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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia’s RTX Spark PCs will get Sega games including Virtua Fighter.

That’s the word from Nvidia today. Sega was already on Nvidia’s big partner list in May — see below — but you can add Virtua Fighter Crossroads to the list alongside Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Fortnite, Pragmata, League of Legends, Valorant, PUBG, Naraka Bladepoint and Alan Wake II. We don’t know which are built natively for Arm.

Capcom, CD Projekt, Konami, Mihoyo, Saber, Wargaming, and Xbox are also on the list.
Capcom, CD Projekt, Konami, Mihoyo, Saber, Wargaming, and Xbox are also on the list.
Image: Nvidia
Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
Catching up on Resident Evil on PC is quite affordable.

Fanatical is hosting a build-your-own bundle of Resident Evil games for Steam that costs $6.50 per game, and gets slightly cheaper the more you add. For instance, Resident Evil Village and the Resident Evil 2 remake are $12.99 together. The site has every major game in the franchise, save for Requiem and a few remakes.

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Resident Evil 7
A screenshot from Resident Evil 7.
Capcom
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I tried the Asus AR glasses with the OLED Ally — they felt extraneous.

I enjoy plugging Xreal glasses into handhelds for a huge virtual desktop — but that’s no reason to make us buy the priciest version with a 240Hz mode handhelds have trouble powering. Plus, 240Hz halves resolution from 1080p to 540p, which felt weird and ugly in person. (120Hz was fine.) Good thing Asus will now sell the OLED Ally separately!

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The Ally X20 plugged into the ROG 20th anniversary version of the ROG Xreal R1 glasses.
The Ally X20 plugged into the ROG 20th anniversary version of the ROG Xreal R1 glasses.
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
The OLED Xbox Ally X20 is so good, Asus will sell it solo

You won’t need to buy the AR glasses too.

Sean Hollister
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
League of Legends is the next game getting a classic mode.

Riot is following in the footsteps of other big live-services titles like Fortnite, Overwatch, Apex Legends, and World of Warcraft in launching a mode built around days gone by.

For League, Riot says it’s treating League Classic as more of a “collection of greatest hits” rather than making it about one season or moment.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The other kind of football.

As the World Cup nears its end, Apple Arcade is getting the surprise addition of Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition, which hits the service on August 6th. It’s part of a big sports-themed update for Arcade which will also include NFL Retro Bowl ’27 and Retro Bowl College+.

A screenshot of the video game Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition.
Image: Apple
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Kingdom Hearts will be featured at Disney’s big D23 expo in August.

The RPG franchise will have a Saturday session and is mentioned in the first paragraph of a blog post about the event’s schedule. Perhaps we’ll finally get a Kingdom Hearts 4 release date?

Here’s what the session, set for August 15th at 7:30PM ET, will be about:

Join us for a journey through light and darkness as we commemorate 25 years of KINGDOM HEARTS. Discover how this saga united Disney, Pixar, and Square Enix, with insights from the creative minds, character voices, and more behind the magic.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
SGDQ 2026 raised $2.4M for Doctors Without Borders.

If you catch just one run from Summer Games Done Quick, watch this all-timer Balatro run.

But GDQ had to deal with some controversy shortly after the weeklong marathon ended: following community backlash, it canceled a stream sponsored by SNK, a company that’s majority owned by the Saudi crown prince’s foundation, as it was happening, Kotaku reports.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
John Carmack says his statement about Microsoft being ‘a good steward’ of id hasn’t aged well.

The id founder isn’t thrilled with the layoffs at the company he left in 2013. He says, “You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots,” but says we shouldn’t jump to that conclusion before dropping what certainly seems like a list of things Microsoft could have done better.