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August 2026

700,000 Wishlists, a 96% Demo Rating, and Now ReStory Is Open for Businessindie games Steam Hell Let Loose Goes to Vietnam — and It's a Whole New Gamegames hell let loose Konami Is Collecting the Past While the Future of Metal Gear Stays FuzzyMetal Gear Solid Konami August Is Esports' Most Crowded Month Ever — and Nobody Planned It That Wayesports dota 2 Sony Wants a 'Win-Win' with Retailers on Disc-Free PlayStation. Retailers Aren't Convinced.PlayStation Sony The Plague Tale Gets Fiercer: Resonance Launches as Asobo's Action Gamble in Crowded Augustgames release Game Freak Ships Its First AAA Game That Isn't Pokémongames game-freak Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Comes to Switch 2 on August 28 — Redemption Arc IncludedElden Ring Nintendo Switch 2 Electronic Arts Goes Private Tomorrow—Saudi PIF Takes Full ControlEA Electronic Arts

July 2026

When AI Siphons Memory: Google Pixel Hits $100 Wall as Data Centers Win the Supply Gamehardware memory Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Has One Week to Prove IP Isn't a Substitute for Depthfighting games Marvel Game Freak Bets Big on Game Pass to Break Out of the Pokémon Boxgames-release Game Pass Google's Flash Tier Is Now a Price WeaponAI Google Bellring Games Quietly Launches Mistfall Hunter in the Blockbuster Noisegames indie Cyan Worlds Shelves Project Anglerfish: Twenty Years Without New Myst Inches Toward PermanentMyst Cyan Worlds Let It Die Gets a Second Life. The Rest of the 2026 Shutdown List Doesn't.game preservation live service Capcom Spent Six Years and Two of Them Just Getting a Dead Actor's Facegames capcom Fewer Tokens, Lower Price, Ships Now: Google's New Inference PlaybookAI Google Prime Video Now Has a Games Tab. Amazon's Hoping You Finally Notice.Amazon Luna Prime Video The EU Said Yes to Saudi Arabia Owning EA. Washington Hasn't.Electronic Arts Saudi PIF EPYC Venice Is AMD's Full Pivot: The Server CPU Built for the Inference EraAMD EPYC Venice One Solo Developer Built the Co-Op Horror Game That July Neededgames indie games Bungie's Marathon Hemorrhages Leadership as Director Ziegler Exitsbungie marathon Square Enix's FFX Anniversary Port Reveals a Playbook—and Its Uncomfortable Fine PrintFinal Fantasy Square Enix PARIVISION's Dota 2 Win Exposes the Coach Effect in Club EsportsDota 2 Esports One Patch, Two Games, 20 Teams: How the Honor of Kings World Cup Is Rewriting MOBA Tournament Designesports Honor of Kings Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Launches Today — A Franchise-Wide Brawler Built to Actually Competegames fighting games 27,500 GPUs for Japan: NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Bet Is About Cost Per Token, Not Peak Performanceai-compute nvidia Halo Finally Leaves Xbox: Campaign Evolved Launches Day-One on PlayStation July 28games halo Paris Is Hosting the Biggest Esports Event Ever — and It's Already Getting Messyesports esports world cup Ubisoft Barcelona Made the Game That Saved the Franchise. Then Got Fired For It.games studio-business Nintendo Brought Splatoon Back as a Treasure Huntgames nintendo Server First: AMD Launches Zen 6 This Week, Leaves Desktop Customers WaitingAMD Zen 6 Sony Picked a Fight With Open-World Design, and Wolverine Is the First PunchPlayStation Marvel's Wolverine 60,000 Games, One Archive, Zero Funding: Germany's Preservation Failure Is Everyone's Problemgame preservation ICS Paris and the Club Championship Gamble: Why Geopolitics Are Remaking the Esports World Cupesports esports-world-cup-2026 Culdcept BEGINS Arrives This Week: When Board Games Met Card Games, Nobody Was Readygames strategy The Live-Service Graveyard Is Full. Sony Just Admitted Why.games live-service Samsung Is Betting You'll Pay AI Prices for a Foldable. July 22 Is the Reckoning.Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Halo Campaign Evolved Adds New Missions. That's Actually a Statement.games halo VR's Player Density Problem: Why A Township Tale and Kingdom Brawl Had to DieVR games How Xbox's Reset Turned a Bond Game Win Into Layoff CollateralGames Xbox The Gap Between What Microsoft Promised and What It's Doing to Xbox WorkersXbox Microsoft NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is NVIDIA's First PC Chip — and It's Gunning for Apple Silicon's Crownnvidia rtx-spark 15 Million Copies in Under a Month: Meccha Chameleon Is the Indie Proof of Concept the Industry Keeps Ignoringindie games Steam DOOM Ships Its Expansion the Day After Xbox Guts the Studio That Made ItDOOM id Software College Football 27 Plays Great. Its Best Mode Is a Mess.College Football 27 EA Sports Edward Kenway Gets a Real Second Life: What Ubisoft Actually Built in Black Flag Resyncedassassins-creed ubisoft Palworld Reaches 1.0 With 40 Million Players and a Lawsuit Still on the Docketgames palworld Papergames Canceled a Finished Character Days Before Launch. Now 300,000 People Want Him Back.games live-service FSR 4.1 Reaches Older AMD Cards, and It's the Most Exciting GPU News of a Very Sad YearGPU AMD Seven Weeks, 25 Tournaments, One War: How EWC 2026 Ended Up in Parisesports Esports World Cup NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is a PC That Happens to Play Games, Not a Gaming PChardware GPU College Football 27's Early-Access Ladder Is a Masterclass in Manufactured UrgencyCollege Football 27 EA Sports The Club Format Gamble: Why the Esports World Cup Is Forcing Orgs to Play Every Gameesports Esports World Cup AMD Folding to Security Critics: TSME Memory Encryption Returns to Ryzen 9000 in JulyAMD Ryzen Ninja Theory Put Every Bet on One Game. Then Microsoft Pulled the Table.games xbox Master Chief Ships on PlayStation for the First Time, and Nothing About It Is AccidentalHalo Xbox Square Enix's 25-Year Replay: What the FFX Switch 2 Port Reveals About Legacy IP StrategyFinal Fantasy Square Enix Master Chief Arrives on PlayStation—And Reveals Halo Studios' Real Problemgames Halo Four Years Later, Nintendo Returns Splatoon as a Treasure Hunt—Not a Turf Wargames Nintendo Switch 2 Infold Deleted a Character Because Players Made ThemLove and Deepspace mobile games Squanch Games Brings High on Life 2 to Switch 2 — Bugs Patched, Skateboard IntactHigh on Life 2 Nintendo Switch 2 NVIDIA's Software Gambit: Selling 8GB Cards While Promising a Fix That Doesn't Exist YetNVIDIA GPU PlayStation Discs End in January 2028. Here's Who Actually Loses.PlayStation Sony College Football 27 Comes to PC — Carrying Console's Baggage With Itgames EA Sports The Esports World Cup Just Left Saudi Arabia — Here's What That Actually Meansesports Esports World Cup Ludwig Said the Quiet Part Loud at EVO — and the FGC BooedStreet Fighter 6 EVO 2026 Black Flag Resynced Ships July 9 With a Ground-Up Rebuild and New Story ContentAssassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced AMD's 7700X3D Arrives July 16 at $329 — and the AM5 Pledge Running to 2029 Is the Bigger DealAMD Ryzen Palworld's 1.0 Arrives July 10 With 27 Pages of Patch Notes. Now Comes the Hard Part.games palworld Apple Just Told You Who Actually Won the Memory MarketApple memory chips

June 2026

NVIDIA Wants to Own the Whole PC Nownvidia rtx-spark How Papergames Turned a Character Reveal Into Funeral Flowers at the Front DoorLove and Deepspace Papergames The EverDrive GBA Pro Finally Puts Solar, Tilt, and Gyro in One Flash Cart — Closing a Two-Decade Gapgame-preservation retro-gaming AMD's RX 9070 GRE Goes Global, and the Price Tag Tells You Everything About This MarketGPU AMD Six Games, One Weekend: What Evo 2026 Revealed About the FGC's Fault LinesEvo 2026 FGC Xbox's HR Machine Is Eating Its Own WitnessesXbox Halo Studios Highguard's 45 Days Exposed a Deeper Beta ProblemGames Live Service Xbox's Third Price Hike in 15 Months Is a Confession, Not a StrategyXbox Gaming Hardware Blizzard Just Explained Its Dungeon Logic. Will That Candor Survive Season 2's Launch?World of Warcraft Mythic+ Diablo Players Chose Hell, 2.1 Million to 1.4 MillionDiablo 4 Lord of Hatred The Calendar Is Cracking: Two Midrange Releases Prove AAA's Release-Window Problem Is Realgames AAA What Bungie Learned From Killing Destiny—Whether They Know It YetDestiny 2 Marathon NVIDIA's RTX Spark Pitch Can't Decide Whether You're a Developer or a Gamertech nvidia Sony Bought the Megaphone, Not the Game: Why GTA 6's Marketing Exclusivity Matters More Than You ThinkGTA 6 PlayStation RTX 50 Just Became the Only GPU in PC Gaming's Premium TierDLSS RTX 50 Bungie Just Proved It Can Still Deliver. Now It May Lose the People Who Did It.Bungie Destiny 2 How Nintendo's June Ports Became an Indie Deattrapgames Nintendo Mixtape Broke the Trust in Game Reviewers—Before It Even Shippedgames reviews Valve's January Fix Separates AI Tools From AI Content—And The Industry Is Still Figuring Out What That Meansgames policy Console Is Dying in June. PC Isn't.games multiplayer Hell Let Loose: Vietnam Has a Balance Problem That WWII Never Didgames hell let loose vietnam Nintendo Quietly Removed 'Full Remake' From Ocarina of Time's Official Description, does that matter?games Nintendo FF7 Rebirth's Switch 2 Port Exposed What Publishers Have Always Known: AAA Games Scale Down Fine When the Money Makes Sensegames Final Fantasy Apple's Siri Runs on Google Now. That's Not a Bug — It's the Compute Crisis Made Visible.Apple AI Into the Void: How Frostpunk 2's Breach of Trust Turns a Dead Release Week Into a Capture Momentgames frostpunk 2 Sony Withheld God of War Laufey's Release Date While Giving Everyone Else a Window—Is that silence the actual story?God of War State of Play EU Rejected Stop Killing Games—But 1.3M Voters Just Made Game Preservation Impossible to IgnoreGames EU Policy AMD Released FSR 4.1 for RX 7000 Right on Schedule—But the Valve Leak Forced Its HandFSR 4.1 AMD Radeon Nvidia's RTX Spark Isn't a PC Chip—It's a Bet That Agents Define the PC Markettech nvidia Star Fox's Comeback Is Nintendo's Strangest Bet in Years — and That's Exactly the Pointgames nintendo EA's Legacy Score Is a Different Answer to the Draft Import Problem.EA Sports Madden NFL 27 Gamers Are Funding the AI Buildout Now: The RTX 5090 Is the ReceiptTECH GPU Naughty Dog's Two-Game Bet: The Confirmed Facts Behind the Studio's Biggest Structural Gamblegames naughty dog Marathon's Season 2 Meltdown Exposed Bungie's Broken BetMarathon Bungie The Cozy Games Press Missed in June: When Wishlist Numbers and Critic Consensus DivergeSteam indie games Games Workshop Said No AI. Then a Space Marine Grew an Extra Finger.Games Workshop Warhammer Switch 2's June Gamble: Why Remakes Are Actually About Platform Positioning, Not FearNintendo Switch 2 Games The Nostalgia Bracket: SGF 2026 Opened and Closed With Remakes, and That's the Pointgames Summer Game Fest CD Projekt Red's Witcher 3 Expansion Is a Masterclass in Managing What You Don't Saygames cd projekt red 1.3 Million Signatures, Zero Laws: The EU Just Handed Publishers a Free Pass on Game Preservationgames game preservation Game Pass's 'Recovery' Is a Press Release, Not a ComebackXbox Game Pass Sega's Crazy Taxi AI Disclosure Is Transparency Theater, Not Transparencygames AI in games Mixtape Broke the Critic-Player Trust—and Gaming's Review System with Itgames reviews The Showcase That Shouts Into the Void: Summer Game Fest's Mismatch Problemgames summer game fest The Midrange GPU Is Being Squeezed Out — And the Memory Crisis Is Finishing the JobGPU PC Gaming Nvidia's RTX Spark Is a Bet That AI PCs Are Just APUs With Better MarketingNvidia RTX Spark Intel's Arc B390 Is the Integrated GPU That Makes Entry-Level Discrete Cards ObsoleteIntel GPU NVIDIA Abandoned Gaming for AI—And Gamers Are About to Feel ItNVIDIA RTX 50 Steam Next Fest Just Hit Nearly 5,000 Demos—But the Quality Crisis Is Worse Than the Quantity ProblemSteam indie games Age Verification Is Becoming Gaming's Next Arms Race—And Players Will See Itgaming industry platform policy PlayStation's PC Embargo Is a Bet That Scarcity Still WinsPlayStation Sony The 30% Tax Is Dying: What the Epic vs. Apple Endgame Means for Gaming's Next Revenue Boommobile gaming Epic vs Apple