Upcoming Xbox Releases: New Games for July 7-11

Alright, let’s roll up our sleeves and dive straight into this. Here’s what’s cooking next week on Xbox, and no, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill announcement.

So, first on our cluttered list is EA SPORTS™ College Football 26 Deluxe Edition. Release date? Maybe July 10th—unless the universe has other plans. Here’s the deal: you start from a high school recruit and eventually, in some ridiculously ambitious way, become the Heisman. Or coach some 136 FBS schools. Seems plausible, right? They’ve crammed in over 2,700 plays. Not exaggerating. Deluxe Edition gives you a head start on July 7th. Why? Because that’s how Deluxe rolls. Mine was not the football life, but hey, pursuit of glory and all.

Switching gears, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 – Digital Deluxe Edition, brought to us by Activision, is priced at a decent $69.99. It must be good. Or it just feels nostalgic with a sprinkle of 8 total reviews giving it five stars—though who knows what that even means nowadays.

Missile Command Delta launches July 8. Atari, the name conjures up images of some yesteryear gaming zenith. It’s all about survival now—with incoming missiles and all. Adapt, strategize, or just desperately mash buttons till something clicks. Optimized for Xbox Series X|S—whatever “optimized” entails.

Next, behold Somber Echoes—hitting on July 8 too. Master acrobatics, they say. Battles and exploring—a myth-inspired Metroidvania concoction. Not heard much about Metroidvania since… yesterday in fact, but anyway.

Into the chaotic realm slides The Last Camp. Here, graphics are rich, weapons aplenty, and the game promises a two-stick shooting fiesta (codenamed July 8). Who doesn’t love a cross-generational apocalypse theme? We might be living one post-pandemic.

Now, slide into the oddball that is Ah, Love! Season 2. Swap blocks, match hearts. Just dodge black hearts and spikes, because, love isn’t always about getting pierced like a porcupine, or is it?

Minami Lane lands on July 9. Manage your street, keep those villagers sweet, and revel in tanuki madness. Honestly, who could turn down a good tanuki tale? It’s for Game Pass, which might mean a discount or just a persuasive lure into endless gaming quicksand.

And then, ta-da! Rogue Raccoon arrives to teach us delicate art of thieving for food. Not vocal on morals? Perhaps, it’s the Robin Hood in raccoon skin—rampantly fun, yet ethically gray. Releases July 9.

Hold on to your hats for Holdfast: Nations At War! July 9. Be there or be the proverbial square—a dive into historical clash and Napoleonic splendor. Never thought I’d miss high school history lessons till now.

Tiny Pixels Vol. 2 – storming castles, saving princesses. Scribe it on the calendar for July 9. It feels like real-time strategy but squished directly into pixel aesthetics. Is it medieval, Persian, Japanese? All of the above, apparently.

Greedland is next, promising epic alien slaughter on July 10. 20,000 enemies, they boast. Nothing like turning insurmountable odds into mere bullet fodder. Makes one’s fingers twitch, doesn’t it?

ISLANDERS: New Shores is that minimalist city-building thing you didn’t know you missed. Drops July 10! It’s about strategies—like chess on a minimalist city canvas, splashed with tranquil creativity.

Bad End Theater, rolling out its curtains July 10, is an exploration of doom and destiny. Choices impact outcomes. It sounds ominous. Maybe philosophical if chipped away at.

Best Served Cold—what a delicious metaphor. Murder mystery, cocktail mixing avalanche. It’s July 10 chaos embodied in game form. The ambiance of a speakeasy with plot twists galore.

Choice of Life: Wild Islands presents a survival saga to chew on, launching July 10. It’s card game meets visual novel, so burgeoning pioneers take note: strategy and seafaring destiny await.

Enter the inky escapade, Bendy and the Dark Revival lands on July 11. In this sequel, the eeriness flows endlessly—a descent into an animation studio gone mad. Expect puzzles, combat, fear—all jumbled in one.

Only Up to Space promises July 11 will test your resolve. A platformer-ascend for cosmic victory. Miss a step and earthbound you remain, however far you think you’ve climbed.

Aquapark IO arrives July 11, delighting in water slide races. Multiplayer mayhem beckons—where some may swim, others may sink. Dive in, nostalgia awaits.

Then there’s Canine, releasing July 11 once more. Save your dog, Tomy, from twisted labs. Sounds like a thriller: boy and dog facing corporate malfeasance.

Griffin sees light on July 11—tank-based warfare plot to script out. Escape, rescue, rejoice, it’s battlefield fable told anew.

Last but not without intrigue, Island Trouble sees its release on July 11. Outwit, outlast, survive. Marooned on an island—just another vacation gone awry, apparently.

And with that mess of a roundup, we wrap. Or do we? Probably more releases lurking, but entropy was never about order!