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The CWA and CWA Canada filed unfair labor practice charges against Microsoft on July 15, accusing it of bad-faith bargaining and unlawful firings over the Xbox layoffs, as Bethesda and ZeniMax workers rallied.

Former staff and the IWGB union protested outside Build A Rocket Boy's Edinburgh studio after it flew in fans for a MindsEye playtest following an estimated 250 to 400 layoffs.

Ubisoft's remake hit a 104,756-player Steam peak three days after its 2-million-copy launch, breaking every prior Assassin's Creed concurrency record.

100 Thieves upset reigning VALORANT World Champions NRG 3-1 at the Esports World Cup 2026 in Paris, capturing the org's first S-Tier international VALORANT title.

United Videogame Workers-CWA has created a Game Worker Hardship Fund giving laid-off U.S. and Canadian developers grants of up to $5,000.

Bandai Namco's Echoes of Aincrad let players build their own Sword Art Online character for the first time, launching to a 64 Metascore and split critic reviews.

Valve's cube-shaped SteamOS console shipped June 30 in four configurations from $1,049, sold through a randomized reservation lottery, with the company blaming an AI-driven memory shortage for a price far above its original target.

Pocketpair will ship Palworld's version 1.0 on July 10, 2026 across PC, PS5, Xbox, and Game Pass, ending more than two years of early access with a 27-page changelog, flight, the World Tree endgame, and its largest batch of new Pals.

AMD's Adrenalin 26.6.2 driver brings FSR 4.1 machine-learning upscaling to RDNA 3 Radeon RX 7000 cards using an INT8 model, but frame generation remains an RDNA 4 exclusive.

Halo Studios' Unreal Engine 5 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved arrives July 28 on PS5, Xbox and PC, day one on Game Pass and marking the franchise's first appearance on PlayStation.

Until Dawn 2 launches on PS5 in 2027, developed by Sony's Liverpool studio Firesprite rather than original creator Supermassive Games.

Reports say Microsoft is closing Hellblade studio Ninja Theory and put Double Fine and Compulsion in exit talks, days after a public Xbox 'reset' memo.