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Capcom Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever, and Resident Evil Quietly Passed Final Fantasy on the Way
Capcom's first-quarter numbers landed on July 28 with a record on nearly every line, and buried in them is a milestone the company has chased for years.
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The Best Co-op Games to Play Right Now, Sorted by the Kind of Night You Want
July is quiet on big new releases, so everyone is back on the co-op couch and the co-op Discord. Here is the honest shortlist, drawn from games we have actually reviewed and scored.
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God of War Laufey Has a Date, and Santa Monica Confirmed Kratos Is Coming Back After It
Sony's first mainline God of War without Kratos in the lead now has a release date, and the studio used the same breath to promise Kratos is coming back.
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Splatoon Just Shipped Its First Ever Spinoff, and It Wants You to Play Alone
For a decade Splatoon meant 4v4 online turf war. Its first spinoff, out now on Switch 2, is built around a solo adventure instead, and that is the real story.
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Marvel Handed Its Fighting Game to the Guilty Gear Studio, and This Weekend Anyone Can Try It
The 4v4 Marvel fighter from Arc System Works opened its doors to everyone this weekend, two weeks before launch, and used San Diego Comic-Con to reveal its first post-launch character.
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Avatar Legends Launches Everywhere but Xbox, and Switch Owners Got the Short Version
The Avatar: The Last Airbender fighting game arrived on most platforms on July 23, but Xbox players were told to wait until September just hours before launch, and Switch shipped stripped down.
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Battlefield 6 Finally Takes to the Water, and Wake Island Is Not Coming With It
Season 4 puts the series back on the water with real wave physics, but the map everyone actually showed up for is arriving on its own schedule.
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FromSoftware's Next Game Asks You to Fight Seven Other Players, and Sign-Ups Just Opened
The studio behind Elden Ring and Bloodborne just opened registration for a closed network test of The Duskbloods, an eight-player PvPvE game built for Switch 2.
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Bethesda Finally Shows Its Hand on Fallout: Two Remasters, Fallout 5, and Obsidian Back in the Wasteland
The most notable line in Bethesda's roadmap is not a remaster or a sequel, it is the name Obsidian, the studio that made New Vegas, returning to Fallout.
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Octopath Traveler Comes to Switch 2 at Full Price, and Square Enix Wants You to Buy It Twice
The HD-2D pair are getting a resolution and frame-rate bump on Switch 2, but Square Enix confirmed there is no cheap upgrade and no way to bring your old save along.
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Halo Is Coming to PlayStation for the First Time, and That Sentence Still Looks Strange
After nearly 25 years of Xbox exclusivity, Master Chief boards a PlayStation. The remake itself matters less than the precedent it sets.
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Halfway through a year that ends with Grand Theft Auto 6, here are the 2026 games that actually earned their scores from us, ranked by our own verdicts.
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Palworld Hits 1.0: Two Years Later, Pocketpair Ships What Looks Like a Second Game
The survival-craft hit that ate January 2024 is finally out of Early Access, and Pocketpair chose to mark the moment with content instead of a price tag.
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