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Xbox CTO Scott Van Vilet says Microsoft is working to make bringing games to Xbox easier, with changes planned for its concept and publishing processes as the company continues lowering barriers for developers.
Undead Labs boss Philip Holt explains why State of Decay 3 will still launch on Xbox Game Pass despite the studio’s split from Xbox, highlighting the service’s role in growing the franchise and supporting its four-player co-op ambitions.
More than 3,400 servers have been compromised by malware that hides its infrastructure coordinates in a poem. The post PoeLLM malware has assembled a sweeping botnet, taking technical cues from a poem appeared first on CyberScoop.
Valve’s long-awaited Steam Frame VR headset is finally shipping, and the number drawing the most attention isn’t the $1,059 price tag. It’s the battery. Multiple reviewers clocked standalone runtime at roughly one hour in demanding VR titles, a figure that has turned Steam Frame battery life into the headset’s defining talking point just weeks after…
NVIDIA has pulled its most powerful desktop AI system out of Linux-only territory. On October 7, 2026, the company announced DGX Station for Windows, a deskside workstation built around the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip that packs up to 748GB of coherent memory and 20 petaFLOPs of FP4 AI compute into a machine running…
For about 18 hours this week, Xbox owned the biggest story in gaming. On October 6, 2026, The Verge reported that Microsoft had locked down exclusive cloud-streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning Xbox Cloud Gaming would be the only service capable of streaming Rockstar’s blockbuster when it launches November 19. The implication was…
OpenAI spent September telling the world its unreleased internal model had cracked a piece of the Navier-Stokes equation. On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the company topped that claim with a much bigger one: a GitHub repository containing 722 mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 “result families,” covering open problems across number theory, topology, algebra, geometry, analysis,…
Two of the best-known names in dedicated game server hosting disappeared within six weeks of each other in 2026. Unity shut down direct support for Multiplay Game Server Hosting on March 31, and Hathora Cloud followed on May 5 after its team was absorbed into Fireworks AI. Thousands of multiplayer titles running on either platform…
It’s Monday, October 5, 2026, and the AI buildout is colliding with its limits. OpenAI is testing visual ads inside ChatGPT image generation as weekly users reach 1.2 billion. Tencent is reportedly leasing access to 100,000 advanced chips through Oracle […] The post Top Tech News Today, October 7, 2026: Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Google, Meta, Mistral,…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Biohub has pulled Google, Meta, and the U.S. government into a $1.8 billion effort to generate the biological data needed to train AI systems that can predict how living cells behave. The project, called the Virtual Biology Initiative, […] The post Zuckerberg’s Biohub lands Google and U.S. Government backing for $1.8 billion AI…
