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In-depth articles, game recommendations, buying guides, and opinions from the XD.deals team. Find your next favorite game or learn how to get the best deal.
Fifteen hours is about all it takes to hit the bottom of Subnautica 2 as it stands, and plenty of us got there weeks ago. It launched into early access on May 14, 2026, and July's update went mostly i...
I finished 007 First Light in one long weekend and then sat there scrolling my library like an idiot, because nothing else in it scratches the same itch. IO Interactive's Bond landed on May 27, 2026, ...
I put about ninety hours into Assassin's Creed Shadows and I still can't tell you whether Naoe or Yasuke was the better half of it. That split is the whole trick. One turns Sengoku Japan into a stealt...
For the first time ever, a Little Nightmares game wasn't made by the people who invented Little Nightmares. Supermassive Games, best known for Until Dawn, took the keys for Little Nightmares III on Oc...
Requiem is finished and you're sitting there missing a very specific thing: a snowy village, four houses full of monsters, and a merchant who charges you rent for a shotgun. That's the Resident Evil V...
You've got the ARC Raiders itch and nothing else is scratching it. We know the feeling. Creeping through a dead map, hearing a Rocketeer howl above you, then getting talked out of a firefight by a str...
You finished Baldur's Gate 3, Patch 8 closed the door on new content for good, and Larian is already busy with something else. Which leaves the obvious question: what now? Straight answer first. Noth...
The PS Plus Extra catalog is looking meaner than ever this year. Spider-Man 2 landed in February, Red Dead Redemption 2 in May, Final Fantasy XVI in June. We've been on this subscription for years now...
You don't need to spend a cent to build a solid Steam library. Between permanent free-to-play games, limited-time giveaways, free weekends and thousands of demos, there's more free gaming on Valve's p...
Steam gift cards look simple: buy one, type in the code, get games. And most of the time that's exactly how it goes. But between currency locks, the slow death of physical cards and a scam industry th...
The Steam Summer Sale wraps up today, so this is your last window to grab something great before the timers hit zero. We are not going to bury you in percentages. These are simply the games we would p...
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced drops on July 9, and suddenly everyone remembers that Edward Kenway game was the best thing Ubisoft made in a decade. If the remake has you craving salt spray and ...
Palworld hits 1.0 on July 10, and if you have already tamed every Pal, automated every factory, and armed your fluffy friends to the teeth, you might be wondering what to play next. Good news. The sur...
So EVO 2026 is done. The confetti's swept up, the crowd lost its voice somewhere around that Grand Final, and now you're sitting here with the itch. Yeah, we know the feeling. Watching someone claw a ...
Each game genre has a defining example that sets the standard for others. For action sandbox titles, GTA has held that position for two decades. With more than ten years elapsed since the fifth entry ...
The Sims has offered players the chance to create virtual lives for over two decades. Its first version, released in February 2000, achieved sales of 16 million units, while the full series has exceed...
Pokemon has not received an official release on PC, and that appears unlikely to happen. Nintendo adheres firmly to this policy, similar to how some stick to upgrading their Switch console every four ...
Many players avoid survival games due to the frustration of constant deaths, yet this genre highlights the critical nature of every decision and sparks narratives that people share for months afterwar...
Mobile multiplayer in 2026 is no joke. Five years ago I associated it mostly with primitive trivia apps. Today you have survival games, fighters and sandboxes that can swallow hundreds of hours betwee...
You spent four figures on an RTX 5090, told yourself "now I can finally turn everything to Ultra and forget about it," and then loaded Cyberpunk 2077 with path tracing in 4K. Welcome to 2026. The most...