1 July 2026
Platform & Hardware
- Sony Kills Physical PS5 Games, Starting in January 2028: A Gigantic Hint That PS6 Will Be "Adorably All-Digital" 36
- Xbox is reportedly considering dropping disc drives as it tests new feature that lets players digitize physical games 10
- Sony announces an end to the PS3 and Vita digital stores 8
- PlayStation Plus Free Games For July 2026 Revealed 6
- Godot to ban (almost all) AI coding contributions 3
- PS5's latest firmware update just started rolling out, here's what you need to know 3
- Former PlayStation Boss Reveals Thought Process Behind PC Ports 2
- GameStop Is Not Hurting After Sony Kills Discs, And There Is A Good Reason Why 2
- Microsoft Is Reminding Xbox Game Pass Members That They'll Have to Buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 if They Want to Play Day One 2
- Project Hail Mary Is Coming to Prime Video This Friday 2
- Another Call Of Duty Game Is Gearing Up For Xbox Game Pass
- Apple Arcade Adds These New Games In July
- Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap
- Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs
- Feature: 40+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's July Savings Sale
- Feature: Back to budget: Cherry K33 keyboard and Canyon Gaming Star Raider mouse reviews
- French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
- Honeycomb's Wacky Flight Gamepad Is Coming to the Xbox
- HP's OmniBook 3 16" beats everything else on the budget laptop market right now — if only the pricing were easier to predict
- One of Steam’s Most Popular Apps Removes Some Wallpapers Due to Malware Concerns
- Peacock’s new horror comedy is so good, it’s already renewed for season 2
- PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium's announcements of monthly new games are being changed in some territories, and players aren't happy about it
- Review: Lexar SL500 Elite Legends: A Premium Portable SSD with 2GB/S Speeds
- Rokky launches unofficial Steam tool for checking if bundle and press keys have been used
- The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is Coming to Peacock at the End of July
- This HP 2-in-1 laptop may look plain, but its Intel Core Ultra processor can take on your daily workload — and it’s only $649
- This PC gaming launcher for Windows handhelds lets you browse stores and compare the best prices — all in one place
- Two OG Xbox Games With 'Handheld' Tag Could Hint At PC Backwards Compatibility
- Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Remaster Is Heading for PS5 After a Year of Xbox Exclusivity
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Publisher Krafton finally agrees to pay bonuses to every Subnautica 2 staffer as Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill leaves again 10
- GTA 6 developer Rockstar accused of enforcing crunch, weaponising bonus payments, and ignoring a widening gender pay gap 6
- 'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year 4
- 'This Is Borderline Evil' - Minecraft Creator Speaks Out Against ESA Calling Private Servers 'Illegal' 4
- Report: Hideo Kojima's Xbox Exclusive 'OD' Is Safe From Cancellation At Microsoft 3
- Slitherine acquires Warhammer Blood Bowl licence from troubled French publisher Nacon 3
- Ubisoft appoints former 2K and Amazon exec Christoph Hartmann to lead Creative House 2, overseeing Splinter Cell, The Division and Ghost Recon 3
- 007 First Light studio IOI facing layoffs as Xbox pulls funding for Project Fantasy RPG 2
- Developers at a Ubisoft studio have gone on strike in response to the publisher's latest round of sweeping layoffs 2
- Dishonored developer Arkane is reportedly one of five studios Microsoft is targeting to close down as part of its big 'reset' 2
- Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games 2
- Ex-Modern Warfare Creative Strategist Launches New Studio, Pushing Back Against Live Service Trends 2
- Existing Unauthorized Steam Machine Companion Cubes Are Being Destroyed After Release Fiasco 2
- OtherSide Entertainment lays off 18 from Thick as Thieves team 2
- Star Wars Eclipse Development Is on Track, Says Quantic Dream 2
- Stranger Things Star Millie Bobby Brown Loves GTA, But Plays Differently Than Most 2
- Deadpool: Samurai and other Marvel manga are being removed from storefronts
- Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
- Fragmentary Order: How the Creator of Escape From Tarkov Plans to Make the Most Realistic Sci-Fi Game Ever
- GameStop's Pokémon 30th anniversary price markup is ridiculous
- SEGA Expects 5 Million Sales from 'Flagship' Games Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven
- This Week In Games Was Bad, But Next Week May Be Worse
- UK workers request voluntary union recognition at Rockstar
- With Netflix's New Star-Studded Game Out Now, Was Sony Ahead of the Curve with PlayLink?
- With Xbox Speeding Up Work on New Fallout Games, One Former Bethesda Dev Warns Faster Sequels 'Risk Fan Fatigue' — but Could New Vegas Developer Obsidian Be Drafted in to Help?
- Zach Cregger to Produce Siren Head Movie Backed by Warner Bros.
Game Coverage
- Mario Kart World gets two new Knockout Tour routes and a new Photo Mode feature in latest update 6
- Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations Spear Rules! 5
- Next Metroid Game for Switch 2 Reportedly Leaked in Age Rating From Brazilian Government 5
- Rhythm Paradise Groove review 5
- EA changes Battlefield 6 XP Boosters for the better, only to yet again reveal the change was an error and take it back 3
- 'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world 2
- First Major Windrose Content Update Detailed in New Post 2
- Love and Deepspace Fans Tearfully Hold 'Funeral' for Valko at Infold HQ After Company Suddenly Drops Character 2
- New Kingdom Come: Deliverance Game Can Be Pre-Ordered, But It’s $199.99 2
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword Release Date Moved Forward 2
- With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market 2
- "You are the endgame": Total War: Warhammer's new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he's been waiting 10 years for
- 5 new PS5 games to play in July 2026
- All Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Changes Compared to Original
- All Escape from Tarkov Codes—Active Reward Codes and Free Items
- All Palworld 1.0 Platforms—Can You Play On PlayStation, XBOX, PC, Or Switch?
- All Phasmophobia Cursed Object Locations and How To Use Them
- All Phasmophobia Monkey Paw Wishes and Effects
- ARC Raiders Devs Were Grabbing ’30 Terabytes of Data Per Day’, Tracking Your Every Move
- Backyard Baseball Will Feature Trading Cards Designed By Independent Artists—Insider Access
- Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
- Best Teams For Dynasty Rebuild In College Football 27
- Bethesda Shows Off Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 Physical Release
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Just Showed Up In A Very Unexpected Place
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has a Roblox tie-in video game
- Civ 7's new updates convinced me the strategy game's future is bright
- Code Vein 2 Did Enough to Warrant Premium DLC and a Free 2.0 Update
- Deadpool References You Probably Missed In Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
- Diablo 4’s Worst Grind Just Got A Lot Easier In Season 14
- DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC Release Date Countdown & Exact Start Times
- Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
- Feature: 30 Xbox Series X|S Games To Look Forward To In July-December 2026
- Good timing? Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is getting a physical Switch 2 release from Limited Run Games
- Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios - a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics
- Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games & Accessories For July & August 2026
- Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"
- How to Get Free Diamonds in Free Fire—All Free Fire Redeem Codes (July 2026)
- July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'
- Kirby Air Riders Is Getting A New amiibo This September
- Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming's brutalist walking sim canon
- Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn't quite stick the landing
- NYT Strands #850 Hints and Answers for Today, July 1, 2026
- One talented modder spent 6 months building the biggest Halo 3 multiplayer mod ever, and it's absolutely incredible on PC
- OpTic Texas Major Comms Reveals Nasty But Obvious Trick
- Pokémon TCG Pocket's Everyday Wonders pack is the most boring booster in months
- Pragmata was called disappointing by Capcom in early internal reviews
- Review: Deltarune (Switch 2) - A Superbly Subversive RPG That Defies All Rules
- Revisiting Haven, the RPG update that turned a straight love story gay - and made it better as a result
- Star Ocean changed the game for RPGs, 30 years ago this month
- The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
- The Witcher 3 Vibes Are Inescapable in New Dawnwalker Quest Gameplay
- Today’s Contexto: Hints & Answer For July 1, 2026
- Top 7 Patriotic Games To Play This 4th of July
- Undead Chronicles Will Be “Miserable, Creepy, and Depressive”, and That’s Great
- Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome
- Virtua Fighter Crossroads Producer Says the Game Was Inspired by HBO's Watchmen Series
- Watch Dogs 2 Hits Bizarre Player Count Peak Ten Years After Launch
- WWE 2K26 Patch 1.13 – Full Hotfix Notes
Other
- Who is Mother Askani in X-Men ’97? The truth behind season 2's most important, most mysterious character 3
- Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database 2
- 'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
- Esports Nations Cup: PUBG Rosters and Invited Teams Confirmed
- IGN expands partnership with Gamescom, adds game previews to official indie showcase
- LEGO Boba Fett Set Announced, for Ages 18 and Up
- Microsoft omits controversial workplace check-in feature from June Teams roundup
- Persona is getting the live-action show treatment at Netflix, Star Trek: Picard and 9-1-1 writer attached as showrunner
- Pokémon XP interest list is now open, including Pokémon TCG artist signings and more
- Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer References Tobey Maguire, and Shows Tom Holland's Wrists Shooting Webs
- Star Wars: Unlimited Galactic Championship 2026 reveals full prize list [Exclusive]