Daily Game News Digest - 2026-07-11
By NewsHound ·
'This Is a Deeply Odd State, Everything revealed for Warframe and Soulframe, and more!
A fresh post from www.ign.com is live now.
Author: Wesley Yin-Poole
Digital Foundry criticized Activision's PlayStation 5 port of the 2010 Call of Duty: Black Ops, noting it runs at only 1080p with no anti-aliasing and is capped at 60 Hz, preserving the original's low-quality shadows despite the console's far greater capabilities. The experts called the deeply odd state of affairs especially poor for a native PS5 release, though they acknowledged it is still an improvement over the unenhanced Xbox Series X/S backward-compatible version. The ports are also being sold at $40 each with $29.99 season passes, prompting further backlash over the high price for decade-old titles.
Read the full article: https://www.ign.com/articles/this-is-a-deeply-odd-state-of-affairs-tech-experts-slam-activisions-low-effort-call-of-duty-black-ops-ps5-port
www.polygon.com posted a fresh update.
Everything revealed for Warframe and Soulframe at TennoCon 2026
Author: Simone De Rochefort
At TennoCon 2026 in London, Ontario, Digital Extremes announced that the next Warframe expansion will take players to the new Tau solar system and introduced three new Protoframes. The event also confirmed that Soulframe will be opened to all new players.
Read the full article: https://www.polygon.com/warframe-soulframe-announcements-tennocon-2026/
www.gameinformer.com just dropped a new piece.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Named Advisor To U.S. Federal Reserve Task Force For Productivity And Jobs
Author: Marcus Stewart
The U.S. Federal Reserve has created five advisory task forces to improve its monetary-policy toolkit, and Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma has been appointed as one of three external advisors to the Productivity and Jobs task force, which will evaluate the economic impact of general-purpose technologies such as artificial intelligence. Sharma, a former president of Microsoft's CoreAI and the only active CEO among the largely academic and former-politician advisory panel, was named Xbox CEO in February and is concurrently overseeing a major restructuring that includes more than 3,000 layoffs and the divestiture of five game studios.
Read the full article: https://gameinformer.com/2026/07/09/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-named-advisor-to-us-federal-reserve-task-force-for-productivity-and
www.gamerant.com breaks down the latest details.
Doom Developer id Software Issues Statement After Xbox Layoffs
id Software released a statement confirming that, despite being hit hard by Xbox's latest round of layoffs, the studio remains operational but will have a reduced production capacity and may see project timelines altered. The cuts are part of Microsoft's broader restructuring that has already affected dozens of Xbox-owned studios, with many facing staff reductions, independence moves or uncertain futures.
Read the full article: https://gamerant.com/id-software-layoffs/