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Microsoft revealed its September Xbox Game Pass additions, headlined by prequel title Gears of War: E-Day and Minecraft Dungeons 2, arriving alongside titles like RuneScape: Dragonwilds and Kernel Hearts. The rollout comes as Microsoft faces scrutiny over the service's costs, having already announced it will cap cloud gaming hours by tier starting in November instead of offering unlimited access.
Sony has revealed its September 2026 PS Plus lineup, giving Extra and Premium subscribers access to RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a cooperative survival RPG, and WWE 2K26, a wrestling simulation featuring a CM Punk-focused Showcase mode. RuneScape: Dragonwilds becomes available on Tuesday, with WWE 2K26 and additional titles rounding out the month's offerings.
A FreeBSD contributor has implemented GRAND (Gratuitous Neighbour Advertisement), a mechanism that addresses an asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery where a host can reach its router immediately but the router may not yet know how to reach the host. Under GRAND, the host proactively announces its new IPv6 address so the router already holds a Neighbour Cache entry before any return traffic arrives.
As Rockstar Games prepares to release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19 after 13 years of anticipation, a segment of right-wing gamers has begun criticizing the title for perceived 'woke' content, including its first mandatory female protagonist, Lucia Caminos, and her evolving relationship with co-lead Jason Duval. This backlash follows a pattern seen since Gamergate, where some male gamers have voiced suspicion toward gender and LGBTQ representation in game development.
Carlos Alcaraz and Ben Shelton played into the early morning hours at the U.S. Open, with the contest wrapping up at 3:33 a.m. and setting a new record for the latest finish in the tournament's history. Fans who stayed to watch the entire match faced the prospect of getting little sleep before work or other obligations the next day.
Artist Morry Kolman released a Grand Theft Auto V mod called Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader, which scatters 235 replica Flock Safety cameras across Los Santos and rewards players $600 for each one they destroy. The mod also mimics real-world surveillance behavior, extending police chase cooldowns near cameras and occasionally triggering false police responses to mirror reported ALPR errors.
While most major publishers are shifting release dates to avoid clashing with Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19th launch, Nintendo is standing firm with its remastered Ocarina of Time, one of the few major non-port titles still slated for that month. Numerous other publishers have crowded September with releases like Star Wars Zero Company and Marvel's Wolverine to sidestep GTA VI's anticipated dominance.
Rivian is rolling out Autonomy+, a semiautonomous system that lets drivers enter a destination and let the SUV navigate suburban streets, traffic lights, crosswalks and stop signs on its own across the US and Canada. The feature will debut on the upcoming R2 SUV by year's end and reach existing R1S and R1T owners via over-the-air software updates, priced at $49.99 monthly or $2,500 upfront.
Several automakers are developing extended-range electric vehicles that run primarily on electric motors but carry a small gasoline engine solely to recharge the battery, not to drive the wheels. Stellantis will bring this setup to the Jeep Grand Wagoneer and Ram 1500 REV, promising up to 690 miles of range, while Hyundai, Genesis and Ford plan similar models for the Santa Fe, an unnamed Genesis SUV and a revived F-150 Lightning.
Nintendo will air a dedicated Legend of Zelda showcase on September 8 at 10AM ET, lasting roughly 30 minutes, separate from its regular Switch 2 Direct later that week. The stream is expected to cover the Ocarina of Time remake, likely with a release date, plus new details on the upcoming live-action Zelda film set for an April 2026 theatrical release.
Andrew Lakeman, a former Jagex employee known as Mod Jed who worked on Old School RuneScape since 2015, received a three-year suspended prison sentence after being convicted of stealing over $400,000 worth of in-game gold and selling it on black market sites. Jagex uncovered the scheme after noticing suspicious account recovery patterns starting in 2018, then secretly altered its firewall setup to trace the thefts back to him.
Rockstar Games and Miami-Dade county's mayor's office are reportedly discussing a marketing tie-in that would rebrand parts of the county to resemble Grand Theft Auto 6's fictional Vice City, according to Rock Paper Shotgun and Axios. Proposed elements include airport signage and baggage displays, branded transit skytrains, a dockyard installation modeled on the game's Port Gellhorn, a classic-car 'Vice City Motor Fest,' murals, wrapped buses, and library programs with GTA-themed cards and recording gear. Nothing has been formally approved, and the county sheriff has publicly opposed the plan, citing the game's depiction of crime.