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DF Direct Weekly #271: The End Of PlayStation Physical Media & True Game Ownership

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: 20 Minutes of Naval Combat

Halo: Campaign Evolved’s boxed version will come with physical discs so that players can ‘have tangible items to add to your collection’

Jason Schreier: Studios in the Bethesda organization like id Software (Doom) and ZeniMax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Online) are not shutting down but are cutting a significant number of staff this morning, per sources.

Asha Sharma's memento on Xbox restructuring/reset:

Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul

Resetting XBOX - XBOX Wire

Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts / Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent, and Microsoft is also selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs.

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

Information about upcoming battery-related revisions to some Nintendo products

Entropy: Zero 2: Progenitors is a new stealth-focused Half-Life 2 mod where you play a Combine assassin hunting the human resistance

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced: The First 18 Minutes of Gameplay

Puzzle-Shmup "XeGrader plus", from Hydlide veteran Tokihiro Naito, now available on Steam

Zeroth - Contrary Games - Comical and Challenging ARPG

Shou Lie - Early Development Reveal Trailer

60FPS was the rally cry for current gen. Any way you get there ( frame gen or not) that is the bar set. Do you think GTA VI will get pass, why or why not?

Imperial Ambitions - Aoiti - dark 4X turn-based strategy about empire, trade, and colonial consequences, releasing July 13

Arcadium - Luciano - What if Vampire Survivors took place in a procedural universe and you could harvest planets? Available on Steam and Mobile

Survive The Apocalypse - Mehmet Emin Uyar - Procedural city ruins exploration roguelike

Ludus: A Gladiator Story - Trevor Parker - Roman Gladiator Visual Novel RPG

Turning Manor - Sabbatical Games - First person count the difference horror game that expands on the anomaly genre

Starglyphs - Skooter Studios - constellation puzzles in a living night sky

Why physical media is ESSENTIAL for a healthy games industry

Important People of History: Thomas Jefferson - Sunny Demeanor Games - a historically accurate visual novel with 100+ photos about Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and the road to revolution. Just released with launch discount

Elevator To Hell - Niflheim Games - Co-op survival horror

Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership

Imagindar (PC) - Lumissium - Classless PvP arena game

Grinding Guilds - EndeavourDGaming - Incremental game with loot hunt and character building from isometric ARPGs

Seer's Gambit - Unleash the Giraffe - Draft a party that shouldn't work and build crazy hero synergies.

Tumly - Tompan Studio - A 2.5D physics survival game where you steer a tumbling ball across drifting, colliding platforms. Don't fall. Keep tumbling.

Zero Stress King - Pauloondra - An incremental tower defense you cannot fail. Because of lava

Chicken Battlefield - Chickenbattlefielddevs - A chaotic roguelite

What's the Password? - TrampolineTales - A minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords (Out now!)

The Video Game Industry’s Trade Body Doesn’t Want To Talk About Digital Ownership

Big Dig - Hjalte & Schu - Narrative-driven Incremental! New DEMO out now!

Omelet You Cook - SchuBox Games - Chaotic cooking roguelike "Balatro meets Cooking Mama"

Wall Street Tycoon - Stress Interactive - satirical Wall Street idle/clicker where SEC raids are boss battles

Unlatched - Yellow Plague Productions - Asym Inspired Single-player Horror game. PLAYTEST AVAILABLE on Steam.

Turbo Hatchback Time Attack - Grumpy Pizza - Low poly arcade racing throwback with in-air controls and Mario Kart style drifting, out now on Steam!

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - July 05, 2026

Marble's Marbles - Destined - A love letter to the classic marble games like Marble Madness, Ballance and HamsterBall

Summer Games Done Quick 2026 begins today, a week-long speedrunning marathon fundraising for Doctors Without Borders!

XENOFLEKT - Catoio Software - Parry the bullet hell

Topdeck Automat - Ludokultur - Hearthstone Battlegrounds auto-battling meets Slay the Spire build-crafting

Furball Over the Front - Page Blue House - WW1 Shooter

Forsaken Fleet - Zakym s. r. o. - First-person pirate horror

Wolf of the Desert - AJInteractive - Play as a sneaky card throwing vigelante in a dystopian middle east!

Indie Sunday Hub - July 5, 2026

[Interview] “My target audience is myself.” Suda51 and Fumito Ueda discuss their game design philosophies, the inherent violence of action games, and what it takes to be a director

At the same time as killing off physical discs, Sony has to ration attachable disc drives sales due to "high demand"