Nintendo Switch
Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 brings MGS4 to modern platforms
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is out now, bringing MGS4 and Peace Walker to current consoles and PC.
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PlayStation
Star Wars Zero Company launches with squad tactics, permadeath and a choice-driven campaign
Star Wars Zero Company launches August 27 with squad tactics, a persistent home base, relationship systems and optional permadeath.
Nintendo Switch
The Switch Capture button can save the 30 seconds before you pressed it
On Nintendo Switch, holding the Capture Button in supported games can save up to the 30 seconds that happened before you pressed it.
PlayStation
PlayStation Plus September lineup adds Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26 and two more
September 2026 brings four PlayStation Plus Monthly Games, with the August lineup leaving on August 31.
Xbox
ROG Xbox Ally X20 preorders open at $1,299 ahead of October 15 launch
ASUS and Xbox have opened US preorders for the $1,299.99 ROG Xbox Ally X20, a premium Windows handheld due on October 15.
PlayStation
PlayStation highlights 19 upcoming PS5 games after Gamescom Opening Night Live
PlayStation’s Gamescom roundup tracks 19 games headed to PS5, including several September releases, a growing 2027 slate and multiple undated projects.
Graphics Cards / GPUs
GeForce 256 helped make 'GPU' a PC gaming term
Nvidia introduced the GeForce 256 in 1999 as the 'world's first GPU,' helping turn GPU into the everyday PC graphics term we still use.
Xbox
More than 30 games are coming to Xbox this week
Xbox’s August 24-28 calendar has more than 30 releases across console and PC, with major launches sitting alongside a long tail of smaller games.
PlayStation
#PSBlackout boycott begins over PlayStation’s 2028 disc cutoff
A community-led #PSBlackout campaign is asking players to avoid PlayStation hardware and services through August 30 in protest at Sony’s planned 2028 cutoff for new physical game production.
PlayStation
Helldivers 2's Illuminate Void is open in the Devoid of Liberty update
Helldivers 2's Gateway is open, sending squads into the Illuminate Void with reconnaissance objectives, alternate extractions and SEAF support.
Xbox
Xbox Insiders get local save management and Home cleanup tools
Xbox Insiders can now inspect unused local saves and clean individual items from Home, with the features rolling out first through selected Insider rings.
Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass late-August wave brings Blood Dungeon and Resonance
Blood Dungeon arrives August 25 and Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy follows August 27, with the late-month Game Pass wave split across specific tiers.
Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Free Play Days offers Train Sim World 6, Icarus and Lynked through Aug 23
Train Sim World 6, Icarus: Console Edition and Lynked: Banner of the Spark are open through August 23 for eligible Xbox Game Pass members.
PlayStation
The Sinking City 2 is out on PS5 and shifts fully into survival horror
Frogwares has launched The Sinking City 2 on PS5 with a much clearer identity: semi-open-world survival horror rather than another open-world detective adventure.
Gaming PCs
Steam July hardware survey: 16GB VRAM and eight-core CPUs move in front
Steam’s July 2026 survey put 16GB VRAM and eight-core CPUs narrowly ahead of the categories they had been chasing, but the margins are too small to turn into a blanket upgrade rule.
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Store reaches iPhones in Brazil, widening Epic's mobile push
Epic Games Store has launched on eligible iPhones in Brazil with Fortnite and Rocket League Sideswipe, adding another iOS market for Epic without amounting to a worldwide rollout.
PlayStation
PlayStation Plus August 2026 games are live — here's what changed
As of August 9, 2026, PlayStation's player-facing story was concrete: August Plus games were already live while Sony's June showcase had set out a substantial PS5 pipeline for later in 2026 and beyond.
Nintendo
The bigger gaming ideas hiding inside Nintendo
Nintendo Switch 2 is a useful example of Nintendo's broader design pattern: new hardware features are built around changing how people play together rather than only chasing raw specifications.
Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store's free-game habit is really a weekly appointment
The giveaway works as much by creating a repeat visit every Thursday as it does by adding individual games to libraries.
Xbox Game Pass
What one month of Game Pass says about the service's real identity
The July 2026 line-up mixes remasters, full releases, indies, benefits and departures, which is more revealing than a raw game count.