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Star Wars Zero Company Lands August 27 With XCOM DNA
Star Wars Zero Company arrives August 27 from XCOM veterans at Bit Reactor — a single-player turn-based tactics game with no battle pass.
Valve Turns 30: Half-Life, Steam, and a Handheld Era
Valve was founded on August 24, 1996. Thirty years on, Half-Life, Steam, the Steam Deck, and a $1,049 Steam Machine map three decades of PC gaming.
Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight Lets Fans Pick the Game
Double Fine revives Amnesia Fortnight on August 31: backers vote on four prototypes, one becomes a real game, and 2 Player Productions films it all.
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: What to Expect
Gamescom Opening Night Live returns August 25 with a two-hour Geoff Keighley showcase, a 30-minute pre-show, and Final Fantasy VII Revelation confirmed.
ASCII Cyberpunk City Renders 3D From Text Alone
Solo developer Grow Now Games built a walkable 3D cyberpunk city rendered entirely in ASCII characters, raycast every frame inside a single HTML file.
STALKER 2: Cost of Hope Lands With a Free 2.0 Update
Cost of Hope launched August 20 at $29.99 with two new regions, and every Heart of Chornobyl owner gets the free Update 2.0 engine upgrade.
Dishonored Director Opens Black Pony Immersive Studio
Harvey Smith and Arkane veterans revealed Black Pony Immersive, a 26-person studio making first-person action RPGs, already funded and a year into work.
The Sinking City 2 Launches to Strong Horror Reviews
Frogwares' The Sinking City 2 landed August 18 on PC, PS5, and Xbox with an 81 on OpenCritic and a full pivot into over-the-shoulder survival horror.
AGI-64 Makes Space Quest Playable on a Commodore 64
Mean Hamster Software's AGI-64 runs Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter on a 1 MHz Commodore 64, with Space Quest 1 already fully playable and free.
Kingdom Hearts 4 Lands Late 2027 With a Disney+ Anime
Square Enix confirmed Kingdom Hearts 4 for late 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2 day one, plus a Pixar Coco-inspired world and an original Disney+ anime series.
Pokemon Pokopia Tops 5 Million Nintendo Switch 2 Sales
The cozy life sim has sold 5 million copies in four months, attaching to over 20% of the Switch 2 install base and ranking second on the platform.
VR Games Showcase Recap: 25 Titles and Release Dates
The August 13 VR Games Showcase revealed System Shock VR and High On Life VR plus 25-plus games, with firm dates from September through 2027.
Ghost of Yotei Expansion Adds a Roguelike Bounty Mode
Ghost of Yotei: Echoes of Sekigahara and the Most Wanted roguelike arrive October 1 in a $69.99 Complete Edition, with a $14.99 upgrade for owners.
Grounded 2 Into the Abyss Adds a Whole Pond to Explore
Grounded 2's Into the Abyss update adds three biomes, full underwater exploration, diving suits, and an amphibious buggy — plus a same-day PS5 launch.
Oblivion Remastered Reaches Switch 2 With Every DLC
Oblivion Remastered launched on Switch 2 on August 11 at $49.99, with all 10 DLC packs on the cartridge, no day-one patch, and DLSS-upscaled 1080p docked.
No Man's Sky Turns 10 With 99% of Its Planets Unseen
Hello Games marks a decade of No Man's Sky with around 40 free updates, its highest player numbers since launch, and a teased COSMOS update.
Ghost Recon Future Soldier Free to Keep Until Aug 13
Ubisoft is giving away Ghost Recon Future Soldier free to keep on PC through August 13, celebrating 25 years of the tactical shooter series.
Quake Gets 19 Free New Levels for Its 30th Birthday
MachineGames built Quake: Dawn of the Machine, a free 19-level campaign with a new soundtrack and rune system, out now on every modern platform.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Launches With 20 Fighters
Arc System Works' 4v4 Marvel tag fighter arrived August 6 on PS5 and PC with 20 launch characters and a day-one patch, starting at $59.99 standard.
Final Fantasy XIV Lands on Switch 2 With All Expansions
Final Fantasy XIV arrived on Switch 2 on August 4 with every expansion through Dawntrail, editions from $19.99, and a free month of subscription time.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Hits Switch 2 Sept 17
Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct set a September 17 Switch 2 date, four playable protagonists, and a Dagdan Collection special edition.
Super Mario Sunshine Joins Switch Online on August 13
Super Mario Sunshine hits Switch Online's GameCube library on August 13, and two unreleased Virtual Boy games including Zero Racers arrive August 4.
Beast of Reincarnation Launches on Game Pass Day One
Game Freak's first non-Pokemon AAA game arrives August 4 on PS5, Xbox and PC, day one on Game Pass, with a Famitsu 35/40 and a dog who parries for you.
Halo Campaign Evolved Brings Four-Player Co-op to PS5
Halo: Campaign Evolved launched July 28 on PS5, Xbox and PC with four-player co-op, three new missions and an 81 Metacritic score, day one on Game Pass.