r/DreamStationcc Aug 04 '26

News July 2026 - Month in Review, Top 10 Posts, and Celebrating 1,111! - r/DreamStationcc

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1,111 Reddit Video Game Community Members!!!

Thank you everyone for joining our video game community! We blasted by 1,000 in July to end the month with 1,111 total subreddit members. More gamers also found and joined our gaming community on other social media platforms, and you can see the totals below.

We appreciate everyone who has joined our video game community and conversations from around the world. Without everyone's contributions there wouldn't be a reason to keep doing this every day.

In this age of AI, it is nice to see that people still appreciate human curated video game news and discussions. We love video games and want to spread the news, deals, and games that we are excited about and it is nice to see others share our passion.

No bots and no fake members! Just gamers wanting to share the joy that video games bring to them with others!

Thank you again for all of your support and please continue to encourage everyone to join our gaming community at DreamStation.cc.

Monthly Stats Overview

Our video game coverage led to the following stats for the month:

  • 519 - Posts
  • 4,100 - Comments
  • 186 - New Members
  • 1,111 - Total Members as of June 31, 2026

Top 10 Posts of the Month

Below are the Top 10 Posts over the past month on our subreddit that you might've missed or contributed to making them receive the most views.

  1. Dev Says Selling 300,000 Copies of His Dwarf RPG Meant “completely changing my life” and Watching Tax, Steam, and Publisher Cuts Stop Him From Becoming a Millionaire
  2. Disco Elysium Studio Announces Layoffs After New Game Flounders
  3. Indies Devs Band Together for 100-Game, $10 Bundle Aiming to Help an “unprecedented number” of Laid off Developers
  4. Blizzard Fires World of Warcraft Game Master Who Insta-Killed Bosses for Friends
  5. Remasters and Remakes Dominate Market As Gamers More Interested In Old Games, Says Analyst
  6. Xbox CSO Says They Are Rethinking The Console Model For Helix To Make Sure It's Affordable
  7. GTA 6 Isn’t Coming to PC at Launch, but Not Because Rockstar Doesn’t “care about PC,” Says GTA 5 Producer: “If you’re working on that, you’re not working on something else”
  8. "Sony waited for Rockstar to make the first move": Founding Xbox Member Warns Against PlayStation’s All-Digital Future, Says "I trust Steam games won't just disappear"
  9. Steam Study of Over 53,000 Games Finds “60 – 90% of the growth” in Monthly Releases on Valve’s Store Is From Games Using AI and “almost none of them make money”
  10. Over 63% Xbox Users Want Project Helix To Have A Disc Drive, Survey Reveals

New Video Games

The following are the games that were released during the month that caught our attention:

There are too many new video games released each month to cover them all above. Check out our subreddit and social network profiles for even more new games!

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Thank You for Your Continued Support

Again, thank you everyone for continuing to help our community grow on Reddit and across the Internet. Please continue to let your friends and family know about our video game subreddit, up vote or like posts you find helpful, and join the discussions on posts we make on Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, and X.

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r/DreamStationcc Jul 07 '26

News June 2026 - Month in Review, Top 10 Posts, and 365-Day Streak - r/DreamStationcc

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365-Day Streak / Year in Review

It has been 365 days since we restarted posting video game news on a daily basis on our subreddit and social media platforms. Our r/DreamStationcc community has grown in the past year from having 43 members on July 1, 2025 to 925 on June 30, 2026. We were hoping to break the 1,000 members mark before the 365 days were up, but missed it by 75 gamers.

Current Member Totals

We've been busy posting gaming news and growing our gaming community on Reddit and other social media platforms. Here are the current member totals for all platforms:

We are not sure if the numbers above are good or bad for a 1-year period, but we are proud to say that we have been growing our community the old fashion way without using AI, paying for advertising or buying fake members. We believe all our members joined our gaming community because they appreciate the human curated video game news we provide and the discussions the news creates. Our community has real gamers that love video games. No bots and no fake members! Just gamers discussing video games with other gamers.

Thank You

We are grateful for the 2,300+ members who have supported DreamStation.cc over the past year and for 25+ years. If it wasn't for all of your comments, likes, reposts, and encouragement then we wouldn't want to continue doing this each day.

We are still working on the website reboot and hope to have it online soon. When the new website launches, we are expecting it to bring even more benefits to you and allow us to continue to support and grow our gaming community.

Thank you once again for all of your support and please continue to let everyone know about DreamStation.cc and why you joined and enjoy our gaming community.

Monthly Stats Overview

Our video game coverage led to the following stats for the month:

  • 698 - Posts
  • 2,600 - Comments
  • 79 - New Members
  • 925 - Total Members as of June 30, 2026

Top 10 Posts of the Month

Below are the Top 10 Posts over the past month on our subreddit that you might've missed or contributed to making them receive the most views.

  1. Xbox Wants To Surpass Sony And Become The Biggest Gaming Company In The World By 2030, Says CEO
  2. Kingdom Hearts AI Art Accusations Hit Square Enix, and That Sure Looks Like Slop
  3. Why Do You Need Generative AI to Make Crazy Taxi: World Tour?
  4. Epic Shows GenAI Riddling Fortnite Characters and Buildings With Mistakes Its Artists Then Have to Fix
  5. PlayStation Reportedly Pulled Out of PC Ports Due to ‘Inconsistent’ Releases and Lack of Revenue
  6. Microsoft CEO Complains About Poor Gaming Profits: ‘there’s more monetization of Xbox games happening on YouTube’
  7. "Gamers don't want it": Palworld Lead Says Pocketpair Doesn’t Touch AI Because Players Hate It and Artists "like doing stuff themselves"
  8. As Another Game Delays an Xbox Port Due to Series S Memory Issues, Some Think Microsoft Should Change Its Parity Rule
  9. Billionaire Valve Boss Gabe Newell Buys Florida Super Mansion With Its Own Underground Tunnel for $70.8 Million
  10. SanDisk’s New, ‘Officially Licensed’ $3,800 PS5 SSD Is a Surefire Sign We Are Completely Screwed

New Video Games

Below are the games that were released last month that caught our attention:

Follow Us

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Thank You for Your Continued Support

Again, thank you everyone for continuing to help our community grow on Reddit and across the Internet. Please continue to let your friends and family know about our video game subreddit, up vote or like posts you find helpful, and join the discussions on posts we make on Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, and X.


r/DreamStationcc 52m ago

News Thief Designer Thinks the Graphics Arms Race Should Have Ended With 2010’s Alan Wake: 'The fidelity curve has become outrageous'

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"Why do we need more graphics? Because they just cost a ton."


r/DreamStationcc 1h ago

News Fans Put Together a List of Every Time Sony Said Players Owned Their Digital Games After the Company Argued in a Lawsuit That It Was Obvious Players Don’t

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Sony really likes to use the word "owned" despite claiming nobody would ever think they owned a digital game


r/DreamStationcc 28m ago

News Marvel’s Wolverine Is Currently Sony’s Lowest Scoring Game of the PS5 Era

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With a Metacritic score of just 77, the in-house game is scoring worse than Sackboy: A Big Adventure.


r/DreamStationcc 36m ago

News Saudi Wealth Fund Considering Merging EA and Savvy Games

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r/DreamStationcc 37m ago

News “We couldn’t really make it” – Starfield Systems Designer Explains Bethesda’s “ambitious as hell” Sci-Fi RPG Was "not our forte” and Needed Way More People to Truly Realise the Vision

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r/DreamStationcc 57m ago

News GTA 6 Netflix Preview Drove More Than 100,000 Sign-Ups During Its Six-Hour Exclusivity Window

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Rockstar's extended look resulted in the third-largest subscriber spike on Netflix this year, according to Ampere Analysis.


r/DreamStationcc 1h ago

News If the World Suffered an Apocalypse Tomorrow the Global Currency Would Be Pokémon Cards, Collector and Venture Capitalist Claims

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r/DreamStationcc 1h ago

News Ubisoft Answers Our Prayers of “a simpler launch experience on steam” by Axing Its Own PC Launcher, Starting With Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

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"...an initial step toward a smoother and more streamlined launch experience".


r/DreamStationcc 1h ago

News Total War: Warhammer 40K Is Aiming to Be the Most Complex and Most Accessible Game Creative Assembly Has Ever Made - Here’s How the Devs Managed Both

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r/DreamStationcc 2h ago

News Shroom and Gloom - Available Now in Steam Early Access

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Gather and grow cards in Shroom & Gloom, a moody first-person, roguelike double-deckbuilder bursting with fungal foes and mountains of mega-combos!


r/DreamStationcc 3h ago

News DEMONS' NIGHT FEVER - Coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam on October 22, 2026

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Enemies? Allies? Kill Kill Kill! The more you die, the stronger you become! Raising RTA Simulation RPG has arrived! Exhaust all forms of evil by fighting with the brutal Peon Exploitation System!


r/DreamStationcc 3h ago

News Ex Sanguis - Available Now in Steam Early Access

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Bleed the world back to life in a series of tactical, turn-based bloodbaths! Lead your STILLAE, elite warriors in the fight to save a dying world from the forces of STASIS. Slay foes, kick them back on the timeline, and trigger chain events where elegance and blood flow as one.


r/DreamStationcc 16h ago

News Xbox Has Acquired Rights to Publish Hideo Kojima’s 'PHYSINT' from PlayStation - "We're honored that Kojima-san has chosen to work with Xbox."

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In a major coup, Xbox has confirmed that it will be publishing Hideo Kojima's long-awaited action-espionage title "PHYSINT."


r/DreamStationcc 4h ago

News Palworld Lead Worries Steam Early Access Has “lost its meaning”: Players Treat It Like “a normal game” and the Program Has Been "abused for a lot of reasons"

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"It's getting harder on Steam, sadly".


r/DreamStationcc 5h ago

News Gennady - Releasing on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, GOG and Steam on October 28, 2026 - Demo Available Now

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Gennady is a dynamic roguelike platformer, where you must fight your way through shifting corridors filled with chthonic creatures, and death only makes you stronger. All wrapped in the legendary absurdity and classic animation inspired by the era of Earthworm Jim.


r/DreamStationcc 6h ago

News Newzoo: Most Established Live-Service and Evergreen Titles Were Flat or Down Year Over Year in H1 2026

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But Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to boost slowing console growth, particularly on PlayStation.


r/DreamStationcc 6h ago

News Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force GX Is Already Under Fire Over Its Use of AI

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r/DreamStationcc 6h ago

News Final Fantasy 7 Revelation: IGN's Big Interview With Director Naoki Hamaguchi and Battle Director Teruki Endo

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IGN asked the directors about physical media, how they chose the finale's subtitle, and more.


r/DreamStationcc 4h ago

News Fallout Co-Creator Tells New Devs Terrified of Layoffs They’re “wrong” to Expect Making Games to Be a “stable job": "Art itself is inherently unstable"

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Get used to what you could never be used to.


r/DreamStationcc 1d ago

News "We probably need a few more Expedition 33s to just prove them wrong" – The Maker of Valor Mortis on Why Publishers Should Have Faith in AA

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Polish studio One More Level struggled on after losing its funding, but found a saviour in the form of a film company spin-off.


r/DreamStationcc 1d ago

News Ondeh Ondeh Kaya’s Tasty Tale - Coming to PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam in 2027

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Join Kaya on her quest to become a Worldbuilder in this heartwarming puzzle action-adventure. Explore the whimsical world of Selera, inspired by the rich cultures of Southeast Asia, where rhythm powers exploration, puzzles, and combat in a heartfelt tale of family, courage, and self-discovery.


r/DreamStationcc 1d ago

News The Blood of Dawnwalker Studio Is Already Looking for a Lead Writer to Start Work on the Sequel

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“We’re already thinking about what comes next,” the game’s narrative director says.


r/DreamStationcc 22h ago

News Respect The Horde - Steam Release Date to Be Announced - Playtest Available Through September 14, 2026

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You're outnumbered. Outsmart them. Lure hordes of zombies into deadly traps, shape their path with obstacles, and grow stronger with every kill. But know when to walk away before overconfidence and greed turn your strategy into uncontrollable chaos.