2 August 2026
Platform & Hardware
- Xbox UK and Europe console price hikes revealed - and it's even worse than we expected 4
- Climate change is forcing my Xbox console into summer hibernation
- HP’s HyperX Omen 15 isn’t quite the budget-friendly gaming laptop its predecessor was
- Microsoft promises to fix Windows 11 for 8GB PCs, but it put the cart before the horse with low-memory Surfaces
- Microsoft's most-underrated gaming feature is steadily gaining traction, but big gaps remain — Xbox Play Anywhere report card
- PlayStation Petition Loses Steam Even As Sony Doubles Down on Disc Decision
- Talking Point: Xbox's Final Games With Gold Titles Were Announced Three Years Ago
- The God of War TV show is recasting Atreus and Thrud
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day Comes Close to Passing Avengers: Endgame With Second Biggest Box Office Debut of All Time at $927 Million Globally 4
- Alan Ritchson best movies and TV shows: A definitive 10 top ranking
- Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
- Hideo Kojima Reviews Spider-Man: Brand New Day: 'It Felt Fresh, and I Really Enjoyed It'
- One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'
- Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
- Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all
- Story of Seasons mobile game cancelled as Marvelous cuts six-year Tencent partnership
- Troy Baker's cyberpunk answer to GTA 6 has been stuck in development hell for six years
- Wicked Star Ariana Grande to Take a 'Step Back From Visibility' Amid 'Endless, Ongoing Public Scrutiny'
Game Coverage
- 10 best games like Baldur's Gate 3
- 10 best games like Halo: Campaign Evolved
- 10 places I wish GTA 6 was set instead of Vice City
- American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
- As hype builds for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Remake and Rebirth continue to sell well
- Baba is You and UFO 50's Party House are getting unexpected board game adaptations
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary
- Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all
- Control Resonant's story will take around 30 hours, Remedy says, with completionists looking at 50-hour runs
- Escape from Tarkov’s 1.1.0 Update Locked In For Tomorrow, August 3rd
- Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects (July 2026)
- Final Fantasy 7 Director Discusses Final Fantasy 14 Crossover
- Five Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In August 2026
- Hands On: HoYoverse's Pokémon Rival Won Me Over - I Just Need It on PS5
- I enjoyed this video of Oblivion Remastered actor Wes Johnson goofing around in a sound booth dressed as Sheogorath, but a patch for the PC version would be nice too, Bethesda
- NYT Connections Hints Today (#1149)—Answers for Monday, August 3
- One day Owlcat will make an RPG that's perfect out of the box, but 3 years after launch, it's time to get disgustingly into Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'
- Poll: Box Art Brawl: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (GameCube)
- Poll: Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Month (July 2026)
- Silent Hill: Townfall's dev team wrecked old TVs with magnets to make its in-game gadget feel real
- Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want
- The best multiplayer Steam games under $10
- Today’s NYT Strands #882 Answers, Hints, and Spangram Revealed
Other
- 15-Year-Old Crowned a Street Fighter Champion at the Esports World Cup
- 48 years later, anime’s most beautiful sci-fi space epic is officially making a comeback
- 9 years later, Spider-Man still can't break from the MCU's most divisive Peter Parker tradition
- Book Review: CTRL: Essays On Video Games - An Affecting Anthology For Anyone Who Grew Up On Games
- G2 Esports Claims Warzone Resurgence Series Win at Esports World Cup
- I still use Microsoft To Do — and I'm hoping one of my favorite daily Windows apps can avoid the graveyard of forgotten software
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day may have just set up a major Avengers: Doomsday threat
- WWE SummerSlam Included Gears of War and Street Fighter Crossovers