The news traced back to its source: the facts, the context, why it matters.
On 9 September, Nintendo presented the sequel to Metroid Dread: a hunt on an alien moon, built around the theme of “eat or be eaten”. Samus, clearly, has no intention of ending up on the menu.
A study published on 21 September shows that the rocks of the “Margin Unit”, on the edge of the Martian crater Jezero, were altered by water at least three times, the last time by hot water. Geologists expected shoreline sediments; they found a rock born of magma. Mars has never been one to skimp on surprises.
On 22 September in Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled two chips for high-end smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, made on TSMC’s 2-nanometre process and designed to run AI assistants directly on the phone. They arrive as soaring memory prices shrink the smartphone market, while chip names, for their part, keep getting longer.
On 24 September, Paramount+ released “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”, the last episode of season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which its showrunners had designed as a possible series finale. Only one six-episode season, expected in 2027, remains to reach Kirk’s era: for a show that travels through time, it is oddly short of it.
On 16 September NASA announced the discovery of McGetchin, a 222-metre-wide lunar crater gouged out in spring 2024: the largest newly formed crater ever spotted in the Solar System. An impact of this size is expected only about once every 132 years; it still took more than a year for anyone to notice.
On 23 September, Netflix unveiled the first trailer for Ray Gunn, Brad Bird’s animated film that crosses the private-eye mystery with retro science fiction. The script spent years asleep in a Warner filing cabinet: the future, it seems, likes to keep people waiting.
On 16 September 2026 in Los Angeles, Snap gave a detailed presentation of Specs, standalone glasses that overlay images on the real world, priced at $2,195 (€2,295 in France) and expected in autumn 2026 in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. It is the first pair of augmented reality glasses that Snapchat’s parent company has aimed at the general public, ten years after Spectacles, some of which ended up as unsold stock.
On Monday 28 September 2026, SpaceX’s giant rocket reached orbit and released 26 Starlink satellites, despite an engine shutting down too early. Planned to last nearly ten hours, the flight ended after three: caution won out over the flight plan.
On 9 September, Nintendo announced Kirby and the World Beyond, a 3D adventure in which Kirby freely explores vast environments, expected in spring 2027 exclusively on Switch 2. It will be the series’ second major 3D entry, in the year of its 35th anniversary: a respectable age for a pink ball that still swallows everything in its path.
On 23 September, NASA selected PRIMA, a space telescope designed to observe the Universe in the far infrared, a kind of light no space observatory has captured since 2013. Launch is planned for 2033: a reasonable wait, by the standards of the galaxies it will study.
Paul Bettany returns as the android Vision in an eight-episode series that closes the trilogy begun by WandaVision. The first two episodes will premiere at the London Film Festival, two days before they land on Disney+.
Level-5 has set 10 December 2026 as the release date for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, on Switch 2 and Switch but also on PlayStation 5 and PC. The first main entry in the series in more than ten years, announced in 2023 and then delayed, it has taken three years to find its date: a puzzle in patience, even for a true gentleman.
A free update to Star Fox on Switch 2 will, from 30 September in France (29 September in North America), let up to four players battle it out on a single console and add three arenas, while Star Fox Adventures joined Nintendo’s GameCube catalogue on Nintendo Classics on 9 September. Battle Mode, until now playable online only, is therefore coming back to the living room, for anyone who would rather see the face of the friend they have just shot down.
