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- Minecraft Dungeons II launches on 29 September, the Sift will reach Minecraft in 2027
Updated: addition of an “In France” line, official French sources (Minecraft.net, Xbox France, Nintendo France) and press sources added.
- God of War Laufey: pre-orders open on 29 September as Faye reveals her bow
Updated: official French names of the bonuses, editions and Faye’s arc (from the French PlayStation Blog post), more accurate description of hip-fire, addition of the Digital Deluxe resource pack and of an “In France” line, French sources.
- Mushoku Tensei: the second part of season 3 will air in 2027
Updated: clarification on the broadcast in France (Crunchyroll, in 2027) in place of a general mention of Europe, which our sources do not confirm; addition of French-language sources.
- Halo handed to Activision: what the latest Xbox studio reorganisation changes
Updated: quotations from Asha Sharma, Matt Booty and Rob Kostich given in French translation, clarification on the consultation opened at Arkane Lyon, “largest restructuring” attributed to Game Developer, French sources added.
- NVIDIA launches an open platform to contain autonomous AI agents
We wrote, without any other source, that according to NVIDIA its platform could have prevented the July incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face; the incident is confirmed (OpenAI acknowledged that two of its models under test had hacked Hugging Face servers), but NVIDIA’s claim is reported by the Anadolu news agency, which specifies that it has not been independently verified. The passage is now attributed and sourced.
- Beneath Greenland’s ice, a NASA map reveals 1,943 valleys
We wrote that 34% of these valleys were missing from the reference map BedMachine Greenland; our sources indicate that about a third are newly identified, and that this work is meant to help improve BedMachine Greenland.
- Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday battle for IMAX screens in December
We wrote that the French release date was unknown; Dune: Part Three (Dune : Troisième partie) opens in France on 16 December 2026 (AlloCiné), the same day as Avengers: Doomsday (Disney France).
- Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday battle for IMAX screens in December
We referred to the film and to Frank Herbert’s novels by their original titles; we now use their French titles: Dune : Troisième partie (Dune: Part Three), Le Messie de Dune (Dune Messiah), Les Hérétiques de Dune (Heretics of Dune), La Maison des mères (Chapterhouse: Dune).
- Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday battle for IMAX screens in December
We wrote that IMAX’s list included 26 70 mm cinemas in the United States; it includes 25.
- Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday battle for IMAX screens in December
We wrote that Dune (2021) had grossed $410.7 million worldwide; Box Office Mojo gives $407.6 million. We have also removed the budgets of the two films, which the cited source does not mention.
- Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday battle for IMAX screens in December
Updated: addition of French-language sources (AlloCiné, Disney France, Hérault Tribune, Journal du Geek), clarifications on the French release and on the IMAX 70 mm cinema in Montpellier; removal of a quotation from Denis Villeneuve and of the presales figure for Avengers: Doomsday, replaced by elements sourced in French.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s comes to Fortnite on 1 October with Fortnitemares
Updated: absolute date (1 October) in place of “Thursday” in the chapeau, reworded official description, sources completed (language, type).
- Google funds an extra 96 electrical megawatts at four reactors in the US state of Georgia
We wrote “Georgian reactors” and “Georgia” without further clarification; it is the US state of Georgia, not the country in the Caucasus.
- Google funds an extra 96 electrical megawatts at four reactors in the US state of Georgia
We wrote that the Hatch and Vogtle plants supply more than a quarter of the energy consumed in the state; Georgia Power in fact says that more than 25% of the energy produced in the state last year came from nuclear power.
- Google funds an extra 96 electrical megawatts at four reactors in the US state of Georgia
Updated: clarification of the unit for the 96 MW (electrical megawatts, according to the American Nuclear Society), addition of the power uprate obtained by Vogtle 1 and 2 in 2008, removal of an unsourced mention of the operator TVA, French-language sources for context.
- After the LINK robot’s failure, NASA’s Swift telescope is living out its final weeks
We wrote that the Pegasus XL placed LINK directly into Swift’s “equatorial orbit”; that orbit is not equatorial, but slightly inclined (20.6°), close to the equator.
- After the LINK robot’s failure, NASA’s Swift telescope is living out its final weeks
We titled one section “Twenty-two years of gamma-ray bursts” whereas the text, following NASA, speaks of twenty-one years of observations since the November 2004 launch; the subheading is corrected to “Twenty-one years of gamma-ray bursts”.
- After the LINK robot’s failure, NASA’s Swift telescope is living out its final weeks
Updated: the altitude of the original orbit aligned with NASA’s fact sheet (about 600 km), details of the failure and of LINK’s approach aligned with Katalyst’s press release, removal of three items our sources could no longer support (the cost of Swift according to the AP, the re-entry date mentioned by the AP, the GW170817 and GRB 221009A highlights), French-language sources added.
- Code Geass Star Chaser Aspal: Sunrise’s new series is due in 2027
We wrote that the series was directed “from scripts by Mado Nozaki”; he is credited with series composition.
- Code Geass Star Chaser Aspal: Sunrise’s new series is due in 2027
Updated: removal of the teaser’s running time, which our sources do not confirm; transcription “Agalmata” (アガルマータ on the official website) instead of “Agarmatha”; clarification on the broadcast of Rozé of the Recapture and on the absence of an announced broadcaster in France; addition of French-language sources.
- Juice skimmed past Earth on 28 September to get back on the road to Jupiter
Updated: the result of the flyby is now attributed to ESA’s press release of 28 September (20° deflection and 3.5 km/s gain confirmed) rather than to a third-party site, the times of the passage through the shadow are given as absolute dates, French-language sources added (CNES, GNT).
- Metroid Ravenous: Samus returns in 2D on 28 January 2027 on Switch 2
Updated: official French name of the parry in Metroid Dread (“frappe de riposte”), addition of an “In France” line, French sources and a French primary source added.
- Rocket Lab puts Synspective’s 13th StriX radar satellite into orbit
Updated: Synspective announces that the satellite reached its target orbit and deployed, without detailing the deployment of the antenna; clarification of the duration of the tests, definition of synthetic aperture radar expanded, sources consolidated (duplicate and weak source removed, press release for the 12th launch and French sources added).
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: Qualcomm moves to 2 nanometres and 5 GHz on smartphones
We wrote, citing ServeTheHome, that both chips support LPDDR6 memory; sources differ on the standard version (Les Mobiles and Tom’s Hardware say it stays on LPDDR5X). Only support by the Extreme version is now mentioned.
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: Qualcomm moves to 2 nanometres and 5 GHz on smartphones
We presented these chips against the iPhone’s A20 Pro and spoke of a bet “shared by Apple”; these elements appeared in none of our sources and have been removed.
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: Qualcomm moves to 2 nanometres and 5 GHz on smartphones
Updated: Counterpoint Research forecast attributed to a source we consulted, Cristiano Amon quote sourced, availability in France clarified, French sources added and inaccessible official pages removed.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends its fourth season with an episode first written as a farewell
We wrote that the finale jumped ahead to 2263; our sources do not give that date: the episode brings Uhura into contact with a version of herself from a year in the future.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends its fourth season with an episode first written as a farewell
We described a “giant, immaterial creature” born between a white hole and a black hole; that detail is not confirmed by our sources and has been removed.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ends its fourth season with an episode first written as a farewell
Updated: addition of French-language sources and of the broadcast in France, the French title of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Star Trek : La Nouvelle Génération), sourced clarifications on season 5.
- LRO spacecraft discovers a 222-metre crater on the Moon, formed in 2024
We wrote that the walls had a “median” slope of 24°; it is an average slope, which reaches nearly 40° in places.
- LRO spacecraft discovers a 222-metre crater on the Moon, formed in 2024
We wrote that traces of the ejecta could be seen more than 120 km from the crater; our sources report disturbance of the terrain out to about a hundred kilometres. We have removed two details we could not verify (a previous lunar record of 70 m, a 13 m boulder on the southern rim) and the date of 2010 for the wide-angle camera’s monthly monitoring.
- LRO spacecraft discovers a 222-metre crater on the Moon, formed in 2024
Updated: the second *Science Advances* paper (Powell et al., Diviner instrument) is now cited and added to the sources; French-language sources added.
- Ray Gunn: Brad Bird’s science-fiction detective story arrives on Netflix on 18 December
We wrote that Netflix had not specified the countries for the cinema release; according to AlloCiné, this limited release applies outside France, and the film will be available directly on Netflix in France on 18 December.
- Ray Gunn: Brad Bird’s science-fiction detective story arrives on Netflix on 18 December
We quoted Brad Bird as saying that his script was waiting, “nicely preserved”; we have not been able to find that quotation. He told DiscussingFilm that he did not “stew” over the project for thirty years.
- Ray Gunn: Brad Bird’s science-fiction detective story arrives on Netflix on 18 December
Updated: removal of details not confirmed by our sources (Metropia’s flying cars and Art Deco façades, a film aimed at an older audience, the search for funding elsewhere, the mention of Henry Mancini) and of the promise to add to the article; translation of Brad Bird’s quotation about animation; addition of French-language sources.
- Specs: Snap details its augmented reality glasses, expected in France this autumn
Updated: price and availability in France (€2,295, sold by Orange), dates made absolute, removal of a promise of follow-up, attribution of the press’s criticisms, French sources added.
- Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but cuts its flight short
We defined a suborbital flight as one that falls back “before completing a full orbit of the Earth”; more precisely, it is a trajectory that climbs into space without enough speed to stay there, so that the craft falls back.
- Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but cuts its flight short
We wrote that the engine that shut down was one of the ship’s three engines designed for vacuum and that the SpaceX broadcast, as reported by the BBC, had judged those engines unnecessary for the rest of the flight; the sources we were able to consult say only that one of the ship’s six engines shut down early, and that the controllers then decided to carry on.
- Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but cuts its flight short
We wrote that SpaceX would have to demonstrate in orbit a refuelling that is “indispensable” to the lunar version of Starship; the sources consulted mention future in-orbit refuelling tests and Starship’s role in NASA’s lunar programme, without this explicit link.
- Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but cuts its flight short
Updated: addition of the official flight page on SpaceX’s website and of French-language sources, translation of the mission control quote, clarifications on the launch window, the height of the launcher and the causes of the early return.
- Kirby and the World Beyond, Kirby’s new 3D adventure, due in spring 2027 on Switch 2
Updated: addition of an “In France” line (release window and absence of a price on Nintendo France’s product page), French sources added and duplicate source (text version of the Direct) removed.
- NASA selects PRIMA, an infrared telescope planned for 2033
We attributed to Alberto Bolatto the sentence about an instrument “several orders of magnitude” more capable; it is by Sylvain Veilleux, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland and head of PRIMA’s science working group on active galactic nuclei. We have also restored the figure on which it rests: at certain wavelengths, PRIMA will be able to observe up to six orders of magnitude (a million times) faster than Herschel at equal depth.
- NASA selects PRIMA, an infrared telescope planned for 2033
Updated: the conversion of 4.5 kelvins is now given precisely (about −268.6 °C), the point about Spitzer clarified, the title of one source corrected, French-language sources added (CNES, Clubic, Ciel et Espace, Cité de l’espace, GNT).
- VisionQuest, the Marvel series about Vision, arrives on Disney+ on 14 October
We wrote that the series closed “the trilogy begun that year”; it is the trilogy begun in 2021 by WandaVision.
- VisionQuest, the Marvel series about Vision, arrives on Disney+ on 14 October
We wrote that Vision conversed with the artificial intelligences “he has known” and that Thomas Shepherd “may be his son”; according to the official synopsis, he consults the artificial intelligences built into his programming, and Thomas Shepard may be the reincarnation of his son.
- VisionQuest, the Marvel series about Vision, arrives on Disney+ on 14 October
Updated: addition of French-language sources and of the availability date in France; removal of the date of the London festival announcement, which our sources do not establish.
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam will be released on 10 December
We wrote that *Professor Layton and the Lost Future* was released “in the West in 2010”; it was released in France on 22 October 2010.
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam will be released on 10 December
Updated: official French titles (“Professeur Layton et le destin perdu”, “Professeur Layton et l’héritage des Aslantes”), description of QuizKnock aligned with Level-5’s website, “In France” line, French sources added and duplicate sources removed.
- Star Fox: Battle Mode goes four-player split-screen on 30 September
We announced the update for 29 September; that is the North American date, and it is announced for 30 September in France.
- Star Fox: Battle Mode goes four-player split-screen on 30 September
We wrote “mode Bataille”; the official French name of the competitive multiplayer mode is “mode Combat”.
- Star Fox: Battle Mode goes four-player split-screen on 30 September
Updated: European title of Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars), mention of fully voiced dialogue, which was not confirmed, removed, role of Shigeru Miyamoto clarified, criticism of the multiplayer attributed to Jeuxvideo.com’s review, French sources added. As of 29 September, no new official information on the content of the update.