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This Week in Gaming
🛡️ Halo: Campaign Evolved Launches July 28 — Early Access Starts July 23
Halo Studios confirmed the full campaign remake is locked for July 28, with early access opening five days sooner on July 23 for anyone who pre-orders. The remaster ships with three previously unplayable missions — Operation: METEORITE — following Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson on a covert UNSC operation behind enemy lines. It's available day one on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and pre-orders are already live across Xbox, Steam, and PlayStation. For anyone who grew up on the original trilogy, this is shaping up to be the definitive way to replay it.
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💿 PlayStation Is Killing Physical Discs Starting January 2028
Sony dropped a big one this week: starting January 2028, all new PlayStation games will be sold digital-only — through the PlayStation Store or as download-code retail purchases — no more discs. It doesn't touch anything releasing before that date, so your 2026 and 2027 collection is safe, but it's a clear signal the eventual PS6 won't read discs at all. Sony's framing it as chasing "consumer preference," and the numbers back it up: 78% of full-game PS sales last year were already digital. The announcement landed the same day Sony confirmed the PS3 and PS Vita digital stores are shutting down too, so preservation folks are not thrilled. Love it or hate it, the disc era on PlayStation now has an expiration date.
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🔥 DOOM: The Dark Ages Drops Its Revelations Expansion July 7
id Software's first major DLC for The Dark Ages arrives July 7, and it's a meaty one — a new campaign built around the Chain Spear, a grapple-hook weapon players can weave together with the returning Shield Saw. Wounded and betrayed, the Slayer gets dropped into a "merciless purgatory," fighting his way back past returning classic enemies like the Archvile and Pain Elemental, plus a handful of new ones. Roughly 40% of the DLC is endgame content — Slayer Trials, puzzles, and even playable classic DOOM levels — and it ships alongside a free Ripatorium 3.0 update for everyone, DLC or not. Premium Edition owners get Revelations at no extra cost; everyone else can grab it standalone for $19.99.
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🦑 Splatoon Raiders Arrives July 23 — Splatoon's First-Ever Spin-Off
Splatoon is trying something it's never done before: a single-player-focused campaign. Splatoon Raiders drops you onto the mysterious Spirhalite Islands as a mechanic, teaming up with Deep Cut (Shiver, Frye, and Big Man, all from Splatoon 3) to raid for loot, upgrade your gear and your ship, and take down waves of Salmonid enemies with ink weapons and craftable gadgets. It's not strictly solo either — up to four players can join in online or via local wireless, with difficulty scaling automatically based on your squad size. At $49.99 digital / $59.99 physical, it's priced lower than most first-party Switch 2 releases, and it lands exclusively on Switch 2 on July 23.
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