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Multiplayer studios have spent the past year watching their game-server hosting options shift under their feet. Hathora, once a popular pick for indie and mid-size teams, announced in March 2026 that it was joining Fireworks AI and would wind down game hosting entirely by May 5, 2026, pushing customers toward Nitrado’s GameFabric. That shakeup left…
Nintendo’s original Switch quietly passed the Nintendo DS family’s lifetime sales record in 2026, putting a hybrid console at the top of a list that dedicated handhelds had owned for two decades. That single data point reopens an argument gamers have had since the Game Boy launched in 1989: what actually counts as the best…
The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 went up for US preorder on September 24, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. Pacific, priced at $1,299.99 for the standalone unit and $2,499.99 for the ROG 20th Anniversary bundle. It is the fastest handheld ASUS has shipped under the Xbox banner, and it is also the most confusing one to…
Ban numbers get thrown around like trophies these days. Riot boasts millions of Vanguard actions, Activision touts six-minute bans, and BattlEye trackers spit out daily counters. But what do these figures actually tell you about whether cheats work in 2026? For background, see our recent coverage. Anti-cheat detection rates are climbing across almost every major…
We introduce a new method to guide flow matching models. Our approach, which we call probe guidance, uses the frozen internal states of an existing diffusion model to construct a guidance signal. This works using a similar principle as autoguidance, but eliminates the need for an additional forward pass at inference time and provides a…
Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strapped over your head, but they still have immersive displays for watching movies, playing games, and getting work done. Imagine a pair of hefty black sunglasses with…
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it’s “working on” bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask it to handle tasks like guiding a workout, logging…
Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone’s sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It’s a marked difference here, a tech bubble where “pervert glasses” are not a concern. Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance tech – a catchall term that encompasses not just smart glasses, but also smartwatches and…
Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they can use for accomplishing tasks. You’ll also be able to communicate with your Muse…
It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories. The company has been facing significant scrutiny because of how some users…
