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The month of July is a huge one for Netflix. Aside from the streaming service dropping its usual slew of movies and TV series, some of Netflix’s most popular shows return this month for brand-new seasons. Make sure to plan out your month now because it’s going to be packed.

On July 4, the most anticipated streaming series returns for a third season. That’s right, the kids from Stranger Things are back and probably dealing with some more horrible monsters from the Upside Down. Hitting on more ’80s nostalgia, this season heads to a mall, the place where all the cool kids hung out and worked during the summer. While we don’t know too much about the plot, the latest posters for the new season did reveal some new characters and some behind-the-scenes photos gave us some clues to this season’s story.

The two other returning series to keep your eye on are Season 4 of Queer Eye, coming on July 19. Like previous seasons, the cast remakes someone’s life in order to better themselves through cleaning up their house, giving the target a makeover, and giving them the confidence to move forward in their lives. If you need something uplifting that will bring a tear to your eye, this is a must watch for you. On July 26, Orange is the New Black returns for Season 7. This will be the final season of the prison dramedy, so maybe we’ll see some of the cast finally get released–or shived. This is prison, after all. If you’re wondering about Netflix’s other big series, Glow, that isn’t releasing until August. Be patient.

As far as non-Netflix originals go, there are plenty of movies coming, mainly on July 1. The classic Martin Scorsese movie, Taxi Driver, arrives that day, following Robert DeNiro’s character, a war veteran on the verge of a breakdown as he works as a New York City cab driver at night. On the comedic side of things, the sports comedy Caddyshack arrives. The movie follows an elite golf club which has a gopher problem. It’s one of the few times golf is fun in a movie.

While there are plenty of things arriving in July, Netflix has also announced many things are leaving as well. On the first of the month, all the Mummy movies are saying goodbye to the streaming service. Also, Wedding Crashers and the first two Austin Powers movies are leaving as well, so watch them all before the first of the month hits.

Below, you’ll find everything coming to Netflix in July. If you’re interested in more steaming news, check out what Hulu has planned for July.

Coming To Netflix In July

July 1

• Designated Survivor: 60 days — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• Astro Boy
• Caddyshack
• Caddyshack 2
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke
• Cloverfield
• Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain
• Frozen River
• Inkheart
• Kill the Irishman
• Lady in the Water
• Little Monsters
• Mean Dreams
• Mean Streets
• Megamind
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Philadelphia
• Rain Man
• Road House
• Room on the Broom
• Scream 3
• Starsky & Hutch
• Swiped
• Swordfish
• Taxi Driver
• The Accountant of Auschwitz
• The American
• The Book of Eli
• The Brothers Grimm
• The Hangover
• The Pink Panther
• The Pink Panther 2
• War Against Women
• Who’s That Knocking at My Door?

July 2

• Bangkok Love Stories: Objects of Affection — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Bangkok Love Stories: Plead — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Good Witch: Season 4

July 3

• The Last Czars — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Yummy Mummies: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 4

• Kakegurui: Season 2
• Stranger Things 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 5

• In The Dark: Season 1

July 6

• Free Rein: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• The Iron Lady
• Sicilian Ghost Story

July 9

• Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns
• Kinky

July 10

• Family Reunion — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Grand Designs: Season 10
• Grand Designs: Season 15
• Parchís: El documental — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 11

• Cities of Last Things — NETFLIX FILM

July 12

• 3Below: Tales of Arcadia: Part 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• 4 latas — NETFLIX FILM
• Blown Away — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Bonus Family: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Extreme Engagement — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Kidnapping Stella — NETFLIX FILM
• Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 1
• Point Blank — NETFLIX FILM
• Smart People
• Taco Chronicles — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• True Tunes: Songs — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 13

• Sorry Angel

July 16

• The Break-Up
• Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
• Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Wynonna Earp: Season 3

July 17

• Pinky Malinky: Part 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 18

• Secret Obsession — NETFLIX FILM

July 19

• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: New 2019: Freshly Brewed — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• La casa de papel: Part 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Last Chance U: INDY: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Queer Eye: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac — NETFLIX ANIME
• Typewriter — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 22

• Inglourious Basterds

July 24

• The Great Hack — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 25

• Another Life — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Workin’ Moms: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 26

• Boi — NETFLIX FILM
• The Exception
• Girls With Balls — NETFLIX FILM
• My First First Love: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Orange Is the New Black: Season 7 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Son — NETFLIX FILM
• Sugar Rush: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Worst Witch: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

July 29

• The Croods

July 30

• Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

July 31

• Kengan Ashura: Part l — NETFLIX ANIME
• The Letdown: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Red Sea Diving Resort — NETFLIX FILM
• Wentworth: Season 7

Leaving Netflix In July

July 1

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Blood Diamond
• Body of Lies
• Bull Durham
• Chasing Amy
• Cool Hand Luke
• Definitely, Maybe
• Did You Hear About the Morgans?
• Doctor Zhivago
• Dolphin Tale
• Dumb and Dumber
• East of Eden
• Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Season 1
• It Takes Two
• Malibu’s Most Wanted
• Monster-in-Law
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Boondock Saints
• The Interview
• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix Revolutions
• The Mummy
• The Mummy Returns
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• The Terminator
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
• The Wild Bunch
• Turner and Hooch
• Valkyrie
• Wedding Crashers

July 2

• Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

July 4

• The Indian in the Cupboard

July 9

July 10

• Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

July 12

• Gone Baby Gone

July 14

• The Immigrant

July 16

• American Gangster

July 27

• Pretty Little Liars: Seasons 1-7

July 30

• Staten Island Summer

After a long wait due to several delays, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has finally released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One (with its Nintendo Switch version dropping on June 25). If you’re planning to grab the Metroidvania-style game on PC, here’s a deal to put on your radar (or send to any friends who haven’t bought the game yet). Bloodstained is $40 at full price, but Fanatical is currently offering the game for 21% off, which drops the price to $31.59. Plus, new Fanatical customers can save even more with GameSpot-exclusive promo code GAMESPOT25, which slashes an additional 5% off the price. If you’ve never shopped at Fanatical before, that means you’ll get Bloodstained for $29.98–not bad for a new and highly anticipated game.

To claim the deal, just add Bloodstained to your cart, and during checkout, you’ll see a place to “redeem a coupon code” in the righthand sidebar. Enter GAMESPOT25, and you’ll see the price drop to $29.98. But even if you’re a Fanatical regular, it’s worth noting $31.59 is still a great price (Steam is currently offering the game for $36). After completing checkout, you’ll receive an officially licensed Steam key for Bloodstained that you can redeem right away.

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Both the on-site deal and promo code discount will be valid until June 27 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET (and 1 AM BST on June 28).

Created by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has been marketed as a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in terms of gameplay. The 2.5D, side-scrolling RPG follows the story of Miriam, an orphan who must fight her way out of a demon-filled castle using powers derived from cursed crystals on her body. Aside from Miriam, you’ll also be able to play as Zangetsu from Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon at launch. A recent launch trailer also revealed Bloodstained will receive 13 free DLC updates post-launch, adding features such as local and online multiplayer, three new playable characters (including Shovel Knight), “nightmare” difficulty, speed run mode, character customizations, and more.

The third annual Pokemon Go Fest took place in Chicago this past weekend, and as usual, developer Niantic held a series of Global Challenges during the event. As a reward for completing these challenges, the studio is making a variety of bonuses available in the game for a limited time, and it’s also bringing the popular Legendary Raikou back to Raids for one day only.

From now until June 25, players will receive twice the usual amount of Candy for capturing and hatching Pokemon. On top of that, Pokemon Eggs will hatch at half the distance they normally require. You’re also guaranteed to receive one Rare Candy each time you participate in a Raid.

Then, on Saturday, June 29, Niantic is holding a special Raikou Raid Day. On that day, the Legendary dog will reappear in Raid Battles from 4-7 PM local time, and you’ll have a chance of encountering a Shiny Raikou. You’ll also be able to receive up to five free Raid Passes during the event hours, which you’ll need to participate in Raids. You can read more details about the Go Fest rewards on the official Pokemon Go website.

In the meantime, you’ll have another chance to catch Kyogre. The Legendary Gen 3 Pokemon has returned to Raid Battles until June 27, and this time, you may encounter its Shiny form when challenging it. Kyogre marks the second of three Legendary Pokemon Niantic is bringing back to the game. The final one, Groudon, will appear from June 27 to July 10.

Niantic has two more Pokemon Go Fest events lined up this summer. The next one will take place in Dortmund, Germany, from July 4-7, with an event in Yokohama, Japan, following August 6-12. Even if you can’t attend in-person, Niantic will hold Global Challenges during each event. Meanwhile, the game’s next Community Day is scheduled for Sunday, July 21, although no further details have been announced yet.

Tripwire Interactive’s first-person shooter, Killing Floor 2, is free-to-play now on Steam through Tuesday, June 25. The free weekend kicks off this summer’s Back & Kickin’ Brass event, which adds a new mode, map, and weapons, running through July 31. As is usually the case with Steam free weekends, if you like the game and want to keep playing, you can purchase it at a 67% discount to keep it in your library after the weekend ends, retaining any progress that you made.

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Back & Kickin’ Brass adds a new gameplay mode called Objective, in which players must defeat waves of enemies while also completing particular objectives, such as delivering an object from one point on the map to another. It also adds a new map, the Steam Fortress, which is compatible with the Survival, Weekly, Endless, and new Objective gameplay modes, as well as new weapons, such as the Seal Squealer, which launches exploding harpoons.

First released in 2016, Killing Floor 2 picks up from the story of the first game, in which a mad scientist unleashed an army of clone soldiers onto the UK. Several months following the events of that game, the plague of Zeds had spread around the world, causing global chaos. Most of the action comprises taking on waves of enemies, often culminating in a boss. In his Killing Floor 2 review, GameSpot’s Miguel Concepcion found the single-player gameplay to be a little thin, but as a suite of multiplayer modes the game was perfectly satisfying.

It’s not easy keeping up with every new trailer, announcement, gameplay reveal, and rumor in the gaming industry. This is especially true in the wake of E3, when the internet is flooded with news.

To help out any Xbox fans out there, we’ve compiled this cheat sheet on the most important news in relation to Microsoft or the Xbox One family of consoles. Don’t worry, cheat sheets for Nintendo and the Switch as well as Sony and the PlayStation 4 are in the works as well.

The information below is a general overview of the largest announcements from the past few weeks. That said, there are plenty of links in the text that will take you to articles that provide more in-depth analysis and information breakdowns.

14 First Party Games Detailed

In comparison to Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Switch, Microsoft’s Xbox One has struggled to deliver as many quality first-party console exclusives. Microsoft aimed to flip the script by revealing information about 14 upcoming first party games at E3 2019. Though we still don’t have gameplay for many of them, the roster of titles looks like it will strengthen the game library of Xbox One.

Some of the games had already been announced, such as Gears 5 and Halo Infinite. But Microsoft’s E3 2019 press conference revealed new details about them. Gears 5 is releasing with a fun-looking PvE mode called Escape, for example, and Halo Infinite will be a launch title on Scarlett, Microsoft’s next-generation family of consoles (but it is still coming to Xbox One and PC).

Several new first-party titles were announced though. One of the more notable announcements came from Ninja Theory (a developer Microsoft acquired last year): the reveal of a new 4v4 melee combat-focused game it’s been working on called Bleeding Edge. A technical alpha for the game starts this month.

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New Xbox Hardware: Next-Gen Scarlett Console

Plenty of Xbox fans want to know what Microsoft has planned for its next-generation family of consoles. We learned a little bit more about it at E3, including confirmation that its codename is Scarlett, but Microsoft is still keeping some details close to the chest.

We do know that the console is currently scheduled for a Holiday 2020 release, that Halo Infinite will be a launch title, and that Microsoft claims it will be “four times” more powerful than an Xbox One X. Specifically, Scarlett contains a custom-engineered AMD processor capable of 8K resolution at 120fps, supports ray-tracing, comes equipped with a solid-state drive, and has a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU, Radeon RDNA architecture, and GDDR6 RAM. Details such as price point and hardware design are, for now, unknown.

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Massive Showcasing Of Third-Party Titles

Microsoft delivered an expansive E3 press conference with announcements, new trailers, and gameplay reveals for dozens of third-party titles, all coming to Xbox One. The showcasing was huge, with more than a few surprises.

The three major highlights were the gameplay reveals for Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (both at EA Play and Microsoft’s E3 2019 press conference), release date announcement of Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds, and a first look at From Software’s Elden Ring–an open world Souls-like game designed in collaboration with George RR Martin. During Microsoft’s E3 press conference, the company also showcased new trailers for Cyberpunk 2077 and Tales of Arise, and also announced Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to the West.

E3 was a pretty big showcasing for upcoming Xbox One indie games too. The most notable of the lot probably comes from Layers of Fear 2‘s Bloober Team, which is making Blair Witch, a spooky-looking game based in the same world as the 2016 horror movie. 12 Minutes–a psychological thriller about a man stuck in a time loop–also looks very good, as does Afterparty and Spiritfarer (both of which tackle the concept of death in unique ways).

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Microsoft Acquires Yet Another Studio

After acquiring over half a dozen studios last year, Microsoft announced during E3 2019 that it’s acquired one more. The studio in question is Double Fine, which is responsible for Psychonauts and Grim Fandango. During E3, Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer showcased the first gameplay trailer for Psychonauts 2.

Game Pass Just Keeps Getting Better

Game Pass continues to be one of the best subscription-based game services out there. Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has continued to expand the service, launching a PC version, bundling it with Xbox Live Gold, and adding several stellar titles to its lineup.

Microsoft’s new Game Pass Ultimate combines Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass for PC, and Xbox Live Gold in one $15/£11 per month subscription. Both Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold subscriptions get you limited-time discounts on certain games, and Game Pass lets you freely download from a library of hundreds of titles which is expanding and shifting all the time. Recently, Microsoft added some incredible titles to Game Pass, including Metro Exodus, Thimbleweed Park, Guacamelee 2, Everspace, SteamWorld Dig 2, and Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition.

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Microsoft’s Cloud-Streaming Future: Project xCloud

Google Stadia isn’t the only cloud-based game streaming service scheduled to launch this year. During E3 2019, Microsoft announced Project xCloud would release this October, a month before Google Stadia launches. Pretty much no other details have been supplied, so we’ll have to wait and see how exactly xCloud ultimately stacks up against Stadia.