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Every issue's news, newest issue first.
Issue 02 · October 2026
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News · Games · PC, consolesDark Souls II and III's servers are downHaber Masası
The message stones have gone quiet. On 30 October 2026, FromSoftware's player support account posted an announcement on X.
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News · Games · PC, PS5, Xbox Series +2The Wolf Among Us Remastered is outHaber Masası
In Telltale games, a decision is worth what it carries into the next game.
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News · Games · Switch, Switch 2Witchbrook finally has a release dateHaber Masası
Eight years is no short wait. Chucklefish announced during the Nintendo Indie World broadcast on 28 October that Witchbrook will come out on 28 January 2027, and released a new gameplay trailer with the news.
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News · HardwareAtari VCS's store is closing, and the door swings open for homebrewHaber Masası
Another console is retiring. On 21 October Atari announced that it is ending support for the VCS, which came out in 2021.
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News · HardwareBrickStation makes the Lego PlayStation actually workHaber Masası
Substance Labs in Zug has made a business out of getting Lego models to work.
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News · Hardware · FPGA home computerThe Commodore 64C Ultimate has shippedHaber Masası
The mould dates from 1986. Commodore International has put the slim 64C-cased version of its FPGA-based C64 on sale.
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News · Hardwaredecomp.dev shuts its shared project directoryHaber Masası
A scoreboard has gone dark. decomp.dev is a site that tracks the progress of "matching decompilation" projects (turning a game's compiled code back into source code that compiles to the identical result).
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News · Hardware · Windows, macOS, Linux +2James Pond 2: RoboCod, ported from Amiga code to PCHaber Masası
The fish is back on the surface. Gary Riches has converted Millennium's 1991 Amiga game James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod to C++.
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News · HardwarePlaydate's certificate has expired: older versions won't update over Wi-FiHaber Masası
A date has passed on Panic's yellow handheld.
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News · Hardware · Commodore 64Sabre Wulf Remastered is finished on the C64Haber Masası
It took four years. Genesis Project released the finished version of Sabre Wulf Remastered on 25 October 2026.
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News · HardwareSteam Next Fest drowns in demos, and the complaint is AIHaber Masası
This time the crowd is just too big. Next Fest, Valve's free demo festival, ran on Steam from 19 to 26 October 2026, and by SteamDB's count it opened with between 7,100 and 7,200 demos.
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News · HardwareToki returns to the Mega Drive, the Neo Geo and the Amiga AGAHaber Masası
Another old arcade game is heading back to old machines.
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News · HardwareWonder Boy, from the arcade to the Amiga and the Mega DriveHaber Masası
Not a remake, a conversion. This one is by ShinobiZ, and it brings Sega and Escape's 1986 arcade game Wonder Boy to the Amiga and the Mega Drive.
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News · MetalBruce Dickinson is bringing the PsychoGod tour to IstanbulHaber Masası
Write down 29 June 2027. Bruce Dickinson announced his solo tour, "PsychoGod Tour 2027", on his official site on 27 October 2026.
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News · MetalMeshuggah celebrates its fortieth year with Testament and Blood IncantationHaber Masası
Meshuggah is forty. To mark it, the Swedish band will tour North America in 2027.
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News · MetalMork toured Europe, and "Skrømt" got a videoHaber Masası
Black metal news from Norway. Mork, Thomas Eriksen's one-man project, finished the European tour that Peaceville Records billed as a "headline" run, playing from 9 to 25 October.
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News · MetalNordjevel's fourth album Damnous arrives on 11 DecemberHaber Masası
New album news out of Norway. Nordjevel have announced Damnous, their fourth full-length.
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News · MetalWatain at Mystic Festival 2027Haber Masası
Sweden's Watain are heading to Gdańsk. Mystic Festival's official site has added the band to its line-up.
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News · MetalA new album from Xasthur: Open to MisinterpretationHaber Masası
Nine tracks, 33 minutes 36 seconds. Xasthur's new album, Open to Misinterpretation, came out on 2 October 2026 on Prophecy Productions (the running times come from Metal Kingdom's listing; the label's page has no track…
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News · AI and codeAnthropic showed its investors a quarter in the blackHaber Masası
This is an investor presentation. It is not an official statement.
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News · AI and codeCanada is putting up to C$1.6 billion into CohereHaber Masası
This time the state isn't handing out a grant.
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News · AI and codeCharacter.ai on the bankruptcy table, Disney next in line with $20 millionHaber Masası
Character.ai has landed in court. Character Technologies, which runs the chat site, filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition (the reorganization chapter of the US bankruptcy code) with the Delaware Bankruptcy Court on 12…
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News · AI and codeOpenAI has revised the Model SpecHaber Masası
The assistant is no longer "the assistant".
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News · AI and codeOpenCode Console breached, stored API keys exposedHaber Masası
A bad weekend. OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent, announced a security breach from its X account on Saturday, 17 October.
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News · AI and codeSurface Laptop Ultra: the first Surface on Nvidia's Arm chipHaber Masası
There's no Intel in this Surface, and no AMD either.
Issue 01 · September 2026
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News · HardwareBanjo and Kazooie on an Evercade cartridgeHaber Masası
Two Rare platformers on one cartridge. Blaze Entertainment is putting out the Banjo-Kazooie Double Pack, made together with Xbox, on 30 October 2026.
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News · Hardware · FPGA handheldFunnyPlaying FPGB Mini: First batch gone in ten minutesHaber Masası
A pocket-sized FPGA handheld. FunnyPlaying, the Chinese retro hardware maker, put the FPGB Mini on sale in its own store on 18 September 2026, with no advance notice.
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News · HardwareOne of the PS2's last locks has been pickedHaber Masası
Four years of work. On 13 September 2026 the Canadian modder DiscoStarslayer made an announcement on X: the inside of the PS2's MechaCon (mechanical controller) chip had been read.
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News · Hardware · Android handheldRetroid Pocket Duo Lite+: Cheap shell, expensive chipHaber Masası
Another handheld from Retroid. The company announced the Pocket Duo Lite+ on its X account on 20 September.
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News · Hardware · HandheldTHEC64 and Spectrum handhelds slip to AprilHaber Masası
The wait got longer. Blaze Entertainment has pushed the release of THEC64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld from 15 October 2026 to 22 April 2027.
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News · MetalBlackbraid replace Moonspell on the Cradle of Filth tourHaber Masası
A visa problem. On Cradle of Filth's North American "Majestic In Death II" tour, Portugal's Moonspell have been replaced by Blackbraid.
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News · Metal · LP, picture-disc LP, CDKai Hansen: Born With A HammerHaber Masası
A new album from one of Helloween's founders.
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News · AI and code · Gemini APIGemini 4 ArgonHaber Masası
The defenders tried it first. Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September 2026.
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News · AI and code · Grok API, Cursor, Grok BuildGrok 4.7Haber Masası
xAI's new model is here. The company announced Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026.
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News · AI and code · Java SEJDK 27 is outHaber Masası
The new Java release is live. OpenJDK made JDK 27 generally available on 15 September 2026.
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News · AI and code · macOSXcode 27 and Swift 6.4 are outHaber Masası
Swift 6.4 comes with Xcode 27. Apple added Xcode 27 (27A266a) to the releases list on its developer site on 14 September 2026.
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News · AI and code · Hugging FaceXiaomi opens the weights of the MiMo-V2.6 seriesHaber Masası
The weights are out in the open. Xiaomi's MiMo team has released the MiMo-V2.6 series on Hugging Face as open weights (a model anyone can download and run on their own machine).
