gaming articles published July 21, 2025
July 21 articles
- Acclaimed PS1-style Twin Peaks fan-made horror game is probably dead as Paramount shuts down its demo after 2 years: "We can no longer promise any continuation"
- Lenovo Legion Go 2 revealed in leaked prototype video featuring an OLED display
- Helldivers 2 players overwhelmingly vote to rename a city "GUN," Arrowhead CEO says he hoped for "something else" but "the people have spoken"
- EA finally proves it's listening to fans, will let Battlefield 6 beta players have classic class weapons
- John Romero says indies are the future of game development: 'These people are the ones that make triple-A studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this''
- 3 years later, my favorite retro game collection is getting fresh DLC complete with the "first-ever re-release" of the broken Pac-Man port that became the best-selling game of the pre-Nintendo era
- Fire Emblem Switch 2 hopium is here for the huffing as fans spot a Nintendo dev's LinkedIn with this singularly appetizing line: "The Sequel of Nintendo's SRPG (Tactical role-playing game) on Switch 2"
- Gold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"
- T-Mobile is upgrading its 5G network to make your games less laggy
- Gamers eagerly await the next Pokémon Presents
- You Should Try Quordle If You're Too Good at Wordle
- Black-Owned Games To Download ASAP Or Try At Your Next Game Night
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics Gets Huge Discount
- Get 7 Beloved Arcade Classics For Less than $4.50 Each on PS Store
- 7 Old Shareware Games You Should Finally Finish
- CRITICAL ROLE Announces Original Video Game Set in Exandria
- The Kingdom Hearts-inspired follow-up to criminally underrated indie JRPG CrossCode just shot to the top of my list of most anticipated action-RPGs with a jaw-dropping new trailer and demo reveal
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Update Totally Changes How Game Plays
- Ubisoft Open-World PS5 Game Gets Third-Person Mode Update
- The ASUS ROG Ally 7” Just Fell to $500
- Dying Light: The Beast Game Length Revealed for PS5 Open-World Game
- Microsoft Is Unifying Your PC, Xbox, and Cloud Game Libraries
- Final Fantasy Tactics is already a JRPG GOAT, but The Ivalice Chronicles is cribbing one of Final Fantasy 16's best features to make it even better
- My favorite cozy farming game just got its huge NPC romance update
- Atari 50's next DLC adds infamous Pac-Man Atari 2600 port and more
- Major Cyberpunk 2077 Update Better On PS5 Pro than Xbox
- 7 Game-Changing Mods to Try on Your Gaming Mouse
- Sorry MSI, but you blew it – the Claw A8 is overpriced and could struggle to compete against cheaper rivals like the Steam Deck
- Daredevil And Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Star Charlie Cox Admits It's Probably Time To Buy a Games Console
- Game review: A turn-of-the-millenium road trip in 'Keep Driving' (PC)
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Peak devs update the game with an incredibly unfair new rule: "You no longer win if you die," ruining my chances of ever making it
- "The era of game mechanics is over": Shadow of the Colossus director says games have explored so many ideas that "whether you like it or not, it's better to sharpen the existing mechanics"
- Get $150 off the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme Windows gaming handheld — perfect for dorm-room gaming
- Hytale co-founder wants to buy the IP because it's cheaper and easier than buying a whole company: "It's not like in the movies, it’s just a call and a purchase agreement"
- Even Warframe's developer wasn't able to get a Nintendo Switch 2 dev kit
- For $30, this Switch 2 case is my knight in shining Nintendo armor
- 12 Retro Games That Run Natively on Apple Silicon
- Don’t Miss Your Second Chance to Grab the 30th Anniversary DualSense Controller
- Microtransactions in premium games "make the player experience more fun" according to Ubisoft, as it goes full ‘no, it’s the children who are wrong’
- A Doom-based Fallout fan game has emerged after a 3-year absence, and it looks like the best Fallout in over a decade
- The MSI Claw A8 is now available to pre-order in Europe — when is it coming to North America?
- 'We wanted to make sure we're not turning the game into a shooter' – Dying Light: The Beast developer breaks down bringing back guns and introducing a super-powered Kyle Crane
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Update Brings Third-Person and New Game Plus Modes
- After a disastrous weekend for Destiny 2, Bungie suggests the MMO's latest raid "requires far more than expected" and says it's investigating issues making bosses impossibly tanky
- Daredevil star Charlie Cox still can't escape Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 praise, so he's vowed to "play the game," his first since Super Mario 64: "I need to get a console first"
- Ready or Not has sold 1 million units on console, 10 times faster than what was achieved on PC, proving that the 'censorship' was worth it
- Why I’m Waiting a Few Years Before Buying a Switch 2
- You Can Play Steam Games on RISC-V Processors Now
- Dying Light: The Beast is longer than Techland expected, with 20 to 30 hours of "additional stuff" on top of the 20-hour story
