On This Day in Gaming: June 1

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

June 1

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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Half-Life: Source cover22 Years Ago

Half-Life: Source

RemasterPCWorldwide

Half-Life: Source is a port of Valve's original acclaimed game Half-Life to their new Source engine used for Half-Life 2. It takes advantage of vertex and pixel shaders to create realistic water effects, and can now portray realistic physics effects.

Sonic 3D Blast cover16 Years Ago

Sonic 3D Blast

LinuxMacPCWorldwide

Sonic 3D Blast is a 1996 platform video game developed by Traveller's Tales and Sonic Team, and published by Sega for the Genesis, Saturn, and Windows.

Deliver Us the Moon cover4 Years Ago

Deliver Us the Moon

Google StadiaWorldwide

Deliver Us the Moon is a sci-fi adventure game developed by KeokeN Interactive and released in 2019. Set in a near future where Earth's resources are nearly depleted, the game follows a lone astronaut on a mission to the Moon to restore energy to the planet.

Ecco the Dolphin cover16 Years Ago

Ecco the Dolphin

MacLinuxXbox 360Worldwide

Life was an adventure for Ecco, the young dolphin. The ocean seemed endless with rolling breakers to race through! At high speed Ecco could burst through the waves leaping through the air – almost flying!

Hatred cover11 Years Ago

Hatred

LinuxPCWorldwide

Hatred is an isometric shooter with disturbing atmosphere of mass killing, where player takes the role of a cold blood antagonist, who is full of hatred for humanity. It's a horror, but here YOU are the villain.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo cover31 Years Ago

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Expanded editionDOSAustralia

Super Street Fighter II Turbo, released in Japan as Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge, is a competitive fighting game released for the arcades by Capcom in 1994.

Ragnarok Online cover23 Years Ago

Ragnarok Online

PCNorth America

Ragnarok Online is a Korean MMORPG inspired by the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. While rooted in Norse Mythology, the game also draws from influences of Christianity and Asian Cultures.

Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master cover16 Years Ago

Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master

LinuxMacPCWorldwide

Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, released as The Super Shinobi II in Japan, is the fourth game in the Shinobi series and a direct sequel to The Revenge of Shinobi.

MapleStory cover21 Years Ago

MapleStory

PCAsia

Welcome to MapleStory, the original side-scrolling MMORPG where epic adventure, action and good friends await you.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys cover6 Years Ago

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

SwitchWorldwide

Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a digital voyeur simulator: a narrative-driven game where you invade the privacy of dozens of strangers and witness their most intimate moments, while you struggle to keep up to date with paying the rent and putting some food on the table.

Rec Room coverThis year

Rec Room

AndroidiOSSwitchOculus QuestOculus RiftPCWorldwide

Rec Room is a virtual reality online game platform to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore millions of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.

Doodle Jump cover15 Years Ago

Doodle Jump

Windows PhoneNorth AmericaEurope

In Doodle Jump, the aim is to guide a four-legged animal called "The Doodler" up a never-ending series of platforms without falling.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends cover9 Years Ago

The Elder Scrolls: Legends

AndroidWorldwide

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a strategy card game that explores the series' characters, creatures, deities, and lore. Whether you have 10 minutes or five hours, Legends provides a variety of gameplay modes and challenges that are easy-to-learn but difficult to master.

VectorMan cover16 Years Ago

VectorMan

LinuxMacPCWorldwide

By the year 2049, Earth has been turned into a toxic waste dump. Humankind has fled into space leaving behind an army of mechanized “Orbots” to clean up the mess.

Gunfire Reborn cover3 Years Ago

Gunfire Reborn

PS4PS5Worldwide

Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels.

Killer Frequency cover3 Years Ago

Killer Frequency

SwitchPS4PS5Xbox OneXbox Series X|SPCWorldwide

Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.

Griftlands cover5 Years Ago

Griftlands

LinuxMacPCWorldwide

Griftlands is a deck-building rogue-like where you fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.

Wing Commander cover33 Years Ago

Wing Commander

Amiga CD32Europe

Gameplay consists of completing successive missions and overall cockpit performance affects gameplay: going above and beyond the call of duty results in medals, promotions in rank are awarded at regular intervals, and success or failure on…

Kid Chameleon cover19 Years Ago

Kid Chameleon

WiiEurope

Kid Chameleon is a 1992 platform game released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. The premise of the game is that the main character, Casey, can use masks to change into different characters in order to use different abilities. It was later released in Japan as Chameleon Kid.

Super Animal Royale cover5 Years Ago

Super Animal Royale

PS4Worldwide

Select your favorite adorably murderous fox, panda, or sloth and parachute into a furocious 64-player battle arena. Explore a top-down 2D world, full of exotic biomes, psychotic animals, hamster balls, emus and much more.

Altered Beast cover16 Years Ago

Altered Beast

PortLinuxMacPCWorldwide

The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive has different enemy layouts and input mechanics from the original arcade version.

Cube Escape: Arles cover11 Years Ago

Cube Escape: Arles

AndroidiOSMacWorldwide

Cube Escape: Arles is the third episode of the Cube Escape series and part of the Rusty Lake story. You find yourself trapped inside your bedroom in Arles. Gather your art supplies, get inspired by your surroundings and make your art come to life.

Cube Escape: Harvey's Box cover11 Years Ago

Cube Escape: Harvey's Box

Web browseriOSAndroidMacWorldwide

Cube Escape: Harvey’s Box is the fourth episode of the Cube Escape series and part of the Rusty Lake story. Harvey the parrot is moving to Rusty Lake inside of a cardboard box.

Puzzle Agent cover15 Years Ago

Puzzle Agent

PS3Europe

Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.

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