In the latest Squad Busters update, the Transformers are making a big entrance! Optimus Prime and Elita-1 will join the roster as permanent characters. Yes, actual playable heroes, not just skins. Players can unlock these iconic Autobots by collecting Energon in battles during the special Transformers Event, which runs for two weeks starting Monday. Optimus Prime is available in the first week, with Elita-1 following in the second. Both characters have Classic and Super forms, with no Baby forms like other heroes. In addition to unlocking Transformer characters, players can battle new bosses in the limited-time Unicron Attacks mode, while robot-themed skins will be hitting the shop for a limited time. Also launching with this update is the new Star Chest, which contains top-tier rewards, including new characters and ultra-rare Ultimate forms. Every player will receive 10 Star Chests as a login bonus on Monday, with a guaranteed Ultra and the chance for an Ultimate. Green World characters are also getting their Ultimate Evolutions, bringing powerful abilities and unique skins to the battlefield. Looking ahead, Squad Busters is teasing their spooky Graveyard Shift season, which kicks off on October 1st with haunted skins and a brand-new World to explore.

Squad Busters dev team is aiming to change the game and curb losing its popularity after a great marketing push at the beginning. The last game update is offering some key gameplay changes. Battle Bag, Chest Keys and Rerolls are now gone with the latest update. Keys were a very controversial feature. Many players saw it as a pay2win mechanic and yes, keys were giving you certain advantage in battle by letting you grow your squad faster or having better character choices from the boxes. Although developers claim that very few players took advantage of Keys, so it was hardly adding any injustice to competition. Anyway, keys are gone and so it the image of a p2w game. All removed items will transform into compensation for players who had them. Mega characters are gone too, their models were reused as skins for characters. Players who had some Mega characters have received these skins for free. Lucky finds are still in game, but offering a fused character instead of Mega character. End rewards in Gem Pass are now Pinatas instead of Mega characters. Chest Doubler feature has been changed and are not being time-based anymore. New in-game currency has been introduced named Style Tickets, that you can use to buy some Skins and Emotes. And to boost Emote usage, there's now a feature to trigger automatic Emote on certain actions. As usual, game update also adds new area into the game called Lava World as well as 3 new characters: Archer, Miner and Leon.

Latest Supercell game Squad Busters getting more and more popular. After almost a month since global launch, new update is coming. Update will include new area Ice World with snowy environment, new modifiers, skins and new characters: Ice Wizard, Dr. T and Jessie from Brawl Stars. While collecting gems from Gem Mine in the centre of the map remains the main objective in Squad Busters, modifiers help to keep things fresh and exciting. Few of new modifiers add random boss monsters on the map, but the most interesting modifier will make every chest cost only 1 coin to open. That will make squads huge and buffed as never before. Cool thing is that you don't need to reach Ice World in your game progression to access new characters and new modifiers. When update hits the servers next week, the temporary event starts for every player who reached Beach World and they will be able to access all new content. And now with skins added to the game you can make your squad look truly unique. Personally I'm in very early game and exploring Beach World, learning and mastering game's mechanics which is not easy. If you also struggling to perfect your game, watch some of your match replays and follow the player who achieved the 1st place - I'm sure you'll learn a trick or two like I did. Good luck, Squad masters!

Squad Busters seems to be doing quite well! Reportedly it already has over 30M downloads and is still growing. Of course it remains to be seen if all the upfront marketing investments will end up being profitable but at least it is indeed creating a buzz. My favorite hobby right now is spotting Squad Buster ads in different places. I'll mention a few that I have seen: Poster at a bus stop, ad in a shopping mall info pillar, and in-browser ad in Brave. Very thorough work Supercell! https://mobilegamer.biz/supercells-squad-busters-charges-past-30m-lifetime-downloads/

Looks like Supercell decided to open up their wallet big time. Chris Hemsworth and 4 other big time Hollywood stars in one trailer. Not bad 👏 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91T1oQGNLX4

Squad Busters is launching globally on next Wednesday 29th of May! I've been playing the game a little bit and it's pretty fun. Would recommend everyone giving it a try!

Congratz to NAVI for winning IEM Rio 2024! 😎 🎉

Unfortunately it's not looking too good for Shroud's new game Spectre Divide. Looks like the studio is letting go 13 employees only a few weeks after the game launched. Unfortunately making a new hit game remains to be difficult :/ https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/shrouds-spectre-divide-dev-team-hit-with-layoffs-weeks-after-launch-2911312/

IGN is reporting that a new Battlefield game is in the works by EA, and it will finally be returning to a modern setting. I'm pretty excited! https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-first-battlefield-concept-art-revealed-vince-zampella

GZ to Blinky for winning the GeoGuessr World Cup 2024! It was an absolutely insane grand finale. Script writers were definitely working overtime. WP to the silver medalist MK as well. https://liquipedia.net/geoguessr/Blinky