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A new Pragmata report making the rounds claims Capcom animators Kenji Irie and Serina Ohara said at CEDEC 2026 that Diana almost ended up with a bob cut because it would’ve been cheaper. As of now, though, the public coverage doesn’t confirm that Irie and Ohara actually said that, so this is one to read carefully, not something to accept as settled fact.

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That rumor gets attention because Diana wasn’t thrown together casually. Capcom seems to have built her with a lot of care as Hugh’s childlike android companion. Director Yonghee Cho has pointed to Arale-chan from Dr. Slump, along with small android-like mannerisms, and even an internal all-female “Diana Police” review group that checked whether her movement and voice felt natural instead of drifting into something overly cute.

Her finished long hairstyle also reportedly helped Capcom push the RE Engine’s strand-based hair tech further. Add in the fact that Pragmata had already sold more than 2.5 million copies by July 2026, plus Yoshikazu Shimauchi talking about a sequel and the steady back-and-forth over Diana’s design and fan content, and it’s easy to see why even an unconfirmed story about a haircut is drawing eyes.

If you’ve been following Capcom’s Pragmata closely, this is the kind of update to keep in mind, but with some skepticism.

You can play Pragmata, released on April 17, 2026, on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 just got a new update on PlayStation 5 and PC. As of July 28, 2026, the game has moved to v1.005.000 on PS5 and v2.727.0.0 on PC. The patch adds Enhanced PSSR support for PlayStation 5 Pro, two free Peter Parker suits, and a new Power Saver mode.

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If you’re on PlayStation 5 Pro, this is the big addition. Enhanced PSSR brings native PSSR 2.0 support, and Sony and Insomniac say it improves both image quality and performance. Early impressions line up with that, with players reporting a cleaner picture and less blur.

The new outfits are available on both PlayStation 5 and PC. Players can claim the Fresh Start suit from Spider-Man: Brand New Day, along with a suit pulled from MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls.

Power Saver mode has also been added across all PlayStation 5 consoles. On the PC side, the Nixxes Software version, which launched on January 30, 2025, still includes the extra graphics options it arrived with: enhanced ray tracing, DLSS 3, FSR 3.1, and XeSS support.

If you play Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 often, this patch is an easy download. It’s especially appealing if you’ve been hoping for a sharper-looking performance mode on PlayStation 5 Pro, or if you just want the free suits showing up alongside Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s theatrical debut.

For anyone keeping track, this update arrives a little less than three years after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 first launched in October 2023.

You can download it now on PlayStation 5 and PC.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno have updated the Atlas of Surveillance, a free, searchable online database that now covers more than 15,000 data points across the US. You can use it to look up the tools police use, including Flock Safety license plate readers, facial recognition, drones, and body cameras.

Built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno, the Atlas of Surveillance lets you search by location or by agency. It draws on data journalism, public records requests, and crowdsourcing, so you don’t have to dig through council agendas or police procurement files on your own.

Flock Safety says its automatic license plate reader cameras are used in more than 4,000 cities, help solve around 2,200 crimes a day, and usually keep vehicle-sighting data for 30 days. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation argue that systems operating at that scale can start to function like mass surveillance, which raises familiar concerns about misuse and data sharing across agencies.

That pushback is already showing up in policy. The Los Angeles Police Department recently paused its use of Flock Safety after a Los Angeles Police Department inspector general audit raised questions about privacy protections and sharing practices, and some other cities have also started reconsidering their contracts.

If you want to see what surveillance tech police are using in your area, the Atlas of Surveillance is free and available online now. You can search it on the web right away.

Reddit’s made-up Duskbloods lore is now showing up in chatbot answers, after people in r/TheDuskbloods spent time writing elaborate fantasy posts. Invented bosses, mechanics, bits of lore, and strategy tips have started to come back as if they were real facts about Duskbloods, a FromSoftware game for Nintendo Switch 2 that doesn’t exist.

Those Reddit posts were clearly built as fantasy, but automated answer tools later echoed them as straight advice. It’s a good example of how large language models can take satire, roleplay, in-jokes, leaks, datamines, parody, and even convincing Soulslike-style wiki threads, then treat all of it like reliable information.

And Reddit has a lot of weight in that process. One Semrush study found that it accounted for more than 40% of chatbot citations, ahead of Wikipedia. Add in reports that Google paid about 60 million for Reddit training data, and it’s easy to see how viral fiction, memes, hoaxes, and enthusiast posting can get pressed flat into “facts.”

If you use chatbots for gaming news or gameplay tips, this keeps coming up. Reporting from 2025 and 2026 keeps finding the same problems: false narratives, conspiracy validation, and polished hallucinations, because these systems are built to predict plausible language, not truth. The Arma 3 war-footage hoaxes already showed how easily fake material travels, and a 2024 survey found that 63% of game journalists said they’d seen negative effects. The spillover isn’t hypothetical.

The original Reddit posts are still there if you want to read them. But if a chatbot starts giving you boss advice for Duskbloods, check one thing first: does Duskbloods, or that boss, actually exist?

Apple bumped up iPhone prices in Japan on July 17, 2026, according to its Japan store. Across the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, and iPhone 16 models, the increases go as high as 11.3%.

The new pricing went live that same day on Apple’s Japan store, and some of the sharpest increases landed on the higher-end models. The iPhone 17 Pro Max moved from 194,800 yen to 214,800 yen, a 10.3% jump. iPhone Air went from 159,800 yen to 177,800 yen, which works out to 11.3%.

Planning to buy a new iPhone in Japan? Check the latest prices before upgrading. You’ll now be paying quite a bit more, even though Apple has kept prices more stable in the US and in other markets we looked at.

The most likely explanation is the weaker yen against the US dollar, which pushes up Apple’s local costs. That lines up with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s warning from June 2026, when he said price increases were “unavoidable” because of manufacturing and supply-chain pressure.

And it isn’t just iPhones. Apple has also raised prices on some Macs, iPads, and services such as iCloud+ and Apple Music. Even so, this still doesn’t look like a broader global iPhone price hike, at least from the retailer pricing we checked in Spain, Australia, and Germany. In those markets, some iPhone 17 stock is actually being discounted by about 6% ahead of the expected iPhone 18 launch.

The revised prices are already live on Apple’s Japan store.

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Fortnite has revealed its The Odyssey crossover ahead of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which hits theaters on July 17, and it brings Matt Damon’s version of Odysseus into the game.

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It’s mostly a cosmetic set: the Odysseus Outfit, Odysseus’ Xiphos Pickaxe, and the Bow of Iphytus Back Bling. The crossover also extends Epic Games’ 2026 streak of pop-culture collabs, which has already passed 30 and includes names like Sonic the Hedgehog and Vampire Survivors. Epic even threw in a nod to Homer with the line, “Don’t give me consolation about death, glorious Odysseus,” Achilles’ quote from the underworld passage in the original epic, the one about Odysseus trying to make it home after the Trojan War while dealing with shipwrecks, monsters, meddling gods, and years of loss.

So far, Epic Games has only officially announced Odysseus. Leakers, though, are also pointing to Agamemnon and Penelope, and that lines up with Fortnite’s usual habit of building out a crossover after the first wave lands. Nolan has been here before, too. The Odyssey isn’t his first Fortnite connection, following tie-ins tied to Tenet, Inception, and Batman Begins back in 2020.

If you’re into Fortnite’s movie crossovers, this one looks like an easy pickup. Epic says players can try to unlock the items early through the Odyssey Cup on July 15 and 16, or just grab them from the Fortnite Item Shop on July 17.

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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Square Enix’s September 2025 remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics, got its version 1.5.0 update in mid-June 2026, almost nine months after release.

The headline addition is New Game+. Once you’ve finished the game, you can start again without giving up your unit levels, item data, jobs, equipment, and the rest of your progress. That makes it a lot easier to jump back into Ivalice with a fully developed roster and get to late-game setups much sooner. Story battles don’t appear to scale to match an overpowered party, though, so some big fights may end up feeling easier than they were meant to.

There are also a handful of genuinely useful quality-of-life changes. You can now check a unit’s status while targeting a tile, use a new Remove All Equipment command, see job unlock requirements more clearly, and keep your camera angle and zoom settings during battle. The patch also puts Zodiac Compatibility on the status screen and adds cutscene auto-proceed, spoken incantation options, and text support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.

If you return to Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles often, this is an update you’ll probably want to install, even with Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions features like Dark Knight and Onion Knight still absent.

Version 1.5.0 for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is available to download now.