Cass Novak

October 23, 2026 — A screenshot-and-delete post claiming insider knowledge of GTA 6 is making the rounds again, and one YouTuber thinks Rockstar's own hiring trail backs it up. None of it is confirmed.

October 22, 2026 — ETA PRIME ran the ROG Xbox Ally X20 and MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ through matched wattage caps and matched upscaling, and the cheaper machine kept winning anyway.

October 22, 2026 — A Steam Deck OLED runs Cyberpunk 2077's 2.5 update on SteamOS 3.10 with nothing touched but the OS and Proton, and the test splits XeSS from FSR across two frame targets.

October 21, 2026 — Xbox and IGN paraded nineteen indie games through a single showcase, and the only number that matters is how many of them actually honor the cross-buy promise attached to their names.

October 20, 2026 — ETA PRIME ripped Windows off the newest Xbox Ally handheld and dropped in SteamOS, then measured what the chip and the OLED panel actually do at 6W, 17W, and 25W.

October 19, 2026 — Steam's featured deals are getting personalised by early 2027, according to Bellular News. More traffic for buried games is the pitch, but traffic was never the part anyone was missing.

October 19, 2026 — A leaked parts estimate puts PS6 memory and storage alone north of $680 a unit, and Sony's own statement about avoiding hardware losses doesn't leave many ways out of that math.

October 19, 2026 — Rockstar's codename for GTA 6 wasn't subtle: Project Americas, built to cover big stretches of the country's north and south. Here's what that actually tells us.

October 16, 2026 — A 120Hz OLED panel and a new chip are real news. The nine sponsor plugs and timestamped shopping list wrapped around them are not.

October 16, 2026 — A fresh clip claiming to show Lucia naked in Vice City is circulating again, logo-stamped and unverified, while Rockstar says exactly nothing.

October 15, 2026 — The X20 charges $300 more than its sibling for an OLED panel and TMR sticks, not a single extra frame. Here's whether that math works out.

October 14, 2026 — An analytics estimate puts Gears of War: E-Day at just 230,000 paid copies, with Xbox console sales reportedly stuck at 62,000 against 1.7 million Game Pass players.

October 13, 2026 — Microsoft published a wall of October release dates and called it a Game Pass lineup, but count the actual subscription tags and the list shrinks fast, right as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 heads for the exit.

October 12, 2026 — A new Steam horror game trades item pickups for 'social skills,' and its reveal trailer leans hard into the gothic, twee-horror aesthetic of early-2010s indie darlings.

October 12, 2026 — Two open-source projects claim unmodified Windows PC games running natively on iOS and Android, no streaming, no remote desktop. Here's what's actually under the hood.

October 11, 2026 — A sideloading workaround lets Valve's new headset run Meta's walled-off exclusives, provided you already own them and don't mind playing IT support for your own hardware.

October 10, 2026 — Valve's shooter is reportedly surging on Steam after the City Never Sleeps update, but the only hard data so far is the word 'insane.'

October 9, 2026 — A Digital Foundry voice reportedly flagged pixel-level details in a new GTA 6 image as possible PS5 Pro tells. Nobody, including Rockstar, has confirmed a thing.

October 9, 2026 — A new extraction shooter with a creature-collecting twist is live on Steam right now, and the marketing comparison it's borrowing deserves a second look before you buy it.