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PlayStation Days of Play Is Here: The Latest Games Dropping on PS Plus

Subscribers will be able to play NBA 2K25 on PS Plus in June, alongside these Destiny 2 expansions.

Every year, at the end of May or start of June, Sony holds its PlayStation Days of Play event, where the company hosts community activities and sales for gamers. As part of Days of Play — which runs until June 11 — Sony announced the monthly games available to all PS Plus subscribers in June, as well as bonus Game Catalog titles for the month.

PlayStation Plus is Sony’s version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers gaming subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of titles. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers — Essential ($10), Extra ($15) and Premium ($18 a month in the US) — each giving subscribers access to games. Although each tier gives subscribers access to monthly games, only Extra and Premium tier subscribers can access the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, which lets you play games whenever you want and not just in that month.

Here are the monthly games, bonus PS Plus Game Catalog titles and other games PS Plus subscribers can access soon. You can also check out other games available in the PS Plus Game Catalog now, like Hogwarts Legacy and Blue Prince.

Monthly PS Plus games in June

Sony brings new games to all three tiers of PS Plus every month but subscribers can play those games for only a few weeks before access expires. Here are the games available to all three tiers in June.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape

Subscribers can play now.

This is expansion content for the popular first-person shooter Destiny 2. Your main goal is to stop the Witness, a powerful being who can command the Darkness-imbued armada, the Black Fleet. The expansion also includes new abilities, a new subclass of characters called «Prismatic» and new weapons and maps.

NBA 2K25

Subscribers can play now.

A new NBA champion will be crowned soon, marking the end of the 2024-2025 season. But with NBA 2K25, PS Plus subscribers don’t have to wait until next season to experience their favorite team taking the court. You can build your dynasty in the MyGM mode, where you’re a team’s general manager, or you can create your own player and take the court by storm. The choice is yours.

Other monthly PS Plus games subscribers can play now

Bonus games coming to the PS Plus game catalog

Sony adds new games to its PS Plus catalog every month but only PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can play these games. When Sony adds games to the catalog, those subscribers can access them whenever they want, not just that month.

Here are some of the games Sony is adding to the catalog soon. Sony said these are bonus games and it’ll announce more PS Plus game catalog titles to be added soon.

Another Crab’s Treasure

Extra and Premium subscribers can play now.

You know what they say: One man’s trash is another crab’s treasure, or something like that. This game is like a cross between Elden Ring and the classic game Ecco the Dolphin. You play as a hermit crab who sets off on a quest to buy back its repossessed shell. You’ll have to use the trash of the ocean to protect yourself from huge enemies, and you’ll also learn why the ocean is so polluted with garbage to begin with. Who knows, maybe you’ll see Ariel with her collection of thingamabobs down there.

Destiny 2: Legacy Collection

Subscribers can play now

Destiny 2 is already a massive game, and this edition gives you access to more rewards, a new subclass, more dungeons and the Witch Queen and Lightfall expansions. According to CNET’s sister site How Long to Beat, these two expansions could add at least 20 additional hours of gameplay to the base game. You’ll also be able to access additional dungeons, including the Pit of Heresy, Shattered Throne and Grasp of Avarice.

Other bonus games coming to the PS Plus game catalog

Skull and Bones: Available now.
Myst: Available June 5.*
Riven: Available June 5.*
Grand Theft Auto 3: Available June 10.

*Premium subscribers only.

For more on PlayStation Plus, here’s what to know about the service, and here’s a rundown of PS Plus Extra and Premium games added in May. You can also check out the latest and upcoming games on Xbox Game Pass and on Apple Arcade.

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, June 7

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 7.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword could be tricky. 1-Down and 5-Down stumped me for a while, but the other letters filled it in for me. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Yoga class need
Answer: MAT

4A clue: Umlaut, rotated 90°
Answer: COLON

6A clue: «That is shocking!»
Answer: OHMYGOD

8A clue: «___ You the One?» (reality TV show)
Answer: ARE

9A clue: Egg cells
Answer: OVA

10A clue: One of two «royal» sleeping options
Answer: KINGBED

12A clue: Bar seating
Answer: STOOL

13A clue: Favorite team of the «Chicago Pope,» for short
Answer: SOX

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Slices of life
Answer: MOMENTS

2D clue: Olympic gymnast Raisman
Answer: ALY

3D clue: Request at the end of a restaurant meal
Answer: TOGOBOX

4D clue: Hayes of MSNBC
Answer: CHRIS

5D clue: Medium for Melville or McCarthy
Answer: NOVEL

6D clue: Wood used for wine barrels
Answer: OAK

7D clue: June honoree
Answer: DAD

11D clue: Sticky stuff
Answer: GOO

How to play more Mini Crosswords

The New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day’s Mini Crossword for free, but you’ll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.

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Square Enix’s Next Game Blends Among Us-Like Murder Mystery With Bloody Carnage

Unveiled at Summer Game Fest, Killer Inn is an upcoming multiplayer murder mystery pitting players against each other in the search for the true killers.

Bet you didn’t have this one on your bingo list. Developed by Tactic Studios in partnership with Square Enix, the game was unveiled during the Summer Game Fest livestream, and it’s far from the famed RPG maker’s bread and butter. Killer Inn, as it’s called, is a multiplayer murder mystery that takes Among Us-like gameplay and ratchets it up by handing players knives, guns and many other weapons to kill or be killed while they search for the original killer.

Killer Inn might be one of those games that is best understood after playing a few matches, but even from the reveal trailer, there’s a lot going on. In each match, 24 players enter a sprawling castle-turned-hotel to determine who the real killers are as they’re picked off one by one. There’s deduction and mayhem aplenty.

Killer Inn’s play phases are patterned after detective-style games, from Among Us to Ultimate Werewolf to Mafia. A match begins with most players as cooperative participants («lambs,» in Killer Inn’s parlance) mixed with a few secret killers («wolves»). Players complete tasks to earn tokens redeemable for items and weapons, while the killers quietly go about their business — until someone discovers a body. On the corpse are clues left by the killer, so the lambs can try deducing the true culprit (or culprits).

Then it’s all about collecting clues and identifying the wolves — but unlike Among Us, there’s no group discussion to present evidence or vote them out. Killer Inn skips the parlor scene and dives straight into action: If you’re sure someone’s the killer, take them out. Use those token-bought guns and blades to put down the villain. Unless you accidentally murder one of your innocent teammates — in which case, you’re turned to stone for the rest of the match. Bummer.

Lambs have another win condition: assembling four keys to escape on the ship that brought them to the murder island. There are other mechanics, too, like finding relative safety in rooms with hotel staff, who will identify any wolves that kill lambs in their line of sight.

Players can choose between 25 premade characters that each have their own unique appearances and abilities, the latter of which improve as the match goes on, often reflecting the nefarious dark sides of the participants. For example, Winston is a surgeon who kills more efficiently with knives and, when leveled up, deals extra damage while covered in blood. The Otaku, by contrast, gains 25 HP from finding clues and eventually builds resistance to status effects. Levels don’t carry over between matches — everyone starts fresh at level one.

Killer Inn doesn’t have a release date, but the game will kick off a closed beta test over Steam in the near future.