Browsing: Swings

Back in July, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a total of 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft’s gaming arm, with roughly half of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The impact was vast. Various developers at Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs. Double Fine and Compulsion were…

Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell in “Digger.”Credit: Seoju Park / Warner Bros. Entertainment

Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) works at his desk in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day.’ (Jay Maidment)

On August 6, PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reported second-quarter results that flipped from a year-ago loss into a profit. Net income came in at $32.6 million, compared with a loss of $18.3 million in the same quarter of 2025. Revenue rose to $1.86 billion from $1.77 billion, and Adjusted EBITDA climbed to $312.6 million from $236.1…

The Sony/Marvel film brought in $145 million in its second weekend of release to hold strong at #1 at the box office.

Sony splits the big-screen ownership of Spider-Man with Disney thanks to a strategic gamble it made in 1998.

Sony and Marvel’s comic book adventure “Brand New Day” obliterated box office expectations, collecting a jaw-dropping $355 million from 4,300 North American theaters. It’s the second-biggest debut in domestic box office history, following 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” with $357 million, not adjusted for inflation. “Brand New Day” could end up eclipsing that record if Monday’s final…

Tom Holland andSPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAYspin a web across the cover ofDen of Geek’s 10th printed issue coming to San Diego Comic-Con, which includes a deep dive inside look at the superhero epic with the Web-Head himself, plus exclusive interviews with Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, and director Destin Daniel Cretton!

Star Entertainment Group (ASX:SGR) remains one of the most volatile names on the ASX, and its latest verified move was upward rather than down: the casino operator’s shares rose about 5.67% to A$0.1025 on 14 July 2026. That gain sits against a backdrop of persistent uncertainty, which is why this article reframes the original “falls…