In Battle Train, you'll outfit your train with powerful upgrades, lay down tracks to your enemy’s base, and annihilate them with explosive payloads, natural disasters, and yes - family-friendly taunts. It’s a fast-paced, over-the-top deck-building and rail strategy game where no track is too twisted, and no engine is too explosive. Whether you’re launching natural disasters, hurling explosive trains, or delivering devastating taunts, Battle Train promises a ride like no other!

See: Complete Series (Blu-ray)

$59.32 (was $100) | Releases July 8

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Apple TV+ is home to several excellent series, but you don't need to subscribe to the service to watch them all. Select Apple TV+ shows have been released on Blu-ray, including fan favorites like Ted Lasso and Severance. The next Apple TV+ series coming to Blu-ray is the sci-fi saga, See, which launches on July 8. Preorders for See: The Complete Series Blu-ray are discounted to just $59.32 at Amazon (down from $100).

See: Complete Series (Blu-ray) $59.32 (was $100) | Releases July 8

Starring Jason Momoa, the award-winning sci-fi thriller is set in the post-apocalyptic aftermath of an epidemic that leaves Earth's population blind--until a set of twins are born with the ability to see. This 6-disc Blu-ray includes all 24 episodes across See’s three seasons. No special features are listed for this release.

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Since this bundle doesn’t release until July 8, consider biding your time with another discounted Blu-ray. Amazon is offering nice price cuts on all sorts of films and TV series, including those starring Momoa and other intriguing sci-fi series. There’s also a handful of different preorder options for A Minecraft Movie--including a Limited Edition Steelbook and Collector’s Crafting Table Edition that’s exclusive to Walmart. It arrives a few weeks before See: Complete Series (Blu-ray), and it’s a fun way to see Momoa in a completely different role.

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For a limited time, NordVPN is offering up to 76% off on two-year subscription plans. As a bonus, select plans also include an up to $50 Amazon gift card if you keep your subscription for at least 31 days. The deal only applies to NordVPN's 2-year plans, which require you to pay in full at sign-up, and the discount and Amazon gift card amount change depending on which plan you buy. Here's a look at the options:

NordVPN 2-Plan Deals See deal at NordVPN

• Basic -- $81.36 for the first 24 months (normally $278.16 per 24 months)
• Plus -- $105.36 for the first 24 months (normally $359.76 per 24 months) - Also includes $20 Amazon gift card
• Complete -- $129.36 for the first 24 months (normally $439 per 24 months) - Also includes $40 Amazon gift card
• Prime -- $177.36 for the first 24 months (normally $743.76 per 24 months) - Also includes $50 Amazon gift card

While all four 2-year NordVPN plans are discounted, only the Plus, Complete, and Prime plans include Amazon gift cards. Each plan includes differing features, which we've outlined below.

Note that the discounted price only applies to the first 24-month purchase. After the promotional period, all subscriptions roll over to the full standard price unless you cancel ahead of time. NordVPN also offers a full 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you change your mind within the first month of service, you can cancel for a full refund. However, the Amazon gift card bonus is only delivered if you keep your 2-year Plus, Complete, or Prime plan for 31 days.

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Skate fans, it's almost time to go back to San Vansterdam. EA and developer Full Circle have announced that the next Skate playtest is coming in early July, and it's arriving with a big visual upgrade.

As related in a new edition of The Grind, Skate's new update 0.27.0 will coincide with the next playtest on July 2. Invites will be sent out in waves for players who are signed up as Skate Insiders before June 27. After that date, registration will be closed. The new update has dramatically improved lighting, shadows, and visuals for the city of San Vansterdam, as well as more environments, animations, sound effects, graffiti, traffic, and pedestrians.

A side-by-side look at Skate's previous build and the newly upgraded visuals in the new update.

Full Circle has increased the maximum number of players per server to 150, and adjusted the in-game map to show the locations of other players. New missions and challenges are available in the new playtest, as is the Market Mile neighborhood, and progression has been overhauled.

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Alan Wake developer Remedy's new multiplayer shooter, FBC: Firebreak, launched today across console and PC. The release didn't go exactly to plan, however, as Remedy has identified what sounds like a pretty significant matchmaking issue causing headaches for some players.

In a social media post, Remedy said it's aware of an issue causing "most players" to fail to match together, with the result being people getting into matches alone. Firebreak is meant to be played with other people.

"We are working on a hotfix for this issue, which we expect to hit Steam later today [June 17], with other platforms following as soon as possible," Remedy said. It's important to note that this hotfix will already significantly help cross-platform matchmaking across the entire player base."

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Prior to the official launch of Borderlands 4 preorders, most of the questions were about how much the game was going to cost. But perhaps the questions players should have been asking were about the game's system requirements. Gearbox has disclosed the PC specs for Borderlands 4, and they're pretty eye-popping. But the requirements may not be as strict as they initially appear.

The specs were shared earlier today on Borderlands 4's Steam page, and the stats are reproduced below.

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Fortnite is launching a fourth battle royale mode with its June 18 update--Blitz Royale, a smaller scale version of BR with 32 players and rounds intended to last five minutes or less. While Epic Games is pushing Blitz Royale as being geared toward mobile players, the mode is playable on every platform Fortnite works on. Blitz Royale is available in solos and four-players squads, and is zero build only.

Blitz Royale will be Fortnite's quickest battle royale mode yet.

So how does it work? Well, it's a no-builds version of battle royale on a much smaller map than the main Fortnite island. But this isn't a tiny version of regular Fortnite Battle Royale. All players will start each match with a boon and/or weapon--everybody in a given round will get the same item--and as they survive and eliminate enemy players, they'll increase their Blitz Level, which immediately grants more weapons and gear at each level.

The new mode is bringing some free cosmetics with it, including a new skin, the Blitz Knight. To unlock the Blitz Knight, you'll need to either gain 15 levels once Blitz Royale goes live, or place in the top ten in 20 different Blitz rounds. There's also, of course, a unique victory umbrella glider, the Blitz Brella, that you can earn by winning three Blitz matches.

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The more players dive into Diablo 4's new Reliquary battle pass system, the more issues emerge, as recently highlighted by members of the Diablo community on Reddit.

Introduced as part of Diablo 4 Season 8, the Reliquary system wasn't exactly well-received to begin with. It replaced the ARPG's straightforward battle pass system with a more confusing one that broke rewards into multiple different categories. Players have complained about fewer rewards and less premium currency offered as part of the overhauled system, even if Reliquaries do technically give players more control and agency over which rewards to target.

As highlighted by Loika on the Diablo 4 subreddit and broken down by Wowhead, the issues with the Reliquary system actually go deeper. While players can earn "favor" tokens for free while playing to unlock some rewards, the game also prominently presents the option to buy those same rewards with Diablo 4's premium currency.

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When most people say their game is retro, they mean a particular era of game ranging from the NES to the PlayStation. That timespan encompasses the heyday of pixel-art gameplay and the burgeoning 3D revolution. It's not common for games to look even further back for their inspirations, to the earliest days of home console gaming. But that's exactly what Adventure of Samsara does, and it makes for a curious blend of motifs and mechanics.

Adventure of Samsara itself has a relatively long history. The game was pitched as a Kickstarter project in 2016, under the name Tower of Samsara. It had set a modest (and very precise, numerically) goal of $48,561, but failed to achieve a third of that number. That may have been the end of the story, as just another indie game that never got off the ground. But Brazilian studio Ilex Games continued to pitch it until landing at Atari, where it morphed into a sci-fi offshoot of the classic Atari 2600 game Adventure. Adventure of Samsara is a marriage of the two, an Atari spokesperson told me--the game is as Ilex originally envisioned it, but it has weaved in story elements from Adventure to make it part of that universe.

That blend of inspirations means that it carries visual similarities to an Atari 2600 game. The pixel art is large and blocky and visual elements carry a flat layer of color that looks reminiscent of those early video games, while also looking much more advanced and modern than anything the original Atari could have produced. This is a retro pixel-art throwback, but the look is striking by being modeled after and modernizing such an early version of pixel art.

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