Rockstar opened pre-orders Thursday for a $399.99 Grand Theft Auto VI collector’s box, and the punchline is what’s not inside: the game. The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection packs eleven items and ships November 19, the same day GTA VI lands on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. No disc, no download code, nothing you can play. After going through every item on the list, I’ve landed on an uncomfortable take. This might be the most honest product Rockstar has ever sold, and that’s exactly why it stings. A 6-inch Macca the Gator figure with a stash compartment GTA VI

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OpenAI expanded the GPT-6 family on September 22 with two new models, Sol and Luna, and the pricing is the headline: $2 per million input tokens for Sol and just $0.10 for Luna, with output at $10 and $0.50 respectively. Luna undercuts GPT-5.6’s promotional rates by half. Both sit below GPT-6 Astra, the flagship released earlier this month, and both inherit its training advances in coding, factuality, computer use, and alignment. The price cut will dominate the coverage. Having spent the morning inside the rollout and the launch discussions, I’d argue the caching overhaul and a strange availability split deserve

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Twenty-four years of Halo history changed hands in one internal memo today, and the strangest part is how unsurprised everyone sounds. Microsoft is moving the franchise to Activision, which will build the next game with a “purpose-built team” kept separate from Call of Duty. The same announcement cut 268 roles across Xbox’s studios. My take is simple. The next Halo game will probably be the best-tooled Halo ever made. The franchise around it is what should worry you. What actually changed, and the prototype that saw it coming The memo from Xbox content chief Matt Booty does three things at

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Four months ago, Bungie told the world Destiny 2 was effectively finished. On September 17, the studio published The Next Chapter for Bungie and said the opposite: “we are not done with Destiny.” I’ve read it several times now, and my honest take is that none of this happens if the community accepts the ending Bungie wrote for them in June. So yes, this is damage control. It’s also the most encouraging thing the studio has said in years, because it proves player pressure still moves nine-figure decisions.   Four months of whiplash, in order Start with the receipts. On

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President Trump announced this weekend that the United States is getting an “AI Force” and a dedicated AI czar, a package he framed as Washington’s job to accelerate artificial intelligence, not restrain it. The Truth Social post went up September 19 and borrows the branding of Space Force from his first term, with a hiring note for the czar search: “Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!” What it doesn’t include is a single detail about what either job does. The post calls AI “the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much

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Bose announced the Ultra Open Earbuds (2nd Gen) on September 17, alongside a new Sport Open Earbuds model, and on paper this is the update gen 1 owners have wanted since the original launched. A new driver promising real bass, nine hours per charge, a wireless-charging case, and aptX Adaptive for Android. Preorders opened September 19 through Bose.com at $299 for the Ultra and $199 for the Sport, with both hitting shelves October 1. My take after digging through the specs and the owner history: the spec sheet is the least interesting part of this launch. What’s actually new, and

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The iPhone 18 Pro launched Friday. By Saturday night, owners were posting kernel panic logs showing their brand new phones crashing and rebooting on their own. I’ve spent the weekend digging through the reports, the analytics logs people are sharing, and the support outcomes, and my conclusion is simple: this is not random. It’s a Face ID problem, it’s reproducible, and if your unit is doing it, you should probably not wait around for a fix. Here’s the pattern. The phone freezes for a beat, the screen goes black, and it reboots itself. Check Settings, then Privacy & Security, then

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Two stories came out of launch week and they don’t agree. Online ship estimates for most iPhone 18 Pro configurations slid into October within 48 hours of pre-orders opening, and a chunk of analysts immediately called demand lukewarm. Meanwhile I’ve spent the last two days watching queue footage from Delhi, Singapore, and Sydney, where people stood in the dark for hours to buy this phone in person. Both things happened. The gap between them is the most interesting part of Apple’s fall. My take up front: the panic is mostly noise. The honest signal lives in the physical lines, in

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The expected Apple foldable iPhone Duo cost puts it in a different buying category from an ordinary flagship. Prelaunch reporting points to a starting price around $2,199, with higher forecasts near $2,500 and upgraded storage potentially approaching $3,000. For that money, the question isn’t simply whether an iPhone can fold. It’s whether its larger screen can replace enough of your daily phone-and-tablet routine to justify the premium. This is a rumor-based budgeting guide using reporting from September 2026, not a statement of confirmed retail pricing or availability. The figures below separate reported expectations, established competitors’ launch prices, and illustrative ownership

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Bill Skarsgård playing PHYSINT’s protagonist is more interesting than Bill Skarsgård simply appearing in another Hideo Kojima game. An actor associated with unsettling transformations in It and Nosferatu could easily have been the threatening face across the interrogation table. Making him the person we control suggests something less comfortable, and that’s the part of this Xbox announcement worth getting excited about. During the September 17 Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast, Kojima named Skarsgård as PHYSINT’s lead, joining Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, also known as Ma Dong-seok, and Minami Hamabe. The official cast announcement also brought a new poster and the

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Marvel’s Wolverine’s reported 77 Metacritic score suggests a generally well-received game, not a universal recommendation. A Metascore is a weighted aggregate of critic reviews. It isn’t a percentage of players who enjoyed the game, and it can’t tell you whether its particular strengths match your tastes. Marvel’s Wolverine is Insomniac Games’ single-player PS5 action-adventure built around Logan’s claws, healing ability, and violent close-range fighting. It’s a largely linear experience, meaning missions guide you through a planned sequence rather than letting you roam a persistent open world. That difference explains much of the buying decision. What the score reveals, and what

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Tech news has a volume problem. A single chip announcement now generates a hundred near-identical posts before lunch, and AI rewrites of AI rewrites fill the space between real stories. Choosing the best tech news sites matters more in 2026 than it did five years ago, because the junk-to-reporting ratio keeps getting worse. We built this list the way we’d want someone else to build it. These are the outlets the HAYBO editors actually open during a working day, judged on four things: whether the reporting still holds up a week later, whether news stays separated from opinion, how a

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Every folding phone carries a scar, and Apple has reportedly spent seven years trying to make sure its first one wouldn’t show. The Apple foldable iPhone crease is the vertical indentation expected to run down the middle of the rumored iPhone Duo’s inner display, the exact spot where the screen will bend each time the phone opens. According to supply-chain leaks and analyst reports, Apple has engineered its first foldable to finally minimize the problem. The honest summary, based on what’s been reported so far: the crease will almost certainly still be there, but nobody may hide it better. What

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Valve opened Steam Frame reservations yesterday and the internet did what it always does. It argued about the price. $1,059 for the 256GB model, $1,299 for 1TB, with takes ranging from “dead on arrival” to grudging preorders within hours of the official Steam news post. Both camps are arguing about the wrong thing. The Frame isn’t Valve’s answer to the Quest 3. It’s the company’s first ARM-powered SteamOS device, and it happens to strap to your face. You have until September 17 at 10 a.m. PT to enter. After that, everyone gets randomized into purchase invitations and a waitlist, results

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Apple’s first foldable is no longer a rumor you have to squint at. The iPhone Duo, announced September 9 at the “Surprise and Shine” event, opens for pre-order on Friday, October 16 at 5 a.m. Pacific and lands in stores a week later, starting at $1,999. That four-week gap between announcement and availability is unusually long for Apple, and it tells you something about how different this launch is from any iPhone before it. What Is Apple’s Foldable iPhone? The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone, a book-style handset that opens like a passport to reveal a 7.8-inch inner

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The most revealing GTA 6 disclosure of the past year didn’t come from a leaker. It came from Rockstar’s own lawyers. Opening submissions filed at a Glasgow employment tribunal last week reference a “32 player format” for GTA 6 Online, the first public acknowledgment the studio has ever given. The same week, Rockstar is defending its decision to fire 31 people for allegedly leaking details nowhere near that specific. I’ve spent two days working through the filings, the Discord excerpts, and the witness statements, and my read is simple. This case was never really about confidentiality. It’s about how long

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Hideo Kojima spent his summer shopping a cancelled game around. PlayStation Studios delivered an unexpected cancellation notice for Physint in mid-June, and for three months the most famous director in games quietly hunted for a partner to keep it alive. That partner turned out to be Xbox. The way this split went down says more about Sony’s nerves than about Kojima’s reliability. The math Sony couldn’t unsee Physint was announced in 2024 as a genre-defining action-espionage title, positioned as a PlayStation exclusive with film ambitions attached. By this summer, deadlines had slipped and the budget was tracking well past what

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Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives on November 19, 2026, and pre-orders have been open since late June. One product fans keep hunting for still doesn’t exist, though. Rockstar Games has never announced a GTA 6 Collector’s Edition, retailers say none is planned right now, and the premium listings circulating online are leaks or placeholders at best. So here’s the GTA 6 Collector’s Edition news in plain terms: what’s confirmed, what’s rumor, what Rockstar’s own history suggests comes next, and what collectors should actually do while the silence lasts. Key Takeaways Point Details Confirmed editions Standard ($79.99) and Ultimate ($99.99) for

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