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Three flagship chatbots and one very late arrival all shipped inside a single three-week window this September, and for the first time in months the fight between them isn’t really about who writes the cleanest code. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 have each published (or…
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…
Control Resonant launched on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on September 18, 2026, and four days later the picture on hardware is clear: Remedy Entertainment built a PC port around ray tracing and path tracing, and it is charging accordingly. Official specifications published ahead of launch call for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070…
Sony never built a PC mode into PlayStation VR2 out of the box, but it also never blocked the door. Since 2024 the official PlayStation VR2 PC adapter has let the headset run SteamVR titles on a Windows machine, and as of September 22, 2026 that path is still fully documented and actively maintained on…
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…
Sony Interactive Entertainment used the PlayStation Blog on September 21, 2026 to confirm a project that had been rumored inside gaming and K-pop fan circles for weeks: a DualSense wireless controller designed with BLACKPINK member Lisa. The DualSense wireless controller – Lisa Limited Edition goes on sale globally on October 30, 2026, priced at $84.99…
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…
NEC’s PC Engine turned 39 this year, and its American twin, the TurboGrafx-16, is still finding new fans through emulation rather than eBay auctions. Three tools now dominate the conversation among people trying to run HuCard and CD-ROM² games on a modern PC: Mednafen, the accuracy-obsessed multi-system emulator that also powers RetroArch’s Beetle PCE cores;…
AI is becoming a bigger part of software testing, but many QA teams are still figuring out where to begin. The good news is that adopting AI does not require replacing an existing testing process all at once. In this blog, we will look at a practical roadmap for understanding where AI fits, which use…
