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About Mark Grantt
With ten years in the Industry, I write to provide our readers with the best material and great experience.
Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 Is a Messy Triumph That Bethesda Needed
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Oblivion Remastered on Switch 2 Is a Messy Triumph That Bethesda Needed

Oblivion Remastered landed on Switch 2 last week and already sold out its physical cartridges across multiple retailers. That is not normal for a twenty-year-old RPG. The launch has become…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 18, 2026
Nvidia’s $100 Billion Ohio Bet Proves the AI Game Moved Past Chips
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Nvidia’s $100 Billion Ohio Bet Proves the AI Game Moved Past Chips

Nvidia isn't just selling GPUs to OpenAI anymore. It's underwriting the power lines, the concrete, and the decades-long lease on a decommissioned uranium enrichment site fifty miles south of Columbus,…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 18, 2026
Kingdom Hearts 4 Is Finally Letting Go of Sora
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Kingdom Hearts 4 Is Finally Letting Go of Sora

I've watched the extended D23 trailer enough times to know what Square Enix is actually selling here. The Coco world looks gorgeous, and skeleton Donald and Goofy fighting in the…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 17, 2026
Thrive Holdings Just Raised $2 Billion to Buy the Enterprise, Not Sell to It
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Thrive Holdings Just Raised $2 Billion to Buy the Enterprise, Not Sell to It

Everyone is talking about the $2 billion. SoftBank, D1 Capital, Altimeter, a $12 billion valuation. But the number that actually matters is seventy. Thrive Holdings already owns and operates more…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 17, 2026
Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Buy Is a Payments Play Disguised as AI
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Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Buy Is a Payments Play Disguised as AI

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. Most takes will frame this as a fintech giant swallowing an AI infrastructure darling. That misses the…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 17, 2026
August 27 Is the Accidental Stealth Tactics Holiday of 2026
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August 27 Is the Accidental Stealth Tactics Holiday of 2026

We are eleven days out from what might be the most schizophrenic release day of the year. On August 27, two games that share almost nothing beyond a love of…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 16, 2026
Anthropic’s $11.5B Quarter Is Stunning. The $2 Trillion IPO Math Is Another Story.
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Anthropic’s $11.5B Quarter Is Stunning. The $2 Trillion IPO Math Is Another Story.

Eleven point five billion dollars in ninety days. When preliminary Q2 documents surfaced this week, the figure felt almost fictional. Fourteen times the same quarter last year. Nearly two and…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 16, 2026
Netflix Bought Night School Studio for Its Voice, Then Silenced It Six Weeks Later
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Netflix Bought Night School Studio for Its Voice, Then Silenced It Six Weeks Later

On August 13, Netflix confirmed it is closing Night School Studio and Moonloot Games. The timing is almost insulting. Just six weeks earlier, co-CEO Greg Peters stood on an earnings…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 15, 2026
Nvidia’s $21 Billion SpaceX Stake Is a Conversion, Not a Conviction
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Nvidia’s $21 Billion SpaceX Stake Is a Conversion, Not a Conviction

Nvidia's latest ownership report hit its investor relations page this week with a figure that stopped the scroll. The company holds 122.8 million SpaceX Class A shares, worth roughly $21…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 15, 2026
Hell Let Loose Vietnam Ships Broken and Divided Over Whether the Jungle Even Works
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Hell Let Loose Vietnam Ships Broken and Divided Over Whether the Jungle Even Works

August 13 was supposed to be the reset button. After Expression Games and Team17 bumped Hell Let Loose Vietnam from its June 18 slot to address playtest feedback, the expectation…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 14, 2026
Silver Lake’s Workday Bid Is a Bet on Data, Not Just Dollars
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Silver Lake’s Workday Bid Is a Bet on Data, Not Just Dollars

Workday shares didn't just rise on August 13. They exploded, surging as much as twenty-five percent and triggering multiple trading halts. The reason? Talks that Silver Lake, the private equity…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 14, 2026
Lovable at $13.3B Is Not a Code Editor. It Is a Power Shift.
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Lovable at $13.3B Is Not a Code Editor. It Is a Power Shift.

Another day, another nine-figure AI round. Except this one doubles a valuation in eight months flat. Lovable closed a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion post-money valuation, led…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 13, 2026
Switch 2 Hit 23 Million and Already Buried the GameCube, But Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet
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Switch 2 Hit 23 Million and Already Buried the GameCube, But Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet

Nintendo's sold 23.68 million Switch 2 consoles in just over a year. That's enough to bury the GameCube's entire lifetime total of 21.74 million units. The headline's loud, and the…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 13, 2026
Google’s AI Reshuffle Is a Bet That Scale Beats Genius
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Google’s AI Reshuffle Is a Bet That Scale Beats Genius

On August 5, Alphabet announced that Demis Hassabis would step down as Google DeepMind CEO to become DeepMind Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist. Sundar Pichai’s blog post called it the…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 13, 2026
Cerebras Stock Crashed on Margins Again. Investors Are Fighting the Wrong Battle.
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Cerebras Stock Crashed on Margins Again. Investors Are Fighting the Wrong Battle.

Cerebras shares dropped 14% in after-hours trading Tuesday despite raising full-year revenue guidance and posting cloud revenue that crushed estimates. This is the second consecutive quarter the stock's been pummeled…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 13, 2026
Rockstar’s Netflix Window Is a Six-Hour Test of How Much Hype You’ll Pay For
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Rockstar’s Netflix Window Is a Six-Hour Test of How Much Hype You’ll Pay For

Rockstar Games doesn't need E3. It doesn't need Geoff Keighley. And as of last week, it doesn't even need YouTube to premiere its most important marketing beat in a decade.…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 12, 2026
Intel Just Sold $20 Billion of Hope and Wall Street Could Not Get Enough
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Intel Just Sold $20 Billion of Hope and Wall Street Could Not Get Enough

Intel priced 210 million shares at $95 each on Monday and walked away with roughly $20 billion. By Tuesday morning the books were set to close, with demand reportedly exceeding…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 12, 2026
Beast of Reincarnation Doesn’t Care About Your First Impression
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Beast of Reincarnation Doesn’t Care About Your First Impression

One week after launch, Beast of Reincarnation sits at a Mixed 61% on Steam and a 73 on Metacritic. Those numbers tell a story, but it's not the one I've…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 11, 2026
Nvidia Turned Its Chips Into an Asset Class, and Wall Street Bought the Pitch
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Nvidia Turned Its Chips Into an Asset Class, and Wall Street Bought the Pitch

On August 10, Nvidia confirmed it had signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR. The goal: mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital for…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 11, 2026
OpTic Gaming’s Back-to-Back EWC Crown Is a Legacy Reset, Not Just a Repeat
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OpTic Gaming’s Back-to-Back EWC Crown Is a Legacy Reset, Not Just a Repeat

OpTic Gaming didn't just win the Esports World Cup again. They walked into Paris Expo Porte de Versailles and treated a $1.8 million tournament like a closing argument. After dismantling…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 10, 2026
Data Center Bans Just Crossed 500 Nationwide, and the Rebellion Is Bigger Than NIMBYism
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Data Center Bans Just Crossed 500 Nationwide, and the Rebellion Is Bigger Than NIMBYism

The math flipped sometime in June. Before then, local resistance to data centers felt like a collection of isolated town-hall fights. Now the count sits above 530 county and municipal…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 10, 2026
OpenAI Bought NextSlide Quietly. What It Really Wants Is the Team, Not the Decks.
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OpenAI Bought NextSlide Quietly. What It Really Wants Is the Team, Not the Decks.

When NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry finally posted on the company site that his company had been acquired by OpenAI, he admitted the announcement was "a few months late." The deal…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 9, 2026
Marvel Tōkon Is a Fantastic Fighter Trapped Inside a Disastrous PC Port
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Marvel Tōkon Is a Fantastic Fighter Trapped Inside a Disastrous PC Port

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls dropped on August 6 with every ingredient for a modern fighting game classic. Arc System Works handling a 4v4 Marvel tag fighter backed by PlayStation Studios…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 9, 2026
OpenAI Just Admitted Its Next Model Might Be Too Dangerous to Build
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OpenAI Just Admitted Its Next Model Might Be Too Dangerous to Build

On August 7, OpenAI published something you rarely see from a frontier lab. A straight admission. Its upcoming model, Astra, had demonstrated "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity" during…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 9, 2026
Big Walk Earned Its 94 Metacritic by Refusing to Be a Live Service
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Big Walk Earned Its 94 Metacritic by Refusing to Be a Live Service

House House launched Big Walk on August 4, and within days it sat at a 94 on Metacritic, making it the highest-rated new release of 2026 so far. At twenty…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 8, 2026
Cloudflare Kitesurf Is the First Browser That Treats Humans as an Afterthought
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Cloudflare Kitesurf Is the First Browser That Treats Humans as an Afterthought

Cloudflare didn't launch a faster Chrome. It launched a declaration of independence from the human web. Kitesurf, announced August 6 during the company's Agents Week, is a browser engine built…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 8, 2026
Jeff Dean’s Exit Is Google’s Quiet Admission That Big Tech Has Stopped Building
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Jeff Dean’s Exit Is Google’s Quiet Admission That Big Tech Has Stopped Building

Jeff Dean didn't just leave Google. He validated what engineers inside Mountain View have whispered for three years: the company that built modern infrastructure is now too slow to push…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 6, 2026
Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation Already Needs Saving, and Marvel Tokon Is Next in Line
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Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation Already Needs Saving, and Marvel Tokon Is Next in Line

August 2026 was supposed to be a victory lap for two very different fantasies. Instead, it's shaping up to be a masterclass in how quickly momentum dies once the menu…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 6, 2026
Palantir’s 93% Surge Proves AI Sovereignty Is the Only Moat That Matters
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Palantir’s 93% Surge Proves AI Sovereignty Is the Only Moat That Matters

Palantir just had one of those earnings prints that makes you rethink the entire AI trade. The stock ripped as much as 29.5% over the past two sessions after Q2…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 5, 2026
SpaceX Doubled Revenue and Wall Street Still Doesn’t Understand What It Bought
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SpaceX Doubled Revenue and Wall Street Still Doesn’t Understand What It Bought

SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in Q2 revenue last night, a 92% jump from the same quarter last year, and its first set of public earnings since the IPO. The headlines…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 5, 2026
PS5 Sales Crawl Past 95 Million While Physical Media Fights a Losing Battle
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PS5 Sales Crawl Past 95 Million While Physical Media Fights a Losing Battle

Sony crossed 95.3 million PS5 shipments at the end of June, a figure that sounds like triumph until you read the fine print. The console moved only 1.6 million units…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 5, 2026
EA’s $55 Billion Saudi Buyout Closed Today. The Real Story Is Your Data.
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EA’s $55 Billion Saudi Buyout Closed Today. The Real Story Is Your Data.

Electronic Arts is now a private company. The Saudi Public Investment Fund-led consortium finalized its $55 billion all-cash takeover this week at $210 per share. Engadget confirmed the timing, and…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 4, 2026
Amazon’s $3 Trillion Milestone Proves AI Investors Want Receipts, Not Promises
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Amazon’s $3 Trillion Milestone Proves AI Investors Want Receipts, Not Promises

On August 3, Amazon became the fifth company in history to cross a $3 trillion market cap, a move captured as shares surged to all-time highs. The headlines will call…
Posted by Mark Grantt August 4, 2026

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