The biggest gaming news of the week: August 5, 2022

We keep speeding through 2022 like time doesn’t exist. Seriously, can you believe there are less than five months left until Christmas? Scary thought, that. Let’s forget about it and focus on video games before I spontaneously combust from stress.

The games industry was a smidge less silly than last week. There were interesting announcements from PlayStation, Riot, and Dead By Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive. However, none of those stood up to the hype that was Pokémon Presents. It’s too bad Scarlet and Violet‘s legendaries are kind of ‘blah’ overall.

As a reminder, there’s been a fine selection of freebies over the past few days courtesy of Epic, Xbox, and Ubisoft. Some of these are limited-time deals, so don’t wait much longer!

Now that we’ve gotten through the fluff, it’s time to reflect on this week’s biggest stories.