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The Video Games And More You Should Play This Weekend – July 31, 2026
Welcome to the weekend! It's a good one for going to the theatres with a new Spider-Man movie that I liked (see my full spoiler-free review here) and a new Christopher Nolan movie that I liked even more and am ready to probably go see it again before I am never able to watch it on a gigantic screen
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Star Wars, Metal Gear, and Halo composer Kazuma Jinnouchi confirmed as lead composer for Guild Wars 3
ArenaNet has revealed the lead composer for its upcoming MMORPG Guild Wars 3. Kazuma Jinnouchi, known for his work on Star Wars, Metal Gear, and post-Bungie Halo games, is collaborating on the soundtrack. Read more
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EA Sports FC 26 may have almost 10 million daily active users, a far larger player count than public data may have you believe
It seems like EA Sports FC 26 has a staggering number of daily active users, according to one content creator who claims to have heard first-hand about its popularity from a developer. Read more
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Super Mario Sunshine Joins Nintendo Switch Online GameCube Library Next Month
Super Mario Sunshine is the next classic GameCube title joining Nintendo Switch Online’s classic game catalog. The 2002 platformer arrives on August 13.Super Mario Sunshine sees Mario and friends travel to the tropical Delfino Island, where an imposter known as Shadow Mario vandalizes the destinati
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Surprise! After getting over 500,000 downloads on Steam, there's a Mortal Shell 2 beta live right now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S
Are you excited for Mortal Shell 2? The game, which is proving so popular ahead of release it recently sold out of its physical Revered Edition on PS5, has just announced a surprise beta - allowing players to dive in and check out its deconstructed soulslike mechanics for themselves. Read more
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The Elder Scrolls Online developer posts extensive roadmap and reiterates that the game is "here to stay", in spite of sweeping Xbox layoffs
ZeniMax Online Studios, the developer behind hit MMO The Elder Scrolls Online, has reiterated that its online RPG is "here to stay" after doubts about the title's future were raised in the wake of the big Xbox 'reset' overseen by Asha Sharma. Read more
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As Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and Dawn of War 4 show off more gameplay, 40K fans have become locked in a fierce debate: are the lasgun lasers the wrong colour?
The universe of Warhammer 40,000 is rich and full of countless little details, all of great importance to the passionate community that's grown around the franchise. It's these people, spurred on by new gameplay footage from Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and Dawn of War 4, who are now fiercely debati
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Could Switch 2's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake be squaring up for a GTA 6 head-to-head? Newly sighted amiibo suggest a potential November release
It looks like Nintendo could be priming its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for a November release - just ahead of GTA 6's highly anticipated arrival - if speculation around a pair of newly sighted amiibo is to be believed. Read more
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As the memory crisis worsens, PlayStation promises it has secured enough RAM to meet its PS5 sales (until early 2027, at least)
Just yesterday, we heard that Nvidia GPUs are to see yet another price hike of up to 30 percent, as the hunger for generative AI hardware worsens the component crisis and sky-rocketing costs for computing hardware continues. PlayStation, however, has promised it has stockpiled enough memory to weat
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Shift-Up promotes Stellar Blade 2 with AI-generated KPop music video featuring the game's main character
Stellar Blade: Bloodrain developer Shift-Up has promoted its upcoming action game with seemingly fully generative AI KPop music video. Read more
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Sony vows to press on with discless plans, saying "digitalization is progressing" across all media despite heavy protest from players
Sony has been asked about its decision to kill off physical media in PlayStation's latest earnings call. The company, which announced that it will be ending the production and sale of discs and so on for PlayStation games in early 2028 earlier this month, reaffirmed its stance on the matter, but no
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The $55bn private acquisition of Electronic Arts is expected to go ahead
After over a year of tense debate, Electronic Arts has reported it's achieved "all regulatory approvals" for the proposed $55bn private acquisition of the company. Read more
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Everything D&D Announced At Gen Con, Including A Huge World of Warcraft Collab, Star Wars Crossover, And The New Psion Class
Dungeons and Dragons has a lot planned for the coming year. Following the 2024 release of its revised fifth edition ruleset (which the developers have come around to calling "5.5e" after initially resisting), the D&D team has crafted a seasonal content structure reminiscent of a live-service video
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Here’s How The Late Japanese Actor Toshirō Mifune Became The Face Of Musashi In Onimusha: Way Of The Sword
It’s becoming increasingly common to see deceased actors, musicians, and the like recreated digitally for hologram concerts, movies, video games, and more. There is a wide range of ways studios and creators approach doing so. Using generative AI (for image and voice) is absolutely the worst way to
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Pop-Punk Action RPG Stupid Never Dies Gets October Launch Date
Stupid Never Dies, an upcoming pop-punk action RPG by a team of former Capcom veterans, has a release date. Look for the wacky supernatural adventure on October 21. First revealed last December during The Game Awards 2025, Stupid Never Dies is a single-player, third-person action game starring Davy
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Path of Exile 2 finally has a fix for two of its longest-lasting, and most frustrating, technical problems
Path of Exile 2 finally has a fix for two of its longest-lasting and most frustrating technical problems, with director Jonathan Rogers celebrating the occasion by popping open a bottle of champagne. Read more
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Halo: Campaign Evolved doesn't have split-screen on PC, but this mod fixes that, if you're willing to look past some quirks
Halo: Campaign Evolved is officially available now across PC and consoles. All versions are nearly identical in their feature sets. Nearly. That's because the PC version does not support split-screen co-op, leaving traditional online co-op as the only way to play with a buddy. Read more
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Thimbleweed Park 2 Announced, Launching In 2028
2017’s Thimbleweed Park was a successful throwback to the LucasArts point-and-click adventures of yesteryear helmed by Manic Mansion co-creators Gary Winnick and Ron Gilbert (the latter of whom also created the Monkey Island series). Nine years later, the team at Terrible Toybox has announced a seq
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Gears of War: E-Day's new Horde may be the game's most interesting mode, but it left me with more questions than answers
I've been eager to get my hands on Gears of War: E-Day's new Horde mode, Horde Siege, which appears to be a more smartly designed, more engaging iteration. June's Xbox bonanza first look sold me on the campaign, but the iconic mode has long been my favourite non-campaign mode in Gears. And at least
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Halo: Campaign Evolved's 'death barriers' and ungenerous out-of-bounds restrictions are making the 42 skull grind a real bore
Halo: Campaign Evolved is finally out for everyone, after five days of early access for players that pre-ordered its Premium Edition. But as the masses finally get to replaying Master Chief's debut adventure, one thing is starting to become abundantly clear: this isn't your daddy's Halo. Read more