There’s A New Harry Potter Game On Mobile, But It’s Probably Not Very Magical

There’s a new Harry Potter game coming to mobile, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be quite as exciting as Wizards Unite. The game, which has received its first trailer ahead of release, is called Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells, and it’s a match-3 puzzle game.

You can watch the trailer in the tweet below, although it doesn’t show off any gameplay.

The game is being released under the Portkeys label, and is developed by Zynga (Words with Friends, Farmville). It seems to be set early in Harry’s time at Hogwarts, based on how young the characters are in the key art. If you’re in Australia, the game has already soft-launched on both the App Store and Google Play–but other regions will have to wait a little longer. No release date has been announced.

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey And Rainbow Six Siege Microtransaction Spending Is Growing

Ubisoft’s latest financial report included new details on microtransaction spending for Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. In short, both are performing very well in regards to microtransansactions.

Ubisoft categorizes microtransactions as Player Recurring Spending (PRI), which covers digital items, DLC, season passes, subscriptions, and advertising. The team-based tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege enjoyed “record engagement” in the months of January, February, and March 2020, with PRI spending jumping by 26 percent.

That’s an incredible achievement for a game that was released in 2015. Ubisoft will be supporting Siege for a long time to come, as the company is releasing the game as a launch title for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year. GameSpot recently re-reviewed Siege, and we awarded it a 10/10.

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Nioh 2 Adds A Photo Mode And New Missions In A Free Update 1.09

Nioh 2 has received a free update, and it has brought new playable content and a photo mode to Team Ninja’s punishing action game. Update 1.09, announced over at PlayStation Blog, will let you capture images of some of the game’s stunning vistas and horrifying enemies.

The camera mode will feature plenty of options for fine-tuning, such as exposure, gradation, and lighting and tint adjustments. There are also numerous filters, letting you pretty up your photos of the game’s various grotesque beasts, as well as options to tilt your photos or display watermarks. You can see it in action in the screenshots below.

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Nine new missions have also been added, and they’re divided between sub-missions and one Twilight missions. Here’s the complete list, as well as how far you’ll need to be to unlock them, according to Nioh 2 Wiki:

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Stamp Rally Guide – International Museum Day

International Museum Day is apparently a real annual event that takes place on May 18, and not being one to shy away from obscure holidays and seasonal events, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is treating the day as an in-game event. It’s called the Stamp Rally, and it runs from May 18 until May 31. Like the May Day event that took place at the beginning of the month, the Stamp Rally gives you a week to visit your island’s museum in order to collect stamps and give you an excuse to spend some time fully appreciating Blathers’ beautiful building of bugs, bones, and bass (among other fish).

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DayZ’s Launch On Xbox Game Pass Has Been A Huge Success

Bohemia Interactive’s survival shooter DayZ is enjoying a newfound level of success on Xbox One after the game was recently added to the Xbox Game Pass catalog. The publisher said in a news release that “hundreds of thousands” of new players jumped into DayZ following its introduction into the subscription program on May 7.

The game is “flourishing now more than ever, and has become one of the Most Played games on Xbox,” Bohemia said in its press release (via Eurogamer).

Publishing director Vojtěch Ješátko added: “Xbox Game Pass is a great opportunity for us to open the game to a different audience, and to let a massive number of new players experience DayZ in all its crude harshness and beauty, together with the veterans.”

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