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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for June 2 to 5

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox, read on below and click on each of the game profiles for pre-order details (dates are subject to change). Strawberry Vinegar – June 3 In this visual novel, save your soul from being devoured by making delicious food! Sakuraba

‘Dragalia Lost’ 1.2.0 Is Now Live on iOS and Android Adding Shared Skills, The Royal Regimen, Onslaught Events, and More

TouchArcade Rating: Dragalia Lost (Free) recently had a new Fire Emblem event and added a new chapter to the main campaign. Today, a big update hass gone live on iOS and Android bringing in various new features and enhancements. As usual, a tenfold summon voucher will be sent to all players soon. Today’s update focusses on Shared Skills. You can now equip a third and fourth skill that can be used only by the team leader. The first and second shared skill have some differences as well. These skills must

Minecraft Dungeons has charm and potential, but needs lot more time in the furnace

  Minecraft is one of the most popular games on the planet, so it’s natural that Microsoft, after buying creator Mojang some years back, would attempt to apply the genre’s playful, blocky aesthetic to other genres. After modest success with the Story Mode adventure game and Pokémon GO-like Minecraft Earth, they’ve tried their hand at a light action-RPG à la Diablo — and unfortunately come up rather short. For now, that is. Minecraft Dungeons is a sort of my-first-dungeon-crawler type game, a friendly, streamlined version of the genre Diablo created

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Arrest of a Stone Buddha’, ‘What The Golf?’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 21st, 2020. As we approach the end of the month, we’re seeing more releases arriving. There are a lot of new games to check out today, and that’s how we’ll be spending most of our time here. There are also the usual lists of sales information, and that’s about the lot. Let’s check it out! New Releases Arrest of a Stone Buddha ($14.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! One of the coolest surprises of last year was The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

Chainlink Introduces VRF Tool to Help Smart Contracts Achieve On-Chain Randomness

Chainlink is best known for its pioneering work around decentralized oracles, but the project’s experts have also gone expansive with work on Mixicles, meta oracles, and beyond. The Link Marines are buzzing anew, then, as Chainlink has rolled out yet another major contribution to the smart contracts ecosystem this week, the Chainlink VRF. The “VRF” in that stands for verifiable random function, a cryptographic primitive that can generate random numbers in verifiable and unbiasable fashion. Why’s this important? There are no shortage of use cases in which blockchain projects could

Empire Of Sin Features John Romero’s Great-Grandmother To The Game As A Crime Boss

Empire of Sin, the upcoming 20s-set mobster strategy game from Romero Games Ltd, will feature a real-life figure from developer John Romero's family tree. Elvira Duarte was Romero's great-grandmother, an eccentric character who developers John and Brenda Romero wanted to honor in the game. The announcement has been made to coincide with Mother's Day.In the video below, John and Brenda explain that Duarte was an interesting character--she walked around with a green parrot on her shoulder, who would deliver punchlines to jokes she told. She ran three brothels, but quit

Halo Infinite Dev Teases Changes For How Medals Work

Given that Microsoft has said almost nothing about what to expect from Halo Infinite, which is releasing later this year, fans are understandable hungry for any morsel of news about the game. Halo community manager John Junyszek has now shared a tease for Halo Infinite as it relates to its use of Medals.Replying to a fan who remarked that Medals feel meaningless in Halo 5 because they are doled out so generously, Junyszek said, "We're definitely aware of this feedback," adding the smiley face and punch emojis to his message,

Halo 2 On PC: Launch Time And Known Issues Confirmed

Halo 2 is launching for PC through The Master Chief Collection on May 12. Developer 343 Industries has now shared some important launch details, including the specific release time and a list of issues to expect out of the gate.Starting with the release time, Halo 2 (including the Anniversary remaster) will release on PC at 8 PM PT / 11 PM ET on May 12. Microsoft is releasing the game late during the US day due to "current bandwidth concerns across the globe," the developer said on Twitter.In terms of