{"id":678348,"date":"2026-07-07T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:54:08","slug":"july-2026-ps-plus-essential-games-available-to-download-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678348\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2026 PS Plus Essential Games Available to Download Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overall sentiment regarding this month&#8217;s lineup of PS Plus Essential games has not been positive, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/features\/poll-are-you-happy-with-your-ps-plus-essential-games-for-july-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our latest weekend Poll indicates<\/a>. 49% of our readers reckon it&#8217;s a &#8220;crap selection&#8221;, and only 6% are even slightly happy with the offering. This hasn&#8217;t gone down well.<\/p>\n<p>Still, are you downloading the July 2026 games on Sony&#8217;s membership service? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overall sentiment regarding this month&#8217;s lineup of PS Plus Essential games has not been positive, as our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,1357,197,112,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-ps-plus","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}