Lego Fortnite: Mecha Team Leader (2,503 pieces)

$250 | Releases August 1

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The Lego Fortnite lineup will double in size in the coming months, as four new sets are slated to arrive between June and August. The most notable addition to the lineup is the Mecha Team Leader, a 2,503-piece display model for adults that you can preorder now for $250 from the Lego Store. The Mecha Team Leader releases August 1, but you'll be able to build the three other new sets while wait starting June 1.

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At this time, only the Mecha Team Leader is available to preorder. It's unclear if preorders will be offered for the other three sets listed below. That said, it's worth noting that unlike the original lineup, these do not appear to be timed exclusives on the Lego Store, so you should be able to buy them from major retailers at launch.

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The real journey in Oblivion Remastered begins after you step out of the grimy Imperial City sewers and emerge in the world of Cyrodiil. Right from the start of the game, there are zero restrictions on where you can go, who you can meet, and what you can do. You can choose to follow the main story quest, which requires you to hand over the amulet the emperor entrusted to you before he died, or completely ignore the story and explore the new world before you.

If you're a veteran of Oblivion, then you likely have a solid idea of the best places to go first. However, if you're hopping into the game for the first time with the remaster, you might need some guidance. After all, the map is huge and offers some free fast travel destinations thousands of meters away right from the get-go.

So, what should you do first in Oblivion Remastered? Below, we'll offer a few specific directives on the best places to visit after emerging from the sewers. For so much more on the "new" game, use our full Oblivion Remastered guide.

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If you don't play games on PC (or even if you do), you might not know that there's been a run on parkour games for a while now. All of these also compete with games like Roblox and Fortnite, where parkour sims carve out a major aspect of the user-generated worlds on display. But one of these parkour games stands out above the rest: Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game.

It's both the highest-rated parkour game on Steam (among those with more than just a handful of reviews) and has the most Steam reviews by far, with 96% of its nearly 5,000 user reviews giving the game the illustrious "Overwhelmingly Positive" distinction on the digital storefront. Soon, it'll be leaving early access and coming to consoles as well, with a 1.0 launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S scheduled for June 17.

During my hands-on time with the game, it was quickly apparent how much solo developer Michel Losch drew inspiration from the past. The arena-like maps and the ability to freely go wherever and chain together stylish moves felt like something right out of a classic Tony Hawk game. One of its maps, The Shed, seems to intentionally invoke imagery of Tony Hawk's beloved warehouse level. Still, I agreed with Losch's assessment that the physics and required stick skills of his game end up landing Rooftops & Alleys (R&A) somewhere in the middle of Tony Hawk and the more sim-like Skate series from EA.

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The talk of the town currently in gaming is Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, but it might not be the only RPG remaster from Bethesda. A report said a Fallout 3 remaster is coming, and now one of the game's original designers, Bruce Nesmith, has commented on what he'd like to see from it.

Nesmith told Videogamer that he'd like to see Fallout 3's gunplay improved upon to make it more like Fallout 4's. "[Fallout 3 combat] didn't hold up to shooters at the time," he said. "Also, it's an RPG shooter; it's not a run-and-gun shooter. But a lot of work was done on that for Fallout 4. So I anticipate seeing a lot of that work go into it, assuming they're doing the same thing."

Nesmith pointed out that Fallout 3 marked Bethesda's first big stab at a shooter-style game, and the gunplay was not ideal.

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EA officially announced Madden NFL 26 today, and this new entry brings the biggest platform-availability shake-up that the football game series has seen in years.

When Madden NFL 26 launches in August, it will only be on the current generation of consoles and PC. Nearly five years into the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S's lifespan, EA has finally decided to drop the PS4 and Xbox One versions. 2013's Madden NFL 25 was the first game in the series to release on PS4 and Xbox One, and every annual release in the series has been available on those platforms until this year.

Additionally, Madden NFL 26 will be the first game in the series to be released on Nintendo Switch 2. EA teased this during the Direct unveiling the console earlier this month, but we now have official confirmation. It's the first Madden game to be released on a Nintendo platform since Madden NFL 13 in 2012. Considering Madden is one of the best-selling games every year, a shift in platform availability like this is significant.

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French independent game studio Coven has announced its second title, Micromega. Based on the works of acclaimed artist Mani, the game tasks players with solving physics-based puzzles in a decaying, monochromatic world. According to the game's press release, "scale, motion, and observation are key to progression." The studio also shared Micromega's first trailer, which can be viewed below.

Based on the trailer, it seems like Micromega will be an atmospheric adventure, with minimalist ambient music accompanying the small sphere as players roll it across series of floating platforms, debris, and other obstacles. Though the puzzles will be fairly straightforward to begin, 30 levels of escalating difficulty are currently planned for the game, with hidden paths and collectibles offering up even greater challenges. All of the game's environments are hand-drawn by Mani, who also serves as the game's director.

"Every stage of this vertical-scrolling adventure is a delicate dance of physics and strategy, where peculiar creatures hold the key to the ascent," Micromega's Steam page reads. "Each plays a role, but at a different scale, working together to shift the world and free the Sphere’s path to the unknown... Even the smallest push can set massive change in motion. This world obeys its own delicate physics, observing these interactions is key to progress."

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Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition for Switch 2

$70 | Releases June 5

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Cyberpunk 2077 has seen tremendous growth since launching in 2020. Originally littered with bugs, Night City is now better than it’s ever been--thanks to dozens of updates from CDPR and the brilliant Phantom Liberty expansion that transformed the world and strengthened the narrative. Nintendo users weren't able to play the open-world RPG on Switch, but they will be able to play it on Switch 2 on June 5, which is the same day the console launches. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is now available to preorder for Nintendo Switch 2.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition for Switch 2 $70 | Releases June 5

This is the only version of the game up for preorder. However, it’s the premium Ultimate Edition that bundles together the base game and the Phantom Liberty expansion. Better yet, all of this content is included on a physical 64GB game card--meaning you won’t need to download additional content to your console. At the moment, Cyberpunk 2077 is the only third-party Switch 2 with all of the game data on the cart--other third-party titles are Game Key Cards, which require additional downloads from the eShop.

Considering the size and scope of Cyberpunk 2077, it's pretty awesome that this is a true physical edition.

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Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition has been optimized for smooth gameplay on Switch 2. This includes the use of Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology, support for Gyroscope Mode and motion controls, touchscreen menu navigation, and compatibility with the Joy-Con 2's mouse controls.

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Pokemon TCG Pocket's next expansion will take players to Pokemon Sun and Moon's Alola region with its new Celestial Guardians set.

There will be more than 200 new cards in the set for the free-to-play mobile game, including EX versions of Sun and Moon's Legendary Pokemon mascots Sogaleo and Lunala. Sun and Moon starters--the grass owl Rowlet, the fire cat Litten, and the water seal Popplio--are also being added as part of the set.

In sync with its Alola region theme, Celestial Guardians will also be unique Alolan versions of cards like Meowth, Raichu, Vulpix, and Marowak for players to collect. Trainer cards coming as part of the set include the introduction of Rare Candy and the Torom Dex, as well as Supporter cards for Sun and Moon's Trial Captains Ilima, Lana, Kiawe, Acerola, Mallow, Sophocles, and Lillie.

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EA Sports has announced a new paid season pass for FC 25, the first of its kind for the soccer series, and the developer anticipated fans having a lot of questions about this.

In a blog post, EA Sports said the paid season pass is "purely additive," but many believe it's just the latest example of EA trying to squeeze even more money out of players beyond the microtransaction-heavy Ultimate Team mode. The FC 25 "Premium Pass," as it's called, can be purchased with FC Points or UT Coins at a cost of 1,000 FC Points ($10 USD) or 500,000 worth of in-game earnable UT Coins.

As for what's included, players get tradeable packs and Season Points boosters, along with more player items, evolution consumables, retro-themed cosmetics. The graphic below shows everything included with the paid expansion pack, and some of the content is exclusive to the Premium Pass.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has introduced quite a few new features and improvements to Cyrodiil, but one classic feature from the original 2006 version of the game has undeniably remained: extremely cursed character faces.

To be fair, most of the horrifying faces in the original Oblivion belonged to NPCs. Player-characters often ended up looking a bit off as well, but the player-character's face wasn't featured as prominently in the original game as it is in the remaster, nor was third-person mode as polished as it is in the latest version of the game, so the game's wonky NPC faces tended to overshadow whatever horrors players put together in the character creator. In Oblivion Remastered, however, many of the game's NPCs have had glow-ups, while the game's character creator has given players more flexibility to turn the Hero of Kvatch into an utter monstrosity. There's even a subreddit where players can share said monstrosities: /r/OblivionAbominations.

Naturally, Oblivion Remastered's updated character creator makes it far easier for players to create visually appealing characters, but it also makes it easier for players to create characters that are pure nightmare fuel. Almost immediately following the game's surprise release, social media started filling up with screenshots of player-character designs that make the bug-eyed NPCs of Starfield look downright friendly. Here are some of our favorites.

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Nacon has announced that the Unfinished Business standalone expansion for RoboCop: Rogue City will launch on July 17 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The company also released a new trailer for the expansion, showing off some of the new gameplay, enemies that RoboCop will encounter, and what appears to be a ghost from his past, back when he was still made from easily damaged flesh and bone.

First revealed earlier this year during the Nacon 2025 showcase, Unfinished Business revolves around the high-tech OmniTower being taken over by an army of mercenaries. The organization is after the power source at the heart of this building, and when combined with stolen modules from the Metro West precinct, they'll be able to take control of any OCP technology, including RoboCop.

Naturally, Old Detroit's best cop isn't going to wait for this to happen, and he heads to the OmniTower to put a stop to these nefarious plans.

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Avalanche Studios has confirmed that Hogwarts Legacy on Nintendo Switch 2 is a new build of the game with "next-generation assets" instead of using the Switch port as a foundation for development. However, this means there isn't a Switch 2 Edition upgrade pathway for players who already own the RPG on Switch, like there is with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Party Jamboree.

On YouTube, Avalanche's VP of technology Rob Nelson explained that it wasn't an easy choice regarding how to bring Hogwarts Legacy to Switch 2. "So for Nintendo Switch 2, we had a decision to make whether we were going to do an up-port from Nintendo Switch or start with next-generation assets," Nelson said in the Creator's Voice video (seen below). "That was a difficult decision because the easy path would have been to do the up-port from Nintendo Switch. But we felt like we were able to create a better realization of our world by starting with the next-generation assets. And we're really happy that we were able to deliver that."

While this should mean better visuals on Switch 2, the downside comes down to the apparent lack of an upgrade path for current owners of Hogwarts Legacy on Switch. For instance, Zelda: Breath of the Wild owners can pay $10 to upgrade to a prettier Switch 2 Edition. It looks like a brand-new, full-priced purchase of Hogwarts Legacy will be required on Switch 2. That said, there is a chance that the original Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy could get a performance boost on Switch 2.

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A Minecraft Movie is doing big business in theaters, and now you can drink Minecraft milk, if that's something that sounds appealing to you. But be warned--the new milk includes a food dye that the US government is planning to phase out soon.

TruMoo has announced limited-edition Minecraft Vanilla Green milk AKA "Creeper Milk," along with Minecraft Chocolate milk. They're both now in stores in the US through June 30.

The Minecraft Vanilla Green milk uses Blue 1, a food dye that the US government plans to phase out by the end of 2026. This could make the Minecraft milk something of a collector's item, except everyone knows milk does not age well. Not everyone agrees about food dyes and their health risks.

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This week, the film adaptation of Supermassive Games' signature title, Until Dawn, will hit theaters. The developer's most recent game, The Casting of Frank Stone, was released last year, and we're not sure what's next for the team. But according to a new report, Supermassive was working on an ambitious Blade Runner game that was canceled while still in development. And it sounds like it would have been very intriguing.

Via Insider Gaming, the game was called Blade Runner: Time To Live, a third-person action-adventure title that put players in control of a replicant named So-Lange. Unlike the vast majority of replicants, So-Lange has already outlived his expiration date and he works as a Blade Runner who hunts down rogue replicants.

The game would have been set in 2065 in New Zurich as So-Lange's attempt to retire a renegade replicant named Rev led to a betrayal that left the player-character in rough shape behind enemy lines.

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Bethesda Game Studios has congratulated Kepler Interactive and Sandfall Interactive on the launch of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by way of a custom art piece showing a bunch of "adoring fans" from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion having a fun time booting up Expedition 33.

The context here is that Oblivion Remastered surprise-launched on April 22, just days before Expedition 33 arrived on April 24. Given that both Oblivion Remastered and Expedition 33 were day-one launch titles on Game Pass, some wondered if Expedition 33 might be overshadowed by Oblivion Remastered.

It remains to be seen what impact, if any, both games releasing on Game Pass so closely to each other might have. The Expedition 33 developers have also reacted positively to Oblivion Remastered and have noted how both games can successfully co-exist (of course).

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Blurry eyes and copious amounts of coffee are defining this Thursday morning for many Nintendo fans, as preorders for the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 console went live last night at 12 AM ET at three major big box retailers--Best Buy*, Target, and Walmart. Almost instantly, social media feeds buzzed with jubilant success and bitter defeat, as Switch 2 listings changed from "coming soon" to "sold out."

Target and Walmart both opened their digital doors right at the announced 12 AM start time, and within seconds Target showed "sold out" warnings on listings for both the Switch 2 console itself and the Mario Kart World bundle. However, this turned out to be a false alarm, and while a few customers reported payment issues at the Target cart page, the big red retail chain emerged as the place most people were having early success--with the Target smartphone app proving particularly effective for some.

Some users had to effectively mash the "place order" button over and over again for Target's system to finally put the sale through, while others saw their payment methods and addresses disappear at the purchase screen. In a few extreme case, the attempt to purchase a preorder resulted in a fraud alert to their account, and a cancellation of the preorder.

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The original Grand Theft Auto VI trailer from December 2023 has reached a pair of massive milestones. The video has now exceeded 250 million views and 1 million comments.

These numbers, first noticed by Insider Gaming, apply to just the main trailer shared by Rockstar Games on YouTube. The video, of course, was re-shared and re-posted by countless other accounts, thus boosting its reach even further.

To date, Rockstar has released just that one trailer in late 2023. Everyone is waiting for Rockstar to share more, whether that's a second trailer, more screenshots, new information, or anything at all. As of yet, however, Rockstar has said confirmed or even indicated as to when more details may be released.

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Nintendo preorders for the Switch 2 in the US hit late last night, and it was as chaotic as you'd expect. Retailers suffered from technical issues and available supply sold out quickly, with some customers even finding their orders canceled. Over on eBay, the predictable wave of US Switch 2 preorder resales has now begun, but some listings aren't what they appear to be, and are instead seemingly part of an anti-scammers/bot resistance.

Sold listings show numerous people have now paid almost double the console's original retail price--$449, or $499 with Mario Kart World--to secure their console. However, as you scroll through the listings, you'll find more than a handful of fake Switch 2s. Going through the listings, some posts have already been taken down. It should be noted that eBay rules state that preorder listings have to be for things coming out within 40 days. June 5, however, is just out of reach at 42. So it's a possibility that maybe these will be removed outright and relisted later.

While browsing, you'll see a Switch 2 listed a few bucks less and if you go read the description, it tells you point blank this is not what you're looking for.

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In 2023, IO Interactive co-founder Janos Flösser started a new studio, Wombo Games, alongside veteran developers who previously worked on Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, and Just Cause. Now, Wombo Games is sharing an early look at the company's first game, Raiders of Blackveil, a roguelite action-RPG.

Raiders of Blackveil has single-player and co-op options for up to three players. The main characters in the game are humanoid animals who live on "a dystopian industrial fantasy world" where the human-controlled Blackveil corporation has forced them into servitude. That's why the animals are launching an armed rebellion against Blackveil to reclaim their freedom and their world.

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According to Wombo Games, Raiders of Blackveil will be a deeply strategic game that blends "MOBA-inspired champions, RPG-style loot, and PVE extraction gameplay." The game is currently available to wishlist on Steam.

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2023's Tron: Identity brought a unique look inside the world of Disney's tech-heavy universe, as developer Bithell Games told a story of sabotage and subterfuge in a consequence-driven visual novel. The events of the story focused heavily on what the player chose to do, and how they reacted to the consequences of those choices. It was a novel--pardon the pun--approach to Tron, and one that, while not perfect, was effective in expanding the lore of the world.

This year, Bithell Games will bring us back into its version of the Tron universe in Tron: Catalyst, a follow-up to Identity's story with a new set of characters and an entirely new approach. The visual novel format is gone, replaced with an isometric action-oriented format that gives the player more direct engagement with the world. The shift is a gamble, but based on my experience with the first 90 minutes of the game, it's one that has enough promise that it might pay off in the end.

A new identity

Those who played Tron: Identity may have a set of expectations with Catalyst, but as mentioned above, those expectations need to be derezzed. Catalyst is a vastly different experience, one that encourages exploration and direct combat over heavy dialogue and puzzle-solving. Where Identity felt more like an Ace Attorney style of game, Catalyst gives the same vibes as Supergiant's Hades or, perhaps more accurately given the similar setting, Neon Giant's The Ascent.

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