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July 2025
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- July 31
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- After 4 hours with Battlefield 6, I think Battlefield is really back this time
- I have never known a Destiny 2 expansion with as many problems as Edge of Fate, and I'm worried the game may not survive them
- The UK's new age verification is a privacy nightmare, but it doesn't need to be
- Don't ask me how many peasant soldiers I've sent to their demise in this roguelike deckbuilder where your cards can suffer slow, painful permadeath
- Roguelike shooter Terminull Brigade's Season 0 is out now and it thrusts you into the middle of a virtual rebellion
- Elden Ring Nightreign's newest Everdark Sovereign Augur, manages to break the fourth wall by sending me to sleep in the game and in real life
- This roguelike auto-battler has me obsessed with doing entire RPG adventures in 5 minutes
- July 30
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- 5 stealthy lessons the live-action Assassin's Creed Netflix series could learn from the clumsy live-action Assassin's Creed movie
- Edmund McMillen thinks Mewgenics is his best game yet, and after playing it myself, I can see why
- August 2025 is the month of remakes and remasters
- Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is shaping up to be one of my favourite farming sims since Stardew Valley, and frankly it could teach a thing or two to future games as well
- Don't repeat my mistakes in Grounded 2's Networking mission, or you'll face an arduous slog back to collect your lost loot
- July 29
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- Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design
- For better or worse, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft is changing the game: 'We've received overwhelmingly positive feedback'
- One of Tales of the Shire's biggest disappointments is its characters, which seems pretty significant for a life simulator
- Total War: Warhammer 3's removal of ass ladders is a great start, but it's got a far bigger gate problem to contend with
- Grounded 2, even in early access, is one of the best survival games I've ever played
- July 28
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- Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
- Cronos: The New Dawn's sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it 'subconsciously' is also a game about Covid
- Which Samsung Galaxy S25 should you choose for mobile gaming? We break it down
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 28, 2025)
- July 27
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- Game music wouldn't be what it is without rock and metal—here are the legendary tracks you should add to your playlists immediately
- I played a visual novel about the terror of having a 'casual' boss and a job that wants you to conform to society's expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability
- July 26
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- July 24
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- Primal Planet is my favorite new metroidvania because it has friendly dinosaurs, gorgeous pixel art, and you can hug your wife
- Relic's taken a break from real-time strategy to make a turn-based hybrid of Advance Wars and cult classic Impossible Creatures—but it feels totally removed from the studio's legendary legacy
- Videogame music wouldn't be where it is without people like Ozzy Osbourne
- I tested Nvidia's AI gaming assistant: it advised me to 'update' to old drivers and told me I wasn't playing a game (I was playing a game), but maybe I should've expected that from version 0.1
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- July 18
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- I've been obsessed with a single dialogue choice in an underappreciated Obsidian game for 10 years, so I tracked down the guy who wrote it to learn everything about my favorite joke in RPG history
- This tactics RPG set on a floating New York City could be the next great noir videogame
- With Steam launch concurrents at an all-time low for Destiny 2's latest expansion, I think Bungie is finally paying the price for years of mistakes—the biggest being the time it removed paid content
- How performance optimisation makes Samsung Galaxy phones great for gaming
- July 17
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- Hyperbeat is one of the best rhythm games I've played, with one of the most confusing UIs which at times makes me feel sick
- What the heck is 'AI Appreciation Day'? Turns out it was started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside of SpaceX Starbase for a year hoping to talk to the billionaire about AI regulation
- July 16
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- If you've been putting off Rogue Trader until patches and DLC make it better, now's finally the time to jump in
- It's been a year since Minecraft ditched annual summer updates, and I have to admit there's never been a better time to play
- My desktop has been overrun by virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku goodies from Asus, but I'm here to tell you that it really is a case of style over substance
- July 15
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- Cop Bastard is a retro first-person shooter that's exactly as aggressively weird as you'd expect from a game called Cop Bastard
- Stuck in a game? Here’s how the Samsung Galaxy S25 can help you break through
- Neverwinter Nights 2 is one of the best RPGs you've never played, and if you like Baldur's Gate 3 or Disco Elysium, you owe it to yourself to check out its new Enhanced Edition
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is an excellent, subtle remaster and my new Steam Deck game of the summer
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- July 9
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- Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
- Level up your content creation with Samsung Galaxy S25
- If Marvel Rivals doesn't want to reward me with fancy skins for my hard work, then I hope it'll at least give me some of Season 3's new customisation features
- July 8
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- This brilliant dark and moody cyberpunk city builder is my kind of cosy game—and for less than $7 you might as well see if it's yours too
- Marvel Rivals' next hero is the complete package, as Phoenix packs enough firepower to cut through any Strategist backline
- Marvel Rivals' most exciting change in Season 3 is removing the need to grind the game every single day
- Turn your wall into the ultimate PC gaming display with these Prime Day Valerion projector deals
- July 7
- July 5
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- Best graphics cards in 2026: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
- Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
- What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'
- July 4
- July 3
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- I played 10 free Steam demos this week: here are the 5 games that made it onto my wishlist
- 20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry
- My editor forced me to use this $19 gaming headset for a whole week and it's goppingly awful in ways I never dreamed of
- Not quite girl, not quite horse: The latest gacha craze sweeping Steam is a bizarre idol management game for anime highschool horse girls
- July 2
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- Diablo 4 has finally given dungeons their teeth back and the loot hunt has never been more satisfying
- High on Life 2: all the key details on the wacky FPS's squanchin' sequel
- I built a brand new gaming PC from the ground up with Corsair's iCUE Link: a simplified, smart and just a little frustrating all-in-one system
- How I keep my PC and desktop clean with cuddly cats all around me: a $20 handheld air blower
- July 1
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- 'Patient gaming' only gets more attractive when $70 games get heavy Steam sale discounts just months after launch
- Death Stranding 2 is too damn easy
- I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim
- I played Elden Ring Nightreign for goofy co-op shenanigans, but wound up punched in my feelings by the Revenant's remembrance questline
- My best friend is a gaming mouse: An ode to the finest rodent around, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight
- Fortnite's newest mode is a frantic dopamine machine that lives up to the hype—and I hope it's a new-player gateway to more considered battle royales
