Game News Round-Up

Marvel Rivals Season 9 Announced. Dubbed "The Mystery of Thebes", the season introduces new characters Jubliee and The Hood alongside reworks to Black Widow and the Team-Up feature. Season begins July 10th

Apex Legends x Cyberpunk crossover event announced. Event includes Cyberpunk skins, two Cyberware mods (Sandavistan and Blackwall Breach) alongside the Skippy gun. Event starts July 14th

Unturned developer Smartly Dressed Games has released the source code and project files for Unturned on Github

Xbox Game Pass July Update

• Arriving
• Winds of Arcana: Ruination [July 6]
• Gears of War: Reloaded [July 9]
• Tamashika [July 9]
• Ascend to Zero [July 13]
• PBA Pro Bowling 2026 [July 14]
• Quarantine Zone: The Last Check [July 15]
• Mavrix by Matt Jones [July 16]
• FixForce [July 17]
• Fogpiercer [July 17]
• The Planet Crafter [July 21]
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 [July 21]
• Leaving
• Dungeons of Hinterberg
• EA Sports Football Club 24
• Stellaris
• Golf With Your Friends
• Minami Lane
• Powerwash Simulator
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
• Splitgate: Arena Reloaded
• Super Fantasy Kingdom
• Techtonica

Supercell starts developer grants program for African studios. The equity-free grants can range from $20,000 to $200,000

IO Interactive regains full ownership of Project Fantasy following end of Xbox deal, shuts down Istanbul studio and lays off unknown amount of developers "to find a new balance"

• IO Interactive will focus on the success of "internal core titles" instead of external projects and "mobile game derivatives" moving forward