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There’s nothing sus about this collector’s edition. Limited Run Games, which often brings digital-only titles to a physical format with plenty of extra goodies, is partnering with developer Innersloth for a collector’s edition of Among Us. Customers can start preordering the Among Us Collector’s edition from Limited Run Games’ store on May 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. Preorders for the bundle will likewise close on June 27 at 8:59 PM PT / 11:59 PM ET.

This collector’s edition of the hit indie title will cost $80, a steep hike on the game’s usual price of just $5. That being said, customers get a ton of extra Among Us-themed merch for picking up this bundle.

The Among Us Collector’s edition includes two copies of the game, although they’re both digital. One copy is specifically for Steam while the other can only be redeemed on the Epic Games Store. Along with a couple of copies of Among Us, customers will also get a working Emergency Button from the game, a CD featuring its ambient music, and an imposter-themed steelbook containing a disc of Among Us concept art and interviews with Innersloth. The collector’s edition also includes a reversible poster.

This is all packed into an emergency button box. The box itself is blue with white sides. On top, it reads “Emergency” and in the middle is a big, shiny red button in a plastic case just asking to be pressed.

If you just want to get your hands on a copy of Among Us, the game is currently on sale for $4 on Steam.

It’s been a long time since the last Left 4 Dead release, but that doesn’t mean that the series is completely forgotten. Today, Dead by Daylight now has a new Left 4 Dead crossover, thanks to its latest DLC

Dead By Daylight‘s latest Tome–which are sets of challenges and lore–is called Forsaken, and it brings with it narratives and challenges for William “Bill” Overbeck from the Left 4 Dead series. The Tome adds a storyline exploring Bill’s backstory, specifically in the run-up to the events of Left 4 Dead. New challenges for players to complete will unlock more information about Bill, developer Behaviour Interactive stated in a press release.

Bill’s story is rolled out in a set of Tome memories, which are short pieces of fiction and cinematics that talk about the character. For a short glimpse, check out the trailer embed above.

Bill was originally brought to Dead By Daylight as a playable character back in 2017. He is one of a growing roster of crossover characters to be introduced to the horror game. Dead By Daylight is also increasingly developing a sprawling, multi-franchise narrative featuring a number of crossovers. We already know about an upcoming crossover event, too: Dead By Daylight will be getting Resident Evil characters in the near future.

EA announced today that it has acquired Metalhead Software, the studio behind the Super Mega Baseball series. Metalhead will be part of the EA Sports label alongside mainstays EA Tiburon and EA Vancouver, the developers of the majority of EA’s sports franchises.

With three games released so far, the Super Mega Baseball series has established itself as a strong complement to–if not competitor with–the simulation series MLB The Show. Although Super Mega Baseball doesn’t have the MLB license, it’s found an audience with its arcade-y, over-the-top take on the sport.

It’s more in the tradition of Backyard Baseball than MLB simulation games, and it appears that it’ll stay that way for the near future. In a statement to Polygon, EA Sports Vice President Cam Weber said that even though fans might expect an MLB license for the Super Mega Baseball series, “My belief is that Super Mega Baseball is well differentiated from MLB The Show, and I think it has its own spot in the marketplace.”

As for Metalhead itself, in a post on the Super Mega Baseball subreddit, it explained its reasoning for joining EA. “We’re proud of our games and passionate about our community,” the developer wrote. “We want to tackle bigger projects and expand the reach of our games. EA is the perfect partner to help us achieve that goal! Most importantly, EA is a big fan of our games and shares our vision for future projects.”

Terms of the acquisition have yet to be disclosed by EA. This move marks a return to baseball for EA Sports, which hasn’t published a baseball game since MVP Baseball 2007. Considering the continuing dominance of MLB The Show, it’s likely that EA and Metalhead will focus on the cartoonish style of games for the time being.

The last game in the series, Super Mega Baseball 3, launched in May 2020. It’s available across PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch, and playable on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Pokemon Go‘s May Community Day is set for Saturday, May 15. Not only will the event give you more chances to catch Swablu, this month’s featured Pokemon, but Niantic is also introducing Mega Altaria to the game immediately afterward. There will be various other bonuses to take advantage of during the event as well, so to help you prepare, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about Pokemon Go’s May 2021 Community Day below.

May 2021 Featured Pokemon: Swablu

This month’s featured Pokemon is Swablu, the pre-evolved form of Altaria. All throughout the event, Swablu will appear in the wild much more frequently than normal, making this a good opportunity to stock up on Swablu Candy. You’ll want to take this chance while you can; like Magikarp, Swablu requires a whopping 400 Candy to evolve, so you’ll need to catch a ton of them if you’re hoping to get Altaria.

You’ll also have a chance to encounter Shiny Swablu during the event. This variant is yellow rather than blue, so you’ll be able to immediately tell if you’ve found one. Like other Shiny Pokemon, however, it will be rare, but you’ll have more opportunities to encounter a Shiny Swablu if you use an Incense during the event.

May’s Community Day Move: Moonblast

If you’re able to evolve Swablu into Altaria during May’s Community Day or up to two hours after the event ends, it will know the powerful Fairy-type Charged Attack Moonblast. Altaria normally cannot learn this attack in Pokemon Go, making this your only chance to get it.

Moonblast is a good move for Altaria to know; as previously mentioned, Niantic is introducing Mega Altaria to the game immediately following the Community Day, and this form is part-Fairy, meaning it gets an attack bonus when it uses Fairy-type attacks such as Moonblast. To Mega Evolve your own Altaria, however, you’ll need to first stock up on Altaria Mega Energy, and this is primarily earned by defeating the Pokemon in Mega Raids.

May’s Community Day Hours

May’s Community Day will once again run for six hours, from 11 AM to 5 PM local time. This means you’ll have until 7 PM local time to evolve Swablu into an Altaria that knows Moonblast.

Other May Community Day Bonuses

In addition to increased Swablu spawns, Niantic is offering a paid Special Research story during this month’s Community Day called Cotton-Bird Pokemon. A ticket to access the Special Research costs $1 USD, and it’ll give you more opportunities to catch Swablu.

Niantic is also selling a Community Day item bundle in Pokemon Go’s in-game shop during the event. The bundle costs 1,280 PokeCoins and contains the following:

• 50 Ultra Balls
• 5 Super Incubators
• 5 Incense
• 1 Elite Fast TM

There will be a few other in-game bonuses as well. First, any Incense that you use during the event will remain active for three hours. On top of that, eggs that you place in incubators will hatch at a quarter of the distance they typically require, letting you hatch Pokemon much more quickly during the event.

After you’ve discovered the first Illumina Spot in New Pokemon Snap, you’ll begin receiving requests from Professor Mirror and the other members of your research team. You can view these requests by pressing Y while on the Research Camp screen, and they typically ask you to snap photos of Pokemon performing rare behaviors. However, if you’re just trying to play through the game, you can safely skip them and come back later, as they have no bearing on your story progress.

In fact, it’s generally a good idea not to get caught up completing requests right away and only focus on them after you’ve cleared the story and are working on filling out your Photodex. Not only are there a ton of requests to fulfill in the game, but many of them are cryptic or impossible to complete until you’ve unlocked higher Research Levels.

The requests will become much more important once you’re focused on filling out your Photodex. Each request essentially serves as a hint on how to photograph a Pokemon performing a special behavior, so they’re vital if you’re striving to snap up rare three- and four-star photos. If you’re just trying to see the credits, however, it’s best to return to them later.

New Pokemon Snap is out exclusively on Nintendo Switch. Like its predecessor, however, the game is often vague about what you need to do to progress, so if you ever find yourself stuck, be sure to check out our essential beginner tips, as well as how many Pokemon there are in the game. We’ve also put together guides on the biggest changes from the original Pokemon Snap and how to find the Seafloor Illumina Pokemon, one of the more elusive monsters in the game.

In a long and insightful Twitter thread, Respawn senior writer Tom Casiello said that Apex Legends Season 9 marks the return of the type of storytelling that the team loves. He refers to Season 9’s story, titled The Legacy Antigen, as an “umbrella story.”

“I started writing [The Legacy Antigen] back in September, right around the time ‘Family Portrait’ began in Season 7, and I made the decision to put EVERYTHING I had into this story,” Casiello tweeted.

“It’s a return to the storytelling our team loves: the umbrella story. Where all are involved. Everyone has a role to play. We can’t do this every season, of course. With in-game comics limited to seven panels a week, giving 20 characters their own spotlight is impossible.”

To cover additional ground, Apex Legends’ story will be told in two different ways over the course of Season 9. The whole story will be 20 chapters (plus a prologue) with in-game seven-page comics released every Tuesday and additional community comics released every Thursday or Friday.

While the in-game comics focus on the core cast of legends that are seeking a cure for the dangerous infection that’s reached Olympus, the community comics will inform readers about what all the other legends are doing at the same time.

“You CAN read the in-game comic without the community comics, and understand that part of the story,” Casiello clarified in a follow-up tweet. “Likewise, you CAN read the community comics and NOT the in-game comics, and understand that part of the story. But you won’t get the WHOLE story if you don’t read BOTH.”

“Technically this is the 10th season (Remember Season 0?), so Legacy Antigen also gave us a chance to take care of some dangling plot threads. Put some things to bed. Start some new stories. We wanted you to meet characters we’ve been talking about for years.”

Casiello added that The Legacy Antigen will be his swan song as he will be departing Respawn. Casiello has had a hand in shaping a lot Apex Legends’ story, hired to the writing team seven months prior to the game’s release.

“So what happens now?” he tweeted. “I promise you, the game is in good hands. The lore will go on (albeit not in ways I thought it would). What I know of the rest of the year is gangbusters good, and I can’t wait to watch it play out as ‘just a player.'”

Apex Legends Season 9 is one of the game’s most transformative seasons to date, as seen in the Season 9 patch notes. The season adds playable character Valkyrie, team deathmatch mode Arenas, the Bocek bow, and a whole lot more.

The Epic Games v Apple trial continues to spill out interesting details about other games companies and Epic’s relationships with them. In a new trove of email documents, we get an inside look at Epic CEO Tim Sweeney pressuring Sony’s Phil Rosenberg on enabling cross-play for Fortnite–with the help of the ticking clock of an impending E3.

“Many Fortnite players are kids, and their friendships are being torn apart by Sony’s segregation of players on competing platforms,” Sweeney said in an email dated June 1, 2018. He went on to argue that Sony’s approach could violate European law, and that the company was “prepared to pursue this course with all available resources, wherever it leads us, and for however long.” He implored Rosenberg to pass this message along to Tsuyoshi Kodera, then-president of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Rosenberg’s response was to assure Sweeney he had forwarded the documents and was awaiting a response, after which Sweeney stressed impending announcements planned for E3. He said E3 was to be a “definitive” moment for Fortnite, with plans to announce the Switch port, esports details, and cross-purchase and cross-play across every platform except Sony’s. But, he said, those plans could be changed if Sony made a firm commitment.

“We won’t delay partner announcements by weeks or months on the mere hope of future Sony-Epic discussions being fruitful,” Sweeney wrote. “If we could reach a definitive agreement on cross-console by E3, Epic would be very flexible on the timing of announcing cross-console and even all console esports. We’d ideally like to announce both at E3, but could delay announcement or implementation of either or both to allow more time to sort out the details.”

Rosenberg once again expressed skepticism that Sony could reach a decision by E3, as it was only a week away. Near the end of the email exchange, Sweeney made a note about his tone.

“In processing tone and thoughts in these emails please understand that Epic much prefers, and we assume Sony also prefers, to have the frankest possible policy discussions in private now than to have any sort of public conflict later,” he said.

Epic ultimately did announce its Fortnite Switch port at E3 2018, and predictably enough, Sony had to address the backlash from fans over its refusal to enable cross-play on its platform. Sony ultimately relented later in 2018.

This is the second big reveal of new information about Epic’s work behind the scenes with Sony during the time period, the first of which came in a newly revealed set of emails on Monday. All of this ostensibly relates to the Epic v Apple trial, as the evidence is being presented to show various Epic partner relationships. But it’s also an interesting look behind-the-scenes at how Epic has leveraged the popularity of Fortnite in its business relationships.