Featured Product

HyperX SoloCast USB Microphone $50.06 on Amazon

This is the mic I actually use — and a longtime favorite among streamers for good reason. It's a plug-and-play cardioid USB condenser with a tap-to-mute sensor up top (the LED tells you instantly if you're live or muted) and a flip-to-mute design. Crisp, clear voice capture that locks onto you and cuts background fan and keyboard noise. Works on PC, PS4, and PS5. If you're still running headset audio, this is the upgrade that makes you sound twice as professional overnight.

Govee Smart LED Light Bars (RGBICWW) $49.99 on Amazon

A cheap, high-impact way to make your stream background pop. These RGBICWW light bars throw vivid, multi-color ambiance behind your setup with 16 million colors, a built-in mic for music and audio sync, multiple scene modes, and DIY custom effects. They work with Alexa and Google Assistant for hands-free control, and sit nicely on a desk or mount behind your monitor or TV. An easy, affordable upgrade to level up your on-camera vibe.

One Beat Power Strip Surge Protector $12.99 on Amazon

Running a multi-device desk, console setup, or streaming rig means you can never have enough outlets. This budget utility gives you 6 AC outlets plus 4 USB ports — including 2 fast-charging USB-C — all on a heavy-duty 5-foot cord. At thirteen bucks, it's the easy add-on that quietly makes your whole setup run cleaner. Surge protection included, so your gear's covered too.

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What's Streaming

🎮 Blk's Place Online Tourney #7 is BACK!

Free entry. $150 on the line. All you need is your controller and your confidence. Join us June 19th for a Super Smash Bros online tournament — registration closes at 5PM CST, so don't sleep on it. Tournament starts at 9PM CST. 👉 👉 Sign up here!!!

📋 Tournament Rules

🔹 Community First — This is a community-driven event. You must join our Discord or follow the stream before competing.

🔹 Stay Connected — All players must be present in the Discord or watching the stream during the tournament. This is how we communicate match callouts, bracket updates, and any issues.

🔹 All Matches Streamed — Every match will be broadcast live on stream, so be ready to run it when called!

Failure to follow these rules may result in disqualification. Full rules available on the Start.gg page.

🔥 Guest Appearance: BeastModePaul Returns!

He's BAAACK. For the SECOND time, BeastModePaul is pulling up to the BLKSUIT stream — and once again he's running it back against the subs. This is an exclusive perk for BLKSUIT channel subscribers: sub up, get in the lobby, and take your shot at a killer in Smash Ultimate. Thursday, June 25th, 8PM – 9PM CDT. One hour, no mercy — let's see who's got next. 👉 👉 Catch it live on Twitch!

This Week in Gaming

📰 🎮 Game Pass Goes Big for World Cup Week — EA Sports FC 26 & Call of Duty Land

Microsoft timed this one perfectly. EA Sports FC 26 joins Xbox Game Pass on June 18 — the same week the FIFA World Cup group stage plays out across North American stadiums — giving Ultimate and PC Game Pass members access to the world's best-selling football game at no extra cost. Call of Duty: Vanguard also drops June 17, and the day-one junkyard adventure Junkster is already available. The bigger story might be the pricing turnaround: Game Pass Ultimate is back down to $22.99 a month after a deeply unpopular hike to $29.99 that cost Microsoft millions of subscribers. The service also just passed 1,000 titles available through its Stream Your Own Game feature. With the World Cup running through late June, FC 26 hitting the service for free is a smart play to win back momentum.

🥊 EA Sports UFC 6 Drops This Friday — The Virtual Octagon Resets

The wait is officially over. EA Sports UFC 6 launches worldwide this Friday, June 19, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — no PC version this time around. The headline change is a fully overhauled striking and physics system: with the new Flow State mechanic and Frostbite-powered Real-Time Contact, momentum and positioning matter more than ever, so button-mashing is going to get you countered and slept instantly. The launch also brings the most up-to-date fighter roster yet, an expanded online career where you take your created fighter global for division titles, and new story-driven modes in The Legacy and Hall of Legends. Expect the competitive community to spend the weekend labbing combos, hunting the meta-breaking fighters, and packing out the Twitch and Kick directories. If you're streaming this weekend, this is your lane.

🎮 PlayStation Plus June Lineup Loads Up — FF XVI Headlines, But a Price Hike Stings

PS Plus members are eating well this month — with an asterisk. Final Fantasy XVI headlines the June Game Catalog for Extra and Premium members, joined by standouts like Sonic X Shadow Generations, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, and Blades of Fire — eight titles in total, with the PS2 classic Gitaroo Man landing for Premium subscribers. On the Essential side, Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide are free to claim. The catch? Sony raised the price of PS Plus across all tiers on the one- and three-month options right before the reveal — a move that upset a lot of the fanbase. Sony's also testing a new staggered rollout in the US, UK, and Japan, with titles dropping on different dates through the month instead of all at once. Strong lineup, but the value question is real.

Hot Deals This Week

Gran Turismo 7 (PS5) Was $69.99 → $38.99 on Amazon

The premier racing sim on PlayStation, and at $38.99 it's a great price on a first-party heavyweight. Stunning visuals, a massive variety of single-player events, snappy loading, and deep car-collecting that'll eat your weekends. With no Forza on PS5, this is the racing game to own on Sony's console — and a perfect companion if F1 25 has you in a motorsport mood.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (PS5) Was $69.99 → $31.19 on Amazon

Swing through a gorgeous open-world New York as both Peter Parker and Miles Morales in one of the best-looking exclusives on the platform. Slick traversal, a killer symbiote storyline, and combat that feels incredible — this is peak PS5. At $31.19 for a game this polished, there's no reason to keep sleeping on it.

F1 25 (PS5 / Xbox Series X|S) Was $39.99 → $29.99 at Best Buy

For the racing and sim crowd, F1 25 is down to $29.99 as part of Best Buy's Tech Fest sale. You get the official 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship game, complete with the revamped My Team "2.0" owner mode and the third chapter of the Braking Point story. Ultra-clean current-gen visuals, precise handling, and competitive online racing make this a great pickup at thirty bucks. Heads up — Tech Fest runs the same late-June window as Prime Day, so it's a limited-time price.

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