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Gen Con 2026 flooded and got a tornado warning on the same afternoon
Rain poured through the roof of the Indiana Convention Center on Saturday, flooding Gen Con’s game floor, and a tornado warning sent 72,000 attendees…
5 hrs ago
A gamer warned police he’d be swatted. They shot him anyway.
Axeel Melendez told the Pima County Sheriff’s Department that hackers were threatening to swat him.
Aug 1
July 2026
Game developers launch $10 itch.io bundle to help laid-off workers
A 127-game itch.io bundle is raising money for laid-off game developers
Jul 31
Wonder Man is toast. Marvel cancels Disney Plus series after one season.
Disney+ reversed the Season 2 renewal it announced in March and axed Wonder Man, a Hollywood satire with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score and an…
Jul 31
Was Mark Ruffalo banned from promoting Spider-Man 4 over politics?
Ruffalo did zero press for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and a viral post says his politics got him benched.
Jul 29
Supergirl dumped onto digital one month after bombing in theaters
Supergirl landed on VOD July 28, just 32 days after opening to a $124 million global run against a $290 million budget.
Jul 29
Disney gets backlash for using Mrs. Incredible to fire 108 Pixar workers
A WARN notice cutting 108 Pixar jobs went out on the studio’s Elastigirl letterhead, from a movie that opens with a man getting fired.
Jul 29
Sean Astin only paid $75,000 per movie for Lord of the Rings trilogy
He carried Frodo up a volcano and won the trilogy a shelf of Oscars’ worth of goodwill.
Jul 29
BuzzFeed cuts about a third of its staff, hitting HuffPost and Tasty
New owner Byron Allen cut roughly 180 people, about 35% of BuzzFeed, weeks after buying the near-bankrupt company for $120 million.
Jul 29
Jared Leto erased from He-Man PR ahead of BBC documentary about misconduct allegations
Months before this week’s BBC documentary detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Jared Leto, Amazon had already scrubbed him from Masters of the…
Jul 29
Jumanji: Open World trailer sends the game into the real world
Sony released the first full Jumanji: Open World trailer on July 28.
Jul 29
Wizards of the Coast loses another president after just two years
John Hight is out as WotC president a week after Hasbro wrote down $56 million in canceled video games he oversaw.
Jul 29
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