Sony abandons disc games, Valve immortalizes Russian esports player's achievement in Counter-Strike 2 - the most interesting news for July 1

A brief digest of everything that happened in the entertainment industry around the world yesterday.

• Valve immortalized a Russian esports player's achievement in Counter-Strike 2. Now players will be able to see a reference to magixx's achievement on Mirage
• To avoid getting up twice after abandoning discs: Sony will finally close the PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita. Previously, a well-known blogger held a vote for the best PlayStation executive, which was won by a rock
• AMD Radeon learned to run games with NVIDIA PhysX — FPS increased by almost 3 times. The ZLUDA project, which runs CUDA applications on non-NVIDIA graphics cards, released update v6 with support for 32-bit PhysX on AMD Radeon
• "Too boring": GTA VI has not yet managed to impress the game director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Some players are not at all "hooked" by the Grand Theft Auto franchise projects
• "Huge failure": players are unhappy that Exodus, from the creators of Mass Effect, will not have a full-fledged character editor. Players will only be able to customize some parameters of the main character, but overall he will already have a formed appearance
• PlayStation showed the best games of the first half of 2026. Sony reminded that many major releases came out in the first six months
• Cosplayer embodied the image of Iris from The Witcher 3 — the creator of the Painted World. Especially for fans of the "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone" expansion, cosplayer Arina Zaburniyagina transformed into Iris von Everec — a talented Redanian artist with a tragic fate
• JoyToy opened pre-orders for Terminator and Salamanders tactical legionary figures from Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Currently, two Terminators from the elite unit called "Fire Drakes" can be purchased
• Nikita Buyanov showed seasonal modifiers for Escape from Tarkov — some players are already complaining about broken balance. Players will be able to assemble a set of seasonal modifiers for their character, and some options have already started to receive complaints
• "Everything is going according to plan": Quantic Dream denied rumors of development problems with Star Wars Eclipse. The game was announced back in 2021