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At Gen Con 2026, Wizards of the Coast confirmed that Star Wars is coming to Dungeons & Dragons. The release is set for late 2027 under the Universes Beyond banner, in a season called Season of Rebellion.

That makes Star Wars the second big crossover franchise Dungeons & Dragons has lined up, following World of Warcraft in November 2026. Read together, those two announcements make the direction pretty clear: Wizards of the Coast wants to pull D&D toward a wider audience by leaning on brands people already know.

And there’s another angle here. Anyone who keeps an eye on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering crossovers is probably going to latch onto this, because Wizards of the Coast still hasn’t announced Star Wars for Magic. Still, Hasbro owns both games, and both sit under the same Universes Beyond strategy. The catch is Star Wars: Unlimited, published by Fantasy Flight Games, which makes any separate card-game arrangement a lot messier.

Wizards of the Coast also has history with this license. The company published a Star Wars d20 RPG from 2000 to 2010, so this isn’t its first trip into that galaxy.

Reaction to the new project is split. Some fans are already imagining 5th Edition-style lightsaber duels, smugglers, Jedi, and Rebel missions. Others aren’t convinced Dungeons & Dragons is a natural fit for Star Wars, especially its speed, tone, and combat built around blasters, ships, and tech, and some are worried a big official crossover could drown out the Star Wars RPGs that already exist.

For now, late 2027 is the target. Until Wizards of the Coast shares more, Magic fans are probably still going to keep asking the same question: is the Force headed to the card table too?

In its Q2 2026 earnings release, Krafton posted record quarterly revenue of ₩1.29 trillion ($889.1 million), up 94.9% from a year earlier, along with operating profit of ₩410.9 billion ($283.1 million), a 67% increase. These results came from the company behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, and The Callisto Protocol.

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Subnautica 2 was the standout this quarter. Krafton says the game sold more than 5 million copies in 22 days after entering early access in May, helping the series bring in ₩232.5 billion in the first half of 2026. Over that same stretch, revenue from the PUBG IP climbed 25%. On the platform side, PC revenue passed ₩500 billion for the first time, console revenue surged 143.3%, and mobile was up 5.5%. Even with that growth, Krafton still recorded a net loss because of non-operating costs tied to Unknown Worlds Entertainment, including a settled $250 million bonus dispute.

If you’re following PUBG or Subnautica 2, there’s more coming soon. Krafton says it will show five new titles at Gamescom in August, all lined up for release in 2027. The company also says it now has 26 games in development and has mapped out more than ₩1 trillion in dividends and share buybacks between 2026 and 2028. The full earnings release is available on Krafton’s investor site.

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Halo: Campaign Evolved is out now, and its ending drops the strongest hint so far that a full Halo 2 remake is probably coming next.

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Beat Halo: Campaign Evolved and you’ll unlock two direct nods to what comes after. On Legendary, Sergeant Avery Johnson looks straight at you and says, “See you in the sequel.” On any difficulty, there’s also a post-credits scene where 343 Guilty Spark heads toward a gas giant, which lines up with Halo 2’s opening setup. Push Square and Eurogamer both read that as about as close to an explicit setup as you can get without an announcement.

The timing makes sense, too. 343 Industries has rebranded as Halo Studios, and the team has swapped Slipspace for Unreal Engine 5 as part of a broader reset meant to make development easier and open the door to a wider hiring pool.

Halo: Campaign Evolved looks like the first real test of that plan. Early reaction has been mostly positive, especially around the visuals and how closely the gameplay still feels tied to the original, so a Halo 2 follow-up feels like the next obvious move.

Then there are the leaks. Rebs Gaming has also reported that Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes are already in active development, which points to a full trilogy rollout rather than a single nostalgia project.

If you keep up with Halo, this is one to watch, even if plenty of fans still say a Halo 2 remake without multiplayer wouldn’t feel complete. Either way, both scenes are already unlockable in Halo: Campaign Evolved.

Splatoon 3 is out now on Nintendo Switch, and if you’re trying to find the Splatoon game you can play with friends, that’s the one you want. Nintendo hasn’t announced or released anything called Splatoon Raiders, so that name looks like a mix-up, a placeholder, or just an inaccurate label, not a real spin-off.

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So if what you actually mean is Splatoon 3, then yes, you can play with friends. Its online lobby system lets you create or join rooms and queue up together with a lot less hassle than in the earlier games. Reviewers picked up on that too, praising Splatoon 3 for tightening up the formula and making group play smoother.

For competitive play, Splatoon 3 gives you Turf War and Anarchy Battle. If you want co-op instead, Salmon Run supports up to four players as you survive waves of enemies and collect Golden Eggs.

Side Order came out for Splatoon 3 on February 22, 2024, according to Nintendo. It adds a replayable single-player campaign, but it doesn’t turn Splatoon 3 into a story co-op game. The multiplayer content and the solo content are still separate.

If you play online with friends regularly, Splatoon 3 is an easy one to recommend, especially since seasonal updates, new weapons, extra stages, and Splatfests have kept the community active. Nintendo said in early 2024 that Splatoon 3 had sold more than 11 million copies.

You can get Splatoon 3 on Nintendo Switch.

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The FBI says it has arrested Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, a 21-year-old from Florida, and accuses him of helping run a malware operation on Steam, Valve’s PC game storefront. Investigators say the scheme ran from May 2024 through February 2026 and siphoned cryptocurrency from players.

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According to investigators, the operation lasted from May 2024 to February 2026, infected about 8,000 devices, compromised roughly 80 wallets, and brought in at least $220,000 in crypto. Wilkins now faces a federal conspiracy charge tied, prosecutors say, to obtaining computer information for private financial gain, an offense that can carry a sentence of up to 10 years.

Prosecutors say at least eight indie games, including Lunara, PirateFi, BlockBlasters, Lampy, and Dashverse, contained infostealer-style malware built to grab passwords, login credentials, and wallet data. They also allege that some of those titles made it through Steam’s review process first, and that the malicious code showed up later in post-release updates.

If you play smaller indie games on Steam, or you install updates after release without thinking much about them, this is the sort of case to watch closely. Investigators say the games were promoted on Discord, Telegram, and X, with bots used to target people believed to be holding large amounts of crypto.

The FBI first warned players in March 2026. Agents say they tracked stolen Bitcoin, that had been converted into more than 150 gift cards, many of which were then used for Uber Eats deliveries sent to addresses linked to Wilkins, with help from a cooperating co-conspirator in Seattle.

The affected games were sold on Steam for PC, and several of them were removed earlier in 2026. Wilkins was due in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, and the FBI says the investigation is still ongoing.

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xAI, the Elon Musk AI company behind Grok, is reportedly dealing with a talent problem. Reports say all 11 original co-founders are gone, and staff turnover more broadly has been described as unusually high.

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Former employees describe xAI as a hard place to work: long hours, decisions concentrated at the top, not much tolerance for disagreement, and constant churn. People watching the company say that could start to show up in execution, hiring, and enterprise credibility, even after reports of a $20 billion raise at roughly a $230 billion valuation and a February 2026 merger with SpaceX that reportedly put the combined company near $1.25 trillion.

Reports also say xAI has measured Grok against Claude, Anthropic’s competing model, especially on coding. Inside the company, there was said to be frustration that Grok lagged behind. There were also allegations that Claude outputs were used to improve xAI’s coding systems, including claims that some employees kept relying on personal Anthropic accounts after official access had been cut off.

xAI was also reportedly preparing layoffs of as much as 30% in March 2026, though other reports put the cuts at more than 70%. All of that landed while Grok was already taking heat over deepfake sexual images, misinformation, and a July 2026 allegation that one coding tool sent entire code repositories to the cloud without clear consent.

If you follow Grok closely, keep an eye on this.

The next round of xAI news will likely come down to one question: can the company behind Grok get itself steady?

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Blue Beetle may be headed back to the big screen sooner than expected. Multiple reports say Xolo Maridueña is set to return as Jaime Reyes in the Superman follow-up, Man of Tomorrow, which is currently eyeing July 9, 2027. If that holds, it would finally make good on James Gunn’s 2023 promise that Blue Beetle would be the first DCU character.

If Maridueña does turn up, it’s one of the clearest signs so far that Gunn and Peter Safran are starting to link this new DCU across movies and animation. The strategy seems pretty plain: keep the 2023 Blue Beetle movie loosely connected to canon, hang on to Maridueña and the central idea, and leave the old DCEU baggage where it is. Early chatter also has Hawkgirl and Green Lantern characters showing up alongside David Corenswet’s Superman, so the real question is whether Blue Beetle, a lead people liked for his younger energy and Latino representation, gets to matter or just ends up as set dressing.

If you were hoping Xolo Maridueña’s Jaime Reyes would survive Blue Beetle’s $130.8 million worldwide box-office miss against a reported $100 million-plus budget, this is worth watching.

Man of Tomorrow is still said to be targeting July 9, 2027. Blue Beetle, meanwhile, seems to have found a stronger audience on streaming, landing as HBO Max’s most-watched film launch in the U.S. most-watched film launch in the U.S. Maridueña is also expected to voice Jaime Reyes in an animated DCU series.

A Brazilian court has ordered Microsoft to restore hacked Xbox user Ordo_Liberal’s account and digital games, giving the company 15 days to do it.

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Ordo_Liberal says Microsoft support confirmed the account had been accessed without authorization and that its security details had been changed. Even so, support said customer service couldn’t recover the profile and could only suspend it permanently.

The ruling says that left Ordo_Liberal locked out of the account and, allegedly, being told to buy the games again, even though two-factor authentication was enabled. The court also awarded about $400 for emotional distress, added daily fines, and said stronger enforcement could follow if Microsoft ignores the order.

Microsoft hadn’t commented at the time of writing.

If you buy games on Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, or Nintendo, this case is one to watch. In most cases, what you own is a revocable license, so a banned, suspended, or hacked account can wipe out a library you paid for.

The timing matters, too. Pressure is building in Brazil around digital-only games, and the Stop Killing Games campaign gained momentum after Ubisoft shut down The Crew.

The dispute hinges on Brazil’s consumer-friendly laws and its small-claims system, which can sometimes be used without hiring your own lawyer. The ruling applies locally, but it’s easy to see why similar protections would matter in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and on Microsoft’s Xbox platform.

A joint statement and the court filings show that Christopher Barrett has settled his lawsuit with Bungie and Sony over his 2024 firing, closing out a claim that had sought as much as $200 million. The terms, including any payout, haven’t been disclosed, but both sides said Barrett’s 25 years at Bungie are being recognized, and his name has been added to Marathon‘s credits as original Game Director. Barrett said he’s “very satisfied” with the outcome and can now turn to the next chapter of his gaming career.

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In his lawsuit, Barrett argued that the firing was a way to avoid paying out tens of millions in vested stock and bonuses connected to Sony’s $3.6 billion deal for Bungie. He also said he was turned into a scapegoat for broader business and reputation problems. Bungie and Sony took the opposite position, saying Barrett was fired for cause after an internal investigation into alleged inappropriate behavior involving female employees.

For people who follow Bungie or Sony, the settlement clears away one of the bigger legal disputes hanging over a stretch that already included layoffs in 2023 and 2024, reported cuts tied to Destiny and Marathon, and Sony’s fiscal 2025 impairment loss of 766 million linked to weaker performance from Destiny 2 and Marathon.

The public details are in the joint statement and the court filings.