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Saturday 5 September 2026

726 headlines from 32 sources

Hacker News

  1. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
  2. America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums
  3. South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
  4. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
  5. Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation
  6. Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]
  7. Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report
  8. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
  9. ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward
  10. The Luxuries in Life

The Verge

  1. Explore the globe in field recordings
  2. iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones
  3. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence
  4. Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy
  5. Content creators drop the ball
  6. The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
  7. OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
  8. Robotaxis enter their villain era
  9. Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
  10. The White House is making arcade games racist

Ars Technica

  1. Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
  2. After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
  3. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
  4. Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
  5. Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
  6. Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
  7. “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
  8. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  9. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
  10. Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB

TechCrunch

  1. Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
  2. Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
  3. OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
  4. Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster
  5. Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown
  6. XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
  7. OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
  8. AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
  9. Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
  10. What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

Wired

  1. 4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
  2. OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
  3. There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
  4. Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
  5. The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
  6. Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
  7. Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
  8. Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
  9. Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
  10. Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

Engadget

  1. Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2026?
  2. How to find your MacBook's diagnostic menu
  3. OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue
  4. The reasons rugged laptops are rarely bought by consumers
  5. How to track prices with Safari's Notify Me tool on iPhone, iPad and Mac
  6. You're probably wasting these keys on your keyboard — here's how to remap them
  7. Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
  8. What makes IMAX theaters different from normal ones?
  9. Why it's important to regularly restart your router
  10. New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court's double-edged ruling

9to5Mac

  1. Indie App Spotlight: ‘KeyAlarm’ turns your most important calendar events into alarms
  2. Here’s how iPhone Ultra’s form factor could compare to other Apple products
  3. Apple @ Work: Capping bug bounty submissions is the wrong response in the AI era of security threats
  4. Apple Labor Day weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3, Studio Display, Mac mini, AirTag 2, chargers, more
  5. CarPlay now works with five major chatbot apps
  6. watchOS 27 removes three features that Apple Watch users might miss after updating
  7. Fender MIX headphones now have an iPhone app for tuning your sound
  8. New profile of John Ternus offers insight into life and reputation of Apple CEO
  9. OpenAI releasing major upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-6 Astra, details here
  10. HomeKit Weekly: ULTRALOQ’s Bolt Fingerprint has everything you’d want except Home Key

Guardian Australia

  1. Trump’s pique with UK could lead to favor to acolyte Milei over Falklands
  2. More voters identifying as Democrats and not calling themselves Republican
  3. Audrey Werro fends off Femke Broeders-Bol’s charge in Diamond League final 800m
  4. Boxer Thomas Carty falls out of ring after 92 seconds in bizarre no-contest
  5. Argentina v Australia: men’s rugby union second Test – live
  6. Fashion, form and the beach: the photography of Max Dupain – in pictures
  7. Big tobacco is back in town as cigarette tax fight lights up Australian politics
  8. Possums in the roof, koalas in bed: study shows how animals resort to Australian homes after habitat loss
  9. Luke McGregor: ‘I don’t like Pokémon. It really feels like animal cruelty to me’
  10. Alarming AI ads are flooding social media in the lead-up to Victoria’s election. But who is behind them?

ABC News

  1. Indigenous dads challenging stereotypes this Father's Day
  2. 'Illuminated temple' lost to fire was a remnant of Tasmania's hydro boom
  3. It doesn't look dangerous, but this sneaky snail causes enormous damage
  4. The ACT's 99-year leases are expiring — what does that mean for home owners?
  5. The 100 Project preserves history of Australia's centenarians
  6. Calls to preserve largest Australian World War II prison camp
  7. Proposal to pump 70m litres of treated wastewater into Parramatta River
  8. The 'loyal foot soldiers' who sought to reshape the NSW Liberal Party
  9. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
  10. Scientists optimistic despite losing 14,000 tagged bogong moths

BBC News

  1. Zheng goes from 5-0 and match point down to victory
  2. Watch: Match of the Day
  3. How Man Utd plan to compete at top with richer rivals
  4. Taylor crowns career in stylish Croke Park triumph
  5. TV presenter among 11 sentenced to death in Egypt drugs case
  6. Prince William to attend King Harald's funeral in Norway
  7. Seven points from three games - are Hull on track to avoid relegation?
  8. Major disruption as grass fire halts all trains to Heathrow Airport
  9. Arsenal had more than 20 players on shortlist to capitalise on title win
  10. Police probe after child dies in woodland

The Guardian

  1. Ministers plan to slash paperwork rules for small UK businesses
  2. Katie Taylor bows out from boxing as undisputed champion after dominating Flora Pili
  3. Drone attack blamed on guerrillas kills at least three soldiers in Colombia
  4. Prince William to represent King Charles at funeral of Norway’s King Harald V
  5. Thousands of jobs to be cut at Jaguar Land Rover after slump in profits
  6. Francisco Cerundolo roars back from brink to stun home hope Taylor Fritz at US Open
  7. The Box review – no one knows what’s going on here … least of all Gary Lineker
  8. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion
  9. Police seize £200k Lamborghini under tightened antisocial driving laws
  10. High-flying Hull maintain unbeaten start by holding off Aston Villa in stalemate

Al Jazeera

  1. US envoys Witkoff, Kushner meet Putin for talks on Ukraine war
  2. Building collapses after heavy rain in northern India
  3. Why is Argentina reigniting the Falklands dispute?
  4. Everton vs Manchester United: Premier League – prediction, teams, lineups
  5. Colombian government reports three killed in rebel attack on military post
  6. Al Jazeera reporter challenges Huckabee over Israeli settler pogroms
  7. France denies inciting failed Niger mutiny, calls accusation ‘pure fantasy’
  8. Jerusalem Daily: raids, settlers & sieges
  9. Cuban and Afghan immigrants deported from US under Trump arrive in Guyana
  10. Woman beaten to death as bystanders watch in India’s Gujarat

NPR

  1. Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site
  2. US military hits 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying Navy warships were targeted
  3. Opinion: A sculpture in perpetual motion, removed
  4. Trump administration to dig at triumphal arch site despite no final federal approvals
  5. U.S.-Venezuela oil deal puts opposition in a political bind
  6. Whatever happened to the floating schools of Bangladesh?
  7. U.S. envoys in Moscow in new push for peace between Russia and Ukraine
  8. Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms
  9. Flock cameras draw opposition from across the political spectrum
  10. Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte posts bail after arrest

Kottke

  1. Autumnal Open Thread
  2. Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...
  3. Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution
  4. Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer...
  5. 2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...
  6. Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court...
  7. How Blackwing Pencils Are Made
  8. Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small...
  9. This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On...
  10. Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*...

The Marginalian

  1. How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse
  2. How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship
  3. The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
  4. How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
  5. The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
  6. The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility
  7. Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
  8. Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
  9. The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
  10. Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

Pitchfork

  1. Nirosta Steel Issues Apology for Following AI Accounts
  2. Yeat Appears to Diss Travis Scott on New Track “On Nothing”
  3. M83 Announces New Album I Wrote You a Letter
  4. Here’s Everyone Kanye West Brought Out at His Homecoming Chicago Show
  5. 9 Albums You Should Listen to Now: Chat Pile, Melissa Auf der Maur, and More
  6. Miley Wants You Dancing in New “Bass Persuades” Video
  7. Diiv’s New “Kid” Video Is Filmed by Zachary Cole Smith’s Kid
  8. Amelia Dimoldenberg Winds Down Chicken Shop Date After 12 Years
  9. Wavves to Rerecord Say Anything Collab Album Following Max Bemis Allegations
  10. Neil Peart Documentary No One’s Disciple Gets First Trailer

Stereogum

  1. Phoebe Bridgers Earns Acclaim For Primetime, Contributes New Song To End Credits
  2. Burning Man Sees Fourth Death In Four Years, Festival Gate Closed Again Due To Weather
  3. Yeat Drops Apparent Travis Scott Diss Track After Getting Removed From Slime Language 3
  4. fakemink – “Love Of The Game 3 .”
  5. Nirosta Steel Shares Statement After Social Media Activity Raises Concerns
  6. Quiet Light – “Hi, Society” (Ms* Gloom Cover)
  7. Tara Lily – “Break The Motion”
  8. 2 Chainz, Cash Cobain, & Young Nudy – “Reign”
  9. Mike Watt Announces New Album With Thresher, New Supergroup With Mike Baggetta & John Herndon
  10. The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Longreads

  1. The “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog
  2. Going Home with Wendell Berry
  3. The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal
  4. The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson
  5. The 17 Minutes That Changed America
  6. Memory Architecture
  7. A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.
  8. What Happens When a Kid’s Robot Best Friend Dies?
  9. Going Up and Going In
  10. Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?

ScienceDaily

  1. Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work
  2. Quantum oscillations defy expectations in this exotic material
  3. Scientists overturn a theory about this shark’s strange head
  4. Harvard scientists turn knitting into shape-shifting smart fabric
  5. Stanford scientists discover a seafood that can reverse signs of aging
  6. Extreme drought now covers 44% of Puerto Rico
  7. MIT turns bacteria into living transistors
  8. A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions
  9. Giant Greenland iceberg slams into Joe Island and survives
  10. Dying radio galaxies fade faster than scientists expected

Quanta

  1. Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
  2. In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
  3. Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
  4. ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions
  5. Does Computer Science Need Computers?

NASA

  1. APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon’s Shadow
  2. NASA Ames Fire Department Aircraft Firefighting Training
  3. NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community
  4. Lunar Occultation of Venus
  5. APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na Uhane Mahoe Huki Pu i ke Ola
  6. A Trio of Tropical Cyclones in the Pacific
  7. NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking
  8. Curiosity Blog, Sols 4988-4994: More New Tricks for an Old Dog
  9. Igniting Roman’s Journey
  10. NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene

Nature

  1. Tropical cyclones could be predicted with an extra day’s warning, thanks to an AI model
  2. Body parts used for ancient Egyptian artworks traced to surprising source
  3. Super-precise optical clocks in four nations tick in harmony
  4. Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out
  5. Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
  6. Briefing Chat: How 1,000 pairs of buried underpants helped measure soil health
  7. Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome
  8. Nations expanding their research programmes impose sweeping penalties for malpractice
  9. Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
  10. Daily briefing: GLP-1 obesity drugs slow signs of ageing in mice

Dezeen

  1. Modular combat boots among footwear projects from Häme University of Applied Sciences
  2. Ivy Studio creates "soothing" exotic animal clinic in brutalist Quebec bank
  3. Cluster of rock-like volumes make up rural Irish house by McGonigle McGrath
  4. Five anti-AI designs that give an element of control back to humans
  5. This week Dyson unveiled its first electric toothbrush
  6. Five opportunities in the USA featured on Dezeen Jobs
  7. Surrane Design uses "stages of the rice plant" to tone Thai restaurant in New York
  8. Imagina Floral tiles by Casalgrande Padana
  9. Tato Architects combines skinny home with ceramics studio in Kyoto
  10. Studio Cadena fills Medellín cafe with 31 towering wooden columns

Design Milk

  1. Trina Turk Digs Into the Archives for Her Latest FLOR Rugs
  2. Studio Rosenthal Opens Up a Gramercy Park Apartment to the Light
  3. Rick Tegelaar’s Designs Begin With Making, Not Sketching
  4. Snoopy’s Fashion Résumé Gets a New Chapter in New York
  5. Joe Flacco’s Family Home Puts Function Before Flash
  6. Piccolo Morini Gives a Soho Favorite a Younger Point of View
  7. A Deep Roofline Shapes This Hillside Home in Osaka
  8. Audo Copenhagen Sets the Table for Fall With Six New Designs
  9. Louis Vuitton and Singer Take the Porsche 911 Somewhere Unexpected
  10. The Clear-Tech Comeback Is Putting Everything on Display

BBC Sport

  1. Tears, blood & triumph - Taylor's iconic career in pictures
  2. Jones stuns Trump to set up final against Selby
  3. Fritz and Cobolli shocked as men's seeds tumble
  4. Fans boo as MVP wins in underwhelming UFC farewell
  5. Humphries beats Greaves as Littler also wins
  6. Wigan crush Leeds to move closer to winning shield
  7. Liverpool may make January move for Sarr - Sunday's gossip
  8. Foxes pain and Burnley suffer hangover - Aaron McLean's EFL takeaways
  9. Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford
  10. York run in five tries for dream win over Catalans

ESPN

  1. Follow live: No. 2 Oregon battling with Boise State
  2. Ohio State rolls, set for 'monster game' at Texas
  3. Dodgers hold Ohtani out of lineup 3rd straight day
  4. Fritz squanders 2-set lead, ousted from US Open
  5. 'Sky's the limit' for Bama's Russell after debut win
  6. Yanks place Grisham on IL with hamstring strain
  7. Bayern suffer 1st Bundesliga shutout in 18 months
  8. Bayern suffer rare shutout with Schalke draw
  9. De Zerbi: Winless Spurs making 'wrong' decisions
  10. Man City have given Maresca everything he needs to challenge this season

CNBC

  1. Trump’s first major midterm money move: A $10 million Texas Senate ad blitz
  2. LeBron James teases partnership with Polymarket
  3. Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms
  4. We got more defensive last week as Wall Street raised the bar for AI stocks
  5. I'm a nutritionist from Japan: 7 'essential' anti-inflammatory foods that I swear by
  6. U.S. attacks 3 Iranian oil tankers after missiles target Navy warships
  7. Why Walmart is moving in on DoorDash, Uber Eats delivery action, starting with donuts, coffee and sandwiches
  8. Many truckers don't feel like the rest of America about AI data centers as business booms
  9. Icons Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem never officially retired—why that's a choice for some and requirement for others
  10. Abel: Two ways Berkshire hopes to cash in on AI

IGN

  1. Insomniac Clears the Air After Marvel's Wolverine Fans Confuse Lady Deathstrike for Psylocke
  2. The Blood of Dawnwalker Passes 1 Million Copies Sold in Just 2 Days
  3. The Best Deals Today: Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and More
  4. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Could Be Great, But There's Some Things We Can't Ignore...
  5. 14 Predictions for the September 2026 Nintendo Direct and Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct
  6. 'No One Puts Double Fine Out of Business Except for Me' — Tim Schafer Explains How He Kept Double Fine Afloat After Leaving Xbox
  7. gamescom Apologizes for Its Initial Response to Thefts, Promises Improved Security Measures
  8. Halloween: The Game Review So Far
  9. Fury of Dracula (5th Edition) Board Game Review
  10. Tetris Responds After Trump Administration Launches 'Build the Wall' Clone Game

Kotaku

  1. Former Old School RuneScape Developer Sentenced For Stealing In-Game Gold From Players
  2. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Says The Industry Is Crashing And AI Is Making It Worse
  3. Following Pokémon, Stern Lets Fallout Pinball Machine Out Of The Vault
  4. Granblue Fantasy Relink Company Announces New Publishing Label Aimed At Releasing Smaller Games Faster
  5. It’s Curtains For Spider-Noir Season Two, See, The Big Rolled Up Newspaper
  6. Bungie Is ‘Exploring’ Subleasing Parts Of Its Massive 210,984 Sq. Ft. Studio After Laying Off More Than 600 People In Just Three Years
  7. Beloved Evil Dead Star Bruce Campbell Says He Has Five Years Left To Live
  8. Hideki Kamiya Wonders If He Should ‘Sue’ People Online For Implying He ‘Stole’ Money From Xbox During Scalebound’s Development (Which He’s Happy To Revive)
  9. Double Fine Boss Says ‘We Never Actively Tried To Make A Game We Thought Was Going To Lose Money’
  10. Tim Schafer Calls Double Fine Leaving Xbox A ‘Creative Awakening’: ‘Asha’s Not Going To Shoot My Dog’

PC Gamer

  1. Peak studio Aggro Crab is publishing a sick-looking platformer about a blue collar guy doing dirty work on an alien world
  2. Saber CCO says the studio isn't changing up its comms strategy after recent controversies: 'There's always some dust up'
  3. Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'
  4. Go grandmaster becomes first human to win series against advanced AI engine in 3-hour match
  5. 8-year Old School RuneScape saga comes to a close with former dev sentenced for stealing $400K in gold and items from players
  6. Saber CCO Tim Willits blames layoffs on games industry overspecialization: 'Studios that have a couple hundred employees that work on one game are going to struggle'
  7. Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, 'people are crazy' for thinking it's AI slop
  8. Onimusha: Way of the Sword starts off slow, but stick with it: You'll be rewarded with some of the best action combat of the decade
  9. Confession time: Alright, come clean—how tidy are your bags in your MMOs?
  10. Half of France's premier FPS sibling duo just put out the most exhilarating parkour game I've ever played, and it's only $8

Rock Paper Shotgun

  1. Deliver packages in foresty mountains and avoid thieving boars in the Death Stranding-adjacent and quite calm-looking Pinetrail
  2. Laser Guy is a twin-stick "anti-shooter" about a stressed out game developer who can't stop shooting laser beams from his eyes
  3. The ESRB wouldn't let Valve release the cinematic trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, so what did they do? They "leaked" it, obviously
  4. Double Fine's first game post-Xbox split is a goofy bus driving sim all about slapping passengers who don't follow the rules and doing a good job
  5. Mortal Shell 2's latest update adds in an experimental new mode that adjusts the challenge based on how much you do or don't die
  6. What are we all playing this weekend?
  7. "Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll
  8. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review – a pleasant bout of number go up that’s most remarkable for how much of an improvement it is
  9. Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights
  10. Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms"

Eurogamer

  1. Xbox Cloud Gaming's new hourly cap is reportedly set exactly where Microsoft stops making money on it
  2. Sony clarifies PlayStation disc production is dropping by 10 percent in 2028, not to 10 percent
  3. Gamescom apologises for how it initially responded to indie developer hardware thefts
  4. White House launches Arcade.gov, a minigame site parodying immigration enforcement and border security
  5. BioWare doesn't need advice for Mass Effect 4, says veteran designer, as long as "people get out of the way"
  6. Gen-AI controversy aside, Crazy Taxi: World Tour feels like classic arcade Sega - and it's an absolute blast
  7. What we've been playing - "Well this is embarrassing, we're wearing the same outfit!"
  8. After AI slop accusations, Humankind 2 studio says its new trailer was definitely "made by humankind" and at least five chickens
  9. It looks like No Man's Sky's next update is imminent as Sean Murray breaks out the emojis again - and fans reckon it's a big one
  10. Nearly a decade on, legendary director Hideki Kamiya says he's "100% serious" about reviving Xbox's canned Scalebound