The news of the week (#24 2026)

After giving everything at the Xbox Game Showcase 2026, the Xbox team has experienced a week marked by uncertainty that has not yet been cleared up. After announcing the reboot of Xbox, the company would now be negotiating the future of Compulsion Games, Double Fine and Ninja Theory, which if they do not achieve independence they could close. Who has already packed his bags is Craig Duncan, head of Xbox Game Studios, who has left his position with his right-hand woman Louise O’Connor. On the other hand, Rockstar Games has announced that the Grand Theft Auto V update for PS5 and Xbox Series becomes free.

Among the news this week we have the launch of EA Sports UFC 2026 and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, while The Planet Crafter, The Relic: First Guardian and Hellraiser: Revival have announced their launch for July 21, July 31 and October 8, respectively. The situation of Outward 2 is different, which has delayed its launch to 2027. We have also talked about the philosophy of Guild Wars 3. In hardware we discovered new details of Neo Geo AES+ and the status of orders and reservations for the Steam Controller, which is very far from covering demand.

We jump into technology but without abandoning video games with the first details of Unreal Engine 6, an engine that will welcome generative AI models and the Verse programming language. Finally, SpaceX has confirmed the purchase of Cursor, a startup of programming with AI, for 60,000 million dollars, and the United Kingdom has announced that it will prohibit social networks for those under 16 years of age.

Nintendo

• Pokémon Champions is now available on iOS and Android.
• Dispatch releases an update that allows censorship to be adjusted on Switch.

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