July is traditionally a slow month for new, major video game releases, but it’s not a complete desert. It’s just very genre-heavy. Spread across the midsummer month, players should find something to pique their interest, if they’re not still sunk deep into May and June’s mammoth launches.
The highlights include Capcom’s return to dino shooters, Exoprimal; Nintendo’s mirthful RTS Pikmin 4; Double Dragon taking another swing at the nostalgia side-scrolling beat-em ups have enjoyed lately; and a management simulation riding its sport’s cresting popularity.
Here’s all the good stuff on the way for Nintendo, PlayStation, PC, and Xbox next month.
(PlayStation VR 2)
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Playstation 5, Windows PC)
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Playstation 5, Windows PC)
(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Playstation 5, Windows PC)
(Nintendo Switch)
Manic Mechanics, just announced at the June 2023 Nintendo Direct, is a co-op party game where players are frantically retrieving parts and fixing cars. Think Overcooked! but with more grease. Or less. Or the same?
(PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X)
Though Exoprimal definitely channels Dino Crisis, a Capcom series not seen in 20 years, this game is an all-new approach. Its main mode of play is Dino Survival, which is a PvEvP slugfest where two teams of five players try to complete objectives — or stop the other team — while both battle dinos like the Neo Tyrannosaur.
(Windows PC)
(Nintendo Switch)
Fans of Nintendo’s 22-year-old puzzle-solving real-time-strategy series should feel right at home, according to Polygon’s preview. There are new types of Pikmin to to help you in battles, like the Ice Pikmin who freeze enemies, or Glow Pikmin who light up the new
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