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• All Phasmophobia Cursed Object Locations and How To Use Them

  01-07-2026 10:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Phasmophobia’s cursed objects, also known as cursed items or (officially) cursed possessions, are items with unique supernatural abilities that can assist your investigation. There are seven cursed objects available in the game that can only be used inside the investigation area, with their perks ranging from resurrecting fallen players to helping you eliminate evidence. However, which of these supernatural items spawns, and the number of them that spawn, changes from contract to contract
  
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• Why Sony Is Killing Disc-Based PlayStation Games And The Implications For PS6 And Beyond

  01-07-2026 14:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony's announcement that it will stop releasing games on discs beginning in 2028 will have implications for the PlayStation 6, according to one industry expert.
  Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis said the decision to stop having PlayStation's first-party games, along with titles from third-parties, printed on discs, "pretty much guarantees that PS6 won't arrive until 2028 at the soonest."He said this in an interview with Game File, in which he also predicted that "the base version of a PS6 w
  
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• Sony Is Killing Disc-Based PlayStation Games And That Means PS6 Likely Won’t Have A Disc Drive

  01-07-2026 14:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony's announcement that it will stop releasing games on discs beginning in 2028 will have implications for the PlayStation 6, according to one industry expert.
  Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis said the decision to stop having PlayStation's first-party games, along with titles from third-parties, printed on discs, "pretty much guarantees that PS6 won't arrive until 2028 at the soonest."He said this in an interview with Game File, in which he also predicted that "the base version of a PS6 w
  
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• Apple Arcade Adds These New Games In July

  01-07-2026 14:42 via gamespot.com
  
  The Apple Arcade library is getting a fresh update on July 2, with six new games being added to the subscription service. The new arrivals range from dungeon-crawling fun to a single-player fishing adventure, a quirky twist on the city-building genre, and a game that challenges you to unleash your inner artist.If you're unfamiliar with it, Apple Arcade is a video game subscription service by Apple for its line of iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro devices. Priced at $7 per month--
  
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• Sony Confirms PlayStation Disc Production Will End In 2028

  01-07-2026 14:13 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony has officially confirmed that it will be ending the production of physical discs for PlayStation consoles, starting January 2028. In a new blog update, the company says that it made the decision based on how physical game disc sales have begun to decline, and going forward, all new games will be available through the PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.This story is developing.
  
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• Nintendo’s Wackiest New Game Feels Like The Devs Getting Away With Something

  01-07-2026 14:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Somewhere in the back of my mind, I must have known that Rhythm Heaven was a close cousin to WarioWare, but it never stood out to me as strongly as it did while playing Rhythm Heaven Groove. The sheer unapologetic weirdness of it intertwined with the strict timing-based minigames made this feel like WarioWare, but as a rhythm game. And I feel like a fool for just now discovering that these are two great tastes that go great together.The influences from WarioWare will be obvious to anyone who has
  
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• All Phasmophobia Monkey Paw Wishes and Effects

  01-07-2026 10:15 via gamespot.com
  
  The Monkey Paw in Phasmophobia is one of the game’s most powerful and risky-to-use cursed objects. While all the cursed possessions in Phasmophobia have some sort of negative effects, the benefits often outweigh the negatives, and some will only drain your sanity level as long as they’re used cautiously and correctly. However, using the Monkey Paw to make a wish can be very helpful to your investigation--offering the ability to change the weather, increase your sanity level, trap the
  
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• Popular Steam Wallpaper Program Removes App Over Malware Concerns

  01-07-2026 03:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Wallpaper Engine has been a popular wallpaper tool on Steam for the better part of a decade since its release. However, the tool's application wallpaper was apparently hijacked by bad actors months ago who used it to infect users' machines with malware as the desktop wallpaper program ran in the background. Now, Wallpaper Engine's application is going to be permanently removed from the program over those malware concerns.In a statement on Steam, the program's developers stated that users have a
  
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• Love And Deepspace Cancels Its New Love Interest After Fan Backlash

  01-07-2026 00:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Shortly after developer Papergames announced the addition of Valko--a new love interest in the mobile action dating sim Love and Deepspace--the backlash from fans has spilled into the real world. Now, Papergames is reversing course by canceling Valko's debut and pledging to focus on the five other love interests who are already in the game."We recognize that we moved forward with the introduction of Valko before we were truly ready," reads the statement posted to Love and Deepspace's Instagram a
  
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• Pokemon Go July 2026 Events: Raids, Spotlight Hours, Go Fest, And More

  30-06-2026 23:47 via gamespot.com
  
  July is officially upon us, and it's shaping up to be a particularly big month for Pokemon Go. The mobile game is commemorating its tenth anniversary this month with a variety of events, including a Pikachu celebration and a new Timed Research questline for Professor Willow's birthday.July also marks the second month of the game's Forever Forward season, with new Raid bosses and Spotlight Pokemon lined up over the next few weeks. Most significantly, the game is also holding its global Go Fest ev
  
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• Unlock The Potential Of Your Steam Deck/Machine With Decky Loader

  30-06-2026 22:46 via gamespot.com
  
  What makes SteamOS so great is the fact that it is a console-like experience for a PC, which means you can turn it on and everything is instantly available to you from the comfort of your couch. However, it's still a PC, which means for those of you interested in going further, you can customize it with pretty much anything you can imagine that runs on Linux, which unlocks the potential of it far more than any other console will allow.Because the Steam Deck has been out for several years now, pe
  
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• Fortnite’s Player Count Is Way Up In Chapter 7 Season 3, And Here’s Why

  30-06-2026 22:38 via gamespot.com
  
  After a slow start to Chapter 7 in December, Fortnite has had a significant bump in its player count since the start of Season 3 in early June. The average number of concurrent players in Battle Royale nearly doubled month over month, going from 228,000 in May to over 433,000 in June, according to public data that was collected and aggregated by fortnite.gg. It appears as though Battle Royale's new brainrot-inspired sprite-collection gameplay is working about as well as Epic could have hoped, be
  
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• Minecraft, Call Of Duty Community Servers Are “Illegal,” Claims ESA Rep

  30-06-2026 22:26 via gamespot.com
  
  The Protect Our Games Act--a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement--has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this legislative battle was a comment made by an Entertainment Software Association lobbyist who claimed that Minecraft and Call of Duty private community servers are "illegal."Jennifer Gibbons, the ESA's vice president of state government affairs, told lawmakers that community servers for Minecraft a
  
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• GTA 6 Fans Are Convinced The Game Has A Bodybuilding System, And Here’s Why

  30-06-2026 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  As the wait for GTA 6's next trailer continues, fans are poring over all the little details from the new batch of screenshots that recently went live. One piece of information that fans are now obsessing about is what they believe will be a system in the game that lets you get swoll.As relayed by GamesRadar, fans are convinced that a newly released image that shows main character Jason being less jacked than he was in a previous image is evidence that the game will have some kind of fitness/body
  
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• Hideo Kojima’s OD Is Reportedly Safe From Upcoming Xbox Cuts

  30-06-2026 21:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Hideo Kojima's Xbox console-exclusive horror game, OD, is reportedly safe amidst reports and rumors of studio closures, layoffs, and game cancellations at Xbox loom.According to a report from IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has stated OD remains in development at Kojima Productions and will still be published by Xbox.Not much is known about OD, but it was announced during an Xbox showcase in June 2022, with only a few brief glimpses since. It is set to star three actors-- Soph
  
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• Xbox Focusing On “Highest Priorities,” Claims It’s Not Cutting Back Overall Spending On Games

  30-06-2026 20:48 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft has confirmed that it pulled out of funding Hitman developer IO Interactive's new fantasy game, and it's because the company is re-focusing its spending on the "highest priorities" for the business.
  Speaking to Bloomberg, a Microsoft spokesperson said Xbox is "taking a fresh look at where we invest so we're focusing on our highest priorities."Major changes are afoot at Xbox.The statement went on to claim that Microsoft is "not reducing our overall investment in games," adding that the
  
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• Hitman, 007 First Light Studio Begins Layoffs As Its Fantasy RPG Project Suffers Setbacks

  30-06-2026 19:59 via gamespot.com
  
  Hitman and 007 First Light developer IO Interactive is the latest in a growing list of studios suffering layoffs, this time, this time in relation to a franchise that it hasn't even launched yet.Project Fantasy, IO Interactive's first attempt at crafting a fantasy RPG, is still in development, but the end of a recent external partner relationship has forced the studio to make some cuts to its team. In a statement, IO says that these are short-term consequences, and that the proposed layoffs are
  
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• Helldivers 2 Gets Closer To Modern Politics With Campaign To Build A Wall

  30-06-2026 19:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Helldivers 2's latest campaign calls for Super Earth's finest to aid in the construction of a "Celestial Fence" to keep out the ongoing Terminid menace.It's up to the Helldivers community to help deploy what Super Earth Command has billed as a "flawless, updated, and entirely safe Terminid Control System wall" that will "permanently quarantine" the "fascist" Terminids. The Helldivers are tasked with defending construction sites, gathering necessary resources for the campaign, and holding th
  
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• Microsoft Could Cancel Marvel’s Blade And Close Its Developer

  30-06-2026 19:32 via gamespot.com
  
  A new report claims that Microsoft is considering cancelling the upcoming Marvel's Blade game and closing its developer.
  According to The Verge, Microsoft is considering closing at least five studios, one of which is Arkane, the developer of the upcoming Blade game. The report said Blade was originally set to launch in 2026, but was delayed to late 2027 and is over budget.
  Earlier in June, a report said Marvel's Blade was not canceled, despite it being a no-show at the Xbox Games Showcase. The g
  
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• I Thought Matching Colors Would Be Relaxing, But I Was Wrong

  30-06-2026 19:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Think fast!You might think that you've got the memory of a vengeful elephant, but according to science, your ability to recall colors isn't so hot. Research has claimed that humans are terrible at remembering certain shades of color, and that's where this new timesink of a game is aiming to improve things. The goal is simple: Look at the Pantone swatch shown on your screen, try to match it as closely as possible, and see how well you do over a run. It's a concept that can easily g
  
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• The RAM Crisis Is One Big Price-Fixing Monopoly, New Lawsuit Claims

  30-06-2026 18:46 via gamespot.com
  A class-action lawsuit has accused the three biggest memory manufacturers of colluding to fix pricing in the midst of an unprecedented increase of consumer RAM and storage pricing.Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix has been targeted in the lawsuit, filed on June 25 at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit claims that the three manufacturer form a monopoly and accuses them of undertaking "concerted anticompetitive behavior." It goes on to detail how all
  
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• Splatoon Raiders Takes A Page From Monster Hunter To Boost Your Co-Op Chances

  30-06-2026 17:29 via gamespot.com
  
  The Splatoon Raiders Direct outlined the structure of the upcoming single-player-focused title, and it looks packed with challenging encounters against hordes of Salmonids. If any raids get a little too punishing, an online feature will lend solo players support in a way that recalls modern Monster Hunter games.As detailed in Nintendo's video presentation, you can send out a call for help before beginning a raid--other players can select a "Go Help" option on the map to be matched with another p
  
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• Amid Xbox “Reset,” Microsoft Is Having Its Worst Month In 26 Years

  30-06-2026 17:27 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft's stock price is currently down bad, but just how much have shares slid lately? A lot. So much so that June 2026 is expected to be Microsoft's worst month since December 2000 based on percent decline in a single month. The stock is down about 20% in June, which would be the worst since the 24% decline in December 2000.This is happening at the same time that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is implementing a "reset" of the Xbox business that may include mass layoffs and studio closures.A year ago,
  
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• GTA 6 Preorders Include Auto-Renewing Membership To Something You Might Not Actually Want

  30-06-2026 16:45 via gamespot.com
  
  GTA 6 preorders are now available, and anyone placing an order might have noticed that they also get a free month of GTA+ with their purchase.The fine print states that this membership auto-renews, so if it's not something you want to keep, you should be sure to cancel it prior to the end of the first month. Otherwise, you'd be on the hook for paying $8 for another month.It's not immediately clear, however, when the clock begins ticking on the first month. These details should become more clear
  
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• Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced PS5 Upgrades Include Dedicated Hair-Rendering Tech

  30-06-2026 16:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced sets sail for PC and consoles in July, and so far, it's looking visually impressive. How well will a trip to the Caribbean during the golden age of piracy look on PS5? Pretty well if you're planning to play it on the $900 PS5 Pro, while the base PS5 version also looks like it'll offer a solid selection of graphical modes to choose from.Both PS5 consoles will allow users to play the game in Performance (60fps), Fidelity (30fps), and Balanced modes (40fps)&nbs
  
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• Splatoon Raiders Is A Bold Rethink Of What Makes A Splatoon Game

  30-06-2026 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Splatoon has always featured single-player campaigns, but they've never been the focus. Often they're glorified tutorials, and even when they venture into more clever puzzle-platformer territory, it's been a relatively short side dish to the competitive-multiplayer main course. Splatoon Raiders looks to address this by putting the single-player focus front and center. Multiplayer is here, but it's deemphasized and co-op only. In some ways, that makes Raiders the mirror image of most Splatoon gam
  
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• Exclusive: New Track From Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy’s Authentic Greek-Cypriot Score

  30-06-2026 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Ahead of the game's release on August 27, GameSpot can exclusively premiere the track "Patera" from Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, by Olivier Deriviere.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOz444jbArY
  You might recognize Deriviere thanks to his past musical work on games such as Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, Streets of Rage 4, South of Midnight, Dying Light 2, and more. Now, he's turned his hand to the Plague Tale series. The Greek-Cypriot score follows Sophia's journey to the Minotaur Island in s
  
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• Resident Evil Director’s Dream Ending For Leon Kennedy Sounds A Lot Like Stardew Valley

  30-06-2026 15:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Resident Evil Requiem saw its co-protagonist Leon S. Kennedy deal with yet another zombie outbreak, but will he ever get a happy ending? Resident Evil 2 game director Hideki Kamiya certainly hopes so, and he has an idea for a retirement game that would be radically different from the survival-action adventures that starred Kennedy.Kamiya--who directed the first Resident Evil game to star Kennedy and recently mused about a non-scary game mode in Requiem--elaborated on his idea after one of his fo
  
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• After Plotting Buyouts Of EA And Activision, This Media Giant Could Again Try To Push Into Gaming

  30-06-2026 15:44 via gamespot.com
  
  NBC Universal and Comcast are splitting into two companies, and when that happens, NBC Universal could go after gaming assets as it looks to grow. This is according to a report from Reuters, which clarified that nothing is locked down as of yet, and any potential transaction would not happen until Comcast and NBC Universal officially split in about a year.
  In any event, the report reminded everyone that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has been interested in gaming for a long time, previously pondering
  
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• A Developer Said No To Baldur’s Gate 4 Because Following BG3 Would Be “Insanity”

  30-06-2026 15:04 via gamespot.com
  
  Following the enormous critical and commercial success of Larian's Baldur's Gate 3, the studio passed on making Baldur's Gate 4 to produce a new Divinity instead. A fourth Baldur's Gate game is as close to a sure thing as possible, but who will make it? That remains to be seen, but Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast pitched one of its studios, Archetype Entertainment--and they said no as well.Archetype is headed by James Ohlen and Kevin Martens, both of whom were co-lead designers on Baldur's Gate
  
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