Here we go again, pretending like we’re Madonna and care about material guff that is as useless as it is cosmetic. I’ll not mince words this week, as we’ve got some games that will be disappearing soon. In recent weeks we’ve been doing these Twitch Prime articles weekly. This week we’d be talking about Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, but we’ve got a lot more to talk about than that this week. Anna’s Quest will be disappearing on the 5th, while Silence will be going away on the 12th. Last week’s game The Last Tinker is available until the 19th. Max, much like the other weekly games, have been picked for those who have children and Prime. I’ll be mostly ignoring it.

To the endless cosmetics it is then, starting with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. If you’re a fan of the mobile online arena battler and particularly Masha, you can get her winter guard skin to keep. Along with a woman’s skin, you can pick up a seven day trial of Grock and Leomord along with respective skins for them. This offer ends tomorrow and it is only the 5th of a possible 13 drops. The next will be available to pick up until the 16th with more trials.

• Rainbow Six Siege‘s Zofia set will be replaced by the Lesion set on the 4th of June.
• Mafia City will continue to offer the same deal it has offered for months, it will just switch to another load on the 5th of June.
• Words With Friends 2 players can currently pick up a “swap plus plus mystery box” (loot box) until the 8th of June. From there on you can pick up a “surprise mystery box” (loot box).
• Until the 9th of June, Black Desert Mobile is offering a starter pack of combat, life, and “Black spirit” 14-day buffs. This is the final drop in the Black Desert Mobile drops.

Still with an awful name, The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross is offering demon’s blood and water of life until the 9th of June. After that, it will offer five SSR treasure chests until the 23rd of June. It has offers all the way through August.

• Players of World of Tanks can pick up the Starry Night Care Package and Captured King Tiger Tank until the 11th of June.
• Also ending on the 11th of June is League of Legends‘ mystery skin permanent.
• Until the 16th of June, you can pick up a 14-day membership of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape.
• On the 18th of June, players can pick up the Warframe starter pack alongside the Avia Prime armor set which also ends on June the 30th.
• Also ending on the 18th is the Loba Game Master skin offer for Apex Legends.
• The fourth FIFA 20 Twitch Prime player pack will also end on the 18th.
• On June 24th, the fifth Destiny 2 exotic bundle will end, taking with it the Prospector grenade launcher and more.
• Teamfight Tactics will also be leaving on the 24th, taking with it the little legends egg. 

Rocket League will finally be leaving Twitch Prime on the 26th of June, after months of sitting there offering four lots of cosmetics. You can still pick up the fourth and final pack, which includes a goal explosion, a banner, and an antenna.

Players of Legends of Runeterra can pick up the third Prime capsule until the 29th of June. This capsule will include one champion wildcard, expedition token, one rare wildcard, and one epic wildcard. Much like anything else that is cosmetic or mystery-based, I have no idea what it is, what I’ve just said, and I will continue to avoid it like the plague.

• The DOOM slayer’s German dad will disappear on the 2nd of July, taking with it a horrific mustache, mullet, beer, and Santa’s gut.
• On July the 13th the World of Warships: Legends Pack containing 7-days of premium, a ship, and some camo, will be going away also.
• After a couple of months away, you can pick up the Minion Masters Crytal Conquest DLC with your Twitch Prime subscription until the 28th of July.
• Much like Warframe‘s starter pack, Warface will be leaving the starter pack area of Prime on August the 4th. TERA‘s starter pack will also be leaving on the 19th of November.

As has been a common staple of the last year or so, you can still pick up the money in Grand Theft Auto Online, access to exclusive bits of the game, and all the usual nonsense. The same still stands of Red Dead Online too, with both still offering a discount of shark cards and gold bars. With that out the way, let’s get to what I enjoy getting into, the games.

Well, this past week along with Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, there were several other additions to the listing. SNK’s The King of Fighters 2002, Samurai Shodown II, Blazing Star, Pulstar, Art of Fighting 2, Fatal Fury Special, and The King of Fighters 2000. These will be available until the 31st of December 2020 with your Prime subscription, with more to come. Coming later this year is Garou: Mark of the Wolves, The Last Blade 2, Metal Slug 2, The King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match Final Edition, Sengoku 3, and King of the Monsters.

The 1998 first-person shooter by Acclaim, Forsaken, got a remaster a couple of years ago. You might not remember it, or care, but you can pick up the remaster this month with Prime. You might not remember Acclaim either, they once offered to pay the speeding fine of anyone in promotion of Burnout 2. They also offered ten thousand US dollars to anyone that named their baby “Turok,” in a bid to promote Turok: Evolution. Along with putting nudity in a Dave Mirra BMX game, causing Mirra to pull his name, they also offered to buy ad space on tombstones leading up to the release of Shadow Man 2.

Bloober Team’s Observer is offered for free more times than I’m allowed to say that the new Sherlock Holmes is a gay male model time traveler. In recent months I’ve had to play a bit of Observer, more than I had previously, and I just can’t jump right into it. Yes, it does a lot of modern horror things in a walking simulator that has a tiny bit of gameplay. However, it tries too hard to keep things vague when all it has following a lack of gameplay to play with is a story, one plucked from an 80s dystopian fantasy.

If the SNK and Acclaim games didn’t yell the word “RETRO” like I shout cake at my local baker, Project Warlock is a retro-style first-person shooter with a slightly better UI. Yes, much like Doom in days of yore, Project Warlock has a picture of your character damage to show a bit of health deterioration, a help bar, and some ammo with a gun centered in the screen. Honestly, it looks like someone wanted to give Doom a good classic remake with all the stylings. Yet they apparently couldn’t get the rights to do that, so they made it into a city-crawling FPS. Project Warlock is set for PS4 release on June the 9th, Switch release on the 11th, and Xbox One on the 12th. 

Steel Rats is another example of doing something retro without making my underwear a bit tighter all of a sudden. It is a 2.5D game about using a bike to run away or fight monsters, and/or do nothing. Sadly, the only thing going for it is quickly lost, i’m speaking of interesting movement. Moving quite slowly with sudden jolts of thrust, means you aren’t plowing through things with force but rather a slight cough and a nudge. As I said, it doesn’t light a fire in my pants or my gay skeleton robot friend’s pants either.

Something else that doesn’t light a flame in my pants is survival mechanics. I have tried to play The Flame in the Flood, and while it isn’t a bad game, I’m beyond sick of survival games following that fad of the last decade we’re still recovering from. Bringing together rogue-like and survival, it brings together a niche that will fill someone’s pants with flames. It is available this month, a month ahead of The Molasses Flood’s next game Drake Hollow.

As June is considered the month of the gay on most calendars, Twitch is honoring LGBT pride with man loving simulator, Dream Daddy. Outside of the usual five, at some point during pride month, Dream Daddy will come as one of the weekly play together apart games. Supposedly developed by “Game Grumps,” a YouTube name I don’t care to learn more about, you play as a gay (or trans) dad looking for a fine bear (hairy man), twink (young man), or daddy (man over 30) to snuggle up to in the course of this dating sim.

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