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The final boss of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Ganondorf, can strike fear into even seasoned players — just not this time. One fan built a contraption that has the fearsome lord endlessly pumping his legs like a hamster on a wheel, and posted the result in the HyruleEngineering community, where players compete to build the most absurd contraptions. Instead of an epic showdown, what came out was a mocking little attraction: Ganondorf running and running, unable to break free.
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July 14, 2026

Following Microsoft's 2026 restructuring and major layoffs, Compulsion Games said it is expanding collaboration opportunities with studios across the games and entertainment industry. The team behind South of Midnight is already inviting partners to work with it as it settles back into independent management after leaving Xbox.
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July 14, 2026

If you own Call of Duty: Black Ops II on Xbox, now's a good time to pad out your collection for free: the Microsoft Store is temporarily handing out 32 DLC packs that used to cost money. Owners of the game on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series can all grab them — the latter two access the 2012 shooter through backward compatibility. The key thing is not to wait: there's no official end date for the promotion, but everything points to it being temporary, while any packs you claim now stay in your library for good.
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July 14, 2026

The return to Middle-earth has finally moved from preparation into actual filming. As Andy Serkis shared in a recent Variety interview, production on The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum has officially kicked off in New Zealand, with the first week already wrapped: "We've literally just finished a week. We're finally up and running — it's great." Serkis is both directing and reprising his role as Gollum, joined once again by longtime trilogy collaborators Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens.
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July 14, 2026

On the evening of July 13, Steam was hit by a major outage: thousands of users around the world suddenly lost access to the service. The problems began at around 1 p.m. ET, and, as the press reported citing Downdetector, complaints poured in from several countries at once — the outage even started trending in Google search.
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July 14, 2026

Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unexpected places — and sometimes it comes straight out of the marital bedroom. A developer going by JOJOJOJOsoft, creator of the 2D turn-based RPG Billy the Hero, hit a creative wall while designing one of the game's bosses and found his way out through a method he described in his devlog: he quietly took a photo of his wife while she was fast asleep and turned her face into a monster. According to him, if she'd been awake, she "would've wanted to look perfect" — and he needed a completely different kind of reference.
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July 13, 2026

Creative director of the Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced remake, Paul Fu, who worked as a game designer on the original Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag back in 2013, recalled that when the game first launched, fans didn't latch onto quite what you'd expect. The pirate freedom, the setting, the colorful cast — especially Blackbeard — won people over instantly. Edward Kenway himself, though, gave some players pause.
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July 13, 2026

LEGO's leaked Donkey Kong Arcade Set appears to be a nostalgic tribute to the 1981 original, with the box art showing Mario — originally known as Jumpman — climbing the first level and getting ready to jump a barrel.
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July 13, 2026

New Zealand actor Sam Neill died on Monday, 13 July, in Sydney. His family announced the news in a statement shared on his social media. The actor was 78; his relatives did not name an exact cause of death.
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July 13, 2026

Shawn Layden says Sony's move away from new PlayStation discs reflects a business calculation, not a philosophical shift. Reacting to Sony Interactive Entertainment's announcement, the former head of PlayStation Studios said physical production may simply no longer make sense for the company.
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July 13, 2026

In a Kiwi Talkz interview, former Rockstar producer John Riccio said the studio's release order reflects how it allocates resources, with console versions taking priority before PC ports are built out later. He made the point while discussing delayed PC releases at Rockstar Games.
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July 13, 2026

Moon Studios head and Ori creator Thomas Mahler used X to tease Luma, a settlement-building project he says mixes Minecraft and SimCity. He described it as "what would happen if Minecraft and SimCity had a baby," and the first look points to a building-focused game rather than another chapter in his previous series.
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July 12, 2026

Meccha Chameleon is 2026's biggest hit — a hide-and-seek game where the hider paints their pure white body to blend into the surroundings like a chameleon. In just a few weeks, it sold around 15 million copies, made by only two Japanese developers. With that kind of success, clones were only a matter of time — and one of them decided not to be subtle about it, going straight for the original's own name.
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July 12, 2026

In a new video about Xbox layoffs, Jason Schreier said Blizzard Entertainment is juggling several unannounced projects, among them new games in the Diablo and StarCraft universes. He raised the issue in The Cruelest Part Of Xbox's Layoffs, where his bigger concern was not the projects themselves but how vulnerable they may be while the studio is under pressure.
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July 12, 2026

YouTube has expanded a new way to search for videos, one that works less like a search bar and more like a conversation. The feature is called Ask YouTube: instead of the usual list of clips, users ask a question in plain language, and Google's AI (Gemini) puts together a ready-made answer — a short text summary paired with relevant videos underneath. You can even ask something more elaborate, like "plan a three-day trip from San Francisco to Santa Barbara," instead of just typing in keywords.
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July 12, 2026

Lenovo's Legion R9000X 2026 is now on sale in China, and the 15.3-inch machine's big draw is that it pairs an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392 chip with integrated Radeon 8060S graphics instead of a discrete GPU. The laptop is priced at 20,999 yuan, or about $3,098.
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July 12, 2026

Chinese courts have given a mother access to 87 game accounts left behind by her deceased son, a ruling that treats digital game assets as inheritable property, according to Tom's Hardware. The case turned a personal library of accounts, items, and purchases into part of an estate.
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July 12, 2026

A dispute over Technolarp's Technoblade-inspired persona escalated on July 11 after several YouTube creators and Technodad criticized the channel and questioned whether the late streamer's memory was being used without consent.

Critics said Technolarp built the channel around a character modeled on Technoblade, copying a similar voice, humor, Minecraft skin, and video style. Some uploads were also promoted with the caption, "He's back in spirit," and Technolarp publicly admitted that he never received permission from Technodad.
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July 12, 2026

In its annual report, Ubisoft said timing can matter as much as quality: a game can lose out if it arrives before it is ready or after demand has cooled. The publisher made the warning in a 356-page report, arguing that a late release can be just as risky as a rushed one.
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July 12, 2026

While Ryse: Son of Rome was still nearing completion, Crytek was already sketching out what the series could become next. The game launched in late 2013 as an Xbox One exclusive, and the PC version followed in October 2014.
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July 12, 2026

Moeru-ai has released AIRI, a free AI companion that runs locally on a user's PC rather than depending on a cloud service. The open-source project is pitched as an answer to Neuro-sama, with voice and text chat at its core and game support built in.
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July 12, 2026

Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier says Avowed 2 is further along than many people would expect, and that Xbox may still let it ship if finishing it does not cost much more. That would leave the sequel alive even after reports that Obsidian Entertainment internally cancelled it.
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July 12, 2026

Artur Ganszyniec, the original lead writer on The Witcher, says the remake should preserve the first game's smaller scope instead of expanding it into a full open-world project. In his view, the new version should remain a remake, not become a much larger reinterpretation of the series' first entry.
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July 12, 2026

Jean Guesdon, a Ubisoft veteran and creative director on Assassin's Creed Unity, reflected on the game's troubled 2014 launch in a recent interview tied to Retro Gamer, saying the project still deserves more credit than it gets. He said the team was trying to do a huge amount at once.
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July 12, 2026

Jason Zumwalt, who played and performed motion capture for Roman Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, said the game still has the best story in the series and described its plot as more intimate and personal than the other entries. In a clip from an interview shared by the Love it Film Instagram account, he also said he would love to see a remaster and does not understand why Rockstar Games has not made one yet.
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July 12, 2026

Mod_Saver published Ghost City Available on June 16, 2026, after rebuilding the long-lost Grand Theft Auto III mod from scratch and adding the missing collision files. The new version turns the hidden area from a visual curiosity into something players can actually explore.
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July 12, 2026

A week ago, the creator of the short co-op hit Paddle Paddle Paddle complained about a wave of refunds: out of 270,000 copies sold, players had filed around 55,000 refund requests, many of them leaving a glowing review with one hand while filing for a refund with the other. The internet was quick to brand the German developer, going by Zoroarts, a greedy whiner trying to strip players of their right to refunds. Now, he's clarified what he actually meant — and it turns out he's defending the refund system, not attacking it.
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July 11, 2026

Without IMAX screens in North America for its first two weeks, Spider-Man: Brand New Day's opening outlook has climbed to $230 million-$250 million, Boxoffice Pro says. Just a few days earlier, analysts were still putting the film's North American debut at $180 million-$190 million.
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July 11, 2026

Developer ojuschugh1 has introduced sqz, a local Rust binary that sits between your tools and the model and keeps repeated file reads from being sent in full again. The open-source project says the tool can cut token use by up to 92% in repeated-read sessions, with the release published on July 11, 2026.
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July 11, 2026

You can play Fallout: New Vegas almost anywhere — on an overclocked PC loaded with a hundred mods, on a Steam Deck on the go, or, if you're stubborn enough, even on a calculator. But one player found a spot where the setting itself turns a regular gaming session into a small performance. As one player shared, he booted up New Vegas on a portable analog TV with a pull-out antenna right at a table inside Trejo's Tacos in Los Angeles.
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July 11, 2026

Microsoft may present Project Positron in the next Xbox Insider update as soon as next week, according to a new report. The rumored feature would let players convert eligible physical games into account-linked digital licenses.
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July 11, 2026

Shawn Layden, the former head of PlayStation Studios, says Microsoft reset Xbox in the right direction, but warned that the company's next step will define whether it remains a console maker or becomes a pure publisher. In his view, Xbox cannot successfully build a console platform and also stay the biggest multiplatform publisher at the same time.
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July 11, 2026

A Brazilian Xbox user going by Ordo_Liberal lost access to his account, and along with it, his entire digital library of purchased games. When he reached out to support, they claimed the account had supposedly been hacked and refused to restore access — even though he had every security measure enabled — and to top it off, they suggested he simply repurchase the games he'd already paid for.
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July 11, 2026

A comparison between Claude Fable 5 and Terraria-cloning GPT 5.6 Sol produced a split verdict: one model was cheaper and faster, but the same wave of coverage also linked GPT 5.6 Sol to a serious Mac file-deletion incident.

According to the shared results, both AI models produced playable games with a smooth experience. GPT 5.6 Sol completed the Terraria clone for about $35 in about 1 hour and 20 minutes, while Claude Fable 5 needed about $120 and roughly 2 hours. That puts GPT 5.6 Sol at around one quarter of the cost and about two thirds of the runtime.
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July 11, 2026

In a post on X, The Verge senior editor Tom Warren said id Software's recent layoffs did not turn it into a support studio, even as Microsoft's July 2026 Xbox restructuring rattled the company. He added that the team is now in the early stages of a new DOOM game.
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July 11, 2026
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