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- July 26
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- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred—Everything we know about the action RPG's first expansion
- I hope Elden Ring never gets a boss rush mode like Sekiro—helping out strangers in co-op is a much more interesting way of revisiting these fights
- We made 5 types of polyamorous families with The Sims 4's new romantic boundaries system and most of them actually work
- Marvel Rivals isn't just an Overwatch 2 rip-off, and that sentiment does both games a disservice
- Keyboards might be cheating now: what is Snap Tap/SOCD and why is it causing a crisis for competitive shooters?
- July 25
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- Cyberpunk adventure Nobody Wants to Die feels like if you made an entire game out of the boring no-combat intro of a triple-A FPS
- In The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion I can make 'you up?' texts and coffee dates equally valid ways of pursuing relationships
- 'There aren't 3 new wolf simulation games coming out every month': 17 years in, this multiplayer wolf edutainment game from the Minnesota Zoo has an improbably loyal fandom keeping it alive
- Fights, friendships, passions and pugs: At Black Desert's 10th anniversary event, we asked players about why they're still obsessed with the MMO
- Finished Shadow of the Erdtree and looking for more punishment? Get Nine Sols, the soulslike metroidvania so good it made me stop pining for Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Ready or Not's new expansion takes the tense shooter action to new heights, but the politics hit rock bottom
- Marvel Rivals' closed beta is aggressively bad and turns my favourite Marvel villain into a glorified babysitter
- Swap D&D for grimdarkness with these 9 Warhammer tabletop RPGs
- 'This is the most polished map we've ever shipped': Hunt: Showdown 1896 director goes deep on Hunt's first new map in 3 years
- The MSI Claw and Stealth 14 are great compact companions for gaming this summer
- July 24
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- July 22
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- A look back at 8 versions of classic action RPG Hydlide reveals how PC ports can preserve—or lose—the soul of a game
- This Saturday-morning-cartoon-styled RPG brings all the strategy and none of the grind
- This new co-op horde shooter on Steam is so bad it made me feel physically ill
- Replaying Dragon Age: Inquisition has recalibrated my expectations for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 22, 2024)
- July 19
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- I was not expecting Dave the Diver to join forces with a sexy anime gacha game but here we are and I gotta tell ya, it actually kind of makes sense
- Final Fantasy 14 stuck a hat on a pig and got me to buy over $20 worth of boba for it like the fool I am
- Tempest Rising is a dream RTS for Command & Conquer vets, and you can try it now
- You'll get so engrossed building castles and barricades that you'll almost forget about the monsters in survival RTS Cataclismo, out next week in early access
- July 18
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- The Immortal Lock is a gnarly new Quake map that's meatier than some entire FPS campaigns—literally and figuratively
- Cozy cooking adventure Magical Delicacy is super sweet but not quite as filling as I hoped
- Summoning animal gods as Diablo 4's new Spiritborn is so fun, I'm ready to leave the other classes behind
- According to BioWare, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the first entry in the series where 'the combat's actually fun' and where characters are 'intentionally' the focus of the storytelling, which seems pretty unfair on the first three games
- I got a little too into sorting my rocks in this game about a drone factory on the moon
- Clickolding's Click Daddy made me his Click Piggy, oink oink
- July 17
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- When does Prime Day end? Plus, our favorite deals still available
- Once Human is basically a Control MMO, which would have been pretty cool if it wasn't an awful survival game
- 7 of the best Prime Day deals that aren't actually on Amazon
- Neva is a beautiful side-scrolling platformer from the Gris devs with an adorable doggy companion that is inevitably going to die horribly
- Overwatch 2's new hacked event adds a feature that solves almost all of my problems as a support player
- Fantasy becomes reality in Neverness to Everness, a supernatural, urban, open-world anime game built in UE5
- July 16
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- Yesterday I ignored 10 tornado warnings to finish a Destiny 2 raid, didn't get the exotic drop, and disappointed my fiancée. Is there some sort of lesson here?
- This creature collector has you tracking down quirky critters atop a giant bird, and I'm addicted to finding every last one
- I tried to stop my peasants from starving in Norland, but their lords only care about sex and holy rings
- Uh oh, I played 7 hours of Concord this weekend and immediately want back in
- July 15
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- Here's 3 reasons I'm actually pretty optimistic about Dragon Age: The Veilguard despite being an old school RPG sicko
- AMD Zen 5 architecture: A ground up redesign that lays the foundation for future Ryzen CPU architectures
- Renaissance Kingdom Wars is a pleasingly simple hybrid of Crusader Kings, Total War, and Age of Empires
- It turns out that Commander Shepard runs a great game of Call of Cthulhu
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- July 10
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- Now's the time to play that one game you've been putting off
- After a brutal Overwatch 2 mid-season balance patch, all I can think about is how desperately the game needs a ban hero button
- Meet the OBSBOT Tiny 2: An AI-powered 4K webcam that enhances your gaming livestreams with AI auto-tracking and gesture control
- July 9
- July 8
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- 20 hidden gems from 2024 to grab before the end of the Steam Summer Sale
- This platformer frustrates me like no other, but now I'm addicted to beating my own personal best and can't stop
- Say what you like about Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's story, but these bosses and dungeons are some of the dev's best work so far
- Why I love The Shivering Isles in Oblivion
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 8, 2024)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has the coolest arsenal FromSoftware's ever made, but I think I picked wrong my first time through
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- July 4
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- The next Gundam game plays into the joy of Gunpla model kitbashing with decades of parts to mix and match
- From competitive inventory rearranging with cheese-eating slimes to roguelike Pokémon combat, the autobattler genre is more alive than ever—and there's never been a better time to jump in
- After playing last year's soulslikes, Shadow of the Erdtree reminded me that no one knows how to use ambushes like FromSoftware
- The making of Cult of the Lamb: 'A lot of the design was trying to encourage the player to be evil'
- July 3
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- The internet is not a free-for-all—we shouldn't let big tech companies wish copyright out of existence
- Trails through Daybreak's cozy sense of place delivers more of what makes The Legend of Heroes RPGs great
- I spent the last week roaming the Spencer Mansion and I'm here to tell you not to sleep on the new GOG release of 1996's Resident Evil
- Build the galactic hotel of your dreams in this Ghibli-inspired management sim
- Here are the Zenless Zone Zero launch times and release date
- July 2
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- Expansions are the best
- I pitied Shadow of the Erdtree's future 'Let Me Solo Her' champion, but seeing how the Elden Ring community's handled business, I'm not so worried anymore
- After years of coasting on Dr Disrespect's fame, it's hard to imagine a happy ending for Midnight Society
- July 1
