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Games coverage without the hype cycle. PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC: release dates, reviews, hardware and the endings, side quests and collectibles people are actually searching for. When a publisher changes what you own or what you paid for, we explain what it means for your library instead of reprinting the statement. The deals and legal fights behind it run in Tech News.
Qualcomm has confirmed two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips for September 22, including the first phone CPU to reach 5GHz. The split is not generosity, it is a response to 2nm wafer costs and a memory crisis, and it changes what the word flagship means on an Android spec sheet.
A routine terms of service email landed in PlayStation inboxes during the week players had organized a protest blackout. Section 1.4 says the software is licensed to you, not sold. With discs ending in January 2028, that sentence is doing far more work than it used to.
The 2022 Rockstar hack has a number attached to it: $5 million. The CyberLeek leaks have a much bigger one: $2.83 billion in market value gone in three days. Only one of those is money the company actually spent.
Mattel’s UNO Championship Series ends in a Twitch streamed final in Los Angeles on November 11 with $50,000 on the line, and the qualifying route that costs nothing runs through the free mobile app. Here are the dates, the routes and the official rules most players get wrong.
Three Phosphatine branded Game & Watch handhelds are heading to auction at Ewbank’s with a combined estimate of around $12,200. Fewer than ten are verified worldwide, and the reason they exist at all is a French cereal promotion.
A clip of someone spelling LEEK on a wall with bullets proved CyberLeek is not recycling stolen footage. They are playing GTA 6. With the game three months out and no disc in the box, the leaker says the leaks stop only when Rockstar apologizes.
Fortnite Went Dark Overnight and Came Back With Sonic, Mega Man and a Button That Rewrites the Match
Epic took Fortnite offline in the early hours of August 20 for update v42.00. Chapter 7 Season 4 Override brought back Sonic, Mega Man, Tetris and Crash, plus a console anyone can grab to change the rules for the whole server.
Eight months after abandoning open source over the Llama 4 benchmark scandal, Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single consumer GPU. Here is what it does well, where Qwen still beats it, and why Meta opened the small model instead of the big one.
Android 17 went stable on June 16, and two months later most people still cannot download it. Here is exactly who has it, when Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus and Xiaomi owners get their turn, and why the wait is so long.
France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban on August 14, weeks before it was due to take effect. The ruling was not about whether kids should be online. It was about how broadly the law was written and how badly it handled age verification.