Sunday, June 21st 2026
This Week in Gaming (Week 26)
As we've just passed the summer solstice and are heading towards darker times (at least in the northern hemisphere), we should soon be back to the time of the year when there are some bigger game releases. However, this week isn't one of those weeks, but we do at least have one bigger release this week which is the return of a fighting game franchise. The rest of this week's releases includes running an animal hotel, adventuring with a deer, some 6v6 PvP action in a futuristic setting, a spooky walking simulator and a rather bizarre fishing game.
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round / This week's major release / Thursday 25 June
Fan-favorite 3D fighting game Dead or Alive 6 is back with stylish moves, striking animations, and a cast of colorful characters to go head-to-head in the fighting game world's most extreme battles! Place, pose, and take picture-perfect screenshots of your favorite characters in the new Photo Mode. Steam link
Pawsome Resort / Early access / Monday 22 June
Pawsome Resort is a cozy life sim where you run an animal hotel in a charming pixel-art village. Design your resort, care for cute animals, grow crops, craft things, complete quests, and bond with villagers. With farming and RPG elements, it's a perfect cozy escape. Steam link
Deer & Boy / Tuesday 23 June
In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words. Steam link
Empulse / Early Access / Wednesday 24 June
Empulse is an upcoming fast-paced 6v6 movement shooter. Wall-run, grapple, Holojump, pilot mechs, and P.A.I.N.T. your way through Freehold's vertical streets. Outmove your opponent or get outgunned. Steam link
nophenia / Thursday 25 June
Explore atmospheric dreams of vagrant but familiar memories. Steam link
Don't Sleep With The Fishes / Friday 26 June
How much can you collect before the ship goes under? How will you use what you have? Act fast and make constant choices to escape the sea or become its next victim. Steam link
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round / This week's major release / Thursday 25 June
Fan-favorite 3D fighting game Dead or Alive 6 is back with stylish moves, striking animations, and a cast of colorful characters to go head-to-head in the fighting game world's most extreme battles! Place, pose, and take picture-perfect screenshots of your favorite characters in the new Photo Mode. Steam link
Pawsome Resort is a cozy life sim where you run an animal hotel in a charming pixel-art village. Design your resort, care for cute animals, grow crops, craft things, complete quests, and bond with villagers. With farming and RPG elements, it's a perfect cozy escape. Steam link
In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words. Steam link
Empulse is an upcoming fast-paced 6v6 movement shooter. Wall-run, grapple, Holojump, pilot mechs, and P.A.I.N.T. your way through Freehold's vertical streets. Outmove your opponent or get outgunned. Steam link
Explore atmospheric dreams of vagrant but familiar memories. Steam link
How much can you collect before the ship goes under? How will you use what you have? Act fast and make constant choices to escape the sea or become its next victim. Steam link
17 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 26)
Oh, and Empulse is DOA (hurr-hurr). I don’t know how long it would take for developers to realize that high skill-cap movement arena FPS just don’t retain the audience these days. TF2 was kind of an outlier and different in many ways. Everyone says they want to play one and, inevitably, nobody does.
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Download Deer & Boy Demo
Download EMPULSE Demo
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Nothing on GoG this time.
Oh and may i talk about the last game that was advertised as having a link with Titanfall ? It was Highguard :roll:
Of course it wouldnt matter what Empulse makes, they have a horrible reputation and nobody trusts them. Anything good they make will be abandoned within months, if not weeks.
They should honestly just remake DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball, that would get them so much money with DLCs...
Admittedly SAND: Raiders of Sophie got pushed back to this week, but I had already covered that.
There was a Disc Golf game and something called Moldwasher...
That means I can play X4 Foundations to my heart’s content again.
Original Xbox game was legit. Much like Huniepop, it quickly stopped being about titillation and became a "How the hell am I going to trigger a win in 3 moves?!" game.
Given how "gooner" and "goon-bait" games are thriving again thanks to the increase in boring Western games and character designs, if DoA brought back full jiggle physics and clothing damage to their mainline DoA series, revived more of the Ninja spinoffs (like a sexy ninja version of Stellar Blade involving Ayame, Kasumi, and so forth), and allowed an International edition of the DoaX spin-offs (just EN subtitles really), they could easily make some easy money that way, given the slow but steady shift back towards that style of games.