About GameCountdown

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Our Mission

GameCountdown is dedicated to helping gamers stay informed about upcoming game updates, patches, and new content releases. We aggregate information from multiple sources to provide you with accurate countdown timers and release dates for your favorite games.

Every date on this site is checked against a source you can go look at yourself. When a publisher moves a date, we change it and say so. When we cannot confirm a date, we say that too instead of showing a countdown that means nothing. This page explains exactly how that works, who does it, and how to hold us to it.

We are a small independent site. We do not take payment to change a date, we do not accept sponsored placements, and we do not write about games we have not played or researched. The site is funded by advertising, and we keep it that way so the tracking stays free for everyone.

How We Verify a Date

A countdown is only useful if the date behind it is real. This is the process every game on this site goes through.

We look for a primary source first: a publisher blog post, an official social announcement from the studio or publisher, or the store page's own release date. A community wiki or a forum post is never enough on its own.
We cross-check the primary source against at least one independent signal, such as the platform's release calendar on Steam, PlayStation, or Xbox, or a second outlet reporting the same announcement.
If the sources disagree, we hold the most conservative date and mark the entry as announced rather than verified. We would rather show you a later date than a date that moves without warning.
We re-check every tracked game on a rolling schedule. Games with an update inside 30 days are checked most often, since those dates move the most.
When a date changes, we record the new date and the date we made the change. That stamp is the "Last checked" line on every game page.

What Our Labels Mean

You will see one of these labels on every game page. They exist so you can tell at a glance how much weight to put on a date.

Date verified: A publisher or store page gave a concrete date, we cross-checked it against a second source, and we have re-checked it within the last 30 days. This is the strongest label we give and the only one we would ask you to plan around.
Announced date, not recently re-checked: A concrete date exists and was checked at some point, but it has been more than 30 days since we last looked. Release dates slip often, especially for games in active development. Treat this one as provisional.
No confirmed date: The publisher has not committed to a date, or the only dates floating around are placeholders like "2026" with no month or day. We do not show a countdown in this case, because a countdown to a placeholder is worse than no countdown.

Corrections

We get things wrong. Release dates slip, and automated checks miss things. If you find a date on this site that contradicts an official announcement, tell us and we will check it. Corrections made because of your reports are the most valuable ones we get.

Report a wrong date

What We Offer

Countdown timers tied to dates we have checked and labelled
Hand-written game profiles explaining what the update actually contains, instead of store copy
Multi-platform support (Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Epic Games, and more)
Bilingual coverage: every article and profile is written in English and Spanish, not machine-translated
A blog covering patch notes, season changes, and the dates that moved

Who Writes This Site

Ricardo Guillen

Founder and editor

Ricardo runs GameCountdown. He verifies release dates against publisher announcements, platform release calendars, and official social posts, and writes every game profile by hand. There is no content team and no freelance network, so the person who checks a date is the person who wrote the page you are reading.

Built with Modern Technology

GameCountdown is built using Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Automated checks keep our date list fresh and tell us when something needs a human to look at it. The profiles, the explanations, and the articles are written by a person, because a script cannot tell you why a date moved or what a patch actually changed.

Our Team

GameCountdown is run by one person, Ricardo Guillen, who is also the editor. Small is a real constraint, and it is also the reason every page has a name attached to it. If something here is wrong, you are talking to the person who wrote it.