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November 2026
- AMD posts record $13.4 billion quarter as data center leads
- Meta freezes Quest 2 features and still runs the cash register
- Xbox weighs Ubisoft and other bids for Arkane Lyon and Blade
- Itch.io deletes bulk AI spam and adds no-AI search filter
- Nexus Mods makes AI disclosure mandatory and adds a user filter
- Offers for Arkane beat a shutdown, whoever writes the check
- Rockstar confirms GTA 6 preload from November 10 at up to 212 GB
- Valve says Steam store reviews now take up to 12 business days
- Xbox Game Pass stacks November with Escape Academy 2 and Warhammer Survivors
- Xbox hides a working Series X inside a GTA 6 alligator prop
- Bethesda names The Elder Scrolls VI Sentinel in 40th anniversary video
- Critics split on Turtle Beach MC7 touchscreen mouse
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade hits Xbox Game Pass
- Itch.io adds No AI search filter as daily game pages double
- Chinese board partners lift RTX 50 cost prices again in November
- PlayStation offers up to $400 for PS5 trade-ins via app
- Remedy's Resonant quarter shows what a mid-size hit can and cannot fix
- watchOS 27 beta unlocks Siri Recap and Live Rewind on Apple Watch
- Astragon closes German studio Astragon Development
- CI Games secures $32 million loan for Lords of the Fallen 2
- Kingdom of Gaming event delayed from December to 2027
- PS Plus November games open for claim through November 30
- South of Midnight’s director is right about Xbox’s funding bet
- Stellar Blade Switch 2 port wins solid marks with visual trade-offs
- Buy two 256GB Mac Studios before you pay Apple's 512GB premium
- Microsoft used AI to help build Windows 11’s new speed test
- Niftski sets Super Mario Bros. any% record in Mario costume
- Nintendo releases Pikmin 4 Switch 2 overview trailer with Dandori Academy
- SanDisk 512GB microSD Express card drops to $91 for Switch 2
- Sony releases PS5 security update 26.07-14.22.00 ahead of GTA 6
- Borderlands hits 100 million, but players need more than a toast
- Harvest Sale puts Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth under $8
- Palworld lead says the indie label is blurred and creative control is king
- Stellar Blade Complete Edition draws solid Switch 2 notices
- Yoshi-P says FF14 Evercold story will run at a faster tempo
- Critics cheer Godzilla Melee Remastered as chaotic kaiju party fare
- Embark re-records Arc Raiders AI voice lines after fair criticism
- F1 25 free with PlayStation Plus through November 3
- Former Dragon Age boss says Veilguard team ignored many recommendations
- Nightdive revives Thief trapezoid big box for console special edition only
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Year Two 2.0.0 update set for November 3
- Wilderdark brings parasite-infected dinosaurs to Steam next week
- Aonuma remade Ocarina of Time to spark insights for younger Zelda staff
- Apple posts record iPhone revenue without a new standard model
- Comcast WARN filings list nearly 1,000 cuts across four states
- Enshrouded 1.0 earns warm early notices for building and combat
- GOG details the licensing split around classic Dune 2
- Microsoft ships six-day Surface Laptop Ultra firmware for reboots and flicker
- Suda51 says Travis Touchdown will return for No More Heroes anniversary
- 210 Xbox releases in October: what the count does and does not show
- Apple stockpiles memory chips as costs climb, and prices may follow
- Nintendo explains the puppet-like look of its Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
- Google dismantles XCPE botnet built into 1.3 million set-top boxes
- Meta to end Quest 2 and Quest Pro OS updates by March 2027
- Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches December 3 on six platforms
- German officials say lawmakers' iPhones may be targets of spyware
- Malformed text message can crash unpatched Android phones, no tap needed
- Former Xbox COO Helen Chiang disputes policy-violation claim after sudden exit
- Half of Steam's new games carry an AI tag, and the tag is still too blunt
- Steam survey: 16 GB RAM and the RTX 3060 retake the top spots in October
- FBI attributes $6 billion Binance theft to North Korean group TraderTraitor
- Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in $115 billion all-stock deal
- Raspberry Pi raises 16GB Pi 5 to $385, over triple launch price
- id Software co-director says studio is doing great after losing half its staff
- Marvell to buy Lumentum in $115 billion all-stock deal
- NVIDIA says Brev platform breach may have exposed customer SSH keys
- Second wave of attacks hits supermarket refrigerators across four European countries
- Xbox Game Pass drops GoldenEye 007, Wreckfest and more on November 15
- DirectX preview could cut ray tracing memory use by up to 90%
- Nagoshi Studio dissolved after NetEase pulled funding, with Gang of Dragon unreleased
- Phantom Blade Zero sells 4 million copies in three days, tops Steam launches of 2026
- Supermarket cooling systems in four European countries report suspected hacks
- Moon Sweepers, a co-op toothbrush epic, sells over 600,000 copies
- Stellar Blade Switch 2 trailer shows photo mode, Nikke and NieR:Automata content
- Discord to put some public server messages into Google search
- Switch 2 at $469 at Woot leads today's Deal Sheet
- Hoyoverse's cozy sim Petit Planet heads to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027
- HeroQuest heads to Steam with a quest editor and multiplayer
- RGG Studio drops PS4 for Stranger Than Heaven, builds for current-gen only
- Four free PS5 demos, led by Final Fantasy Resonance, need no PS Plus
- Obsidian's Josh Sawyer explains why RPG towns cost so much more than dungeons
- Resident Evil 4 remake drops to $9.99 on Steam, 75% off
- Pixel 11 Pro drops to $800 as Pixel and Galaxy S26 phones go on sale
- Switch 2 jailbroken with help from AI and an old programming game
- Deal Sheet: Gears of War: E-Day, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and more, checked Nov. 1
- Gag Order pits co-op squads against tentacled cephalopod horrors
- Dune: Awakening's free Blood and Ice expansion lands in December, offline mode in November
- FromSoftware delays The Duskbloods to 2027 for final balance work
- Intel's Tan floats AMD cooperation, but no project is confirmed
- Nintendo Switch 2 drops to $469 at Woot, $30 off, while stock lasts
- Asleep: Act 1 is free on Steam until Monday, November 2
- EA closes BioWare, cancels next Mass Effect in 400-job cut
- Sucker Punch cuts 24 jobs weeks after Ghost of Yōtei expansion
- Bambu Lab Black Friday sale takes up to $300 off the H2C printer
- Binance reopens withdrawals in phases after $6.3 billion theft
- Chronicles: Medieval studio says it may close as funding vanishes
- Itch.io's new game pages doubled in two months, but downloads didn't
- Persona 1 remake footage seemingly leaks, and Atlus hasn't confirmed a thing
- Romero Games finds new publisher for Xbox-dropped shooter, cuts scope to 16 staff
- Altman meets Samsung executives as memory shortage squeezes the hardware market
- Itch.io says new game pages have doubled in two months, but downloads haven't
- Walmart honors $1,099 shelf price on $2,299 CyberPowerPC gaming rigs
- Blizzard keeps WoW Forever rule sets separate but holds an emergency merge lever
- Lenovo 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive held a plain SD card inside
- Tenebris Somnia pairs 8-bit adventure with live-action horror
- USB tool lifts Nvidia's half-speed tensor cap on RTX 20, 30 and 40 cards in Windows
- EA lays off Battlefield studio staff after record Battlefield 6 launch
- Galaxy S26+ is £500 off at Amazon UK, the biggest cut in a big phone sale
- Two huge November games, and an industry that can't copy either one
- Cancelled Paranormal Activity game gets a free Halloween release as Playable Archive
- CD Projekt sells GOG to co-founder Kiciński for $25.2 million
- Danganronpa passes 10 million sales as Spike Chunsoft preps Danganronpa 2x2
- iOS 27 sets aside 9GB to 16GB for Apple Intelligence; one tweak shrinks it
- Pikmin Day debuts with a free Pikmin 4 demo and new shorts
- Blizzard sets WoW Forever to a four-month update beat
- Nvidia trims Vera Rubin memory and NVLink bandwidth specs without announcement
- Critics call The Wolf Among Us Remastered a worthy return to Fabletown
- OpenCAGE, the Alien: Isolation mod toolkit, hits version 1.0 after years of work
- Bungie's new bosses say they hear Destiny fans, and the first test is unvaulting
- Microsoft says Windows 11 taskbar won't get Windows 10-style dragging
- Apple Watch Ultra 4 falls $100 at Amazon; Ocarina of Time and Pikmin 4 also cut
October 2026
- FromSoftware takes Dark Souls 2 and 3 multiplayer offline over 'server issue'
- id Software co-director says studio is 'doing great' after cutting half its staff
- Microsoft 365 Family plans move to 2TB of shared storage at renewal
- Xbox emails owners to trade in idle consoles for up to $375
- Arduview, a see-through handheld with a see-through screen, hits its Kickstarter goal
- Eight Switch 2 accessories TechRadar picks for new Zelda console owners
- Genie 4 builds striking worlds, but the AGI claim needs more than a demo
- Four AI firms back one robots.txt signal to block training scrapers
- Mina the Hollower buys Yacht Club time, and a new 3D game is underway
- Soulframe opens to all on November 6, and its devs admit they're nervous
- Apple's iPhone 17 line is discounted as OLED iPad mini and touch MacBook Pro arrive
- Dawnwalker studio Rebel Wolves says it won't chase trends in its RPGs
- Fan-made Star Wars space combat game finally launches after 19 years
- Fanatical's Mystery Chest Bundle: 25 Steam keys for $17.49
- Community plugin puts the Xbox Series dashboard on Steam Deck
- Nintendo's Indie World infographic lines up every Switch showcase game
- Tomodachi Life tops 8 million and outsells Nintendo's loudest 2026 releases
- Altman says your RAM belongs in a data center, and I say no
- Intel falls 29% in worst day since the 1970s as tech selloff spreads
- Phantom Blade Zero storms Steam, but outlets can't agree on the peak
- FCC drafts order to override California limits on AT&T copper shutdowns
- World of Horror grows 20 percent in a free PC update
- Zelda producer Aonuma 'nervous' as Ocarina of Time remake nears November 5 launch
- PC revenue set to pass console by 2028 as consoles slow
- FFXIV Evercold slips to February 23, 2027 after Fan Fest delay
- Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing preview cuts build times and VRAM use sharply
- Samsung posts record quarter as memory chips drive KRW 107.4 trillion profit
- Soulframe opens its doors to all on November 6, then gets a violent rebuild
- Chronicles: Medieval studio warns it may close before Early Access
- Roblox says AI tools helped publish 70,000 games, as Steam frets over slop
- Bungie maps Destiny 2's long road back: don't expect it whole before 2028
- id Software and MachineGames deepen ties after Xbox layoffs
- Samsung 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 drops $200 to $399.99 at Amazon
- Anthropic steers Claude Code away from cloning existing games
- Roblox daily users fall 9 percent, and the company's answer is AI
- Tampered Claude Code extension sat on Cursor's marketplace for hours
- Intel falls 29% as AI soaks up PC memory, trimming government stake
- Nvidia's store drops the RTX 5080 listing as retail prices hit 2.2x MSRP
- Romero Games' shooter survives Xbox cut with new publisher, 16 devs
- FromSoftware pulls Dark Souls 2 and 3 servers offline on every platform
- Altman says RAM in gaming PCs is 'terrible' use as memory prices climb
- Crimson Desert Enhanced gets a five-hour trial on PlayStation and Xbox
- RTX 5080 vanishes from Nvidia's store as street prices near $2,000
- Rockstar UK union could cover more than 1,600 workers, IWGB says
- Activision to remove Seoul crowd crush footage from Modern Warfare 4 after families object
- T-Mobile CEO calls satellite 'inferior' as big three decline Starlink Mobile
- Terraria crossplay 'very close' as Re-Logic readies 1.4.6 submissions
- Mouthwashing, the indie horror hit, heads to Sony's film slate and to consoles
- Memory costs gut phone sales: IDC says 22% drop, Omdia says 20%
- Roblox revenue rises 16% to $1.6 billion as bookings fall 12% and shares slide
- Sony picks up Mouthwashing for a film, with Karyn Kusama to direct
- AT&T and Verizon cut about 8,000 jobs in third quarter
- Intel's Israel fab shutdown to cost $600 million and stall 10nm server chips
- John Romero's next shooter survives Microsoft cuts, eyes Zelda-style freedom
- Switch 2 Choose Your Game bundle falls to $479 at Woot, limited stock
- Binance loses an estimated $6.3 billion in suspected record crypto hack
- Bungie lays out Destiny 2 unvaulting plan: old campaigns, raids and Menagerie return
- Forza Motorsport boss Dan Greenawalt retires from Microsoft after 27 years
- Village in the Shade brings spooky secrets to a hand-painted farm
- AO3 offline for up to four weeks after security incident
- Meta adds parent alerts for teen self-harm searches on Facebook and Meta AI chats
- YouTuber turns $120 of laptop DDR5 into 32 GB of desktop RAM
- Ace Combat 8 critics clear the runway for a thrilling, uneven sortie
- Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea maps nine DLC packs through 2027
- Microsoft trims 2026 capex outlook to $170 billion on delayed capacity
- Newegg code cuts $100 Xbox Gift Card to $90, GTA 6 money included
- Early access has a new bully, and it isn't who you think
- Lazarus wraps malware delivery in post-quantum encryption
- BioWare co-founder Zeschuk breaks silence on studio closure
- Google's TPU chips are selling, but the bill for building them hit Alphabet's stock
- Xbox revenue slips 2% and hardware falls 14% as Microsoft posts $92.3B quarter
- Ubisoft: no Assassin's Creed remakes in development, Hexe on track for 2027
- Windows 11 can now reinstall itself from the cloud, no USB drive needed
- Blizzard calls WoW Forever controller support a first step toward playing anywhere
- Nvidia to put $3 billion into Meta's share sale as Muse partnership grows
- Reddit says it is moving to a logged-in-only experience
- Bethesda, Star Trek Online fans honor Sir Patrick Stewart, dead at 86
- Valve says Steam AI clones are developers' problem to outrun
- Mouthwashing, the doomed-freighter horror hit, is getting a live-action film
- Sony picks up Mouthwashing for film, Karyn Kusama to direct
- GM pays $220 million to settle claims it sold drivers' data
- Ubisoft says no Assassin's Creed remakes in development, Hexe update set for 2027
- Bungie plans Destiny 2 unvaulting, with full production due around February 2027
- Donald Glover to write, direct and star in Netflix's live-action PUBG series
- Microsoft's AI bet means fewer people, and Xbox should say so plainly
- Analyst Piscatella says Gears of War: E-Day exclusivity isn't lifting Xbox
- Samsung says the RAM shortage deepens in 2027, with tight supply into 2028
- Smartphone shipments fall 20% in 3Q26, lowest third quarter since 2013
- The Duskbloods delayed to 2027, leaving a hole in Switch 2's holiday slate
- Celeste and TowerFall pulled from Xbox store over BDS boycott
- Phantom Blade Zero opens big on Steam as outlets split on the peak
- T-Mobile says it will be first with 6G in the US, rules out SpaceX MVNO
- BioWare's closure is a bill that came due, and players got the receipt
- EA staff describe secrecy and low morale after 400 layoffs and BioWare closure
- Nvidia RTX 5080 now costs about $2,000, nearly double its $999 launch price
- DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17 billion, closing expected by mid-2028
- Sony's ISP arm confirms breach of 2.5 million customer records in Japan
- Xbox says demand tops supply as hardware sales fall 14%
- Fake PS5 emulator repos on GitHub spread password-stealing malware
- Xbox chief says demand beats supply as console sales fall 14%
- South Korea fines Google and Apple over app store payment rules
- Dayton, Minnesota says Flock put two cameras back up after contract ended
- Alphabet says AI is lifting Search queries to a five-year high in growth
- Anduril sets 65 percent US-made target for BlueChip laptop at 2027 launch
- FCC again blocks TP-Link's Wi-Fi 8 routers from US sale; rivals cleared
- Alien: Isolation 2 gets a physical edition, plus mic input and photo mode
- Verizon touts mmWave 'breakthrough' as FWA growth slides to a record low
- FCC clears Amazon Leo's $11.5B Globalstar deal, opening path to phone-to-satellite service
- Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, claims top cybersecurity scores
- No Man's Sky lands on iPhone and iPad with free Forsaken update
- PlayStation Plus Essential adds Dead Island 2 and two more games on November 3
- Report: Israeli ad firm was top bidder on Starlink traffic in 105 countries
- Tower companies now own Dish's abandoned 5G radios, and SpaceX is a possible buyer
- No Man's Sky gets free Forsaken update 49 days after the last one
- Epic says its engineers no longer write most Unreal Engine 6 and Fortnite code
- FCC bars new foreign-made drones, routers and robot vacuums from US market
- Microsoft books $10 billion from OpenAI in one quarter, 11% of revenue
- New York's two new child-safety laws get the basics right
- Sony ends its last 4K Blu-ray player in Japan, leaving PS5 as the only one
- Xbox's reset needs to show up in the numbers, not the memos
- Microsoft states Azure revenue in dollars for the first time: $33.2 billion
- Microsoft posts $92.3 billion quarter, up 19 percent, with Azure up 48 percent
- Witchbrook slips to January 28, 2027 with its first firm release date
- Data on more than 40,000 Homeland Security staff posted online after breach
- Rockstar's union vote deserves as much attention as GTA 6
- Sony brings back see-through hardware with PS5 Prism Collection
- Polygon calls Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer Call of Duty's best in 7 years
- Valve's no-gatekeeping stance on AI tools is fine, but it can't stop there
- Apple announces first touchscreen MacBook Pro, from $2,899 with OLED display
- Don't Nod in safeguard proceedings as union says nearly all non-managerial jobs are cut
- Epic's AI-coded engine needs proof before it needs trust
- HP, Asus and Acer move some PC production back to China as memory costs soar
- Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 lands November 6 with three maps and a new DMZ zone
- FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion purchase of Globalstar
- Valve says it is working on Steam's AI slop. Developers are still on their own
- Why unofficial native PC ports of console games are suddenly everywhere
- Xbox's first COO Helen Chiang exits after three months; duties split
- GOG moves toward publishing after $25 million split from CD Projekt
- Nintendo's October Indie World leads with a Witchbrook date and a free demo or three
- Valve tells developers to make games harder to clone, as AI copies spread on Steam
- WoW players cry foul as Blizzard sells housing packs despite earlier promise
- Epic's AI coding admission is fine. The silence around it is not
- Phantom Blade Zero estimated at 1 million prelaunch sales, analyst says
- Walmart cancels Zelda Switch 2 pre-orders a day before delivery
- Nvidia and AMD put $4 billion into Meta as AI spending climbs
- GTA 6 is a 210GB download on PlayStation 5, tracker reports
- Ex-BioWare staffer says EA managers wanted a flag cut from Mass Effect video
- Activision to pull real Itaewon footage from Modern Warfare 4 after families object
- Samsung 990 2TB SSD drops to $329 at Amazon, $200 off
- iPhone Duo inner screens crack early; teardown points to hinge support bar
- Google DeepMind opens Genie 4 world model to trusted testers
- Capcom hits record first-half software sales in 47 years
- Apple puts M6 in 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac at steady prices
- Discord will put some large public server messages in web search
- Rockstar UK staff set union vote for mid-November around GTA 6 launch
- Nintendo sets Indie World Showcase for October 28
- Microsoft opens voluntary exits to up to 60,000 staff, including Xbox
- Warhorse Studios confirms serious cyberattack
- Acer Predator Atlas 8 hits Best Buy November 1 at $1,300
- Pokémon Unite ends March 2027 as gem sales stop today
- Xbox Game Pass joins T-Mobile T-Mix plans in November
- Valve adds foveated rendering to Half-Life: Alyx six years on
- Ubisoft ships final Black Flag Resynced update with New Game Plus
- Canceled Paranormal Activity game lands free on Steam as archive
- Call of Duty franchise clears $40 billion after Modern Warfare 4
- Nintendo UK issues free parent's gaming guide after survey findings
- GameMaker goes free for commercial PC releases in 2027