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22 storiesNASA delays Crew Dragon undocking from ISS to no earlier than 7 October
NASA and SpaceX have postponed the undocking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft of the Crew-12 mission from the International Space Station, TASS, iXBT and Interfax reported. The departure was originally expected on 5 October and is now set for …
Nobel medicine prize awarded to three scientists for optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-sensitive ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Committee announced in Stockholm. The three sh…
Warhammer Survivors to launch November 10 on PC, consoles and mobile
Auroch Digital's Warhammer Survivors will be released on November 10 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and iOS and Android, with a new gameplay trailer published alongside the announcement. The game is made i…
Guns of Eschaton demo released on Steam with new gameplay trailer
Eschatology Entertainment has released a free demo of its apocalyptic western shooter Guns of Eschaton on Steam, alongside a gameplay trailer. The demo drew about a hundred reviews in its first day, 59% of them positive, according to StopGa…
Report: Watch Dogs Legion director’s cut delayed to first half of 2027
Insider Gaming sources say the director’s version of Watch Dogs: Legion is now expected in the first half of 2027, after a March report pointed to a 2026 release. The re-release will include improvements and “possibly a little additional co…
Sun records M1.0 solar flare, largest in a month
An M1.0 class solar flare was recorded on the Sun, the largest since September 5, according to the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The flare occurred around 22:00 Moscow time, R…
Embark Studios and Chernin Entertainment to adapt ARC Raiders and The Finals
Embark Studios and Chernin Entertainment will make film and television adaptations of the shooters ARC Raiders and The Finals, the outlets reported, with StopGame citing Variety. No specifics on formats or timing have been given. StopGame a…
Strong solar flare reported on the Sun, Russian agencies say
A strong solar flare occurred on the Sun, according to Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti. TASS said it was the first strong flare since the beginning of September and was of the penultimate class of power. RIA Novosti describ…
Magnetic storm that sparked auroras over Russia ends, institutes say
A magnetic storm recorded on Earth on 4 October ended on Monday 5 October, the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute (IKI) and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISZF) said, according to Interfax and iXBT. T…
Leaks detail characters in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Hexe, set for 2027 at earliest
New supposed character details for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe surfaced after the outlet MP1st found descriptions in a casting call, according to 3DNews and StopGame. The game is reported to be set in 16th-century Germany durin…
Demo of Russian kiosk simulator Lenin Street Geek Shop released on Steam
A free demo of the Russian indie kiosk simulator “Ларёк на улице Ленина” (Lenin Street Geek Shop) was released on Steam in early October 2026, the studio perelesoq said, according to tech outlet 3DNews. The demo covers four days, features 3…
11 bit studios says first Frostpunk comes to Nintendo Switch on October 19
The first Frostpunk will be released on Nintendo Switch on October 19, according to an announcement attributed to 11 bit studios. StopGame reported two versions: a base edition at $30 and a Complete Edition at $45 that includes three expans…
Russian businessman Malofeev calls for ban on games where players kill Russians
Konstantin Malofeev, an entrepreneur and founder of the Tsargrad television channel, called for computer games in which players must kill Russian characters to advance the plot to be kept off the Russian market, in an interview with RIA Nov…
Capcom to rework RE Engine for AI-assisted development under REX project
Capcom said it will modernise its RE Engine step by step under a project called REX so the engine supports AI-assisted development, rather than building a new engine from scratch. The company's programmer Satoshi Ishida said the engine now …
Activision, Infinity Ward release DMZ trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Activision and Infinity Ward have released a new story trailer for the DMZ extraction mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, according to Russian games outlets. StopGame reported the mode continues the campaign plot, in which North Korean …
New air analyzer on ISS can detect 35 trace impurities, Roscosmos says
A new instrument has begun operating on the International Space Station that automatically monitors air composition and identifies up to 35 trace impurities, according to Roscosmos and the tech outlet iXBT. The gas analyzer was delivered by…
Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov takes command of ISS from NASA’s Jessica Meir
Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov took command of the International Space Station on 4 October, succeeding NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who handed him a symbolic key during a ceremony broadcast by NASA. Dubrov said the date carried special m…
Garry Popov, developer of electric rocket engines, dies at 91
Garry Alekseevich Popov, described by Russian outlets as an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the creator of a new generation of electric propulsion engines for spacecraft, has died. TASS said he was 91; RBC, citing the Ros…
Medieval silver hoard weighing over 2 kg found in Leningrad Oblast
Russian archaeologists found a medieval hoard of silver items dating from the 10th to 14th centuries at the Tiversky Gorodok site in the Leningrad Oblast, the Ministry of Education and Science said. The hoard weighs more than 2 kg and, by p…
Hong Kong researchers develop yeast-and-gelatin building material for Mars
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a biological building material that could potentially be used to build structures on Mars, made from genetically modified yeast, a gelatin hydrogel and sand or other granular particles. In an experime…