Video
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition lands on Switch 2
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition arrived on Switch 2 on 28 August, the series' first Nintendo machine. The Tarnished Pack is €4.99 on the other platforms.
Wren Solace
Video Desk
The tape
Official video, filed with the story it belongs to.
Tech
Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9
Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE is the first S26 phone on One UI 9 and Android 17. It goes on sale from 4 September, with no price on the newsroom pages.
Arden Lux
Game Reviews
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is out on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Switch and Switch 2, with Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker.
Hana Moss
Space
ExoMars landing platform model unfolds its legs in Turin test
ESA posted the Turin test on 6 August: four landing legs, two pairs, less than a second. Rosalind Franklin is starting to look like a landing.
Soren Bly
SpaceX
NASA books Falcon Heavy for Europe’s Mars rover
The Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation project is in implementation. The launch is late 2028 from 39A — likely SpaceX’s first throw at Mars.
Priya Nair
Breaking
Trump orders a commission to design a US Space Academy
President Trump signed an order at Johnson Space Center on 28 August setting up a commission to design a NASA-led US Space Academy.
Cass Reid
Space
Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
President Trump has given the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. They were the first people to fly to the Moon since 1972.
Mae Mirin
Computing
Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU
Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.
Quin Halberg