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Ben Reber's low-stakes fish-collecting idle game leaves Steam-only waters for a full mobile launch, published by Snapbreak, with real-time fish-raising and rare colour variants to hunt.
House House, the studio behind Untitled Goose Game, launches its cooperative online 'walker-talker' Big Walk today on PS5, Switch 2, and PC - and it's free on PS Plus from day one.
Konami's Master Collection Vol. 2 lands August 27 with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots playable off the PS3 for the first time, plus Peace Walker and Ghost Babel.
KLab's officially licensed collection RPG JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Spirit launches worldwide (excluding Japan) on August 13 for iOS and Android, with characters from Parts 1-6.
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition hits Switch 2 on August 28 for $79.99, bundling the base game, Shadow of the Erdtree, two new starting classes, and Torrent customization.
Game Freak's biggest non-Pokemon project, Beast of Reincarnation, launches August 4 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S - day one on Game Pass. It's a "one-person, one-dog" action RPG starring the warrior Emma and her beast companion Koo, blending real-time combat with command-based partner abilities in a gorgeous, ruined world.
Star Wars Zero Company, an XCOM-style turn-based tactics game from ex-Firaxis developers at Bit Reactor, launches August 27 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Set in the twilight of the Clone Wars, it puts you in command of an elite mixed squad of clones, Jedi and mercenaries, with a bond system that rewards keeping a core team together.
Asobo Studio's Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a new prequel to A Plague Tale, launching August 27 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It stars Sophia from Requiem on the mythic Minotaur's Island, swapping the series' grim European towns for sun-bleached ruins, ancient labyrinths and a curse tied to a mythical creature.
Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, the cursed-hat Metroidvania-roguelite from Pocketpair Publishing and Frontside 180, is coming to Android, with pre-registration now open on Google Play. No firm mobile release date has been given yet, but the console-quality action-platformer - built around possessing enemies and four-player co-op - is one to watch on phones.
Zero Racers, an F-Zero spin-off Nintendo showed at E3 1996, and D-Hopper, an Intelligent Systems platformer that had an ESRB rating and a $34.95 price tag, were both finished and then shelved when the Virtual Boy collapsed. On August 4, 2026, they'll finally be playable for the first time ever through Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics.
ZeniMax Online Studios is delaying three major Elder Scrolls Online features - the long-requested Warden class overhaul, the Crimson Veldt Trial, and Update 52 - into 2027, after Xbox's restructuring laid off 213 ZeniMax Online staff, including the game's former director and studio head. New game director Nick Giacomini says Update 51 still ships September 28 and insists 'ESO is here to stay.'
Electronic Arts says every regulatory approval needed for its $55 billion buyout by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has now been obtained, with the deal expected to close on August 4 - making it the largest leveraged buyout in history and taking EA private for the first time since 1990.