Employees at Build a Rocket Boy reported layoffs following the failure of MindsEye. According to IGN, peak concurrent players on Steam was just 16 in 24 hours, and the studio's loss for the financial year reached £36.2 million.
iOS 27 introduces Impersonation Risk Detection, which identifies signs of active fraud in real time and passes a risk level to the app. The feature is off by default and can be enabled in Privacy & Security settings.
Meta has expanded podcast promotion tools in Threads, allowing users to share episode transcripts, save episodes for later, and track clicks from the app. Posts with episode links show video clips, text snippets, and guest tags, with audio previews on tap.
GitHub warns that Copilot support will soon end for outdated JetBrains IDE versions. Users of old builds are advised to update to keep the plugin working.
Homebrew team is developing BrewUI, an official native macOS GUI for package management. The project is in early development, written in Swift 6.0 and SwiftUI, and licensed under AGPL-3.0.
Reviews for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave on Switch 2 praise tactical combat, scale, and depth, but note a full playthrough of all routes takes 70 to 100+ hours and pacing drags in later chapters.
At its Unbound conference, HubSpot announced its largest CRM update: a revamped Breeze assistant, a self-updating Smart CRM, and a Context Home section with data completeness scoring. It also announced the first CRM integration with ChatGPT Ads and integration with Microsoft Advertising.
For its 40th anniversary, Ubisoft is giving away the standard edition of For Honor for free on Ubisoft Connect until September 28, 2026 — the game remains with the user forever. The edition includes the base game and 14 characters, with story mode and 1v1, 2v2 and 4v4 multiplayer available.
Valve confirmed that the FEX emulation technology, first used in the Steam Frame headset, will be expanded to other ARM devices. FEX is an open-source x86-on-ARM emulator that Valve has secretly funded for years; it allows running Steam games on ARM laptops and mini-PCs.
Analysts note that LLMs are better at finding bugs in the Linux kernel than writing code: Linus Torvalds and Arm developer Lorenzo Stoakes used AI for debugging, but generated code required significant manual rework. Meanwhile, a flood of AI bug reports is overloading kernel maintainers.
ZA/UM will release a free Director's Cut update for Zero Parades on October 1, with a PS4 version arriving November 3. The update adds about 40,000 words of new content, including the Quisach Roundabout scene, a Backstage section, and re-recorded English voice acting.
Neo4j introduced GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence for banks and insurers, its first release after acquiring GraphAware in August. The system combines data from different systems into one graph to reveal links between accounts, transactions, and devices. Interpol estimates financial fraud cost victims $442 billion in 2025.
Adobe released Photoshop Elements 2027 and Premiere Elements 2027 with generative AI features for beginners. The photo editor adds Generative Expand, Generative Upscale, and a beta AI assistant, while the video editor adds image and title generation. The bundle costs $150, each program $100, with a three-year license.
Canon announced Dual Pixel 3D technology that converts a single RAW image into a 3D image or model using Dual Pixel CMOS AF depth data. The free Dual Pixel 3D Converter app will be released on October 3 for Windows 11 only.
Google Home users report that Voice Match fails to recognize who is speaking, causing repeated commands and requests being added to others' personal lists. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is improving Voice Match quality, but did not provide a timeline for a fix.
Microsoft removed the PC-to-PC Migration feature from Windows 11, which allowed transferring files and settings between computers over Wi-Fi or LAN without the cloud. The company now recommends Windows Backup with OneDrive sync, where a free account is limited to 5 GB.
Microsoft is still investigating an issue where Copilot and Copilot Chat buttons disappear for some classic Outlook on Windows users. The bug affects Copilot Chat (Basic) and paid M365 Copilot (Premium) licenses and appears after updating to build 20026.20182 or later.
Samsung released stable One UI 9 based on Android 17 for Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra, starting in South Korea. The roughly 650 MB update follows seven betas and brings the Now Nudge AI feature, a customizable quick settings panel, and deeper Gemini integration.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave launches September 17, 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2 from Intelligent Systems and Nintendo. The player as Eshmel travels five years back to save four fallen heroes — Kai, Dietrich, Theodora and Leda — and unite them in a final battle.
Google renamed Vertex AI in Firebase to Firebase AI Logic and expanded it with Gemini Developer API support, backend selection, App Check, new firebase/ai SDK, Unity SDK, and hybrid inference. The old firebase/vertexai module is deprecated.
Square Enix announced that cumulative shipments and digital sales of the Dragon Quest series have exceeded 100 million copies. The series has been running since 1986.
Honor announced MagicOS 11 at HGDC 2026 on September 15. The Android 17-based skin features Glazed architecture with Liquid Glass effect, 20% smoother performance, up to 60 GB memory savings, and an updated YOYO assistant. Open beta starts right after the event.
Lyft abandoned its custom Kubernetes operator for Apache Flink and migrated hundreds of production jobs to the open-source Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator. This enabled last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling, and resource autotuning, saving several million dollars annually on excess capacity.
Riot Games is introducing an Agent Mastery system in Valorant with seasonal Act Levels and permanent Lifetime Levels, Mastery Points, and customizable Agent ID. The system launches on September 22, 2026 with patch 13.06 and replaces Agent Gear, preserving already unlocked rewards.
At BlizzCon Blizzard detailed Diablo V: the world will be procedural and shifting, with terrain, points of interest, monsters and rewards changing on return. The game launches in 2029, with overlay maps available from day one.
Blizzard confirmed that World of Warcraft: Forever will not have computational add-ons that automate combat, marking, and communication. The restriction mirrors the retail WoW policy, where combat mods were removed for 'equal conditions' in raids. Forever is scheduled for release in November.
EA FC 27 launches September 25, 2026 on PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch. Early access for Ultimate Edition and Ultimate Plus Edition owners starts September 18, and the Ultimate Team web app opened September 16.
An unfinished destination card for Google Maps was found in Android Auto 17.8, showing place photos, an Overview section, contacts and a Gemini-based AI summary. The feature is not yet released and Google may change or cancel it.
Apple released tvOS 27 for Apple TV with a redesigned liquid glass interface, side menus, lossless and high-res lossless audio support, 4K video from cameras and faster AirPlay. It adds system-wide text size settings, expanded gamepad compatibility and update management via iPhone.
Microsoft said Windows Server 2022 will stop receiving mainstream support updates on October 13, 2026. The system moves to extended support with monthly security patches until October 14, 2031; hotpatching for Datacenter: Azure Edition is extended to October 2027.
