Video Game News 7/27/2026

#TheAnatomyOfPeace
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope Arrives on August 20th With Update 2.0’s Free Unreal Engine 5 Upgrade

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC releases in August along with a big free upgrade

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope expansion release date confirmed, and you’re finally going to Chernobyl

STALKER 2 Cost of Hope Release Date and Features Confirmed

STALKER 2's Cost of Hope expansion, and its free but still hopeful 2.0 update, get an August release date

STALKER 2: Cost of Hope expansion finally has a release date

Stalker 2's Huge Free 2.0 Update and Its First Major Story Expansion Have a Joint Release Date

Stalker 2’s First Major Expansion Arrives Very Soon

#The
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The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers

Pokémon card stores in Japan are adding facial recognition to stop people breaking their purchasing rules

Japan: Pokemon Card Stores require facial recognition for entry and purchases

Pokémon Company says it's bringing facial recognition tech to stores

The Pokémon Company Announces Facial Recognition System to Help Kill Scalping at Japanese Card Stores, Mandatory From Elementary School Age

You Might Need A Face Scan To Buy Pokemon Cards Soon, Thanks To Scalpers

Pokémon Company Strikes Blow Against Scalpers With Facial Recognition Checks To ‘Prevent Crime’ At Card Stores In Japan

#FinalFantasy6
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Yoshi-P Explains Why a Final Fantasy 8 Remake is Unlikely to Happen

Final Fantasy 6 Remake Would Have to Be '4 or 5' Games, Suggests Series Producer

"4 or maybe even 5 instalments" If you want Remakes of older Final Fantasy games, prepare for them to be even bigger than the FF7 Remake trilogy

A Final Fantasy 6 remake would need four or five games to do the story justice, Yoshi-P says

The Best Way To Remake More Final Fantasy Games Is Staring Square Enix In The Face

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy Director Praised As The Guy Fans Want Square Enix To Put In Charge Of Final Fantasy 17

#Playstation
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PlayStation fans plan week-long blackout over Sony’s disc decision, but will you actually log off?

Angry PlayStation Fans Propose PS5 Blackout in Protest of Sony's Disc Decision

Will you power down your PS5 for a week in protest of Sony's all-digital future? A new petition encourages you to pull the plug on PlayStation

PlayStation ‘Blackout’ Week Is Coming To Protest Sony’s Disc-Less Future

#Myst
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Cyan's new Myst game has been cancelled, but we've got a glimpse of what it could have been

Myst devs Cyan Worlds show off prototype for Project Anglerfish, a canned entry in the noted long-time RPS favourite series

Cyan reveals abandoned prototype for new Myst game, confirms different Myst game is in development

Cyan Worlds Gives A Look At What Could Have Been A New Myst Sequel

#ArcadeEdition
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Which NFL Teams Improved Their OVR the Most For Madden 27?

Madden NFL 27 Is Coming to Apple Arcade and It Has No Microtransactions

Definitive Apple Arcade games list - Every available title so far

#FarCry
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Ubisoft Cancels Upcoming Far Cry Game After Years of Development

Rumour: 'Really Ambitious' Open World Far Cry Game Enters Development as Ubisoft Kills Series' Extraction Shooter

Ubisoft working on new open-world Far Cry game, report says

#SpidermanSummerMarvelCont
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Marvel Tokon's Spider-Man Story Drawn by My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Artist

Marvel Contest of Champions lets you play as Black Tarantula and Hobgoblin as part of Spider-Man Summer

How Marvel Snap united Spidey's supporting cast for the Spider-Man: Brand New Day season

#PlaystationPlus
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First PS Plus Essential Game for August 2026 Already Confirmed

PlayStation Plus August 2026 Free Game Revealed Early

PS Plus August 2026 games lineup includes a quirky multiplayer game

#BaldursGate3
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Baldur's Gate 3 players on PC can't decide if the latest third-person camera mod is a revelation or a crime against Larian's original vision

Baldur's Gate 3 True Third-Person Camera Mod Goes Viral, Sparks Debate About Whether It Erases the Game's Identity

New Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Has Given Me All The Excuse I Need To Play The Game Again

#MarvelTōkonFightingSouls
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Respawn Monday #9: Tokon Fighting Souls & the need to Palworld

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls had a Magik-al open beta weekend, as character popularity data reveals a surprising community favourite

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls dev apologises for PC "gameplay and performance issues"

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta beaten and bashed by PC performance issues, Arc System Works "apologise for the impact this has had on your experience"

#Playstation5
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Grand Theft Auto 6’s PS5 “Physical” Release Will be Region-Locked

GTA 6 Is Region-Locked on PlayStation 5, Not Xbox

#RockstarGames
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Companies Should Provide Physical Releases if People Want Them, Says Rockstar Games Co-Founder

Rockstar Games and GTA co-founder chimes in on the raging physical games debate: "If people want that, companies should provide it"

#TheOpenSecureAiAlliance
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NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the "Open Secure AI Alliance"

Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security

#Crack
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Crack open planets in the idle incremental game Swarmslam

Lazy Kickers Is the Idle Soccer Game You Didn’t Know You Needed

#Qualcomm
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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve's Steam Frame

More bad news for Valve and its still unreleased Steam Frame as Qualcomm is set to raise the price of its chips, like everyone else

#HonkaiNexusAnima
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Honkai: Nexus Anima Will Get More ‘Shiny’ Chromatic Anima

Honkai Nexus Anima preview - "Pokémon but better"

#SuikaGame
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Suika Game and Suika Game Planet Head to PS5 and PC

Surprise! Popular Fruity Puzzler Suika Game Is Suddenly Available on PS5

#July
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Monopoly Go Free Rolls – July 2026 Links

Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (July 2026)

#GameLaunch
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Xbox Suffers Major Outage Impacting Sign-Ins and Downloaded Games

Now Xbox Is Down for Some, Microsoft Says It's Working to Fix a Major Outage Affecting Library, Sign-In, and Game Launch

#TheSwitch1
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"It Might Show My Age" - Zelda Movie Actor's BOTW Memories Will Make You Feel Old

Zelda Movie actor couldn’t play Breath of Wild at launch because he was too young

#Review
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HYPERWIRED Review

PowerA LucidSound LS500/P review

#BethesdaSlashesPrice
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Bethesda Slashes Price of DOOM DLC Only Weeks After Release

Latest DOOM's DLC 50% Off Just 3 Weeks After PS5 Release

#League
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League of Legends LoLdle Answers Today (July 27, 2026)

League of Legends Worlds resale tickets soar to $169k, as scalpers cash in

#Fable
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Fable PS5 Has Run 'Uncomfortably Beyond Budget', Sources Claim

Fable Is “Uncomfortably” Over-Budget, Says New Report