While the Western gaming calendar winds down after summer showcases, one of the largest events in the industry is only getting started. ChinaJoy 2026 runs July 31 to August 3 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Pudong, and it remains the single biggest window into the world’s largest gaming market. Now in its … Read more
The Esports World Cup 2026 runs from July 6 to August 23, one of the largest events on the competitive calendar. This year it moved from Riyadh to Paris, held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, after organizers cited regional security concerns. If you want to follow it from anywhere in the world, here is … Read more
Wuthering Waves arrived on Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass on July 10, giving console players a free way into one of the more demanding free-to-play RPGs around. It is a big, fast game with a lot of systems layered on top of each other. This guide covers what actually matters in your first several … Read more
DOOM: The Dark Ages just got its first major expansion, and the question for anyone who finished the base game last year is simple. Is Revelations worth coming back for? The short answer is yes, if you liked the shield-and-melee combat the first time. If you did not, this will not change your mind. Revelations … Read more
Palworld leaves early access on July 10, 2026. The full 1.0 release lands the same day on PC through Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, and it is included with Game Pass. Anyone who already owns the game gets 1.0 as a free update, so there is no second purchase. If you … Read more
Where Winds Meet is one of the more ambitious free games you can download right now, and its arrival on Xbox with a new expansion makes this a fair moment to assess it. It is an open-world wuxia action RPG, meaning it draws on Chinese martial-arts fiction, with swordplay, roaming heroes, and a historical setting. … Read more
EVO, the largest fighting game tournament in the world, wrapped its 2026 Las Vegas edition on June 28. The event ran from June 26 to 28 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and drew 5,774 unique competitors across twelve games. For anyone who follows competitive gaming, the results reshaped a few storylines and confirmed one … Read more
Word and puzzle games have quietly become the biggest habit in mobile gaming New York Times Games alone were played 11.2 billion times in 2025, and that figure does not count the dozens of independent word and puzzle apps competing for the same five minutes of attention. Most of that traffic is repeat behavior: over … Read more
Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, ending 25 years as a Microsoft platform exclusive and placing the franchise on Sony hardware for the first time in its history. The game is a full remake of Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), built by Halo Studios (the rebranded 343 … Read more
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series defined a particular kind of early-2000s gaming — fast, musical, technically rewarding, and broadly accessible. The 2020 remake of Pro Skater 1 + 2, handled by Vicarious Visions, was received well enough that a follow-up felt inevitable. That follow-up arrived in July 2025, developed this time by Iron Galaxy … Read more