This week Microsoft quietly kneecaps Xbox Cloud Gaming with new monthly hour limits, and they’re also keeping the tariff refunds. The future of gaming may not be financially viable?

• ‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin,’ Rory Kennedy Doc About Titular Actor in ‘Rust’ Shooting Aftermath, Acquired by Abramorama (Exclusive)
• Xbox Cloud Gaming Will Soon Get More Expensive for the Players Who Use It Most
• Microsoft and Sony argue no obligation to pass on tariff refunds, file to dismiss consumer lawsuits
• The Witcher Remake Is On Hold Until The Witcher 4S Development Progresses Confirms Cd Projekt Red
• Playstation Claims Digital Games Are Not Really Owned By Players In Response To Class Action Lawsuit
• 12Tb Of Steam Files Leak As A Decades Worth Of First And Third Party Game Data Is Exposed
• James Pond Co-Creator Calls AI-Rife Remake 'Soulless'
• The New 'Star Trek' Movie Will Explore 'Bad Apples' in Starfleet
• Ridley Scott Wants To Help Alien After Romulus Was Better Than His Films
• Star Wars Effects Artist Phil Tippett Shutters Studio
• Tippet Stuff
• Nicolas Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ Canceled by Prime Video After One Season

Xbox's limited-edition green throwback console sold out in under a minute this week, and is now sitting on eBay for $3,300 AUD. Reasonable? You be the judge. Actually no, we’ll be the judge. That’s ridiculous.

• Squadrom 42 delayed... again. The scam continues! : r/pcmasterrace
• Apple's Polishing Cloth is back for $9
• Xbox Disc To Digital Insiders
• Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool
• Canceled Iron Man Game Footage From Just Cause And Mad Max Developer Leaks Online
• PlayStation Blasts Out Poorly Timed Reminder About Digital Games
• The Witcher 3 Remastered Launches September Free Upgrade For All Owners
• The Witcher 3 Songs Of The Past Expansion Confirmed To Include More Gwent And Everyone Is Already Celebrating
• The Witcher 4 Confirmed For 2028 Release In Official Cd Projekt Gamescom 2026 Announcement
• "Avengers Endgame Encore" Is

Luke's back from the actual flu (not the fake flu, the 'couldn't get an achievement for 5 days' flu), and Matt's walking around post-spinal surgery like a champ, albeit with a physiotherapist who apparently learned her craft from a Bond villain

• Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off The Rails Creating Further Distrust Among Players
• "Wolverine" Game Under
• Bruce Campbell Wants 'Evil Dead' to Lighten the Hell Up Again
• Bruce Campbell Officially Retires From Playing Ash Williams in All Future 'Evil Dead' Projects
• Disney Sets Pre-"Avengers: Doomsday" Watchlist
• X Men Cast Confirmed To Include Inde Navarette As Rogue Adam Driver As Mister Sinister Maya Boyd As Storm And More D23 2026
• Dave Bautista Officially Cast As Kratos In God Of War Show After Ryan Hurst Drops Out Due To Injury

We're back, baby! Matt had surgery, Luke got sick, got better, went back to work, and got sick again with something different. Classic Luke. Anyway, we pushed through because we missed you.

• Thimbleweed Park 2
• The Elder Scrolls 6 Demo To Xbox Leadership Included A Giant Inflatable Rat Placed Outside Bethesda Offices In Protest At Microsofts Mass Layoffs
• Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games by Region Locked Documentary — Kickstarter
• Movie-Goers Evacuate Spider-Man: Brand New Day Screening After 'Rotten' Fart Rips
• Sadie Sink’s Secret Role in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Finally Revealed
• Ryan Gosling Is Officially the MCU's New Ghost Rider
• Emma Frost has been cast
• Mahershala Ali Officially Moves on From ‘Blade’ After Marvel Cancellation
• Marvel's Giant 'Avengers: Doomsday' Comic-Con Ad Resulted In a Huge Fine
• James Bond Will Be Officially Announced This Year
• God Of War Show May Have Found Its Kratos In Dave Bautista
• Alan Ritchson Is Officially Crowned Netflix's Streaming King

This week we wonder how Nolan made a $250 million movie that looks like The Odyssey, while Moana 2 cost the same amount and looks like... Moana 2.

• 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' Officially Surges to No. 1 as Instant Digital Hit in Just 24 Hours
• Whoopi Goldberg Slams Transphobic Critics of Elliot Page’s Casting in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘Then Don’t Go See It… Why Do You Care Who’s Cast in It?’
• ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way
• Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is Officially Too Popular
• 'Avengers: Doomsday' Breaks New Record 6 Months Before It Hits Theaters
• First Photos: "Blade Runner 2099" TV Series
• Blade Runner 2099 Teaser
• Disney Officially Confirms the End of 'The Mandalorian'

Luke is back from hospital where he apparently has built up a full tolerance to ketamine ('I have no idea what people are going on about') and Matt is falling apart at the spine. It's fine. Everyone's fine. Somehow they still watched a bunch of movies and have opinions.

• id creative director says they were not completely nerfed
• BBC Officially Responds to 'Doctor Who' Cancellation
• George Lucas Says 'There's Nothing You Can Do About AI'
• Bethesda Gives Update On Elder Scrolls 6 And Future After Xbox 'Reset'
• Fallout 3 And New Vegas Remasters Coming Ahead Of Fallout 5
• Sydney Sweeney to star in new, erotic, Sleepy Hollow
• The New 'G.I. Joe' Movie Just Landed a Surprising Director
• Live-Action ‘Moana’ Remake To Lose $100 Million After Disappointing Box-Office Debut

So Taylor Swift got married, Adam Sandler officiated (yes, really, no one knows why either), and you could buy 'wedding memorabilia' off a New York street artist - including a used ovulation test - for $25. We live in a society.

Then there's the Xbox stuff, which is a lot. Like, a LOT. Thousands of jobs gone, Double Fine just... set free, id Software's programmers shown the door (great for the legendary game engine people, obviously), and Obsidian pulled off Avowed 2 to go make Fallout instead. The good news: this is what everyone wanted since New Vegas. The bad news: it's happening because Microsoft bought literally everything and then panicked.

Sony's having a bad fortnight too. No disc drive on PS6, and they're nuking 551 movies from people's PlayStation libraries because the licenses ran out. You know, movies people paid for. Bought. Owned. Allegedly.

Armie Hammer took a role in Uwe Boll's new film without reading the full script, then rang his publicist crying after he saw it. He did say he'd do the sequel for 'life-changing money,' which is a very reasonable position. Mindhunter is dead forever and Fincher hates that you keep asking. Ludwig got renewed for season 3 before season 2 is even out, which - watch Ludwig. And Supergirl bombed harder than Blue Beetle, which is impressive given that nobody remembered Blue Beetle existed.

• Armie Hammer’s ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Secures Worldwide Distribution Following Dramatic Elon Musk Intervention (EXCLUSIVE)
• Armie Hammer was 'in tears' the first time he saw the 'hateful' Citizen Vigilante in full
• Taytay got married
• Taylor Swift fans pay $25 for garbage from outside wedding
• Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028, citing "consumer preferences" as the reason why | Eurogamer.net
• People are cancelling PS Plus over the disc situation
• Game Pass Reportedly Down To 30 Million Subscribers After Churn
• Xbox Wants To 'Entertain More Than A Billion People' Daily
• Resetting XBOX - XBOX Wire
• Doom Studio's Future Unclear After Xbox Bloodbath At id Software
• Obsidian working on new Fallout game?!?
• The Odyssey is getting rave reviews
• DC’s Latest Superhero Movie Crosses $100 Million, but There’s a Catch
• Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
• ‘Mindhunter’ Is Officially Cancelled, So Stop Asking David Fincher About It
• Beloved Detective Series Officially Renewed Ahead of New Episodes

Luke went to see Supergirl and came back mostly flat. His verdict: he laughed once.

• Xbox prices are going up
• GTA 6 Will Just Be A Code In A Box At Launch With No Disc
• Steam Machine Review
• Steam Machine
• Richard Garriott Wants To Take Ultima Back From EA
• The villain in Spider-man Brand New Day hasn't been revealed yet
• ‘World War Z’ Officially Returns With New Sequel in Development