39 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Betterment shares more detail about last week’s crypto scam message.

    The company says an “unauthorized individual gained access to certain Betterment systems through social engineering” to send the message on Friday. Betterment believes the individual accessed information like “certain names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates,” though so far, its investigation has shown that no passwords were compromised.

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    Jay Peters
    Time.

    Last week, Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 raised $2,443,414 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. In addition to being a perfect showcase for smaller games, it was filled with great runs of classic titles, like adef’s amazing Pokémon Emerald run where donations determined which Pokémon he used.

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    Welcome to the Mothership.

    Former Polygon staffers Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah are launching a new publication called Mothership, “which aims to analyze games specifically through the lens of gender and identity.”

    It launches on January 26th, but they published a YouTube Short and a blog post explaining what the site’s all about.

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    Jay Peters
    Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is now available to play on Switch 2.

    If you have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription, you can now play the 2005 GameCube release as part of the Switch 2’s collection of GameCube classics, according to a press release. Here’s Nintendo’s Japanese trailer for the launch. (I haven’t seen an English one yet.)

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    Jay Peters
    Parts of the World Cup will stream on TikTok.

    As part of a partnership between TikTok and FIFA, select media partners can livestream “parts of” World Cup matches as well as “post more curated clips and access special content produced by FIFA for TikTok.”