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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Are you ready for today’s GTA VI preview?

The “extended look” coming to Netflix and YouTube will be 26 minutes long and feature gameplay captured on the PlayStation 5, according to Netflix. The preview will first appear on Netflix at 3PM ET before arriving on YouTube at 9PM ET.

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Alienware’s flagship 5K OLED curved gaming monitor is now available for $1,099.

Alienware announced its fancy AW3926QW monitor back at Computex, and it’s now up for sale with an actual price. The 39-inch tandem OLED with a 165Hz refresh rate and 1500R curve uses an LG panel with RGB stripe subpixels for sharper text display. And it’s loaded with extras, like a KVM and a USB-C port with 90W passthrough power. All for a cool $1,099.

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<em>The front and rear of the AW3926QW.</em>
<em>Lots of ports, including video via HDMI 2.1 FRL, DisplayPort 2.1, and USB-C.</em>
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The front and rear of the AW3926QW.
Image: Alienware
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Amazon’s adding another 2 million of Nvidia’s GPUs to its AWS data centers.

That’s on top of the 1 million Nvidia GPUs it was already planning to add, before demand “exceeded” expectations. The two companies doubled down on their partnership as Nvidia announced record revenue yet again, and Amazon says it’s planning to bring Nvidia’s Vera CPUs to AWS.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s more of Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.

Sony’s new trailer for The Social Reckoning features a few brief snippets of Strong’s performance. The voice is pretty uncanny. The film debuts in theaters on October 9th.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Operation Bluebird is back in action.

X sued the startup after it attempted to cancel its ownership of the “Twitter” and “Tweet” trademarks, claiming they had been “abandoned.” But a preliminary ruling from April suggests “X seemed to have given up intellectual property claims,” leading Operation Bluebird’s co-founders to launch the Twitter.now platform, as reported by Ars Technica.

The platform is currently available in early access to “founders” who pay $20.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
1047 Games is ending development on the newest Splitgate and another multiplayer game.

The studio is reworking Splitgate: Arena Reloaded and Empulse to support peer-to-peer multiplayer but will no longer be providing dedicated servers, according to a message from cofounders Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian. (Proulx wore a hat that read “Make FPS Great Again” at 2025’s Summer Game Fest, which he apologized for.)

The cofounders also note that “our focus is changing” and that “What we build next may look very different from what people expect from 1047 Games.”

A screenshot of a message from 1047 games. It reads: An Update on Empulse, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, and What’s Next for 1047 Games Today, we have some difficult news to share: we are ending active development on Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded. This is a hard update for us to write. We love these games, and we know this will be disappointing and frustrating for a lot of people. We are sorry. The reality is that neither game is generating enough revenue to support the ongoing cost of dedicated servers. We have continued covering those costs because we wanted to give both games every opportunity to grow, but we have reached the point where that is no longer sustainable. We have loved working on these games, playing them, and building them with this community, and we wish we could continue supporting them. What we do not want to do is simply shut the games down. We believe people should be able to keep playing the games they love even after active development ends. The original Splitgate launched seven years ago. When its dedicated servers went offline last year, we moved it to peer-to-peer so people could keep playing. It remains playable today, including on console. Wherever technically possible, we want that to be true of every game we make. So we have reworked Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded to support peer-to-peer play. On Thursday, September 3, both games will move to peer-to-peer hosting with a server browser. Dedicated servers and matchmaking will shut down, but players will still be able to host matches, find games, and play with friends forever. Empulse will also receive one new map and lower its price across all regions. This will be the final version of Empulse. Active development may be ending, but we’ll still be playing Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded and hanging out in the Discord. If you see us in a lobby, come say hi.
The second part of a message from 1047 Games. It reads: “What’s Next We started 1047 Games ten years ago because we love video games. Since then, more than 25 million people have played our games, and many of the people we’ve met along the way have become lifelong friends. After ten years of focusing on live service shooters, our focus is changing. What we build next may look very different from what people expect from 1047 Games, but what has not changed is why we are here: we love making games. We have learned a lot over the years, and we will carry those lessons into what we build next. To everyone who worked on Splitgate, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, and Empulse, including those no longer at 1047: thank you. You put years of your lives into them, and we are grateful for what you helped us build. And to everyone who played, gave us feedback, made videos, argued about balance changes, discovered ridiculous movement tech, or brought friends into a lobby: thank you for being part of this with us. Thank you for the last ten years. See you in the server browser. lan Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian Co-founders, 1047 Games”
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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers.

“It just felt like the fair thing to do,” Panic says in an email shared on Reddit. The exact refund amount seems to vary; the email screenshot shows a refund of $12.36, while a couple other Reddit users mentioned refunds of about $23.

Nintendo and Sony, on the other hand, have kept their tariff refunds.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Flipboard is acquiring Graze, which lets you build custom feeds on the AT Protocol.

Combined, we become two halves of one machine. [Flipboard’s] Surf will be the browser for the open social web — where people go to read and discover feeds across Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, RSS, and more. Graze will be the engine under those feeds — how a curator builds, tunes, and monetizes one without writing a line of code. Browse on one side, build and get paid on the other. And together, in joining forces, we serve tens of building atop open social protocols.