Microsoft has spent 2026 doing something it has never done before a console launch: talking about the next Xbox in public, in pieces, for six months straight. The project has a name, Project Helix, a chip partner, AMD, and a phrase that has replaced “next Xbox” in every Microsoft slide deck since Gamescom 2026: “family…
A PS5 game just booted on a Steam Deck without a network connection doing the work. On August 13, 2026, an open-source project called SharpEmu got Astro’s Playroom, the platformer bundled with every PlayStation 5, running locally on Valve’s handheld through the PlayStation Studios splash screen and into its loading sequence. The frame rate hovered…
Sony’s March 2026 price hike pushed the PS5 Pro to $899.99, the standard PS5 to $649.99, and the PS5 Digital Edition to $599.99, according to Sony’s official PlayStation Blog price announcement. That’s a steep bill for anyone upgrading, and it’s why so many PS5 Pro buyers in September 2026 are searching for the fastest way…
Amazon GameLift Streams quietly became one of AWS’s most useful game-industry tools in 2026, yet most developers still confuse it with Amazon GameLift Servers, the older dedicated-server product. They solve different problems. GameLift Servers spins up dedicated compute for session-based multiplayer games. GameLift Streams does something else entirely: it takes an existing game build, whether…
Amazon S3 buckets accumulate sensitive data fast, and most security teams find out where PII, credentials, and financial records are actually sitting only after an audit, a breach, or a compliance deadline forces the question. Amazon Macie exists to answer it proactively. It is AWS’s managed service for discovering, classifying, and monitoring sensitive data across…
OpenAI and Anthropic, in heated competition—with each other and China—are racing toward IPOs, even as they admit they could lose control of their powerful bots.
The latest fundraising by Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, comes less than two months after the company raised US$4.0 billion through a share placement in July.