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The Witcher 3 brings Geralt back to Opening Night Live tonight with a first glimpse of Songs of the Past
Eleven years after The Witcher 3 launched, Geralt has another gamescom appointment. Songs of the Past will appear during Opening Night Live on August 25, giving players their first new look at the full expansion before CD Projekt RED begins guided presentations in Cologne the following day.
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Gamescom ONL already has six confirmed stops before the surprises begin
Opening Night Live is still being sold on surprises, but the useful part of the schedule is what no longer requires guessing. Several of the two-hour show's biggest appearances are already public.
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Path of Exile 3.30 is going after the part of its endgame that loot buffs cannot fix
Path of Exile has plenty of loot. The complaint Grinding Gear Games is now addressing is where that loot comes from, how predictable it has become, and how many isolated systems players have to navigate to get it. Patch 3.30 is being built around that problem.
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Phantom Blade Zero lets players dismantle a bad build instead of living with it
Weapon variety is easy to advertise. The harder question is what happens after a player spends hours upgrading one sword and then finds something much more interesting. Phantom Blade Zero finally has an answer.
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December 3 now has a monster RPG and a delayed Dawn of War fighting for the same evening
One delay has turned a fairly quiet December date into a peculiar choice. Players can spend December 3 breeding stronger Dragon Quest creatures or rebuilding a Blood Ravens base while Orks are taking the resource point next door.
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GTA VI is still locked to November 19, with Rockstar's next reveal coming August 27
For a game surrounded by enough noise to fill Vice City, the official schedule is remarkably short. August 27 for the next presentation. November 12 for preload. November 19 for release.
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Satisfactory 1.2.4.0 targets the stutters caused by moving build holograms over busy factories
Factory complexity does not always wait until a machine is actually built. Satisfactory was doing enough work while players moved some holograms across existing structures to cause repeated performance spikes, and patch 1.2.4.0 changes that part of the placement process.
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August 27 puts A Plague Tale and Star Wars on two very different battlefields
August's last Thursday has become an unexpectedly interesting release date. Asobo Studio and Bit Reactor are both launching major games on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on August 27, but the overlap ends there.
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Black Flag Resynced one month later: patch 1.0.6 fixed the rough edges, not the remake debate
A month is a useful amount of time for a remake like this. Launch bugs stop dominating the conversation, patches arrive, and the question becomes less about whether something works and more about whether it should have been changed in the first place.
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Black Flag Resynced sold more than 3 million copies in a week, and New Game+ is next
Black Flag Resynced did not need long to find its audience again. Ubisoft says Edward Kenway's rebuilt Caribbean adventure passed three million copies sold within a week, and the same update quietly confirmed what many of those early buyers will eventually have to come back for: New Game+.
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Kingdom Hearts IV is set for late 2027, and Nomura says a delay is not happening
Tetsuya Nomura did not wait for Kingdom Hearts IV delay speculation to become a year-long talking point. Once Square Enix announced a late 2027 launch window, he addressed the immediate doubts at D23: the plan, he says, is staying in 2027.
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Jigglypuff wins Path of Exile 2's third ExileCon qualifier
Path of Exile 2 has its third ExileCon finalist. Jigglypuff won the August 20 qualifier, joining Jiluo and Giuygiuyg before the series decides its final Auckland ticket next week.
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Path of Exile 2's final ExileCon qualifier will follow the 0.5.5 reveal on August 27
August 27 has two very different kinds of Path of Exile 2 pressure packed into the same evening. GGG has patch information to show first. Ninety minutes later, racers will be chasing the final ExileCon spot on a fixed Runes of Aldur layout.
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Path of Exile 3.29.3 lets your build choose which extra dangers are worth more loot
Curse of the Allflame already asks players to assemble Charts and read a Voyage before diving in. Patch 3.29.3 adds another decision before departure: how much extra trouble is your build specifically equipped to get away with?
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Pokémon GO is giving every Trainer a perfect Mewtwo for its 10th anniversary
Pokémon GO has spent a decade teaching players to chase better catches. Its anniversary Mewtwo removes that chase entirely: finish two very small tasks and the encounter comes with maxed-out stats guaranteed.
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Pokémon GO is letting the game handle part of the catching for you
There is something slightly odd about a game built around checking what has appeared nearby deciding that, sometimes, you do not need to check at all. That is exactly the space Pokémon GO's new Explorer Gadget is moving into.
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Marvel’s Wolverine is not Spider-Man with claws, and its latest previews make that clear
Two hours of hands-on play are enough to expose the difference. Marvel’s Wolverine obviously benefits from the expertise Insomniac developed through Spider-Man, but the studio is not recreating Manhattan around a more violent hero. This is a linear, more aggressive game built around a Logan who constantly turns Rage into an advantage.
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Mortal Shell II launches today, and early reviews largely validate its biggest risks
Mortal Shell II officially launches August 20 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Devout Edition owners have already been playing for three days, but the general release also gives us a much clearer picture of the critical response: Cold Symmetry appears to have successfully turned its compact Soulslike into a far more ambitious sequel without sanding away every rough edge.
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The Palworld card game is already preparing to crown its first world champion
Palworld OFFICIAL CARD GAME launched on July 30 and its competitive calendar is already taking shape. After launch tournaments, Bushiroad is preparing the Challengers Cup followed by a Masters League with one explicit goal: eventually crown the game's first world champion.
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GTA VI is leaking again before August 27, but here is what the footage actually proves
One week before An Extended Look, Rockstar is once again dealing with unauthorized material presented as GTA VI footage. The clips appear sensitive enough to have triggered copyright removals, but Rockstar and Take-Two still have not publicly authenticated their contents.
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Palworld 1.1 will not be another 1.0 as Pocketpair moves to temper expectations
Palworld has only just completed its Early Access journey, but players are already thinking about what comes next. Pocketpair is too, with one important clarification: version 1.1 is not being planned as another gigantic expansion designed to immediately match the scale of 1.0.
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Pokémon Worlds 2026 will give Champions its first real test at the top of VGC
Pokémon Champions has been available for several months and has already hosted major competitions. Worlds 2026 is still the test that matters most: for the first time, the battle-focused title will host the Pokémon VGC World Championship.
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Fortnite Override launches August 20 as Sonic and gaming legends take over the Island
Fortnite is preparing its next major reset. Chapter 7 Season 4: Override is scheduled to begin on August 20, 2026 after Runners ends, with a season built around characters spanning several generations of video game history.
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WoW Midnight Season 2 resets the entire progression race
One week after Curse of Ula'tek arrived, World of Warcraft: Midnight is shifting into its next gear. Season 2 is now live, bringing that familiar moment when gear, dungeons, raiding and competitive progression all begin revolving around a new set of goals.
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Spider-Man 2 dresses Peter Parker for Brand New Day and Marvel Tōkon
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is still expanding Peter Parker's wardrobe. The PC version now includes one suit inspired by Spider-Man: Brand New Day and another based on MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, with the Fresh Start appearance already receiving its first post-launch improvements.
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Helldivers 2 opens the Void and disrupts its mission routine
The Gateway is now open in Helldivers 2. With the Illuminate Void, Arrowhead is doing more than introducing new enemies and environments: the studio is also changing how operations are constructed so squads cannot rely quite as heavily on familiar routines.
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The Wolverine PS5 Does More Than Slap a Logo on a Console
Pre-orders for PlayStation's Marvel’s Wolverine collection open August 19 at 10 a.m. local time in France. The range includes a €649.99 Battle Yellow PS5 Digital Edition bundle, two €84.99 DualSense controllers and several €74.99 PS5 and PS5 Pro console covers. Everything is due September 15 alongside Insomniac's game. The more interesting part is the design itself: this limited edition actually tries to translate Wolverine's visual identity onto the hardware.
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Editorial Send E2E proof v4 — real image downloaded and localized
This demo article confirms the complete image pipeline works end to end.