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July 15
- Was Assassin's Creed Origins' Egypt the best open world in the series?
- If The Odyssey film is anything like The Odyssey adventure game from 2012, Matt Damon will spend the entire first hour trying to solve a single loom puzzle
July 14
- Hollywood still has time to avoid the gaming industry's disastrous consolidation endgame
- I've helped 100 cats mail parcels in Cat Mail Co. which is why I can safely say it's one of the best management sims I've played in a very long time
- This is my 3rd time playing EVE Online's upcoming extraction shooter little brother, and it finally feels like it's coming together⁠—all without the ambitious crossover features it was made for
July 13
- 'I'm in this whole new world': Here's what Eric Barone had to say about the life-changing Stardew Valley 10 years ago this month
- Violent criminals keep escaping justice, but I sure am taking some nice photos of evidence in this crime scene simulator
- Even though Old School RuneScape was 'not built to have a LAN setup at all,' it just had a live esports tournament with 4,000 attendees: 'We were doubting at times whether we actually can pull it off'
- Budget OLED versus budget mini-LED: The best real-world PC gaming monitor tech tested
July 12
- Going from skull-cracker to safecracker in Dishonored 2
- We're not quite done with 2026, but here are 9 videogame bangers that have defined the year so far
- 2026's best RPG might look like Disco Elysium, but it was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, and its creator wants 'to do a first-person game at some point'
- Black Flag Resynced certainly scratches my nostalgia itch, but do you know what else does? Assassin's Creed Black Flag
July 11
- I've found my perfect summer game: A stomach-churning horror story about Czech train conductors built over a bafflingly deep simulation of a fictional subway
- The Elder Scrolls Online's developer deserved better than to get sucker-punched by Microsoft twice in two years
- Handheld gaming PCs are cooked
July 10
- Xbox's new chief strategist is a metaverse true believer
- Marvel Rivals needs to pick a lane and either fully embrace balancing for 'fun' long term or stick to some serious changes
July 9
- How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?
- The only indie roguelike action RPG that rivals Hades and Diablo for me just got an incredible new expansion
- PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground
- After 16 years of exploring the final frontier, Star Trek Online devs are 'trying new things' and 'trying to push the boundaries' of what they can achieve
- Ubisoft has added a cash shop and weekly challenges to its 'faithful' remake of the 13-year-old Black Flag, because of course it has
- Black Flag's combat may have been a total cakewalk, but at least it had its novelty
- Are you excited for a new Fallout game from Obsidian? You know, given everything
July 8
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's most interesting mechanic took a bite out of my inner RPG completionist, who would've otherwise played hooky with a witch
July 7
- I played 4 hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker and it borrows a heck of a lot from The Witcher 3, for good and bad
- My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through
- 16-year-old MMO Star Trek Online is moving forward by tinkering with the past, unearthing and remaking one of its oldest storylines—and you can play it right now
- This action RPG's more-with-more-on-top excess is as fun as expansion design gets
- My cozy game of the month is a moth-watching game where you can explore whimsical forests and uncover more about these fuzzy legends
July 6
- Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k's first Inquisitor was called 'Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau' and he's still too powerful to be retconned
- Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first 'dopamine site', so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent
July 5
- Brigador devs think it's crucial that their abrasive, hardcore mech sims aren't for everyone: 'I think we make boy slop, but that's okay'
- What was the first videogame song that you ever heard?
- Hasbro should stop looking for a Baldur's Gate 4 studio and take a leaf out of Larian's book by trying something new
- Darktide's new Skitarii class is its most unique yet, but it also advances our understanding of Warhammer 40k lore
July 4
- Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strike—and the last one was made by Remedy
- Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider is pitching a heist RPG that's 'make or break' for his studio
- Somehow, the $1,000 Asus ROG Ally Xbox X is the best value gaming handheld I can think of right now
- This little orb's going to be sitting on my minimap for the rest of WoW's current expansion, and I couldn't tell you why
July 3
- Mouthwashing's follow-up is self-described 'friendsweat' where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: 'We're definitely not quite at Peak, but we're not trying to make Arma either'
- The latest Chinese PC gaming hit is an indie game that spent the last 8 years growing into something you've never played before
- Horror fans are being spoiled courtesy of these two unsettling yet enthralling upcoming games
July 2
- Lord of Hatred upgraded Diablo 4 into one of the best action RPGs out there, but its new season ignores everything that made it great
July 1
- July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'
- Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs
- 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
- "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
- The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
- How to push 007: First Light to the max with Nvidia GeForce GPUs