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June 2025
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- June 6
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- Deltarune's new chapters defy every rule of RPG logic
- James Bond doesn't need an origin story: IO's game looks great, but why has it turned 007 into a baby-faced Nathan Drake?
- Having spent time testing the Switch 2 mouse controls I no longer think it's a gimmick, but it just cannot compare to a gaming mouse
- Xbox Games Showcase 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect on Sunday's livestream
- How to watch the Summer Game Fest livestream
- June 5
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- This MMO can run Doom: EVE Frontier is so moddable, players are building entire games within its space survival sandbox, and the devs say it's just the beginning
- Guilty as Sock may be the only game where you can sue Master Chief for indecent exposure and then write sensational articles about Mr. Bean committing financial fraud
- 'Our drivers are incredibly fast': I've been testing a prototype gaming headset with ultra-responsive speakers and it's transformed my Gray Zone Warfare sessions
- Dying by sandworm in Dune: Awakening is way, way worse than any other death you might face
- Thief VR is a huge slap in the face and kick in the teeth for everyone who has been waiting for more than a decade to return to the City
- June 4
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- Summer Game Fest 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect at Friday's livestream
- I wasn't expecting a FromSoftware game, of all things, to be so gut-bustingly funny—but just like Helldivers 2, Elden Ring Nightreign turns death into a punchline
- I built a real SteamOS Steam Machine out of the guts of an old laptop so Gabe doesn't have to go through that whole sad dance again
- June 3
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- The Witcher 4 tech demo has me hyped for a big budget open world for the first time in years—but not because of the Unreal graphics
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in June
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater: All the key details on the remake of a PS2 classic
- Death Stranding 2: All the key details on the next game from Hideo Kojima
- Slay the Spire 2: all the key details on the beloved deckbuilder’s sequel
- Elden Ring: Nightreign bucks the extraction trend, but it would have been a better game if it hadn't
- 'In a very interesting way, it actually reduces the work': Destiny 2's director explains why reinventing the wheel with The Edge of Fate was actually the easier option
- The Edge of Fate will be the biggest change to Destiny 2 since it launched—an injection of fresh ideas, but also of ARPG grind
- After almost 18 years, Team Fortress 2 just had its toughest tournament ever, and there could be more to come
- I tried the 'oops, all status effects' Executor loadout in Elden Ring Nightreign that turns his starting katana into a god-killing uber-sword—shockingly, it's pretty good
- June 2
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- Singleplayer Elden Ring Nightreign is no longer hell to play, but it's still a compromised game of 30-minute boss runbacks
- Forget Divinity: Original Sin 3: For its Baldur's Gate 3 follow-up, I implore Larian to revisit its okayest game
- I found a mysterious demo disc with no name hiding a game almost no one in the world has ever seen, and it made me feel like I'd uncovered buried treasure
- The worst part of Elden Ring Nightreign, like all multiplayer games, is that you need to rely on the kindness and intelligence of strangers
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's tremendously messed-up endings aren't what I'd hoped for—and I hope Sandfall keeps it that way
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 2, 2025)
- June 1
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- I didn't even know what roleplaying was until I experienced this bizarre '90s B-game where you slowly turn into a bug
- Elden Ring Nightreign is the first FromSoftware game that I honestly wish I could play on easy
- 'The soundtrack to skate parks was punk rock music': Tony Hawk on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtracks, and how they shaped a generation of videogame skate kids
