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Gameranx closes out July 2020 the way it always does — with ten of the strangest headlines gaming produced that month.
Jake Baldino and Falcon are back with the latest entry in Gameranx’s recurring monthly recap series, this time counting down “10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of JULY 2020.” It’s the channel’s regular late-month tradition: skip the trailers and the review scores, and instead round up the bugs, the marketing stunts, and the viral community moments that made the industry look a little unhinged for thirty days straight.
- Gameranx, hosted by Jake Baldino and Falcon, published “10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of JULY 2020” at the end of the month as part of its ongoing monthly recap series.
- The video follows the channel’s established countdown format, running through ten separate stories rather than a single deep-dive topic.
- It focuses specifically on the odd, funny, and unexpected side of gaming news — bugs, stunts, and community occurrences — rather than new releases or hardware coverage.
A Monthly Ritual for Gaming’s Strangest Headlines
Gameranx built its audience on structured countdown videos, and the “weird stories” format is one of its longest-running side series, sitting alongside the channel’s better-known “Top 10 NEW Games” rundowns like Top 10 NEW Games of August 2020. Where those videos are forward-looking previews, the weird-news countdown looks backward at the month that just wrapped, sorting through everything strange that slipped past the mainstream gaming press cycle.
Baldino and Falcon split hosting duties across Gameranx’s output, and the “WEIRD” series has become a dependable monthly checkpoint — a way of cataloguing the industry’s stranger corners without needing a full news show built around any single story.
Ten stories, one month — and gaming rarely runs out of material.
The Format Behind the Countdown
The structure is deliberately simple: ten discrete stories, counted down in sequence, each treated as its own short segment rather than folded into a broader narrative. That format is what separates it from Gameranx’s other recurring series, including its industry-drama roundups like Cyberpunk 2077 ROASTS EA, CDPR Says NO “Politics”? Red Dead 2 Online Protest Victory & Ubisoft Chaos, which lean more into ongoing publisher controversies than one-off oddities.
By keeping each entry self-contained, the countdown format lets Gameranx move quickly between wildly different corners of the industry within a single upload — a glitch in one game, a marketing misstep from a publisher, a viral clip from a streaming community, all stacked back to back without needing to connect them thematically.
July Provided Ample Content Sources
July 2020 landed in the middle of an unusually packed stretch for the industry, with next-gen hardware reveals, delayed blockbusters, and a still-surging online player base all colliding at once — the same backdrop covered elsewhere on the channel around titles like 10 NEW Games of July 2020 To Look Forward To and the month’s PlayStation Plus (PS+) July 2020 lineup. That density of activity is exactly the kind of month that tends to produce the odd, offbeat stories the “WEIRD” series is built to collect — the smaller headlines that never make it into a hardware preview or a review, but still get people talking in comment sections and Discord servers.
The recap format doesn’t need a single dominant storyline to justify itself — ten stories is ten stories, whether the month’s biggest news came from a console reveal or a bug report. That’s the appeal for a channel that’s built its audience on being first to compile, rather than first to break.
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