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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…
Local co-op died with the living room. Most retro sessions today happen with a friend three states away, and screen-sharing tools like Parsec add a full frame of lag on top of whatever the emulator itself costs you. Netplay skips that tax by syncing inputs, not video, which is why Dolphin, RetroArch, and PCSX2 all…
Type “Groq vs Grok” into a search bar and you’ll find two camps of confused people: developers trying to figure out why their inference bill looks nothing like the pricing page they read, and casual AI users wondering if the chatbot on X and the blazing-fast chip startup are somehow the same company. They are…
Direct-drive sim racing wheels stopped being a niche, four-figure hobby purchase somewhere in the last eighteen months. As of September 2026, a buyer shopping for a direct drive wheel can pick between a flagship 11 Nm base from Logitech, an 8 Nm PlayStation-licensed base from Fanatec, or a 9 Nm base from Moza that costs…
OpenAI shipped the Agents API into public beta on September 10, 2026, and it changes the default way developers wire up autonomous coding and research agents. Instead of stitching together the Responses API, a custom orchestration loop, and a sandbox provider, you now call a single managed endpoint that runs the same Codex harness OpenAI…
PS5 owners run out of internal storage fast. A modern open-world title can eat 100GB or more, and even the PS5 Pro’s 2TB drive holds roughly 1.89TB of usable space once the operating system takes its cut. Sony’s answer is USB extended storage, but the feature comes with a rule that trips up almost everyone…
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that a single police employee’s login credentials opened the door to a breach of its DAVID driver database, according to a September 11, 2026 statement from the agency and reporting by Tampa Bay 28. The outlet identified the source of the compromised access…
Every Steam Deck owner eventually hits the same wall: a game launches fine on Windows but crashes, stutters, or refuses to boot on Linux. The fix usually isn’t a new graphics driver or a reinstalled game. It’s a different build of Proton. As of September 2026, Valve’s default Proton sits at version 11.0-2, the community-maintained…
