Fortnite as the closest you previously got to talking to a character was screaming at your pals over a headset in voice chat....

Bulletproof Kingsman umbrellas were recently added to Fortnite and this week, you’ll need to deflect 200 damage by using one. They are a fairly common drop and you’re more likely to find them in Henchmen areas like The Agency or The Yacht. You can find Kingsman umbrellas in chests, particularly blue ones, though they can appear as floor drops in Henchman areas. You can also charge up an attack using the umbrella as well as protecting yourself, so it’s worth picking one up if you find them....

The Midas challenges begin this week and you’re tasked with finding and searching a giant golden llama idol. Unlike the smaller supply llamas found around the Fortnite map, the golden llama is a giant llama head on a wall. It’ll drop some top tier loot, so well worth finding, but be warned that this small area is going to get busy very quickly. The Deadpool skin is now available for Battle Pass owners and you can follow all the latest Deadpool challenges here....

The Fortnite and Rocket League Llama-Rama kicks off on September 26 and runs through October 12. It all kicks off following the Party Royale’s upcoming Spotlight Series concert featuring Rocket League fan-favorite, DJ Slushii. Llama-Rama will be live on platforms where Rocket League is available. During play, Rocket League players will get Fortnite-themed items as they complete Llama-Rama Challenges in Rocket League. Additionally, Fortnite players will receive Rocket League-themed items in Fortnite as part of the same Challenges....

Funny, then, that one of the most popular purchases and tactics for players eager to earn rewards revolves around an old clunker of a Jeep. The 1940s Willys jeep is a current favourite, with many players picking up the vehicle in order to take advantage of an exploit that lets them indefinitely earn Super Wheelspins (read: lots of cash or rare car rewards) by buying the old banger, upgrading it, then selling it on....

Mass Effect 2’s Jack was originally intended to be pansexual, but BioWare cut down non-straight romances over concerns of negative media coverage. Speaking to The Gamer, Mass Effect 2 writer Brian Kindregan said that the decision to only allow Jack to be romanceable if users were playing as a male Commander Shephard occurred later in development. This came in the wake of a Fox News report in 2007 debating the depiction of sex in the sci-fi RPG....

The Special Research requires a story ticket, but whether you have one or not, you’ll be able to participate in the weekend-long Genesect-themed event in Pokemon Go. The Genesect-themed weekend event will kick off on March 20 at 8am local time, and run through March 23 at 10pm local time. During the period, the following features will be live: Normal-, Fire-, Water-, Electric-, and Ice-type Pokémon will be appearing more often in the wild....

Genshin Impact’s Version 1.6 update, Midsummer Island Adventure, will be arriving on June 9, and for the first time, it will introduce alternate character outfits and a new playable character from Inazuma. In the upcoming update for the free-to-play open-world action RPG, Klee receives a mysterious letter from a Dodo-King threatening to take Dodoco away from her. To help Klee and Dodoco, you will sail on a boat called a Waverider and explore an archipelago located in a remote sea area in search of the mysterious Bodoland....

Right now, there’s a few remaining Xbox One X bundles on sale for £299 in the UK and $299 in the US, about the same low price you would have found during Black Friday. These are incidentally the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Gears 5 (which also comes with downloads for the four previous instalments) bundles released alongside their launches last year, so it looks like this is a last chance to grab these as retailers clear stock....

As part of the Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut, you’ll be able to play a new story expansion featuring Jin set on Iki Island. Here, there will be new locations to discover, characters to meet, quests to complete, and more. In the new content, the journey begins when Jin discovers that a Mongol tribe has gained a foothold on Iki. Led by the shaman Ankhsar Khatun, known to her followers as “the Eagle", she is also a Khatun and a “shepherd of souls....

According to the developers, Ghost Recon Breakpoint players can expect updates based on feedback and a few surprises thrown in. Surprises could mean new cross-over events such as the one with Rainbow Six Siege which occurred back in January. “We will keep working to add more to the game and offer you all some exciting content for the months to come,” reads the statement. “We are designing the future of our game based on your feedback and throwing in a few surprises into the mix....

So, Going Medieval is a hopeful(ish) city builder rather than a bleak survival sim. However, given the time and place in which it’s set, survival is still an issue: problems like how to keep food fresh during the heat of summer can be a matter of life or death for your population. This is where underground storage comes in: with the invention of home refrigerators 500 years and change away, sticking everything perishable in a cool cellar makes for a surprisingly good substitute in the meantime....

Plenty of games require you to do multiple playthroughs to see all of the story, and it sounds like Gotham Knights is no different. In a recent interview with PLAY magazine (as shared by MP1st), the game’s director Geoff Ellenor explained how it is that you’ll be able to see different parts of the story. “You will not see all of it in a single playthrough,” explained Ellenor, continuing to say “just because there’s so much content that is unique to the hero’s perception of what’s going on and what happened....

A rating for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has been filed with the Game Rating and Administration Committee, which published documentation today. Reports of the three games getting remakes were first revealed in August via a Kotaku report, which was backed up by Gematsu. It’s said the games are being recreated in Unreal Engine and will use a mix of “new and old graphics” and will be released in a single package, as you probably gleaned by the title of the release title....

GTA 5 mod creator lunchxbles has released the 1.0 version of their GTA: Vice City mod. The mod brings the entirety of Vice City’s map to GTA 5, including remastered visuals and models. This is not a mod of Vice City itself, however, so you won’t be able to play any of the story missions in GTA 5, only explore the world of the classic game through a new lens....

10 Chambers Collection has detailed the next update for GTFO. The tactical co-op horror shooter’s next big content drop is called The Vessel, and it releases on June 11. The Vessel comes with a new environment, new weapons and a new enemy. The Lab is the game’s new location, and it will be available in seven new expeditions - essentially mission variants. As with previous releases, The Lab will be replacing existing expeditions on the day....

After a lengthy but deserved acceptance speech from God of War’s Christopher Judge, the first big reveal of The Game Awards was Hades 2, with a brand new god that certainly looks like she has something to do with Zagreus with those heterochromia eyes, with Supergiant Games revealing that she is Melinoë, the immortal Princess of the Underworld. This time you’ll be trying to kill the god Chronos, getting aid from gods like Moros, Apollo, Nemesis, and presumably plenty more....

In a recent Halo Infinite development update, 343 Industries announced that the previous Halo Infinite bot preview helped the studio test the servers and bot AI, and that the next test one is going to up the stakes a little bit more. As well as Big Team Battle and 4v4, 343 also intends to add Bot Arena and Academy Weapon Drills in the next test, too. The modes have been chosen to allow the developer to glean even more information about the way players act in-game, and help stress test the servers ahead of the game’s launch later this year....

This means that if you’re playing on PC, you can play with others on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. It also means that your multiplayer customization and progress will follow you across all platforms. Microsoft said it has been working with the PC community to ensure the game offers a “premier PC experience,” and will include features such as support for ultrawide and super ultrawide screens, triple keybinds, a wide variety of advanced graphics options, and more....