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Sony is reportedly getting back most of an estimated $508 million in U.S. tariff refunds after the tariffs that contributed to PS5 price increases were later ruled unlawful.
According to Sony CFO Lin Tao, most of the refund is going to the PlayStation business, with around 70% already received between April and June 2026.
Even so, Sony has not announced any plans to refund customers who paid the higher PS5 prices. The company is also facing a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. claiming that some of the recovered money should be passed on to consumers.
“For the players”
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Reddit is introducing a new AI moderation tool that can automatically remove posts and comments it believes break a subreddit’s rules.
Unlike traditional moderation bots that mainly look for specific keywords, the new system analyzes the meaning and context of a post before deciding whether it should stay up.
Communities can decide how much control to give the AI, from flagging content for review to removing it automatically.
The feature has been tested across hundreds of communities and is expanding to more subreddits.
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A former Rockstar Games developer says he “would not be shocked” if GTA 6 ends up being delayed again by another three to six months.
Mike York, who previously worked as an animator at Rockstar, said the game’s scale and the studio’s focus on quality make another delay a real possibility.
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The new Fire Emblem game is getting backlash from Japan and Western users after Nintendo showed the character creator.
Instead of “Male” and “Female,” the body options are labeled Type A and Type B.
Fans see it as a “pathetic” avoidance of basic biological terms and a form of localization pandering that solves no real problem.
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NVIDIA is reportedly working on a feature that could let future GeForce GPUs use an SSD as extra VRAM.
When a graphics card runs out of VRAM, it could use data stored on a fast NVMe SSD instead.
Your SSD won’t be as fast as real VRAM, but it could help when a game or AI app needs more memory than your graphics card has.
That could mean fewer stutters and better performance in some situations.
The feature is reportedly based on RTX IO and Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology.
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Addison Rae is coming to Fortnite tomorrow.
It's official Epic Games finally realized how to make money.
If you stare at the moon in Beast of Reincarnation for too long, your character dies.
Also, don't try to swim, the same thing happens there isn't even a swimming animation, just a black screen.
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Roblox stock is crashing and they say the lack of new viral games is one of the main reasons.
The company’s shares have fallen by around 70% over the past year, wiping roughly $70 billion off Roblox’s market value.
“We attribute the unforeseen monetization shortfall to a greater-than-expected shift of engagement from high monetizing 2025 vintage viral games to a combination of new and evergreen experiences with lower hourly monetization,”
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Game Freak says it’s heard the feedback on Beast of Reincarnation and will start rolling out regular updates beginning next week.
The studio says the first patches will focus on bug fixes, performance improvements, gameplay balance, and quality-of-life changes, with future updates shaped by player feedback.
The game had a mixed launch, and Game Freak is hoping these updates will improve the overall experience over time.
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NVIDIA canceled a customer’s $4,600 order for an ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 after ASUS declined to honor the pre-price-hike price.
The customer was instructed to place a new order at $5,100, a $500 increase.
The customer says NVIDIA blamed ASUS for the cancellation, while ASUS said it wasn’t responsible.
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Mass layoffs expected at EA
Bloomberg reports that EA plans to cut around $700 million in annual costs after going private.
$170 million of those savings will come from “organizational efficiencies,” a term that often refers to restructuring and workforce reductions, they are firing everyone
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Gigabyte has reportedly increased GPU prices in Japan by up to 40%, depending on the model.
The price hike affects GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and is linked to higher production costs, including more expensive memory and chip manufacturing.
NVIDIA is also said to have raised prices for its board partners.
Similar price increases have already been reported in South Korea, suggesting other regions could also see higher GPU prices in the coming months.
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The Pokémon Company faces a class-action lawsuit over alleged hidden bathroom recordings.
A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against The Pokémon Company International after a former engineering director was accused of secretly recording employees and visitors in the company’s Bellevue, Washington, office bathrooms.
Investigators allegedly found 89 videos recorded inside Pokémon office restrooms on devices seized from the former executive’s home.
The footage stored in folders labeled “Pokémon 27” and “Pokémon 29.”
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PC gamers are clearly upgrading their hardware according to Valve’s latest Steam Hardware Survey
16GB VRAM graphics cards have officially overtaken 8GB models for the first time. They now make up 25.9% of surveyed systems, while 8GB GPUs are close behind at 25.3%.
CPUs are changing too. 8-core processors are now the most common, with 27.85% of users, just edging out 6-core chips at 27.52%.
A few other interesting stats from the survey:
>Windows 11 is now used by over 70% of Steam users.
>16GB of RAM is still the most popular memory setup.
>The GeForce RTX 3060 remains the most-used graphics card on Steam.
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A Japanese indie developer added full Czech language support to BALL BOY Simulator after noticing that only one person from the Czech Republic had wishlisted the game.
Instead of thinking it wasn’t worth the effort, the dev decided that one player was enough.
He also said the idea was inspired by the Czech baseball team’s performance at the 2023 World Baseball Classic
Even Warhorse Studios, the team behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, gave the developer a shoutout for the dedication.
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Capcom reported a record first quarter for fiscal year 2026
>Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
>Pragmata has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.
For the quarter ending June 30, 2026:
>Net sales: ¥45.5 billion (+53.7% year-over-year)
>Operating profit: ¥24.6 billion (+91.7%)
Net profit: ¥17.2 billion (+90.2%)
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Universal Pictures is reportedly trying to determine who leaked The Odyssey online.
The studio is using forensic digital watermarks embedded in theater copies to trace the leak back to the exact cinema or screening where it originated.
Investigators are also looking into the possibility of an internal breach.
One theory is that a theater employee with access to the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) may have used specialized hardware to create a high-quality copy.
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Former Epic Games evangelist Sjoerd De Jong, who has spent more than a decade helping developers use Unreal Engine and worked with it for 27 years, is building his own game engine from scratch.
He isn’t trying to replace Unreal Engine or Unity, he just wants to experiment with new ideas and make game development simpler and more flexible.
He says today’s engines are more powerful than ever but much more complicated to use. His project explores a different approach and is still in the early stages with no release date.
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NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series graphics cards could be getting even more expensive.
According to distributor pricing, MSI and Colorful have increased prices for several RTX 50 models in China.
Some of the reported increases include:
- RTX 5090: up to 16% higher
- RTX 5080: around 20% higher
- RTX 5070 Ti: up to 20% higher, with some models now starting at 38% above NVIDIA’s original MSRP
- RTX 5070: up to 15% higher
The reported increases are linked to rising manufacturing costs, including more expensive GDDR7 memory and higher GPU costs for board partners.
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Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida says fans shouldn’t expect remakes of Final Fantasy VI, VIII, or IX to follow the same path as Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Speaking during Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026, he explained that remaking any of those classic games to modern AAA standards would be an enormous project.
Each could need four or even five separate releases due to the content that would have to be rebuilt and expanded.
Recreating them at the same level as FFVII Remake would take years and massive resources.
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