Under a Rock, the cooperative survival game from developer Nordic Trolls, recently shared a fresh look at base building gameplay for the Unreal Engine 5 title. Playable solo or with up to 10 partners, you and your pals will explore a procedurally generated island, fight for survival, tame wild creatures, and of course, build your own base. That’s the focus of this latest video, which shows off the harvesting and building mechanics. I particularly enjoy the physics system where trees fall over after chopping and rocks break into dozens of little bits.

I guess I’ve been living under a rock, because I’m just discovering this game, and so far it looks great. No release date has been announced but its coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Check out the new gameplay video:

Completing the lap, TMNT Splintered Fate is now releasing for the Xbox family. That means the One, X, S, your phone, your tablet, your TV, your PC, and a Meta Quest 3, with, or without the Xbox branded version. 

As of earlier this week, not only are you able to play the game, you also get limited access to the Casey Jones Junkyard DLC until July 8th. If you like the DLC, you get to keep it for the price of the base game. If you haven't played this game, it is a isometric top down brawler, with access to all the turtles, and their weapons. They get elemental upgrades as you move through the stages. It's also die, die again, because roguelike.

I'll admit, I was a little unimpressed with the game, but I also had the Switch version. Maybe now since I have the Nintendo Switch 2, I could give it another shot. Update: I'm playing it, and it does run significantly better. Cowabunga indeed. 

The new Dragon Delves anthology of adventures from Dungeons & Dragons has help for running two-person games: one player, one Dungeon Master. While Dragon Delves has one-shot adventures for levels 1 through 12, only a few of them are specifically crafted for running a two-person game.

Most D&D adventures are made for four to six players plus a Dungeon Master. That's the sweet spot for crafting challenging—but not overwhelming—combat encounters around D&D's embattled Challenge Rating. Additionally, four to six players bring a decent mix of classes and personalities to the table. It's also not a bad number for keeping the game session flowing at a decent clip; not too big, not too small.

But sometimes it's just you and your ride-or-die. Whether that's your spouse, your kid, your buddy from work, or your old high school pal.

In these two-person situations, Dragon Delves makes it so you can run a DM-plus-one-player game with just a couple tweaks. One tweak is the recommendation for the character to have proficiency in at least two of the handful of skills they recommend. The other is to give the player something called the Blessing of the Lone Champion.

The adventures are:

• Baker's Doesn't. An adventure for level 3 characters. Proficiency in at least two of the following skills:
  • Athletics
  • Deception
  • History
  • Insight
  • Perception
  • Persuasion
  • Sleight of Hand
  • Stealth 

• The Dragon of Najkir. An adventure for level 7 characters. Ideally, that character should have proficiency in at least two of the following skills:
  • Acrobatics
  • Athletics
  • Investigation
  • Medicine
  • Perception
  • Religion

• A Copper for a Song. An adventure for level 12 characters. Ideally, that character should have proficiency in at least two of the following skills:
  • Deception
  • Intimidation
  • Perception
  • Performance
  • Persuasion
  • Stealth

Were you to somehow hop, skip, and jump your way with a single character across all three of those level 3, 7, and 12 adventures, it looks like Perception is your #1 recommended skill choice. The next three are a tie between Deception, Persuasion, and Stealth.

But it's still dangerous to go alone! Take this:

• Blessing of the Lone Champion. Supernatural Gift (Blessing). You gain the following benefits:
  • Heroic Inspiration. You gain Heroic Inspiration when you finish a Short or Long Rest and whenever the DM has you roll initiative.
  • Temporary Hit Points. You gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to 10 times your level when you gain this blessing and when you gain a level.

If being a lone character is anything like being a DM with a lone monster, then that huge burst of temporary hit points will be necessary. Take the level 12 adventure, for instance. The lone player would get 120 temporary hit points. That's an incredible amount of hit points. But the action economy is so hellbent against this one player that I wouldn't be surprised if those 120 temporary hit points disappear faster than anyone's expecting.

How would a two-person game play out in practice? I'd love to find out. Our table, however, is blessed with that four-to-six-players sweet spot. Someday that table could flip, however, and it'll be down to me and my ride or die. Then we might take on one of these two-person one-shots.

Local game stores have hardcopies  starting June 24. Master Tier subscribers on D&D Beyond that pre-ordered Dragon Delves have two-weeks early access also starting on June 24. Hero Tier subscribers have one-week early access starting July 1. Wide release for everybody else is on July 8.

Developer Team Jade announced today during a developer livestream that free-to-play multiplayer shooter, Delta Force, is finally coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on August 19^th. They’re also including the Black Hawk Down single-player campaign as free DLC, after previously being a premium purchase. You’ll be able to wishlist the game on the PlayStation and Xbox stores beginning tomorrow. There will also be a console beta sometime in July with further details to be announced in due time.

The other primary purpose of the livestream was to reveal Delta Force’s next season of content. Dubbed “Season Break”, the new batch of content includes a new Operations mode map called Tide Prison, a new Warfare mode map called Cyclone, a new Operator, new battle pass, new weapons, new vehicles (including jet skis!), and more.

They covered a lot of ground over the course of the 90-minute presentation, which you can view in its entirety below. If you can’t wait for the console release, Delta Force is available now on PC and mobile. Don’t mind me – I’ll just be here, waiting patiently for it to hit PS5.

Neverness to Everness (NTE for short) is a free-to-lay, urban open-world RPG with stylized graphics that I like to refer to as “Anime GTA”, and it’s getting a closed playtest on PC July 3^rd through 16^th. Revealed during a developer livestream, the test will allow players to check out some of the improvements made to the game in recent months, including a new (and very GTA-like) wanted level system that increases as you break the law, such as stealing cars. There have also been updates to NTE’s dynamic weather system, including new snow mechanics.

If you’re hearing about NTE for the first time, it really is trying to be an anime-inspired GTA clone, and that’s not a bad thing. Developed on Unreal Engine 5, what we’ve seen of the game thus far looks very promising. It will take place in the large open-world city of Hethereau, where humans and supernatural entities co-exist. It does have a story and RPG elements, but you’ll also have no shortage of activities to engage with such as collecting and modding cars, buying housing, running a business, and more.

NTE is coming to PC, consoles, and mobile, though no release date has been announced. Interested players can sign-up for the playtest here. Check out the livestream recap below:

Eighteen years on and not every entry in the Assassin’s Creed series has been a smash hit, but there have certainly been more hits than misses. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is apparently an excellent one as evidenced by Nathan's review. They've also laid out the roadmap for this year's planned content including a major expansion, Claws of Awaji, coming later in the year. However, for the first time since the March release, the game is going on sale. Save a few bucks on an excellent game with more to look forward to, what's not to like?

The sale is live now and running through next month until the 25th of July. It'll get you 25% either the Standard or Deluxe Editions of the game as we continue to see improvements and quality of life updates, like this latest patch 1.0.6 that released with the sale. This update adds:

• A new Nightmare difficulty setting
• A new ally to recruit - Rufino, a charismatic character brought to life by Critical Role’s Robbie Daymond. Critical Role is a troupe of voice actors who create content around playing D&D and other type things. They did a special collaboration with Ubisoft on the game and this character spawned from there.
• You can now toggle whether headgear - like a hood, helmet, headband, or more will appear in cutscenes.
• PC specs have been updated to support “Ultra Low Mode” for better framerates on weaker graphics cards
• The Open World Alarm has been introduced, so repeatedly attacking civilians or military units outside of castles will send a group to hunt down the players across the open world.

More details about patch 1.0.6 can be found on the official site. Details on the sale for the game and links to the various marketplaces where you can take advantage of the sale can also be found there. I've embedded the feature on how the Rufino character came to life from the One Shot collaboration below, but if you'd actually like to see the One Shot itself, it's right here. It might be one shot, but it is nearly 4 hours long. 

The first character of Year 3 in Street Fighter 6 unfortunately won't be coming as soon as Bison did in Year 2 but we won't have to wait too long as Sagat will be releasing in early August. 

Sagat will release on August 5th 2025 which is right after EVO 2025 ends so I imagine they will have a playable build with Sagat available at the event so we may get a lot of gameplay footage coming out of the event. 

Also coming with the Sagat release will be Costume 4 for seven characters. All the costumes will be swimsuits and will be for the following characters... 

• Cammy
• Chun Li
• Luke
• AKI
• Kimberly
• Jamie 
• Manon

There aren't that many games available on the Gamecube Nintendo Switch Online service right now as there is only F-Zero DZ, Legend of Zelda: Windwaker and Soul Calibur 2 on there but they did announce that more are coming in the future and one of them is coming very soon. 

Originally released in 2005, another Gamecube classic is coming to the Switch 2 as Super Mario Strikers will be added to the Gamecube library next week. 

Super Mario Strikers will be available for Nintendo Switch 2 Online Expansion Pack on July 3rd 2025. 

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has been out for a little while now. All I've seen are touch of death combos, so I got my fix with KOF XV, and the demo. Needless to say, I haven't touched COTW, with the exception of the demo. 

You lucky people, however, just got Terry's brother Andy Bogard, for the free. As part of Season Pass 1, anyone who has the game, gets Andy free of charge. The Shiranui style ninja without a mask is now available for everyone. If you want to see him do all the damage to your life bar, SNK has provided a trailer. And if you're still...outside the city, it's probably safer there.

I personally think this one is for the pros.  I may change my tune once Ken from Street Fighter shows up later this Summer. 

I have to admit: I am an absolute sucker for the Hot Shots / Everybody’s Golf franchise. The games are just pure “fun”; sure, they’re over the top and overly animated, but at the core of this exaggerated experience are incredibly accurate and satisfying golf-mechanics. They’re just great games!

We’re on the verge of getting a new installment in just a few short months with Everybody’s Golf: Hot Shots which launches on September 5, 2026. The new installment will be available for the PlayStation 5, Switch, and Steam. The development team has released a new trailer outlining the game’s various features, modes, and mechanics, which you can find below.

I’ll see you on the fairway on September 5!