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• Marvel Tōkon beta tops 33,000 Steam players; PC issues alarm FGC

  Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls reached a peak of over 33,000 concurrent Steam players during its open beta on July 25–27, 2026. That peak exceeded the benchmarks set by Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 betas. The superhero tag-team fighter drew significant interest, but technical problems on PC builds during the beta raised concern in the fighting-game community.

• Sony to end PlayStation disc production for new games in Jan 2028, CFO says

  Sony CFO Lin Tao confirmed on July 31, 2026 during the company’s FY2026 Q1 earnings that Sony will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028. The decision remains in place despite fan protests, online petitions and some PS Plus subscription cancellations. Sony says the move reflects the broader digitalization of content and will eliminate new physical-disc purchase options for upcoming PlayStation titles.

• Riot Games pulls Waylay from Valorant after Refract ability bug

  Riot Games has removed the agent Waylay from Valorant following a newly discovered issue with her Refract ability. The removal makes Waylay unavailable to players in live matches. Riot pulled the agent to prevent the Refract issue from affecting gameplay while the bug is addressed.

• NEO: No grudges after FaZe exit — says Astralis needs heavy work

  NEO, the Polish CS veteran, was removed from FaZe and says he holds no grudges about the exit. He stated he has learned a lesson from the experience and emphasized that Astralis has plenty of work ahead to reach its potential. The comments focus attention on his priorities following the FaZe departure and on Astralis' rebuilding needs.

• WW win WINLINE MPKBK LAN after deko's 31-kill, 2.59-rated Anubis decider

  WW secured the WINLINE MPKBK LAN title after a decisive final map on Anubis. deko amassed 31 kills across 20 rounds and posted a 2.59 rating in the decider. His individual output—more than the combined total of three teammates—sealed the series for WW and delivered the LAN trophy.

• xertioN: Team lowered short-term expectations, focusing on mental reset

  xertioN, an Israeli rifler, says his team has lowered short-term expectations and is concentrating on a mental reset. He says the change requires players to support each other even when performances dip. The team’s goal is to rebuild stability and return to title contention, with the mental shift intended to produce more consistent results.

• Team Spirit sweeps Team Vamos 3–0; Western teams shine on MSC 2026 Day 2

  Team Spirit swept Team Vamos 3-0 in a Knockout Stage rematch, reversing their Group Stage loss and eliminating Team Vamos from MSC 2026. Team Vamos had earned the right to choose their opponent by recording the shortest total game time in the Group Stage but their pick backfired. Kidbomba and zauregoist produced standout performances that turned team fights in Team Spirit’s favor. ONIC also defeated Aurora, contributing to a strong day for Western-region teams at the tournament.

• Yangon Galacticos sweep PRO Esports; next opponent to be Falcons PH or Team Vitality

  Yangon Galacticos completed a 3-0 sweep of PRO Esports on Day 1 of the MSC 2026 Knockout Stage, starting with an 11-minute Game 1. Yangon’s aggressive draft and early-skirmish execution, including Freya and Guinevere picks, allowed them to dictate pace and prevent PRO Esports from stabilizing. PRO Esports mounted a brief fightback in Game 3 but could not shift momentum. The Yangon side now awaits the winner of Team Falcons PH vs Team Vitality, signaling Myanmar as a rising contender in the bracket.

• Double Fine lays off 23 staff weeks after Xbox spun studio out

  Double Fine Productions cut 23 employees less than a month after Xbox transitioned the studio to independence. The studio said the layoffs were needed to reach a sustainable size and to ensure "the survival of our studio," and it acknowledged the departing staff "made an impact" and "will be missed." The studio had about 90 employees before the cuts, and the spin-off followed Microsoft's July restructuring that eliminated roughly 3,200 gaming jobs.

• Obscure Marvel game foreshadowed the MCU’s turn to supernatural stories

  Marvel's Midnight Suns demonstrated a team-based supernatural tone that mirrors the MCU's growing occult direction. Disney+ projects Ironheart and Werewolf by Night have already introduced spooky elements, while Blade remains stalled and a Ghost Rider film is scheduled for 2028. The game's handling of a Midnight Sons-style lineup shows a playable model for how those characters and themes could translate to the MCU.

• Sega opens closed network test for Crazy Taxi: World Tour ahead of 2027

  Sega announced a closed network test for Crazy Taxi: World Tour that will let selected players try two of the game's online multiplayer modes. The test was announced on Tuesday and offers early hands-on access to multiplayer features well before the game's planned 2027 release. This gives community members a chance to play and provides Sega with real-player data on online systems prior to launch.

• Leaked trailer sets Pokémon Pokopia underwater DLC release for Aug. 5, 2026

  A leaked trailer indicates an underwater DLC for Pokémon Pokopia will arrive on August 5, 2026. The island-building cozy-sim is on Nintendo Switch 2 and this is one of the game's first major post-launch expansions. The DLC introduces underwater content that previews themes and elements planned for the upcoming Pokémon Winds and Waves title, giving players an early look.

• Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 mostly falters despite a near-perfect Joker

  Batman: Caped Crusader season 2, produced by Bruce Timm and James Tucker as a spiritual sequel to Batman: The Animated Series, released ten new episodes that recast Gotham through a 1940s film-noir lens. The season aims to reinvent members of Batman’s rogues’ gallery and spotlight minor characters but delivers uneven storytelling. The Joker’s portrayal is widely seen as near-perfect, yet the season fails to match season 1’s strengths in depicting Gotham’s corruption and reimagining Harvey Dent/Two-Face. This undermines the show’s bid to redefine canonical Batman characters anew.

• Guide: Where to find all three skulls and the terminal in Halo's 343 Guilty Spark

  In the 343 Guilty Spark mission of Halo: Campaign Evolved, players search for Captain Keyes. The level contains three skull collectibles and one terminal, but low lighting in the map makes them difficult to spot. A guide identifies the exact positions of all three skulls and the terminal so players can collect the full set.

• Rockstar blocks Diamond Casino gambling for GTA Online players in Australia

  Rockstar Games has blocked Australian players from using the Diamond Casino's gambling features in GTA Online, removing access to three-card poker, blackjack, roulette, slots and the Lucky Wheel. The casino uses virtual chips that can be purchased with real money but cannot be converted back into cash. A data leaker confirmed the game's code was updated to restrict gambling in Australia. The change follows the Australian government's recent crackdown on online gambling and strips Australians of a feature added in 2019.

• GOG bundles NewDark and gamepad support into Thief as stopgap before Nightdive remaster

  GOG released a 'dolled-up' package of Thief: The Dark Project and Thief Gold that bundles fan patches and controller support to run cleanly on modern systems. The package includes the NewDark widescreen/compatibility patch and Peter Wright's Gamepad Mod, adding integrated Xbox One controller support with radial equipment menus. This is a curated, non-official refresh intended to make the 1998 game immediately playable on TVs and modern displays ahead of Nightdive's official remaster arriving this winter.

• Netflix's Below: six-part limited thriller starring Josh Hartnett set in Newfoundland

  Netflix announced Below, a six-episode limited thriller series starring Josh Hartnett. The show is set in a quiet Newfoundland town and centers on an unseen underwater creature that is consuming entire houseboats. Below takes a mysterious approach to underwater horror, distinguishing it from 2026's shark-focused films.

• CD Projekt Red confirms Project Orion; Edgerunners game also in development

  CD Projekt Red confirmed it is developing a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel codenamed Project Orion. The studio is also developing a separate game based on the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but that project's future and release plans are unclear. Having both projects in progress signals CD Projekt Red is expanding the Cyberpunk franchise beyond a single sequel.

• Brandon Sanderson completes first draft of Mistborn screenplay

  Author Brandon Sanderson finished the first draft of the Mistborn movie screenplay in July, meeting his self-set deadline. The script is the first project under his January deal with Apple to adapt the Cosmere shared universe. Sanderson announced the completion on X, timing it to coincide with Mistborn’s 20th anniversary, marking a concrete milestone in the Cosmere adaptation effort.

• Former Producer Says Dragon Age Trilogy Remaster Unlikely After Engine Knowledge Loss

  Mark Darrah, former Dragon Age executive producer, says remastering the original trilogy is unlikely because BioWare no longer retains expertise on the Aurora engine used for the first two games. A planned "Champion Edition" bundling Origins, Dragon Age II and Inquisition stalled due to cross-engine complexity—Inquisition runs on Frostbite while the earlier titles use Eclipse/Lycium variants of Aurora. Producing a remaster would require assembling a new specialist team to rebuild or port old technology, and the franchise faces commercial pressure after Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed to meet EA's expectations even as Baldur's Gate 3 renewed interest in classic fantasy RPGs.

• Capcom posts strong 2026 sales as Pragmata and Resident Evil drive growth

  Capcom has reported robust sales through mid-2026 driven by two big releases: Resident Evil Requiem and new IP Pragmata. Requiem sold over 1 million copies in the last quarter and has exceeded 8 million copies since its February launch, while Pragmata has moved more than 2.5 million copies after its April release and was the company's top seller for the quarter. Other catalog entries also contributed: Devil May Cry 5 sold nearly 1.3 million copies and Monster Hunter World sold just under 800,000 in the same period. Capcom plans more releases this year, with Onimusha: Way of the Sword launching September 4 and a Resident Evil Veronica remake announced.

• Arcane heads current Arknights: Endfield banner; next casts revealed

  Arknights: Endfield is running a Headhunting banner that currently features the Operator Arcane. Headhunting and Arsenal Exchange banners rotate every few weeks and let players obtain new Operators for their rosters. The lineup of characters set to appear after Arcane has been announced, allowing players to plan future pulls and resource allocation.

• WayForward portfolio lists 'Gemini', a rollback-driven Cyberpunk: Edgerunners brawler

  A former WayForward employee's portfolio includes material for a project codenamed 'Gemini' tied to the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Gemini was planned as a rollback-driven 2.5D beat-'em-up with rollback-safe architecture and online transport integration, indicating online multiplayer. Research and development ran from 2025 into 2026, but the project's current status is unclear. The title would be a small Cyberpunk spin-off while CD Projekt Red focuses on Cyberpunk 2 and The Witcher 4 and as Edgerunners Season 2 arrives this fall.

• Wizards of the Coast president John Hight to leave; will advise CEO and retain $800K pay

  John Hight, who became president of Wizards of the Coast two months after leaving Blizzard in June 2024, will step down after two years and transition to an advisory role. An SEC filing records a Transitional Advisory Services Agreement dated July 27 that keeps him as president until September 1 and then as an advisor to the CEO for up to one year. He will continue to receive an $800,000 salary in the advisory role but will no longer be eligible for his prior annual cash bonuses. His departure coincides with Hasbro taking a $56 million impairment tied to cancelled videogame projects and a company plan to cut digital spending by at least 25% by 2028.

• Capcom Q1: Pragmata sells 2.5M in three months as RE Requiem tops 8M, lifting results

  Capcom's Q1 2026 results show Pragmata sold more than 2.5 million copies since its release earlier this year, achieving that in roughly three months. Resident Evil Requiem has surpassed 8 million sales (up from 6 million in March), and Capcom's net sales rose 54.7% year-on-year while operating profit increased 66.9%, putting the company on track for its full-year earnings forecast. The performance highlights demand for a new Capcom IP and the commercial impact of media tie-ins such as the Devil May Cry animated series.

• OpenMW compiled to WebAssembly runs Morrowind natively in a browser

  A developer known as Dumpster Buddy compiled OpenMW, the open-source engine for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to WebAssembly so the actual game engine runs inside a browser tab. The browser port boots into the game (Seyda Neen), supports saves, controllers and mods, and is not a video stream or emulator. Engine components were rebuilt for the web—OpenSceneGraph was ported to WebGL2 and work was done on shadows, water-reflection shaders and per-pixel lighting, with supersampling used because hardware anti-aliasing doesn't survive WebGL2 post-processing. The port requires local Morrowind game files to be accessible to the browser, and the developer is considering adding multiplayer and a mod manager.

• Sony reveals August PS Plus lineup with Marvel bonus pack

  Sony revealed the PlayStation Plus game lineup for August and included a bonus pack for Marvel fans. The selection ensures subscribers across all PS Plus tiers will have at least one standout game to play. The announcement gives current PlayStation Plus members new titles and extra Marvel content to access during August.

• Square Enix and Google bring Gemini to Dragon Quest Tokyo event

  Square Enix is staging a new in-person Dragon Quest event in Tokyo that will feature Google’s Gemini AI. The move follows a March rollout of a Gemini-powered “Chatty Slimey” companion for Dragon Quest X, a Japan-only MMORPG, which provoked divisive player reactions. The Tokyo event extends the same Gemini integration beyond the DQX companion and shows the partnership continuing despite controversy.

• PlayStation Plus August 2026 Free Games: Big Walk, Dying Light 2 Reloaded, Signalis

  PlayStation Plus subscribers can claim three free games beginning August 4, 2026: Big Walk, Dying Light 2 Reloaded, and Signalis. Big Walk is a day-one open-world release from House House with co-op and solo exploration; Dying Light 2 Reloaded bundles updates, gameplay overhauls, and extra DLC; Signalis is a retro psychological survival-horror starring Replika technician Elster. Subscribers should also claim July's PlayStation Plus free games before next Tuesday to keep them.

• Sam Altman says AI 'singularity' is here and warns against centralized 'AI authoritarianism'

  Sam Altman told YouTuber Relentless he believes the AI singularity—generative AI surpassing human intelligence—is already happening. He described the development as potentially 'hugely positive' while also warning of safety shortcomings and major economic and job risks. Altman urged against concentrating control in a single model or company, arguing that trading liberty for safety would be a long-term net loss.