Tech 12 November 2026

Resident Evil Requiem wins Ultimate Game of the Year. A two-month indie matched its trophy haul

At GamesRadar's public-voted Golden Joystick Awards, Capcom's horror sequel took four of 25 categories. Japanese hide-and-seek hit Meccha Chameleon also took four, and Capcom was named Studio of the Year.

Resident Evil Requiem is the big winner of the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards. Capcom’s ninth mainline survival-horror game took four of the 25 categories on Wednesday, including the top one, Ultimate Game of the Year, according to the official winners list published by GamesRadar, which runs the awards.

Its other three were Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer and Best Lead Performer, for Angela Sant’Albano. Capcom also collected Studio of the Year, on a year that included Pragmata and Onimusha: Way of the Sword as well.

Which games did Resident Evil Requiem beat?

The shortlist was crowded: Crimson Desert, 007 First Light, Pragmata, Control Resonant, Forza Horizon 6, Phantom Blade Zero, Dispatch, Big Walk and Pokémon Pokopia among them. Requiem came out in February, which makes holding on until November the more impressive part.

Crimson Desert took PC Game of the Year. Big Walk won the Critics’ Choice Award.

What is Meccha Chameleon?

The surprise of the night. It is a self-published Japanese hide-and-seek game in which players paint themselves to blend into the scenery, and it matched Requiem with four awards: Best Multiplayer Game, Best Indie Game (Self-Published), Streamer’s Choice and Developers’ Choice.

The sales explain the noise. It had passed 15 million copies by July, and its developers have said they built it in about two months, largely by reusing assets.

The rest of the winners

The Witcher 4 was voted Most Wanted, and The Witcher 3 picked up Best Remake/Remaster. Valve’s Steam Controller was the best hardware. Dispatch took Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack, while Minecraft and Balatro won the awards for games people are still playing years on.

The ceremony landed eight days before the biggest launch of the year: GTA VI hits shelves on 19 November, too late to join this particular race.

By Oliver Grant

Image: Capcom France / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

An iPhone screen showing an open conversation in the Messages app, in an Apple press image

Tech 11 November 2026

Update your iPhone: iOS 27.2.1 shuts a hole that could let strangers into your iMessage groups

Apple released iOS 27.2.1 on 9 November with nine security fixes. Two are in Messages: a remote attacker could join an iMessage group chat and receive its messages, and someone added to a group could see what was sent before they joined. Five more involve Bluetooth and AirPlay pairing. It covers iPhone 11 and later.

If your iPhone has been nagging you about an update this week, say yes. Apple shipped iOS 27.2.1 on Monday 9 November, and Apple's own security note lists nine fixed flaws. The one anybody will understand lives in Messages. A remote attacker could get into an iMessage group chat and receive the messages sent inside it. No invitation needed. Two things, both in group chats. The first is the one above: an authorisation bug that let an outsider join a group.…

Tech 10 November 2026

If you pay for Claude by the token, Fable 5.2 just got 20% cheaper

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 on 9 November alongside Mythos 5.2, a restricted version. The API price drops to $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, from $10 and $50 for Fable 5.1, and its robot-control score more than doubles.

Anthropic has a new model, and it costs less than the last one. Claude Fable 5.2 launched on Monday 9 November, and the official model page puts the API price at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Fable 5.1, released in September, cost $10 and $50. That is 20% off at both ends. A token is a chunk of a word, the unit these models read and write in. A million of them is, roughly, several hundred pages of text.

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Tech 9 November 2026

Nvidia's board launches an inquiry after reports Jensen Huang was a foreign spy target

Nvidia's board said on Sunday that a committee of independent directors, working with outside counsel, will investigate reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It says it has no reason to believe US national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, and that Huang supports the review.

Nvidia's board is opening an independent investigation following reports that Jensen Huang, the company's founder and chief executive, was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. The board's own statement, published on Sunday, is short and carefully worded. A committee of independent directors will oversee the inquiry, assisted by outside counsel. The board says it currently has no reason to believe that US national security or Nvidia's secrets…

Tech 8 November 2026

Tesla will stop building the Cybertruck in mid-2027 to make more robotaxis

Elon Musk said on X on 6 November that Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas will wind down around the middle of next year to free space for the Cybercab, Tesla's driverless taxi. It is the second model Tesla has dropped this year, after the Model S and X.

The Cybertruck has an end date. Elon Musk posted on X that Tesla will start winding down production of the pickup at Gigafactory Texas, outside Austin, "around the middle of next year". The reason sits in the same sentence: the plant needs the floor space for more Cybercabs. The Cybercab is the two-seater with no steering wheel or pedals that Tesla wants running driverless rides on its robotaxi network. The company already had robotaxis on Austin's…

Tech 7 November 2026

Two of Web Summit's 2026 speakers aren't people. They're Chinese robots

The 11th Web Summit runs 9–12 November at FIL and MEO Arena in Lisbon, with Chinese robotics and AI firms (AgiBot, Unitree, Galbot, Xiaomi, Tencent, Pony.ai, Xpeng, Manus) prominent. The government deal secures FIL until the 2028 edition, and Paddy Cosgrave won't say what comes after.

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Tech 6 November 2026

Nvidia sinks 9% as the Nasdaq has its worst day since April 2025

New York's tech-heavy index closed Thursday down 5.52%, its biggest one-day fall since the April 2025 tariff shock. Chipmakers lost more than 12% as Wall Street repriced the AI build-out after the midterms and reports that China is holding back H200 imports.

The Nasdaq Composite, home of Wall Street's big tech names, closed Thursday 5 November down 5.52%. That is 1,421 points gone, a close of 24,315, and the index's worst day since April 2025, when the US tariff announcement rattled every market at once. Nvidia, now the stock everyone reads as the temperature of the AI race, fell 9.26% to $181.60. The Philadelphia semiconductor index lost more than 12%. The closing figures are in Fox Business's report on the…

Tech 5 November 2026

Hackers drained about €100 million from French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa (and never touched a customer account)

The bank says the attackers came in through a supplier's platform and used the group's own account to wire money to other banks, where it was likely converted into crypto. Part of it has been frozen, and Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, the banking group behind Crédit Mutuel's Brittany and South-West federations, has been hit by a cyberattack that siphoned off close to €100 million. The money did not come out of customers' accounts. It came out of the bank's own. The group disclosed the attack on Wednesday and a few hours later put out a second statement answering the obvious questions. It will not confirm the €118 million reported by the regional press, but it…

Official God of War Laufey key art: Faye, spear in hand, beside a glowing blue crystal chest above a sunset mountain landscape

Tech 4 November 2026

God of War Laufey slips three months to May 20

Santa Monica Studio has moved the PS5 game from February 16 to May 20, 2027, citing final polish. The Kratos-led sequel it announced alongside Laufey is still on.

February is off. Santa Monica Studio said on X on Wednesday that God of War Laufey will now launch on May 20, 2027, three months (93 days, if you are counting) after the February 16 date it had been holding. The reason is the one every delayed game gives. The studio thanked players for the excitement since June's reveal and said it wants the extra time for finishing touches, to get the game to its "fullest potential". It did not say what still needs work,…

Tech 4 November 2026

France's blood service says hackers reprogrammed cold rooms holding transfusion plasma

The Établissement français du sang confirmed on 3 November that attackers got into a contractor's control system and pushed temperature and defrost limits to very high values at three sites storing plasma. It was caught in time and nothing was lost. It happened the same night as the supermarket fridge attacks across Europe.

The wave of attacks on refrigeration systems that warmed up supermarket fridges across Europe did not stop at the dairy aisle. The Établissement français du sang (EFS), the French public body that collects and supplies blood, has confirmed that hackers tampered with cold rooms at three of its sites, where bags of plasma were being stored. It happened on the night of 1 to 2 November, the same night seven Intermarché stores in Portugal and dozens of…

Illustration of a two-door glass supermarket fridge with frost melting and a control panel flashing red, next to a maxed-out thermometer and a broken snowflake, on a warm orange background

Tech 3 November 2026

Seven Intermarché stores in Portugal were caught in Europe's supermarket fridge hack

Overnight into Monday, a cyberattack on an outside contractor that runs refrigeration hit seven Intermarché stores in Portugal, the same night dozens of supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Estonia saw fridge temperatures climb. Three Portuguese stores had to throw food away. Police and the national cybersecurity centre are assessing it.

Seven Intermarché supermarkets in Portugal had their refrigeration systems hit by a cyberattack in the early hours of Monday. It was the same night that fridges and freezers in dozens of stores elsewhere in Europe started warming up with nobody in the shop touching a dial. Grupo Os Mosqueteiros, which runs the chain in Portugal, confirmed the incidents to RTP and said the target was an outside contractor that manages the stores' refrigeration. It hasn't…

Illustration of a smartphone showing a yellow radiation hazard triangle broken up by digital glitch bars, between a flashing red siren and a snapped chain link

Tech 2 November 2026

Fake nuclear alerts hit phones in Ukraine, then in Russia, within hours

Ukraine's Air Alert app was hijacked on Sunday night and pushed false warnings of chemical and radiation threats and street fighting. Early on Monday, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's app sent fake notifications about nuclear warheads. Nobody has claimed either attack.

On Sunday night, phones across Ukraine lit up with warnings of nuclear, chemical and street-fighting threats. None of it was real. The app sending them, Air Alert (Povitriana Tryvoha), had been hijacked. Shortly after 11pm Kyiv time, the Ukrainian Air Force posted a short message: the app had "probably come under enemy influence" and there was no radiation threat at all. Stay calm, it said, and follow the official channel. Besides the chemical and…

Illustration of a white-sailed pirate ship crossing a turquoise sea towards an island with a palm tree and a treasure chest

Tech 1 November 2026

Fortnite's One Piece season starts today. Here's who is in the Battle Pass and when Zoro lands

The Treasure Hunters mini-season runs from 1 November to the Chapter 7 finale on 5 December. Luffy, Nami and Usopp hit the Item Shop on day one, Ace and Nico Robin are in the Battle Pass, and Zoro, Sanji and Chopper follow on 7 November.

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Tech 31 October 2026

Intel beat its own numbers. Then lost 28.6% of its value in a day

Third-quarter revenue came in at $16.5 billion, up 21%, with data-centre growth the strongest in 15 years. What sank the stock was the outlook: $15-16 billion for the fourth quarter, and a PC slowdown Intel expects to last at least into mid-2027.

On Thursday evening Intel published results that were better than Wall Street had expected. On Friday its shares fell 28.6%. Both of those things are true, and the reason sits in a single line of the release: what the company expects for the next three months. In its third-quarter results release, Intel reported revenue of $16.5 billion, up 21% on a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share were $0.52, more than double last year's $0.23, and the adjusted…

Illustration of a phone showing a blurred list of posts covered by a large orange padlock and a sign-in button, surrounded by blurred, colourful speech bubbles

Tech 30 October 2026

Reddit is going logged-in-only, and it will test the switch outside the US first

In its Q3 shareholder letter on 29 October, CEO Steve Huffman said Reddit is shifting to a logged-in-only experience, with full tests in select markets outside the US starting in Q4. Search referrals fell by more than a million visits a week in October.

Reading Reddit anonymously is on its way out. In the third-quarter shareholder letter published on Thursday 29 October, chief executive Steve Huffman wrote that Reddit is shifting to a "logged-in-only experience". Full tests start in the fourth quarter in select markets outside the United States. Reddit has not said which markets. What it did say is that the results will shape an "optimized version" of logged-in-only Reddit to roll out globally.