{"id":66923,"date":"2025-09-02T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/players-choice-vote-for-august-2025s-best-new-game\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:00:03","slug":"players-choice-vote-for-august-2025s-best-new-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/players-choice-vote-for-august-2025s-best-new-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Players\u2019 Choice: Vote for August 2025\u2019s best new game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"\">Last month, we traveled through the dark and explored new shores. Some big new releases included Madden NFL 26, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Midnight Murder Club, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, and Sword of the Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>How does it work?<\/strong> At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we will tally your votes, and announce the winner on our social channels and PlayStation.Blog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>What is the voting criteria?<\/strong> That\u2019s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? Note: re-released games don\u2019t qualify, but remakes do. We define remakes as ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds such as Resident Evil 4 (2023) and Final Fantasy VII Remake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>How are nominees decided?<\/strong> The PlayStation Blog editorial team will gather a list of that month\u2019s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"ps-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-crowdsignal wp-block-embed-crowdsignal\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<script>var pd_tags = new Array;pd_tags[\"15975822-src\"]=\"poll-oembed-simple\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.polldaddy.com\/p\/15975822.js\"><\/script><noscript><iframe title=\"Players' Choice: What Was August\u2019s Best New Game?\" src=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/15975822\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"cs-iframe-embed\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/09\/02\/players-choice-vote-for-august-2025s-best-new-game\/\">Go to Source (PlayStation.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we traveled through the dark and explored new shores. 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