Not too long ago, it felt like there was no escape from live-service games. Bethesda’s unveiling of Fallout 76 in 2018 felt like an ominous bellwether – was every iconic franchise now fated to transform into a forever game? Was ever-evolving multiplayer with seasonal content updates the way forward for our favourite RPGs and shooters?
Fast forward eight years and the landscape is looking very…
No, I Have Not Seen Jason’s Penis in GTA 6
October 9, 2026
There are many things we at IGN expected people to take away from our big interview with Rockstar North about Grand Theft Auto 6. The fact that I may or may not have seen protagonist Jason Duval’s penis was not particularly high on that list.
And yet, here we are.
In my…
‘It’s Difficult To Justify the Investment’ – How MMORPGs Built (and Lost) the Live-Service Throne
October 9, 2026
Whatever happened to the MMORPG? In the early 2000s, the likes of World of Warcraft, RuneScape, and EverQuest dominated cyberspace, their worlds host to millions of players questing and raiding together. Today, Roblox’s titanic 123 million daily player count dwarfs the…
An Ohio woman recovered her entire loss after a fake Microsoft support call directed her to send money through a crypto ATM. The case illustrates how computer warnings can become payment demands that move cash into fraudsters’ digital wallets.
Key Takeaways
A 63-year-old Ohio woman received her entire $15,300 loss back.
BCI has assisted with 309 cases involving $5.6 million in kiosk…
Three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms come under new UK sanctions over suspected efforts to bypass restrictions on Russia. The measures target financial channels authorities associate with sanctions evasion as Britain expands pressure on Moscow’s war…
Local reports indicated that the gang held the unidentified foreigner at gunpoint, restrained him, and forced him to transfer the cryptocurrency to the wallet of one of the perpetrators, who sold it immediately. The attackers also took cash and three luxury watches from the…
Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost
October 9, 2026
The standard way to keep an AI agent in line is to have a second AI read over its shoulder. It’s been the default approach, but it can get expensive fast when agents run for hours and process the equivalent of several novels’ worth of text.
Goodfire, a startup focused on interpretability (figuring out how AI models work internally), launched a cheaper option on Thursday: monitors that…
Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
October 9, 2026
Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that’s designed for the era of AI agents. With a press of your finger, you can ask an AI agent to complete a task, capture thoughts, and get things done without reaching for your phone. And while…
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent startup, and already raised $10 million. Vine Ventures led the round, with Z Fellows founder Cory Levy and Collective Global participating.
In March, MyFitnessPal acquired…
Photokina camera expo is coming back from the dead... sort of. Here's what's really happening
October 9, 2026
A photography show with ‘Photokina’ is coming back to Cologne starting next year, but I really don’t think it’s going to be like the mind-boggling international melting pot that I remember from years gone by.
Photokina brings back fond memories for me and the whole of the photography industry that is both old enough to remember it and wasn’t too intoxicated at the…
