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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.
Apple’s $5.7 Billion Haptics Verdict Is a Record Built to Be Appealed
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Apple’s $5.7 Billion Haptics Verdict Is a Record Built to Be Appealed

Yesterday at about 1:15 in the afternoon Pacific time, a federal jury in San Diego handed down the largest patent verdict in US history, $5,721,961,750, against Apple over the haptics…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 27, 2026
Resident Evil Requiem’s $500M Franchise Record Proves Discounts Beat Movie Hype
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Resident Evil Requiem’s $500M Franchise Record Proves Discounts Beat Movie Hype

Resident Evil Requiem blew past $500 million in gross revenue this week, faster than any game in the franchise has ever gotten there. That's the headline. It's also, honestly, the…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 26, 2026
Control Resonant’s Day-One Patch Just Created Two Versions of the Same Game
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Control Resonant’s Day-One Patch Just Created Two Versions of the Same Game

Control Resonant leaked a full day before launch and the gaming internet responded with a shrug. Good. That was never the story. The story is the hotfix Remedy pushed alongside…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 25, 2026
Bethesda Says Obsidian Stays Distinct. The Org Chart Says Otherwise.
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Bethesda Says Obsidian Stays Distinct. The Org Chart Says Otherwise.

Obsidian Entertainment officially reports to Bethesda now. Matt Booty confirmed the move on Xbox Wire Tuesday as part of a wider Xbox reshuffle, and by Wednesday Bethesda president Jill Braff's…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 24, 2026
Xbox Cuts 268 More Jobs, and Halo Now Belongs to Activision
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Xbox Cuts 268 More Jobs, and Halo Now Belongs to Activision

Yesterday's memo from Matt Booty landed with the usual corporate softness: 268 roles gone, studios reshuffled, a "reset" that's apparently three-quarters complete. Read past the press-release language on Xbox Wire…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 23, 2026
Snorkel AI Just Became a $3.5B Data Factory With a Human Problem
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Snorkel AI Just Became a $3.5B Data Factory With a Human Problem

Snorkel AI closed a $350 million Series E on Tuesday at a $3.5 billion valuation, nearly triple the $1.3 billion it carried in May 2025. The number is the story…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 23, 2026
Bungie’s Destiny 2 Unvaulting Is an Admission of Failure, Not Generosity
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Bungie’s Destiny 2 Unvaulting Is an Admission of Failure, Not Generosity

Six years ago Bungie deleted the Red War, Io, Titan, and a chunk of a game people had already paid for, then told everyone it was for the good of…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 22, 2026
Wolverine’s Bathroom Sign Was Never AI, and That’s Somehow Worse
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Wolverine’s Bathroom Sign Was Never AI, and That’s Somehow Worse

Marvel's Wolverine has been out for less than a week, and its first genuine controversy is a bathroom sign. Not the combat or the story. A coed restroom decal with…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 21, 2026
Wolverine Sold 1.9 Million Copies in 3 Days Despite a 77 on Metacritic
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Wolverine Sold 1.9 Million Copies in 3 Days Despite a 77 on Metacritic

Marvel's Wolverine sold an estimated 1.9 million copies in its first three days on PS5, pulling in roughly $130 million. That already beats Death Stranding 2's entire PS5 lifetime revenue.…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 20, 2026
Crusoe’s $30.9 Billion Valuation Is a Bet on Electrons, Not Chips
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Crusoe’s $30.9 Billion Valuation Is a Bet on Electrons, Not Chips

Crusoe closed a $3.9 billion Series F on September 17 at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, and the easy take is that another AI data center giant just got richer.…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 19, 2026
Marvel’s Wolverine Reviews Punish Insomniac for Not Making Spider-Man Again
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Marvel’s Wolverine Reviews Punish Insomniac for Not Making Spider-Man Again

Marvel's Wolverine landed on PS5 yesterday with a 77 on Metacritic, Insomniac's lowest aggregate in a decade. After a full launch-day session and far too many review threads, my verdict…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 16, 2026
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Is a Genius That Won’t Stop Talking to Itself
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Is a Genius That Won’t Stop Talking to Itself

GPT-6 Astra arrived on September 3 with numbers that would've sounded like science fiction two years ago: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, a perfect ExploitBench score, a 1.05 million token context window.…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 16, 2026
Valve’s $1,059 Steam Frame Is a PC VR Headset in Standalone Clothing
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Valve’s $1,059 Steam Frame Is a PC VR Headset in Standalone Clothing

Yesterday Valve finally put a price on the Steam Frame: $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for 1TB, with sign-ups for a reservation lottery open until September 17 at…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 15, 2026
YC’s Buzziest Demo Day Startup Wants to Float Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
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YC’s Buzziest Demo Day Startup Wants to Float Nuclear Data Centers at Sea

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Demo Day wrapped in San Francisco on Thursday with roughly 200 companies pitching, and the startup investors kept circling back to doesn't ship an app. Atomarine…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 14, 2026
BlizzCon 2026 Sold Confidence Instead of Gameplay, and It Might Work
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BlizzCon 2026 Sold Confidence Instead of Gameplay, and It Might Work

BlizzCon 2026 gave us three dates and not one second of gameplay. A StarCraft open-world shooter for Spring 2030. Diablo V for Spring 2029. World of Warcraft: Forever in November,…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 14, 2026
WoW: Forever Is the Real Star of BlizzCon 2026, Not Diablo 5
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WoW: Forever Is the Real Star of BlizzCon 2026, Not Diablo 5

BlizzCon's opening ceremony on Saturday ended with two teaser trailers and a hall that genuinely didn't know how to react. Diablo V is coming in Spring 2029. A StarCraft open-world…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 13, 2026
Rockstar Put a Mole in a Union Discord. Now It’s on Trial in Glasgow
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Rockstar Put a Mole in a Union Discord. Now It’s on Trial in Glasgow

The most revealing GTA 6 document of 2026 isn't a trailer. It's a stack of tribunal filings at the Glasgow Tribunals Centre. On September 10, the final hearing opened between…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
The AI Extinction Warning Isn’t Hype, It’s a Confession
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The AI Extinction Warning Isn’t Hype, It’s a Confession

On Wednesday, a pretraining researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and told the internet that the two most powerful AI labs on earth are "gambling with our lives." Resignations…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
The People Building AI Say It Could Kill Us All, Then Clock Back In
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The People Building AI Say It Could Kill Us All, Then Clock Back In

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, a few months after joining its pretraining team following roughly three years at OpenAI. In his exit thread he accused both employers…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 12, 2026
Sony Cancelled Physint in June and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
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Sony Cancelled Physint in June and Hoped Nobody Would Notice

The strangest part of Physint landing at Xbox isn't that it happened. It's when. Hideo Kojima says PlayStation Studios handed Kojima Productions an unexpected cancellation notice in mid-June. Sony then…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 11, 2026
Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Admitted There’s No Plan for Superintelligence
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Anthropic’s Alignment Lead Admitted There’s No Plan for Superintelligence

Jacob Coxon lasted about two months at Anthropic. He joined the lab in July, drawn by the safety reputation that separates it from OpenAI in the public mind, and this…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 10, 2026
Metroid Ravenous and Kirby’s Open World Both Run on Hunger
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Metroid Ravenous and Kirby’s Open World Both Run on Hunger

Nintendo's September Direct ran about 45 minutes and mostly played like a status update. Then the last ten minutes happened. Metroid Ravenous and Kirby and the World Beyond closed the…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 10, 2026
Meta’s Muse Is a Landmark AI Agent, and the Trust Math Doesn’t Work
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Meta’s Muse Is a Landmark AI Agent, and the Trust Math Doesn’t Work

Meta launched Muse yesterday, and for once the marketing language is roughly accurate. This is not a chatbot with better manners. Muse is a proactive agent that sends email, books…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 9, 2026
Ocarina of Time Remake Footage Proves Nintendo Chose Safety Over Ambition
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Ocarina of Time Remake Footage Proves Nintendo Chose Safety Over Ambition

After months of leaks promising something bold, the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct gave us twenty minutes of Ocarina of Time remake gameplay and confirmed the one thing leakers were wrong…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 9, 2026
Onimusha Didn’t Sell a Million Copies on Nostalgia Alone
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Onimusha Didn’t Sell a Million Copies on Nostalgia Alone

Twenty years is long enough for a franchise to die properly. Onimusha got a quiet funeral, a couple of remasters as flowers at the service, then nothing. On Friday it…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 8, 2026
OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack Their Sandbox. They Found a Wiki Nobody Watched.
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OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack Their Sandbox. They Found a Wiki Nobody Watched.

Somewhere in Germany, a 25-year-old wiki spent eight weeks this spring as the private message board of a swarm of AI agents. Roughly 15,000 edits from systems that were supposed…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 7, 2026
A Million Copies in Three Days: Dawnwalker Didn’t Need a Perfect Launch
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A Million Copies in Three Days: Dawnwalker Didn’t Need a Perfect Launch

We're a site that normally spends its week covering local celebrity drama and the occasional Hollywood Walk of Fame star, so a Polish vampire RPG topping a million copies was…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 7, 2026
Wonderful’s $5B Series C Is a Wager on Forward-Deployed Engineers
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Wonderful’s $5B Series C Is a Wager on Forward-Deployed Engineers

Wonderful closed a $550 million Series C this week at a $5 billion valuation, and the raw numbers do most of the talking. Four priced rounds in roughly fourteen months.…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 6, 2026
September 2026’s Release Deluge Is Less a Gift Than a Scheduling Crisis
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September 2026’s Release Deluge Is Less a Gift Than a Scheduling Crisis

Four major releases in twenty-two days. The Blood of Dawnwalker landed September 3, Onimusha: Way of the Sword followed a day later, Marvel's Wolverine arrives September 15, and Silent Hill:…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 6, 2026
GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Was Appointment Television by Design
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GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Was Appointment Television by Design

Rockstar didn't hand the GTA 6 Extended Look to Netflix because it needed reach. A plain YouTube drop would have pulled tens of millions of views anyway. The six-hour Netflix…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 5, 2026
Gemini Voice Comes to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, and the Best Part Costs Extra
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Gemini Voice Comes to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, and the Best Part Costs Extra

Google switched on voice AI across three of its most-used apps this week, and the rollout reveals more about Google's strategy than any press release does. Gmail Live, Docs Live,…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 5, 2026
Astra Is a Genuine Leap, but OpenAI’s AGI Claim Outruns the Evidence
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Astra Is a Genuine Leap, but OpenAI’s AGI Claim Outruns the Evidence

OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra yesterday, and before the launch briefing wrapped up, president Greg Brockman was calling it a generational leap into the AGI era. I've spent the past day…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 4, 2026
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 8-Player Update Is Nintendo’s Weirdest Gift in Years
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 8-Player Update Is Nintendo’s Weirdest Gift in Years

Nintendo shipped the strangest, most delightful update of the week with zero buildup. No Direct, no trailer, not even a tease. Version 4.0.0 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe went live…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 3, 2026

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