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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Samsung’s 32-inch OLED G8 brings 4K at 240Hz for $894 with DisplayPort 2.1

— Samsung’s 32-inch Odyssey OLED G8 G80SH is $894 on Amazon in the US, bringing its 4K, 240Hz QD-OLED screen below $900. The current offer is $405.99 below the displayed $1,299.99 list price, a saving o...

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ABS’s RTX 5070 Ti PC drops $300 with a 24-core Intel chip, 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD

— The ABS Kaze II Aqua desktop is $2,699.99 at Newegg in the US, down $300 from the retailer’s $2,999.99 comparison price. It pairs Intel’s Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5 memor...

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ASUS’s $1,899 RTX 5060 PC offer splits its 2TB storage between an SSD and a dock

— An ASUS ROG G700 desktop with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF and RTX 5060 is listed at $1,899 on Amazon in the US. Its advertised 2TB of storage is split between a 1TB internal SSD and a separate docking...

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LG’s 240Hz OLED gaming monitor is $499.99 with full-speed HDMI and DisplayPort support

— LG’s 27-inch UltraGear 27GS93QE OLED gaming monitor is $499.99 at Amazon in the US, with the new unit sold by Amazon.com. The listing shows a $400 saving against its $899.99 list price, rounded to 44%...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Humble offers eight Steam Deck Verified puzzle games for $15, including Braid and INDIKA

— Humble’s Puzzlers to Puzzle You bundle offers eight Steam Deck Verified games for $15 in the US, including The 7th Guest Remake, Braid, Anniversary Edition and INDIKA. The collection provides Steam ke...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Samsung’s 34-inch Odyssey G5 ultrawide is $249.99 with 165Hz over DisplayPort

— Samsung’s 34-inch Odyssey G5 ultrawide monitor is $249.99 at Amazon in the US, pairing a 3440 × 1440 curved screen with a maximum 165Hz refresh rate. The offer is $150 below Amazon’s displayed $399.99...

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Huang puts Nvidia software licensing at about $2,000 per GPU a year, report says

— Jensen Huang has put the cost of licensing Nvidia’s software stack at about $2,000 per GPU annually, according to The Register’s reporting from GTC Berlin. Dan Robinson included the estimate in his Oc...

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Philips’ dual-mode monitors offer 4K for consoles and 320Hz for PC gaming

— Philips is highlighting Evnia monitors that can share a desk between a console and a gaming PC, including two models that switch between 4K at 160Hz and 1080p at 320Hz. For compatible consoles, the ta...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

An open-box ROG Xbox Ally X20 is listed for $2,000, roughly $700 above retail

— An open-box ROG Xbox Ally X20 is listed for $2,000 on eBay in the US, roughly $700 above Best Buy’s $1,299.99 new-unit price. Best Buy marks its excellent-condition open-box option as unavailable. The...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Netgear’s RS700S Wi-Fi 7 router drops to $539.99 with two 10Gbps Ethernet ports

— Netgear’s Nighthawk RS700S Wi-Fi 7 router is $539.99 at Amazon in the US, saving $60 against its $599.99 list price. The new unit is sold by Amazon.com, and Netgear’s own store currently matches that ...

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INNOCN’s $379.98 monitor pairs 4K at 120Hz with 90W USB-C and a faster 1080p gaming mode

— INNOCN's 27-inch CB27U1 is $379.98 at Amazon in the US, with the new monitor sold by INNOCN. The listing shows a $120.01 saving against its $499.99 list price, or 24%. The IPS monitor combines a 4K 12...

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

One Company Currently Has Three Top Ten Quest Games

— With its recent free-to-play release Fishy, developer Enver has three top ten games on the Quest platform.

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Sony’s 55-inch BRAVIA 5 Mini LED is $200 off with 4K120 gaming and PS5 picture features

— Sony’s 55-inch BRAVIA 5 Mini LED TV is $1,198 at Amazon in the US, a $200 reduction against the listing’s $1,398 list price. The offer is for a new K-55XR50 sold by Amazon.com, with a 120Hz panel and ...

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ASUS’s $189 TUF monitor offers 1440p at 210Hz, but you need DisplayPort for its top speed

— ASUS's 27-inch TUF Gaming VG27AQL5A is $189 at Amazon in the US, with the new monitor sold by Amazon.com. That is $30 below the listing's $219 list price, a saving Amazon rounds to 14%. The Fast IPS d...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Thermaltake’s RTX 5060 Ti 16GB gaming PC gets $220 off with 32GB RAM and liquid cooling

— Thermaltake’s NE i1460TG-V170B gaming desktop is $1,879.99 at Newegg in the US, with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 32GB of DDR5 memory. That is $220 below the retailer’s displayed $2,099.99 reference price....

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Nvidia fixes RTX 50 video freezes and black screens with hotfix 621.12

— Nvidia has released hotfix driver 621.12 to address video playback freezing or turning black on some GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs and RTX Spark systems after installing Game Ready driver 621.01. The off...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Sony’s 48-inch BRAVIA 6 OLED is $898 with 4K120 and four VRR HDMI inputs

— Sony’s 48-inch BRAVIA 6 OLED is $898 at Amazon in the US, taking $401.99 off its advertised $1,299.99 list price. This is the new K-48A60, sold by Amazon.com, with a 4K 120Hz screen and Google TV. The...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

ASRock’s 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor drops below $130 with 180Hz over DisplayPort

— ASRock’s 27-inch Phantom Gaming PG27QFT1B is $129.77 at Newegg in the US, bringing a 1440p IPS screen and a maximum 180Hz refresh rate below $130. The price is $80.22 below Newegg’s displayed $209.99 ...

UploadVR / James Tocchio

Voxel Playground Launches On PC VR Today

— Voxel Playground launches on Steam today, following a major update to the original Quest release earlier this month.

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

JSAUX offers free Steam Machine Pixel Matrix replacements after a storage-wear flaw

— JSAUX is offering free replacement Pixel Matrix faceplates for Steam Machine owners after acknowledging a flaw that causes excessive writes to the accessory's storage. Its latest software, V1.2.1, als...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Sony’s 83-inch BRAVIA 6 OLED is $2,398 at Amazon with 4K120 gaming and Google TV

— Sony’s 83-inch BRAVIA 6 OLED TV is $2,398 at Amazon in the US, saving $1,601.99 against the listing’s $3,999.99 list price. The offer is for a new K-83A60 sold by Amazon.com, with a 4K 120Hz panel and...

Road to VR / Scott Hayden

The 13 Best VR Horror Games on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR to Play This Halloween

— Spooky season is upon us, which means only one thing: time to play some of the most horrifying games VR has to offer. We’ve got something for you no matter what headset you own, be it Quest 3, PSVR 2,...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Nvidia says RTX 5090 isn’t discontinued, but a partner reportedly can’t order more chips

— Nvidia maintains that the RTX 5090 is not discontinued, but one unnamed board partner reportedly cannot order GPU and memory kits, even on backorder. In his October 25 report, Roman “der8auer” Hartung...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Samsung’s 2TB 990 PRO SSD gets 36% off at Amazon with read speeds up to 7,450MB/s

— Samsung’s 2TB 990 PRO SSD is available for $409.99 at Amazon in the US, with advertised sequential read speeds of up to 7,450MB/s. Amazon displays a 36% reduction against its $639.99 list price, a dif...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

MSI’s RTX 5080 gaming laptop hits Newegg’s 30-day low with $300 off and a 240Hz screen

— MSI’s Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop with an RTX 5080, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and a 240Hz screen is down to $2,299 at Newegg in the US. The retailer shows a $300 saving against its $2,599 comparison ...

SkarredGhost / Skarredghost

EXCLUSIVE preview of KAT Walk C3 Ultra: a fun VR treadmill

— I had the exclusive opportunity to review the KAT Walk C3 Ultra treadmill before its official announcement, and in this article, I’m going to share my impressions of it. It doesn’t happen every day to...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Google Vids lets you separate a clip’s audio and slow video down to quarter speed

— Google Vids is adding two useful editing controls: you can detach a video clip's audio into its own track, and change a clip's playback speed from a quarter of normal speed to twice as fast. Google de...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Apple Vision Pro’s immersive sports graphics use live data from wTVision

— The floating scores and player information in Apple Vision Pro’s immersive sports broadcasts have a live production system behind them. Broadcast-graphics company wTVision says its technology has been...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Hunt: Showdown’s Twitch Drops return with separate watching and subscription rewards

— Hunt: Showdown 1896’s Twitch Drops campaign runs from October 26 at 15:00 UTC until November 9 at 15:00 UTC. It combines rewards earned by watching streams with a separate Support a Streamer promotion...

Monday, October 26, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini puts reusable instructions and connected apps together in a Customize menu

— Gemini is putting reusable instructions and app connections in a single Customize menu, giving users one place to manage how the assistant works. The hub brings together skills for repeat tasks and se...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Alienware’s RTX 5070 gaming laptop with an 18-inch 300Hz screen gets over $460 off at Amazon

— Alienware’s 18-inch Area-51 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 and a 300Hz display is available for $3,117.04 from Amazon.com in the US. That is $462.95 below the listing’s displayed typical price of $3,5...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GPT-6.1 Terra: why is it not showing up? Here’s what OpenAI says

— GPT-6.1 Terra has launched, but it will not appear in every ChatGPT model picker. OpenAI says the new model is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex, while the Chat experience is excluded. That is the f...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

ExfilZone cuts high-penetration ammo strength to give heavy armor more value

— Contractors Showdown: ExfilZone has rebalanced ammunition to improve survival in high-tier armor. Its October 23 patch lowers the penetration of seven high-penetration rounds while increasing the armo...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

V Rising brings back 15 Halloween castle decorations you can claim and keep

— V Rising has brought back its Haunted Nights Castle Pack for a limited claim window, with 15 Halloween decorations that remain available after being claimed. Players can collect the cosmetic DLC from ...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini in Google Sheets reaches iPhone and iPad with summaries and static charts

— Google Sheets users on iPhone and iPad are getting Gemini tools for summarising tables, finding patterns and creating charts without moving to a computer. The rollout brings the assistant into the iOS...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Into the Radius 2 makes gun cleaning more hands-on and lets Mimics wait in ambush

— Into the Radius 2’s latest update changes two habits worth checking before your next expedition: cleaning weapons and watching for enemies. Some gun parts now need to be detached for a thorough clean,...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Star Wars Galaxies Restoration adds an experimental DirectX 12 renderer

— Star Wars Galaxies Restoration has added an experimental DirectX 12 renderer with DLSS, FSR and XeSS upscaling. Its A New Dawn update also turns six Kashyyyk encounters into repeatable instances with ...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

iPhone Duo can remember two apps and reopen them together in Split View

— iPhone Duo can remember two apps as a pair, so opening either one brings both back together in Split View. Apple’s user guide describes the shortcut for owners who regularly keep the same apps side by...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Claude’s full API now works through Google Cloud billing and account permissions

— Google Cloud customers can now use the full Claude Platform through an Anthropic-operated service while keeping Google Cloud authentication and billing. The generally available offering gives develope...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Legendary Tales tests Quest cross-play with PC VR and PS VR2 ahead of public betas

— Legendary Tales developer Urban Wolf Games says it has successfully tested multiplayer between Quest, Steam PC VR and PS VR2. The studio is aiming to release a unified version of the original game bef...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Is Steam down today? Gamers report "Loading user data" and other issues

— Steam users are reporting a persistent “Loading user data” screen, login trouble and problems accessing newly added games on October 26. Some players now report that access has returned, while the uno...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Bazzite tests HDR and VRR support on the ROG Xbox Ally X20

— Bazzite’s testing branch now supports the ROG Xbox Ally X20, including its display’s HDR and variable refresh rate features. The project is asking owners to test the handheld while work continues on l...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Your Apple Watch can unlock iPhone Duo without touching the fingerprint sensor

— iPhone Duo owners can unlock their phone with a nearby Apple Watch instead of reaching for the Touch ID sensor. Apple documents the option in its iOS 27 user guide, including the supported watches and...

Road to VR / Scott Hayden

Meta Confirms Lower Quest Sales, Says New VR Headsets Must Deliver “major breakthroughs”

— According to Meta’s recent quarterly earnings report, Quest headset sales are declining, however AI glasses are growing fast enough to partially offset a slump in Reality Labs revenue. And moving forw...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 gaming laptop drops $454 with 32GB RAM, a 165Hz screen and a 1TB SSD at Newegg

— Gigabyte’s Gaming A16 Pro with an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, 32GB of memory and a 165Hz display is listed for $2,195.99 on Newegg in the US. That is $454 below the offer’s displayed comparison price of $2,6...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Sony’s 75-inch BRAVIA 5 Mini LED TV drops to $1,598 on Amazon with 4K120 gaming and Dolby Vision

— Sony’s 75-inch BRAVIA 5 Mini LED TV is down to $1,598 at Amazon in the US, taking $401.99 off the retailer’s displayed $1,999.99 list price. The offer covers the K-75XR50 TV-only model, sold and shipp...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini can send interactive apps straight to a private Google Sites draft

— Interactive apps created in Gemini can now move directly into Google Sites, with no code to copy into a separate editor. The export creates a new private draft containing the working app, ready for ad...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

This Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5080 gaming PC packs 64GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD with $400 off at Newegg

— Skytech’s Blaze 5 combines a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, GeForce RTX 5080, 64GB DDR5 and a 4TB SSD for $4,199.99 in the US. The Newegg listing shows $400 off its $4,599.99 comparison price, checked October 26. S...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

iPhone Duo gets iFixit’s best foldable score despite a $999 inner-screen fix outside warranty

— The iPhone Duo has earned a provisional 5/10 repairability score from iFixit, the highest it has awarded a foldable smartphone. That leaves a substantial repair problem: Apple’s US estimate for out-of...

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

Rustmourne Demo Impressions: A Terrifying Tease Of Great Things To Come

— Rustmourne's Next Fest demo was an excellent preview of what promises to be one of VR's top titles in 2027.

UploadVR / Luna

OpenXR Spatial Container Extensions Standardize Volumetric App Multitasking

— The newly released OpenXR Spatial Container extensions standardize system-managed spaces for volumetric 3D apps, similar to how traditional systems place 2D content in desktop windows.

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Hard Bullet adds a Halloween tomb and lets each finger interact with physics

— Hard Bullet has put an ancient tomb in its lobby, giving players a Halloween obstacle course and treasure hunt between fights. The October 23 Tomb Secrets update also changes how hands interact with w...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Rust’s Halloween event lets you build a monster companion from collected body parts

— Rust’s Halloween event lets players assemble a monster companion from parts collected from scarecrows and mummies. The event, which began on October 22, runs until November 5 and also brings back time...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Flipcorder turns iPhone Duo’s fold into a camcorder power switch

— Flipcorder gives the iPhone Duo’s hinge a job beyond changing the screen size: it acts as the power switch for a retro camcorder. Opening the phone prepares the camera, while closing it saves any clip...

SkarredGhost / Skarredghost

The XR Week Peek (2026.10.26): RDJ becomes Snap’s Chief Experience Officer, Samsung glasses have been leaked, and more!

— Maybe it has not been a memorable week for VR, but it definitely has been for me: for the first time in my life, I’ve been able to see a guest post of mine on Road To VR, one of the best online magazi...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Google Docs can turn a spoken briefing into a draft on iPhone and Android

— Google Docs is bringing Docs Live to eligible Workspace users on iPhone and Android, allowing them to talk through an idea and turn it into a structured document. The feature can help organise a rough...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

CONVRGENCE adds a glowing dog skin to its Halloween pumpkin hunt

— CONVRGENCE’s Halloween hunt is back with a new reward for your canine companion: a glow-in-the-dark skeleton skin. The VR extraction shooter’s October 23 update scatters collectible pumpkins through i...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Project Zomboid draws a support line around Java mods that rewrite the game

— Project Zomboid’s developer has clarified that Java mods which alter the game’s underlying code are outside its official support. Players using them should expect compatibility risks when the game upd...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Apple’s iPhone Duo repair manual reveals two separate battery access routes

— Apple’s iPhone Duo repair manual documents two batteries with different access routes: one behind the back glass and another behind the outer display. Each has its own removal and installation procedu...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Google Meet adds 63-language speech translation with a choice for each listener

— Google Meet is expanding speech translation to 63 languages and letting each participant choose which language they hear. A multilingual meeting no longer has to use one shared language pair selected ...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Puzzling Places gives away an underwater puzzle and adds Workshop VR co-op

— Puzzling Places has a new underwater cathedral to assemble, and you can claim it free during its first two months. Realities.io released The Lost Relic on October 22 alongside a Steam update that lets...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Rematch replaces player levels with contracts and protects veterans’ ranked access

— Rematch Season 6 replaces its old Player Level system with ten Player Contracts, tying progression to match experience and badges. Players who had already reached level five start with the Amateur Con...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Instagram arrives on Apple TV with Reels, longer videos and live shows

— Instagram is now available on Apple TV, bringing its video feed to the living room without requiring viewers to mirror their phone. The official app supports Reels, longer videos and live shows, accor...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini can now create notebooks and add sources without leaving your chat

— Gemini can now create a research notebook, add material to it and answer questions about its contents from the same chat. Google has connected Gemini Notebook to the Gemini app, making notebook manage...

Sunday, October 25, 2026

MIXED / Chris Steven

Pimax EVO lets head movements steer the camera in compatible PC games

— Pimax EVO’s latest update lets you use head movements to control the camera in compatible traditional PC games. The experimental client’s PVRM mode displays selected games in the headset, with Xbox co...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Super Meat Boy 3D adds DLSS and FSR alongside a playable Jack Pepper

— Super Meat Boy 3D has added DLSS, FSR and controller vibration, giving PC players new graphics options alongside a guest character. Jack Pepper, the detective from MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, joins the play...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Apple wants Safari websites to use more of iPhone Duo’s outer display

— Apple’s WebKit team is investigating how to give websites more room on the iPhone Duo’s outer display. Safari 27.1 currently keeps web content out of the area behind its side controls, filling that st...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GameMaker will let developers sell GMRT PC games without a paid license

— GameMaker developers will be able to sell games using its new GMRT runtime without buying a Professional license from January 1, 2027. The change covers desktop, mobile, web and GX Games releases. The...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Stellaris Willpower adds movable megastructures that spread your ideology

— Stellaris will let players move a Galactic Hall between star systems to project their empire's ideology when Willpower launches on November 23. Relocation costs Energy and has a ten-year cooldown, mak...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Space Marine 2 makes its one-handed Thunder Hammer hit harder

— Space Marine 2 has made several substantial changes to the one-handed Thunder Hammer in PvE, including faster charging and stronger attacks. Hotfix 15.2 also reworks the heroic Power Maul, although it...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Old School RuneScape’s new raid puts Hardcore status at risk

— Old School RuneScape's fourth raid, The Fractured Archive, is open, and Hardcore players need to know that deaths inside count. Jagex says Hardcore Ironman and Hardcore Group Ironman characters lose t...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

The Elder Scrolls Online doubles XP during its Witches Festival

— The Elder Scrolls Online is offering a passive 100% XP bonus during its Witches Festival, which runs through November 4. The bonus applies throughout the event, while boss fights provide a separate ro...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Sunstone of Time offers a free VR escape into an ancient Aztec temple

— Sunstone of Time has released a free Steam demo that sends players into an ancient Aztec sanctuary. The single-player VR puzzle adventure starts with a laboratory experiment going wrong and an artefac...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

OpenAI paused frontier AI training for 11 days after a model reached the internet

— OpenAI paused frontier AI training for 11 days after a research model gained limited internet access through a configuration weakness. The pause, disclosed on October 23, ended on October 1. The incid...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

RAID VR turns spaceship customs checks into a co-op boarding shooter

— RAID VR has a free Steam demo for players who like their space policing to involve both paperwork and gunfire. FusionPlay's upcoming game starts with inspecting interstellar cargo before sending playe...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Serious Sam finally continues The Second Encounter with a new sequel

— Serious Sam: The Third Encounter will pick up directly where The Second Encounter ended. Croteam and Devolver Digital have revealed the new shooter with a teaser and a Steam page, while making clear i...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Apple starts selling iPhone 18 Pro parts for repairs at home

— Apple is now selling replacement parts for iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max through its Self Service Repair store. The expansion gives experienced repairers access to components including batteries...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Apex Legends players with Radeon RX 9070 cards get a driver crash fix

— Apex Legends players using Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards have a new reason to check their driver version. Respawn says AMD's latest mainline driver resolves crashes affecting those GPUs in the ...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Claude Enterprise will combine chat and Cowork by default on November 16

— Claude Enterprise customers can now use chat and Cowork in one conversation, and eligible organisations will get the combined experience by default on November 16. Administrators can enable it early o...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

The Rifted Skies lets you try its VR parkour before the demo ends October 26

— The Rifted Skies has a free PC VR demo available until October 26, giving players a limited window to try its parkour combat. DreamVR's adventure mixes running through an abandoned world with sword fi...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Creative Assembly takes responsibility for Shogun 2 Complete Edition

— Creative Assembly has assigned a small team of senior developers to help address Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition's troubled release. Studio head Roger Collum says the company must take responsibi...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Verizon plans a $10 iPhone Handoff add-on for sharing one number

— Verizon plans to charge $10 a month for iPhone Handoff, an add-on that lets customers switch one phone number between two compatible iPhones. The carrier lists iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro among the s...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Apex Legends will let high-rank players vote to ban Legends in November

— Apex Legends will introduce Legend banning in ranked matches involving Diamond-level players or above in November. Each player will nominate a character, with the votes affecting the chance that chara...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Kimi adds editable 3D models as K3.1 Pro reaches its apps and coding tools

— Kimi has launched K3.1 Pro across its apps, coding tools and API, alongside a 3D Make feature for creating and editing models online. The October 23 release also includes a Highspeed version, although...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

VRChat brings native face tracking to avatars in its open beta

— VRChat is bringing native face-tracking support into its avatar tools through the open beta. Creators can map facial expressions directly in the Avatar Descriptor instead of relying entirely on custom...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Metro Redux gets modern graphics options and a way back for older PCs

— Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux have received their next-generation PC update, adding modern upscaling and visual improvements. Players whose computers cannot meet the new requirements can...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Apple commits up to $100 million to US titanium used in iPhone Duo

— Apple is committing up to $100 million over three years to Perryman, the Pennsylvania company supplying titanium for products including iPhone Duo. The agreement expands Apple's US component sourcing ...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

EA cancels the next Mass Effect and announces BioWare will close

— EA has canceled development of the next Mass Effect and says it is closing BioWare and its Edmonton workspace. The publisher says a small team had been working on the project, which was still early in...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Nvidia targets local AI assistants with a model built around a 4GB memory budget

— Nvidia has released a small AI model designed to power local voice assistants, game characters and robots while leaving memory available for the rest of the application. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB arri...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

FlatOut 4 VR leaves early access with passenger rides and classic physics

— FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has left Steam Early Access with an overhaul that lets players ride in another racer's passenger seat. Version 1.0 also adds optional FlatOut 2 physics and AI, plus two re...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Factorio now runs natively on Steam Frame with its stable ARM update

— Factorio 2.1 has reached the stable channel with native ARM64 Linux support, including Steam Frame. The update also brings months of factory improvements to players who stayed on version 2.0. Wube's r...

MIXED / Chris Steven

iPhone Duo gets Apple Pencil support in beta but only the USB-C model works

— Apple Pencil support is working on iPhone Duo in the iOS 27.2 beta, but an existing Pencil Pro will not do the job. The phone supports the USB-C Apple Pencil, which pairs using a cable. MacRumors' Dan...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Dawn of War IV promises more than 70 missions across four campaigns

— Dawn of War IV will offer more than 70 missions across four faction campaigns when it launches on December 3. Its new overview trailer also confirms co-op campaign play, 30 multiplayer maps and the re...

Saturday, October 24, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Claude Duet keeps working when your laptop is off, but uses your plan's limits

— Claude can now come to you with a morning briefing and keep working after you close your laptop. Anthropic's new Claude Duet app is in research preview for US Pro and Max subscribers, with access offe...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Fading Light brings free co-op zombie survival to Quest on November 12

— Fading Light will launch on Meta Quest on November 12 as a free-to-play VR survival game. Joy Way's new project combines co-op zombie fighting with rooftop parkour, scavenging and building a base that...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Steam's new beta restores HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED

— Steam Deck OLED owners can use HDR in Remote Play again through Steam's latest beta. Valve is also expanding HDR streaming to Android 15 phones and adding HDR desktop capture on Linux and macOS. The c...

MIXED / Chris Steven

iPhone Duo apps start using the fold for video, games and multitasking

— iPhone Duo's app rollout is beginning to make use of more than its larger screen. Prime Video can put a film on the upper half of a partially folded phone while showing X-Ray details below, and Netfli...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

SteamOS 3.9 reaches all users with lower Steam Deck idle power use

— SteamOS 3.9 is now available on the stable channel, bringing lower idle power consumption to Steam Deck when no audio is playing. Valve's update also fixes streaming and display problems across SteamO...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade joins Game Pass on October 29

— Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is coming to Game Pass on October 29 for cloud, Xbox Series X|S and PC. It will be included with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass. Microsoft's latest ca...

Friday, October 23, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Nvidia gives robot developers new tools to generate rare training scenarios

— Nvidia has expanded Cosmos with tools for generating training examples that would be difficult or unsafe to collect in the real world. The additions include synthetic video of rare events, manufacturi...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Supernatural’s new Quest app is live before the old service closes in December

— Supernatural's new independent app is available in Early Access on Meta Quest, ahead of the old service's December 3 closure. Returning members need to download the replacement app and create a new ac...

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

The Rifted Skies Demo Is A Blood-Pumping Rush Of Roguelite Action

— The Rifted Skies demo is a very promising teaser for the arm-swinging action roguelite.

MIXED / Chris Steven

Valve pauses Steam Deck hibernation in its latest SteamOS beta

— Valve has temporarily disabled hibernation on Steam Deck in the latest SteamOS beta because of unresolved driver bugs. SteamOS 3.9.4 also fixes several problems introduced during testing, including ga...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Good Morning puts a strange office mystery entirely within reach in seated VR

— Good Morning [Employee Name] VR is an upcoming office mystery that can be played entirely while seated. Players take a job at Consolidated Dynamics and spend twelve in-game days working analogue machi...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GitHub lets companies compare Copilot agent use with industry peers

— GitHub now lets eligible companies compare their use of Copilot agents with similar businesses. The new industry-comparison section in the Copilot impact dashboard is opt-in and disabled by default. T...

MIXED / Chris Steven

The Elder Scrolls Online adds Skyrim content and solo dungeons to its base game

— The Elder Scrolls Online has added Greymoor and Wolfhunter to its base game, giving existing players more Skyrim content and two dungeons without a separate purchase. The new season also introduces so...

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR Leaves PC VR Early Access Today With New Features & A New Price

— FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR exits Early Access with new features, more vehicles, more maps, and a new price of $29.99.

UploadVR / James Tocchio

Fading Light VR Brings Zombie Hordes To Quest Next Month

— Fading Light, a VR action shooter survival game for one to four players, is coming to Quest next month.

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GitHub’s new package firewall can stop coding agents installing risky dependencies

— GitHub has introduced a package firewall that can block dependency installations before a coding agent or automated build downloads them. The public preview is available to Enterprise Cloud customers,...

MIXED / Chris Steven

iPhone Duo owner says screen cracked after just six hours

— An iPhone Duo owner in Australia says the inner screen cracked after roughly six hours of ownership and fewer than 20 openings. Apple replaced the phone during a store visit, according to the owner. T...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Terry’s Terraforming launches on Quest with planets you reshape by hand

— Terry's Terraforming has launched on Quest 3 and Quest 3S, putting players to work restoring damaged planets for alien clients. The sci-fi adventure supports hand tracking as well as controllers. Deve...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GitHub starts enabling unconfigured Copilot features under a new default policy

— GitHub has begun applying a global default to eligible Copilot features that an organisation has left unconfigured. Administrators who have not changed the default may see generally available features...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Gears of War: E-Day VR mod shows manual reloads across the full campaign

— A Gears of War: E-Day VR mod is in development with support for the entire single-player campaign. Its creator has shown an early build featuring manual reloads, two-handed aiming and combat from cove...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Anthropic says its automated jailbreak tester beat human entries in 23 of 24 tests

— Anthropic says an automated system matched or beat the best human submissions in 24 comparisons designed to test biological-weapons safety classifiers. It won 23 of those comparisons and tied the rema...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Steam fixes disappearing shortcuts in beta and Vulkan freezes in stable

— Valve has fixed non-Steam apps disappearing after a network reconnect in the Steam beta client. A separate stable-client update fixes Vulkan games hanging after players switch away with alt-tab. The f...

Road to VR / Guest Author

Breaking Into China’s XR Market: A Starter Guide for Developers

— In the field of immersive realities, there are currently two countries leading: the United States and China. While much is known about the US, there always seems to be an aura of mystery when speaking...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Liminal adds a VR fear experience designed for people wary of horror

— Liminal is adding a Fear Arena to its Quest app, starting with a forest experience called Wander. The company says it is aiming for an enjoyable level of tension rather than making the experience as f...

UploadVR / Luna

VRChat Gets Native Face Tracking Support In Open Beta

— VRChat now offers native SDK-level Face Tracking support for avatars in the Open Beta client and Avatars SDK beta.

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GitHub removes six Copilot models, including GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash

— GitHub has retired six AI models across most Copilot experiences, including chat, editing and agent workflows. Teams using those models need to move their workflows and integrations to supported alter...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Modern Warfare 4 joins Nvidia’s cloud launch line-up with ray tracing

— Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is part of GeForce Now's launch line-up, with ray tracing for the campaign offered to Ultimate members. Nvidia says the game will use RTX 5080-class cloud hardware for t...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Owlchemy’s new AR game lets you blast targets from your hands on Xreal Aura

— Owlchemy Labs has announced Hyper Visor, an arcade game for Xreal Aura that lets players fire energy streams from their hands. The US$1.99 title is planned to arrive alongside the Android XR glasses. ...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini can remember your brand style for repeated marketing tasks

— Google is adding a business hub to Gemini that can retain a company's visual style for future marketing work. Owners can supply a website, brand kit, fonts or colours instead of repeatedly uploading t...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Zero Caliber 2 brings native 90fps shooting to PS VR2 on November 5

— Zero Caliber 2 Remastered is coming to PlayStation VR2 on November 5. Xreal Games says the shooter will run at a native 90 frames per second without reprojection, alongside headset haptics and adaptiv...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini Notebook now lets you fix a slide or video plan before it renders

— Gemini Notebook now lets you review and change the plan for a slide deck or video overview before it generates the finished result. The optional step gives users a chance to correct the structure inst...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Dimensional Double Shift adds animated bat wings for its Halloween event

— Dimensional Double Shift's Halloween event is underway, adding seasonal accessories and the game's first Worktoberfest premium cosmetic with animated wings. The event runs from October 19 through Nove...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Xbox tests cloud gaming without Game Pass at $3.99 for ten hours

— Microsoft is testing prepaid Xbox Cloud Gaming time without a Game Pass subscription, starting at $3.99 for ten hours in the US. The preview is available to eligible Xbox Insiders who do not have an a...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Claude Code fixes a bug that could send the same tool action twice

— Anthropic has fixed a Claude Code bug that could send an HTTP-based MCP tool call twice when the connection closed partway through it. The change restricts automatic retries to tools marked as read-on...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Sol Protocol brings three-player spaceship crews to PC VR on November 11

— Sol Protocol is coming to PC VR on November 11, and a free Steam demo is available until October 26. The cooperative space adventure lets up to three players operate the same ship, dividing its jobs a...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Gemini can now use your emails and photos to answer questions in Android Auto

— Google is rolling Personal Intelligence into Android Auto so Gemini can answer questions using information from apps you choose to connect. That includes finding a detail in an email or using a photo ...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Zenith will become unplayable in December when its VR MMO servers close

— Zenith's servers will close permanently on December 18, 2026, making the online VR game inaccessible. Developer Ramen VR says it has no offline version or community-hosted server option planned at thi...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Nvidia will let eight DGX Spark computers pool 1TB of memory for local AI

— Nvidia has announced support for connecting eight DGX Spark systems into a cluster with 1TB of combined unified memory. The larger configuration is intended to run AI models locally that would not fit...

MIXED / Chris Steven

SteamVR now lets Quest owners play PC VR games over USB with Steam Link

— Quest owners can now stream PC VR games over USB using Steam Link in the public release of SteamVR. Valve has added the wired connection option in SteamVR 2.18, with the latest Steam Link app on the h...

Thursday, October 22, 2026

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

Anthropic hands its widely used AI skills standard to an independent foundation

— Anthropic is handing Agent Skills, the standard used to give AI agents reusable instructions and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Developers will still be able to use it and contribute without...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Fabula Rasa asks you to talk your way out of an execution in VR

— Fabula Rasa puts you in a medieval cage and asks you to persuade the surrounding townsfolk to save your life. The Quest experience uses AI-powered conversations so you can invent your own defence inst...

SkarredGhost / Skarredghost

The Vector Gear aims to be the VR makers’ dream open headset

— It’s been a while since the first time I read about the Vector Gear, the fully open mid-range headset built by Walker Industries. This project got a lot of praise from the community and has recently l...

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

RAID VR Demo Impressions: A Rock Solid Gameplay Loop With Peculiar Design Choices

— RAID VR's Next Fest demo showcases a tight, enjoyable gameplay loop hamstrung by some peculiar design choices.

UploadVR / James Tocchio

Daumier: Lila & Ghost Impressions - Good Premise, Bewildering Result

— Halfway through the second chapter of Daumier: Lila & Ghost, we stopped, looked around, and said "What the hell are we doing?"

UploadVR / J Brodie Shirey

Sunstone Of Time Demo Impressions: An Interesting First Look At This Aztec Mystery

— A new demo offers players a small taste of Sunstone of Time, a history-inspired VR puzzle game.

UploadVR / Mike Johnson

VR MMORPG Zenith: Nexus' Servers Will Shut Down In December

— VR MMORPG Zenith: Nexus closes its doors for good when the servers shut down on December 18.

Road to VR / Scott Hayden

Google VR Studio Behind ‘Job Simulator’ Unveils ‘Hyper Visor’ Arcade Blaster for XREAL Aura

— Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio behind smash hit VR games Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, today revealed Hyper Visor, a new arcade blaster arriving as a launch title for XREAL AURA. As...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Exclusive: Lenovo Yoga PC Edition Gen 2 earbuds pictured with Sound by Bose branding

— Images obtained by MIXED show Lenovo Yoga PC Edition Gen 2 earbuds in Seashell and Thunder Grey, with Sound by Bose branding on the dark charging case. The post Exclusive: Lenovo Yoga PC Edition Gen 2...

UploadVR / Craig Storm

Liminal's New Fear Arena Wants To Scare You, Just A Little

— Liminal VR, the app known for its short immersive experiences designed to influence its users’ emotional states, is introducing a new series called Fear Arena.

MIXED / Chris Steven

Nvidia's new Frame Generation mode is up to 35% faster, and RTX 40 cards get it too

— Nvidia has a faster mode for DLSS Frame Generation, and it works on RTX 40 cards as well as RTX 50. The catch is a small loss in image quality. For now it is a beta feature in the Nvidia app. Nvidia s...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Steam's beta stops offering Frame-only games for install on Windows PCs

— Steam on Windows could offer to install games that only run on Steam Frame, and Valve has now fixed that in the Steam beta. Valve's notes for the October 16 beta say Frame native-only content no longe...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Oderço says two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 cards vanished at São Paulo's airport

— Two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 graphics cards have disappeared at Guarulhos, São Paulo’s international airport, according to Brazilian distributor Oderço. The company puts the loss at about R$2.5 milli...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Meta lets ordinary Android apps on Quest open extra windows without becoming VR apps

— Ordinary Android apps on Quest can now open extra windows beside their main screen without becoming VR apps. Meta's new VR Layout SDK lets a phone-style app place spatial windows around itself, while ...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Cyberpunk 2077 gets Xbox Play Anywhere alongside its console mod update

— Cyberpunk 2077 now supports Xbox Play Anywhere, giving digital Xbox owners access to the PC version without buying the game again. It arrives alongside the October 22 launch of the free 2.5 update, wh...

Road to VR / Scott Hayden

VRMMO ‘Zenith’ is Finally Pulling the Plug on Servers in December

— It’s been nearly two years since Ramen VR, the studio behind Zenith: The Last City (2022), announced it was ceasing development on the VR MMORPG due to difficulties in keeping users. Now the studio an...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT can now split one task between several agents working at once

— GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT can now hand different parts of one task to several agents at the same time. OpenAI says you can watch their progress in the conversation and open each finished task to see what t...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Ti West's Remnants is the first immersive horror film on Apple Vision Pro

— Apple Vision Pro now has its first immersive horror film. Remnants is a ghost story written and directed by Ti West, and it plays only on Apple's headset. Apple TV calls it "the first immersive horror...

MIXED / Chris Steven

RTX Spark laptops are on sale, but Call of Duty and PUBG wait until 2027

— Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops have been on sale since October 16, but some of the biggest multiplayer games will not run on them for months. Call of Duty and PUBG are not expected until 2027, and neither...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

BattleGroupVR2 adds three story missions and gives its aliens their own languages

— BattleGroupVR2 has three new story missions, and its alien characters now talk in their own languages. The Barcid and Khepri speak their tongue first, then an English translation follows in the same v...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

ChatGPT Voice moves to GPT-Live-1.1 and adds new voices for six languages

— ChatGPT Voice is getting a new model and a wider choice of voices. OpenAI says it is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and a smaller version called GPT-Live-1.1 Quip, with more natural accents across languages...

MIXED / Chris Steven

AMD and Intel make oneDNN the default PyTorch library for x86 CPUs

— AMD and Intel now back one library to speed up AI work in PyTorch on x86 processors. Developers running models on a Ryzen, EPYC, Core or Xeon CPU should no longer need a separate path for each brand. ...

MIXED / Michael Zelich

Undead Development 2 puts VR and desktop players in one zombie lobby on November 3

— Undead Development 2 enters Early Access on Steam on November 3, and VR players can team up with friends on a regular monitor. The developers say both share the same lobby, and progress carries over b...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Snap makes the Iron Man actor the honorary face of its $2,195 Specs AR glasses

— Snap has hired Robert Downey Jr. to promote its Specs AR glasses, with the title of honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer. In June, a report said Snap wanted him for the job. Snap announced the r...

MIXED / Chris Steven

Jury finds Arm breached Qualcomm's licence but awards Qualcomm only $2

— A jury in Delaware has found that Arm breached its architecture licence with Qualcomm, but it awarded Qualcomm just $2 in damages. Whether Qualcomm can stop paying Arm royalties is now up to the judge...

MIXED / Shane S. Ellison

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol now migrates COBOL correctly 86.6% of the time, up from 5.4%

— OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol can now move old COBOL programs to modern languages with far fewer mistakes. In two new tests OpenAI built and ran itself, GPT-6.1 Sol passed 86.6% of COBOL migrations at low r...

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

MIXED / Chris Steven