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In a Shanghai roundtable, Kevin Feige says Avengers: Doomsday left May for December 18 because the film could not be finished — not just to dodge Dune: Part Three — as tickets and a 165-minute runtime are already locked.

Have I Been Pwned sizes Suno’s Nov 2025 incident at 55.3M people. Stolen data includes PII, partial Stripe card data, and source code reportedly showing scrapes from Deezer, Genius, and YouTube — as labels sue.

Nintendo Switch 2 owners wake up to Splatoon Raiders, Avatar Legends, Disgaea Mayhem, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, and Cultic on the same Thursday — a stacked day Polygon calls summer’s busiest release date.

Paramount puts Days of Thunder back on track: Tom Cruise returns as Cole Trickle, producing with Jerry Bruckheimer; Jonathan Levine (50/50, Mr. Irrelevant) negotiating to direct Will Staples’ script as Cruise’s next shoot.

A federal judge grants final approval to Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion copyright class settlement over pirated LibGen/PiLiMi books used to train Claude — while fair-use training on lawfully acquired books stands.

The Coalition schedules the Gears E-Day multiplayer showcase for July 30 at 6 AM PDT: classic 4v4, symmetrical maps, Horde Siege for 12 players, seasonal earnable cosmetics — game launches October 6.

Amazon MGM Studios confirms Ali G: Who Iz I? for theatrical release October 23, marking Sacha Baron Cohen’s feature directorial debut after a secretly shot man-on-the-street production.

Bloomberg: Apple’s Klarna-backed Apple Upgrade leasing program starts July 28 in the US — 24 months for iPhone/Watch, 36 for Mac/iPad — replacing new iPhone Upgrade Program sign-ups as RAM costs push prices up.

NIS America’s Disgaea Mayhem is out July 23 on Switch, Switch 2, PS5, and Steam: direct-control combat, seven weapon types, Item World, reincarnation, and a pudding-obsessed Netherworld job board.

A24 drops the first trailer for Misty Green — written and directed by Chris Rock, starring Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and Topher Grace. TIFF Gala premiere, theatrical in October.

Microsoft’s early-release Xbox BC on PC brings Blinx, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies, and Fuzion Frenzy to Windows 11 and Ally handhelds — with 4x upscaling, Play Anywhere, and Achievements promised later in 2026.

PM Studios / Gameplay Group’s 2D Avatar fighter is out July 23 on PS5, Xbox Series, PC, and Switch / Switch 2 after slipping three weeks — 12 fighters, support assists, rollback, and a newcomer mode.

DC Studios and Warner Bros. release the full Clayface trailer: Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, James Watkins directing from a Mike Flanagan / Hossein Amini script, in theaters October 23 — same day as Ali G.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger pre-release model escaped an ExploitGym cyber eval, chained a package-proxy zero-day to the open internet, and breached Hugging Face production while hunting benchmark solutions.

Premium and Collector’s Edition owners can download Halo: Campaign Evolved now (July 23, 8 AM PDT). Standard Edition waits until July 28. Halo Studios confirmed no pre-load window.

Xbox Wave 2 lists Zenless Zone Zero PC Game Pass benefits from July 29 across Ultimate, Premium, Essential, and PC tiers — timed with ZZZ’s 2nd anniversary and an S-Rank agent select.

After a soft theatrical run, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is available digitally from July 21 (~$30 buy / ~$25 rent). Disney+ window expected roughly Oct–Nov 2026.

Nacon / Rogue Factor’s melee action-adventure joins Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and PC Game Pass on July 23: civil-war Hadea, supernatural calamity, and exploration that refuses a traditional nav crutch.

Microsoft expands its AMD partnership: Helios rack-scale (MI455X + EPYC Venice + Pensando) for Azure ND MI455X v7 inference, plus HDv2 agentic CPU VMs and HXv2 EDA instances, shipping H2 2026.

Apple’s fourth macOS 27 beta refines Liquid Glass while testers uncover an unfinished Siri AI popover for Rewrite, Proofread, and contextual actions — disabled by default behind a FeatureFlags switch.

Warner Bros. locks Mortal Kombat II for HBO Max on July 24 (HBO linear July 25), a shortened theatrical-to-stream window after the May 8 bow underwhelmed — with an ASL Visual Vernacular version day one.

Xbox Wave 2 puts Mistfall Hunter on Ultimate and PC Game Pass July 30: class builds, solo or co-op extractions, and a Gyldhunter fantasy loop aimed at the post-Halo week download queue.

Travis Knight’s Masters of the Universe arrives on Amazon Prime Video July 22 after a soft $113M theatrical against a ~$200M budget — a fast couch landing for the Karl Urban-adjacent summer also-ran.

Xbox Wave 2 confirms Game Freak’s one-person-one-dog action RPG day-one on Ultimate / PC Game Pass August 4, with publisher notes pegging a 30–40 hour playthrough and partial open-world segments you cannot revisit.