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Call of Duty is a massive franchise with massive yearly releases. But for the betterment of everyone, it should really be broken apart to give each type of player an experience they can enjoy, rather than a rushed feeling one they tolerate.
Microsoft has offered an update on its Xbox layoffs, which sources indicate will fall below the previous numbers revealed in July.
Josh Daniels had a good week at Halo Studios, for about two days. The Cinematic Director learned he had been promoted, and then, within roughly 48 hours, learned he no longer had a job. Kotaku’s Zack Zwiezen broke the story on September 22, 2026, under the headline “Halo Developer Gets Promoted And Laid Off In…
Anthropic pushed out Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, and the pitch is blunt: get Claude Fable 5.1-level output at a fraction of the price. Reuters and ZDNET both reported that Anthropic is positioning the new model as delivering performance “on par with” Fable 5.1 on most tasks while running roughly 20% cheaper than…
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, and told the world it refused 91.5% of a curated cyber-jailbreak test set, up from 59% on GPT-5.6 Sol. Less than 24 hours later, a researcher had already bypassed it using a Task-in-Prompt attack. That gap between a vendor’s benchmark and what actually holds up against a…
LinkedIn is one of the leading sources of B2B leads. But manually finding the right prospects, sending connection requests, following up, and tracking replies can eat up hours every week. For background, see our recent coverage. The right LinkedIn automation and prospecting tool can handle these repetitive tasks while you focus on conversations, demos, and…
Microsoft told Xbox staff on September 22, 2026 that it is cutting another 268 roles, handing the next Halo game to Activision, and folding Obsidian Entertainment under Bethesda Game Studios. The announcement, delivered in an internal note from Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty, marks the second major restructuring of Microsoft’s gaming division this year…
AI factories are power-limited systems that deliver maximum value when fully optimized. GPU workload placement is a key optimization. Poor workload placement…
Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote.…
At BlizzCon 2026, I had the opportunity to speak with the team behind WoW: Forever ahead of its November launch to learn about the future of “Classic+” World of Warcraft.
