Game News Round-Up

1047 Games ends active development on Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, says it's moving away from live service shooters

• Both titles move to peer-to-peer hosting from September 3

IGDA Incubation SIG to unveil first global census of game incubators and accelerators at Gamescom

Xbox to let Insiders convert physical game discs into digital entitlements later this month

• Starts August 31st, players will be able to insert a supported disc into an Xbox One or Xbox Series X console and launch the game to claim the entitlement, with "Most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games" supported

Ubisoft announces playstest platform The Player Council

• Participants will be able to test early concepts and prototypes, as well as give feedback directly to devs

Path of Exile 1.0 releases 11th December

GTA 6 leaks ‘have been heartbreaking for our team,’ says Rockstar Games as it breaks silence

Playdate maker Panic is refunding tariff fees to customers