Video Game News 8/3/2026

#ShowOffMoreOfFireEmblem
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New Nintendo Direct dropping tomorrow dedicated to Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct announced for August 4

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Nintendo Direct Airs Tomorrow

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Nintendo Direct announced

Nintendo Direct For Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Announced

Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave Nintendo Direct has been announced for tomorrow

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Nintendo Direct Announced For This Week

Nintendo Direct Announced, Focused on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

Nintendo Will Show Off More Of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave In New Direct Showcase

#PalworldOnline
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Palworld Online is an MMORPG take on Pocketpair's popular survival game that's coming to mobile this year

Palworld is getting a mobile-only MMO version sometime later this year called Palworld Online

Palworld Online is a New MMORPG for Android and iOS, Out in 2026

Palworld Online Mobile MMORPG Will Launch in 2026

Palworld Online will bring Pocketpair's IP to a mobile MMO

Palworld Online is a new MMORPG coming to iOS and Android later this year

Need more Palworld in your life? Good, because it’s becoming a mobile MMORPG with Palworld Online

Palworld Online MMO Announced, Releases In Less Than Four Months

#TheSeriesX
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Xbox Series X Hits £669.99 as Microsoft Hikes UK Prices by 30%

Xbox Series S Now Costs Almost As Much As A PS5 Did At Launch Following Huge UK Price Hike

Xbox Series S Is Now More Expensive Than Switch 2 In Europe And The UK

Microsoft confirms increased Xbox prices in the UK and Europe

Xbox hardware now costs a lot more in the UK and Europe

Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch

Microsoft Increases Prices Of Xbox Series Consoles By Upwards Of $230 In UK And Europe

#NintendoDirect
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Big Walk review for Nintendo Switch 2

Big Walk review

Review: Big Walk (Switch 2) - A Co-Op Adventure Like Nothing Else That Somehow Struggles On Switch 2

Big Walk Is The Best Co-Op Game I’ve Played In A Long Time – Review

Big Walk Review

Big Walk: The Kotaku Review

#DeepDive
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EA Sports FC 27 Ultimate Team changes explained: Simplified SBCs, FUT Gallery, holographic items and more

EA FC 27 Is Making Some Big Changes to Ultimate Team

EA FC 27 Ultimate Vs Ultimate Plus Edition - What's the Difference?

EA Sports FC 27 FUT Details Revealed With New Deep Dive

EA Sports FC 27 Ultimate Team Deep Dive Preview

EA SPORTS FC 27 Ultimate Team Deep Dive Released

FC 27 Free Trial Guide: EA Play 10-Hour Trial & FC 27 Lite Details

FC 27 Ultimate Team Deep Dive: FUT Gallery, SBC Overhauls, and Progression Changes

#StreetFighter
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Street Fighter 6’s Latest Update Introduces Yasmine to the Roster

Street Fighter 6's New Season Is Underway on PS5 Now, Even if It All Feels a Bit Low-Key

Street Fighter 6 Year 4 & Yasmine have launched, Alex got stronger & Ed might be dead

Cody Rhodes Went Full Street Fighter For SummerSlam

#NewDay
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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Climbs Up Steam’s Best Sellers List Following Brand New Day’s Release

Sony's New Spider-Man Movie Secures Biggest Domestic Box Office Debut in History

Sony's Spider-Man Games Enjoy Player Boost on Back of Brand New Day's Box Office Success

Insomniac and Marvel Rivals Both Go Big for Spider-Man Day 2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Wins Over Hideo Kojima, Then Conquers The Box Office

Denzel Washington's underrated detective thriller beat Spider-Man: Brand New Day to the punch by 38 years

Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming to IMAX after massive opening weekend

One Spider-Man: Brand New Day scene explains the new structure of the MCU heading into Avengers: Doomsday

Everyone's playing the fantastic Spider-Man PS5 games after Brand New Day

Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks Avengers: Endgame's box office record

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Makes Almost A Billion Dollars In Its Opening Weekend

#AHardMode
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Capcom are reworking Dragon’s Dogma 2's infamous Dragonsplague so you can "enjoy the strategic decisions we originally envisioned" for it

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen director casually announces a Hard Mode is in the works

Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'

#GameFest2026
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Confirms Trilogy Ends With Main Game

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Surprise Job System Keeps Things Simple with Just Four Jobs Per Character

As hype builds for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Remake and Rebirth continue to sell well

#Nvidia
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AMD graphics card price hikes are reportedly following Nvidia's, as the AI-fuelled RAM shortage continues to set wallets alight

Yet another price rise: AMD will reportedly raise its graphics card and memory prices alongside Nvidia

#AmericanTruckSimulator
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American Truck Simulator trundles off to a land of enchanted highways and giant bovines with a freshly announced North Dakota expansion

American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC

#Lepton
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Lepton and FEX get prepared for the Steam Frame release

Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam

#SquareEnix
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Square Enix denies claims its Kingdom Hearts Collection artwork was AI-generated, blames ‘human error’

Square Enix responds to Kingdom Hearts Collection AI controversy two months after players called it out

#God
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God of War TV show is seemingly recasting Atreus and Thrud for Season 2, to cover their jump in age

The God Of War Show Is Also Recasting Atreus, But Not Until Season 2

#Daily
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Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (August 2026)

Monopoly Go Free Rolls – July 2026 Links

#Cthulhu
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Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss Review

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni Review

#Titan3
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Attack on Titan 3 announces Nintendo Switch 2 release date, new trailer and more

Attack on Titan 3 Avoids the GTA 6 Chaos on PS5, Locks in December Release Date

#Love
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Infold Breaks Love and Deepspace Valko Silence With Caleb Trailer

Love And Deepspace’s Biggest Controversy Is Now Hitting Its Wallet

#TheSwitch2MostlyShines
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Lies of P For The Switch 2 Mostly Shines As One Of The Best Soulslike Out There

Review: Lies Of P: Complete Edition (Switch 2) - No Strings On This Superb, Immersive Soulslike

#XboxLeakedEmailPinsDisc
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Xbox Leaked Email Pins Disc-to-Digital Launch for August 2026

Xbox’s Disc-To-Digital Program Could Be Revealed This Month

#RoundUp
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Round Up: This PS Plus Game Is One of the Highest Rated Games of the Year

Big Walk just became Metacritic's highest-rated game of 2026 (so far)

#AiSlopAccusations
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'Evie Was Created by Our Talented Artists': Stellar Blade Dev Responds to 'AI Slop' Accusations

Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all

#Seasons
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Seasons are coming to Escape from Tarkov, with more customization and swathes of new gear

Escape From Tarkov's Biggest Post-Launch Patch Is Live

#Memory
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Memory chip maker Samsung says the component shortage will continue to get worse in 2027, while earning a pretty penny from it

Samsung Says Ongoing Memory Shortage Will Get Worse Next Year, So Expect More Price Increases On Tech

#Aegis
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Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Review For Xenoblade Chronicles 2 On Switch 2

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 joins this week’s eShop roundup