iShowSpeed posted on X that two roster spots remain open for the first YouTube FIFA Creator Cup, a 7v7 match of top creators and FIFA legends set for Sunday, July 12 at 5 p.m. ET at Wollman Rink in New York's Central Park. The match streams live on FIFA's official YouTube channel with a simulcast on Speed's channel.
IShowSpeed won over the internet at the 2026 World Cup by staying behind to help Japanese fans clean Houston Stadium after Brazil beat Japan 2-1. The streamer grabbed a bag and picked up litter alongside supporters, joining Japan's famous cleanup tradition. The wholesome clip went mega-viral across every platform within minutes.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026 as its most agentic mid-tier model, promising near Opus 4.8 performance at a lower price. The benchmarks look strong, but developers and power users flooded X calling it a flop, pointing to higher token use, heavier refusals, and safety limits. This is the full picture of the backlash.
Netflix and WIT Studio have revealed the first teaser trailer for The One Piece, the modern anime remake of Eiichiro Oda's classic. Mayumi Tanaka returns to voice Luffy, and all seven episodes of the East Blue saga arrive worldwide in February 2027. The remake promises tighter, filler-free pacing to win over a brand new generation of fans.
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Classroom of the Elite Season 5 is officially confirmed. Kadokawa announced the new season on June 24, 2026, right after the Season 4 finale aired, along with a new visual. Studio Lerche returns to adapt more of Ayanokoji's second year and the deepening White Room mystery, though no release date has been set yet.
Afil Games, a Brazil-based publisher behind cheap, low-effort titles, says Sony has dropped it as a publishing partner and will remove its games from the PlayStation Store under stricter 2026 guidelines. Video Games Chronicle reports more than 140 of the studio's PS4 and PS5 games are set to be delisted, part of a year-long shovelware cleanup that has already cleared thousands of titles.
Fortnite is ending one of its oldest rules. Through a new program called Unvaulted, Epic Games will start selling old battle pass outfits in the item shop, beginning with Marvel skins from Chapter 5 Season 4 on June 28, 2026. Battle pass items can now return after about 18 months, a huge shift for a game built on exclusive cosmetics.
Hideo Kojima says his Xbox horror game OD will push fear beyond the limit of any game before it, and he has built a secret system to keep terrified players from quitting. Co-written with Jordan Peele and starring Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and the late Udo Kier, OD is built around the idea of overdosing on fear.
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Epic Games is pushing an ambitious 2026 plan after laying off more than 1,000 workers. The Fortnite maker is centering its future on Unreal Engine 6, which merges UE5 with the Fortnite editor, adds generative AI, and switches to its Verse language. CEO Tim Sweeney is betting an open, connected ecosystem can counter rivals like Roblox.
Sakana AI's new Fugu system says it reaches frontier-level performance by orchestrating several large language models behind one API. The self-reported benchmarks beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on several tests, but early users report 30-minute waits, steep pricing, and call it just a router, leaving the orchestrator versus model debate unsettled.
IShowSpeed jumped clean over a stadium railing and then broke down crying on stream when Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal of the 2026 World Cup. Ronaldo's sixth-minute strike against Uzbekistan started a brace that made him the first player to score at six World Cups, as Portugal won 5-0 in Houston.
A tactical first-person shooter called TTK has exploded on Roblox, passing 8 million plays after pulling in roughly 4 million on its first public day. Two developers built it to feel like the hardcore shooter Ready or Not, with punishing recoil, real footstep audio, and no ammo counter. It refuses pay-to-win, and the team is now building cooperative missions where friends clear rooms against smart enemies.
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Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, a nearly finished film about OpenAI chief Sam Altman, just four months after Amazon agreed to invest about 50 billion dollars in OpenAI. The movie, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Andrew Garfield, covers the wild week in 2023 when Altman was fired and quickly rehired. Amazon says the film will do better at another studio, and insiders say it paints Altman in a harsh light.
Anthropic’s new AI model Claude Opus 4.7 programmed a four‑legged robot about twenty times faster than the best human‑AI team from the previous year. The model wrote far less code, quickly linked the robot’s cameras and sensors, and built control software that worked on most tasks. It still could not reliably fetch a beach ball, showing real‑time control remains hard, but the speed boost could speed up robot development for many industries.
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre‑orders start on June 25, and Rockstar released the game’s cover art. The picture shows the main characters Jason and Lucia with a helicopter, motorcycle, supercar and an alligator in a bright city scene. The new website shows a big Vice City skyline at sunset. Pre‑orders will reveal the game’s price, and the title is set to launch on November 19, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
IShowSpeed says his cameraman walks or drives the entire stream route before he goes live, checking the phone signal and bitrate. If the connection is too weak, the team changes the path. Speed says internet is the key to IRL streaming, and his team treats it that way.
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MrBeast, the creator Jimmy Donaldson, has become the first person to reach 500 million subscribers on YouTube. He crossed the mark on June 12, 2026, far ahead of any other channel run by a person. YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan publicly congratulated him and called him an incredible innovator. The platform also handed Donaldson a custom 500 million Play Button to mark the record.
London's mayor said the city will become the world’s esports capital. He visited Tokyo’s Red Bull Gaming Sphere and met with the London team Fnatic. The mayor wants big gaming events to bring money and jobs to London and to give young people new career paths through schools and apprenticeships. Recent tournaments already added millions of pounds to the local economy, so the city hopes more events will boost growth and opportunities.
Blue Lock manga topped 60 million copies worldwide. To mark the feat, a new picture of the hero Yoichi Isagi was shared, showing his confident grin. The publisher also opened all chapters for free reading for 24 hours, letting new fans try the story. Former soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata talked with the creator, saying he has loved manga since childhood, adding real‑world praise to the series.
Tatsuki Fujimoto has ended his hit manga Chainsaw Man after eight years, closing the main story at chapter 232. The final chapter, titled Thank You, Chainsaw Man, is a definitive ending, and there is no Part 3 planned. A short coda follows in chapter 233. The series has sold about 35 million copies worldwide since it began in 2018, marking its finish as a major moment for modern shonen manga.
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A teaser for the third season of the Dorohedoro anime was shown at MAPPA’s 15th anniversary livestream. The show follows a lizard‑headed man and his friend hunting sorcerers in a grim city called the Hole. The new season continues their fight after a sorcerer sends cleaners to the Hole, sparking a war between the two worlds. Fans can watch the series on Crunchyroll and Netflix, with multiple language dubs available.
Roblox has revealed what it will charge creators to run brand deals inside their games. Starting January 1, 2027, creators will pay a set fee for every thousand times players view a brand, and the price depends on where those players live. United States views cost the most at $1.50 per thousand. Roblox says the plan should make pricing clearer and help creators earn more.
Xbox leader Asha Sharma told a tech event that generative AI can help make art, code and ideas faster, but it cannot build the huge, complex worlds of AAA games. She said AI tools are useful for early prototypes and small assets, yet they lack the ability to understand why long games feel fun. Sharma believes AI will aid production but not replace full‑scale game experiences.
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