Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 6 August 2025.
General4 stories
Nintendo will hold an Indie World live stream on Thursday, August 7 at 6am PT / 9pm ET / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
Peak developers would rather you pirate its game than play Roblox "microtransaction-riddled ripoff slop" called Cliff
Genshin Impact PS4 is being discontinued - users are being urged to "move on" to Genshin Impact PS5
Free Games / Subscription2 stories
August’s PlayStation Plus Essential titles are now available; Lies of P, Day Z and My Hero One's Justice 2
Xbox Game Pass titles for August
- Arriving:
- Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) – available now
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Xbox Series S/X) – August 6
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Xbox Series S/X) – August 6
- MechWarrior 5: Clans (Xbox Series S/X) – August 6
- Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap (Xbox Series S/X) – August 6
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Cloud, Console and PC) – August 7
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 12
- 9 Kings (PC) – August 14
- Leaving August 15th:
- Anthem (Console and PC)
- Farming Simulator 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Persona 3 Reload (Cloud, Console, and PC)