Gaming

At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Dreame shows a mopping robot that cleans with hot water and steam, plus an action camera, an all-wheel-drive mower and more robots.

In Berlin, Roborock unveiled a wide vacuum lineup: a stair-climbing Saros Rover, the threshold-crossing Saros 20 series, and a steam mop that the company says reaches 180C in 30 seconds.

At IFA 2026 Acer unveiled the Predator Atlas 7, a 7-inch handheld with Intel Arc graphics, a 120 Hz display and an 80 Wh battery. Price still open; on sale from Q4 2026.

Rockstar aired roughly 26 minutes of GTA VI gameplay on August 27, debuting first on Netflix. The release date stays November 19, 2026.

Proton has laid out its Proton Drive roadmap: full-text search, a new sync engine for macOS, the return of the iOS integration and an official Linux beta.

Valve opens SteamOS further: beta 3.8.25 supports more handhelds like the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ and OneXPlayer Apex. Linux grows as a gaming platform.

The open-source game engine Godot has released version 4.7.2 – a maintenance update with 57 bug fixes and no known breaking changes.

The gaming distribution Bazzite has been released in version 44 – with a SteamOS-aligned gaming stack, kernel 7.2, Mesa 26.2.1 and a graphical updater.

A performance gain for Intel graphics on Linux has landed in Mesa 26.3: in Windows games via DXVK, the Intel driver gains up to around 5 %.

Bottles 66 integrates UMU natively and makes Windows games easier on Linux – with ProtoSoda as the default runtime and automatic performance tuning.