Month: October 2026

Atari brings back all the Toy Story video games: we’ll tell you which ones are worth it and why

Toy Story is a franchise that generates tremendous nostalgia. Its first three films were a tremendous success and the fifth has managed to rekindle the spark. That’s why it’s no surprise that over at Atari they wanted to bring back the franchise’s video games. A collection called Toy Story Retro Roundup! and, separately, Toy Story 3 Complete Edition. But how are these games? Have they aged well? That’s what we’re going to talk about, looking at them one by one.

Toy Story

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The first Toy Story game is a decent platformer that, while not brilliant, has held up well over time. Of the Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy Color versions, unless you have a particular attachment to one version, the Mega Drive one is the best of the three: it was the main version and it shows. The Game Boy version has charm, but it isn’t great. And the best we can say about the game is that it reproduces the original film very faithfully.

A Bug’s Life

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For some reason they’ve included the A Bug’s Life game in this collection, but we’re not going to complain. Much. With only the PlayStation and Game Boy Color versions included, and the Nintendo 64 and PC ones left out, this is a game that has historically been vilified, and not without reason. The handheld version is quite terrible, but the PlayStation one has a certain charm if you know exactly what you’re getting into: a somewhat obtuse platformer that, at times, is so faithful to the film that it ends up being harder than it should be.

Toy Story 2

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Toy Story 2 only came out for Game Boy Color and it’s a side-scrolling platformer that didn’t make much of an impact when it came out. It’s not hard to see why today. Very limited, very unoriginal, it has a certain charm if you’re a Toy Story fan, but that’s about all it has going for it.

Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue

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Probably the most divisive of the games in the compilation and included here only in its PlayStation version. A mix of platformer and action game, it’s a game with a questionable frame rate, a camera that could use improvement and a limited number of NPCs and lines of dialogue from them. But if you’re able to look past those problems, typical of games of the time, the result is a game well worth championing, one that knew how to capture the charm of the film and expand it gracefully. It’s not Super Mario 64 or Rayman 2, but within the 3D platformers of the time it does a good job.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Unfortunately we can’t say the same about its next game. Because although Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is another platformer and action game, this time based on the Buzz Lightyear animated series, it doesn’t feel as fluid and inspired as the previous game. The Game Boy Color version, also present in the collection, is rather clumsy and fails to capture the concept’s potential charm, but it’s also a very late game for the console: by then, developers had already moved on.

Toy Story Racer

What if Mario Kart were Toy Story? You’d get this unmemorable, but decent racing game where more attention is paid to detail than you might expect. It’s not Mario Kart, but it can compete with the other kart games of the time that were trying to ride Nintendo’s coattails. Holding up surprisingly well even today, both the PlayStation version and the Game Boy version still feel fresh and interesting now. Reminding us that, in another era, not everything was Mario Kart.

Toy Story 3

Originally released on Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it’s the most celebrated game of them all. So much so that it’s sold separately or in a pack with the others, but not in the same collection. The reason is that it’s a modern 3D platformer, in the vein of Little Big Planet, with great attention to detail and great care taken to make it look like an animated film. Charming, fun and satisfying to play, it’s a game that brings back a lot of nostalgia for Toy Story fans… and that’s only natural. But that’s what this collection is about. The affection we feel for all these toys.

Rockstar confirms we won’t have to wait eight years to see a new GTA

Bloomberg has published an article on how Grand Theft Auto 6 was made in which they revealed some new details about the most anticipated video game of the year. In this article journalist Jason Schreier visited the company’s offices and spoke with some of the project leads about the eight years of development, the layoffs of workers, the crunch, and the changes that have taken place during this time and in relation to the studio’s previous game, Red Dead Redemption 2.

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The most interesting thing it revealed is that GTA6 was supposed to have been developed in parallel with Red Dead Redemption 2, but they couldn’t do it because the studio considered that they would need everyone involved in each of the projects. That’s why they focused all their efforts on one game at a time, not beginning development on GTA6 until they had finished Red Dead Redemption 2.

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GTA6 has been a project led by three directors instead of just one (Rob Nelson, Phil Hooker and Aaron Garbut), in part because one of Rockstar’s co-founders, Dan Houser, left the studio. By 2019 they had already locked down the core of the story, by 2022 they already had built many of the gameplay systems, and the video leak from late 2022 led them to curtail many workers’ rights. Meanwhile, they have neither confirmed nor denied that Rockstar no longer does crunch, although they claim that “it hasn’t been as bad” as with Red Dead Redemption 2. A game with a crunch period so brutal that it caused a schism in the industry, turning it into an issue discussed publicly for the first time in the history of the medium.

After two delays, one of them because they hadn’t populated an entire area of the game with NPCs and which led them to build an entire studio in Los Angeles to populate it, and layoffs of workers for unionizing, the game has been through a lot. But Rockstar insists that their next game won’t take eight years to make because the next game will be like the jump from GTA III to Vice City back in the day. With GTA6 coming out on November 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, all that’s left is to see whether all these sacrifices have, at least, resulted in a good game. And When it’ll come to PC.

How to turn raw clips and long videos into social-ready content with Adobe Firefly video editor

You recorded yourself talking to camera, the takes are full of stumbles, the pacing sags, and the video never leaves the folder you dumped it in. Firefly Video Editor is built for exactly that stretch: the one between raw takes and something you would actually publish. You can generate clips, voices, and music with AI inside Adobe Firefly, mix those with your own footage, and finish the edit without hopping across three or four different apps.

So, what is Firefly Video Editor really for? What can you do in it? And how do you start using it without wasting an afternoon figuring it out?

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What is Firefly Video Editor?

Adobe presents Firefly Video Editor as the built-in video editor inside Adobe Firefly. You use it in your browser, Chrome or Microsoft Edge at the moment, so you don’t have to install anything. Just go to firefly.adobe.com with your Adobe account, then click Timeline in the left sidebar.

What makes it handy is simple: it puts two parts of the process that are usually split into separate tools in one workspace.

  • Create. You can generate video clips, voiceovers, and music with AI.
  • Edit. You can trim, rearrange, and polish those clips, along with your own footage, on a multi-track timeline, which is what you’d expect from any solid video editor.

There are also two ways to edit. You can move clips around directly on the timeline, or you can use Text-based editing. With that second option, Firefly transcribes the spoken audio in your video, and you edit by changing the text almost like you’re working in a document.

Once you’re done, export in the format that fits where the video is going, whether that’s horizontal for YouTube or vertical for Reels and TikTok.

Generate and edit in one place

One of the better things about Firefly Video Editor is that you don’t need to walk in with every asset already finished. If you’re missing a clip, generate one. If you need a voice, a sound effect, or some background music, you can make that too.

The Generate media panel is where that happens. From there, you can create videos or sound effects from a short written prompt. A practical way to work is to place your own footage on the timeline first, see what’s missing, and then fill those gaps with generated media. Anything you create appears in the Generation history panel. If a scene is missing something, you can generate a new one from any frame so it matches the style of the rest. And once a clip is generated, you can edit it by describing what you want: Runway Aleph adds or removes objects and swaps backgrounds without you touching the timeline.

Quick Cut: an edit put together in no time

Sometimes the hardest part is just starting. If you open the editor and blank out in front of an empty timeline, Quick Cut helps by assembling a first draft for you.

  • Start by uploading your videos to the editor, or generate new clips if you need them.
  • Click the Quick Cut button in the bottom-right corner.
  • After that, choose the Quick Cut function again.
  • Then pick the type of video you want and describe the look you’re after. You can also choose the duration, set the aspect ratio, and decide which clips it should pull from. When that’s set, click Create quick cut. If you want more control, add a script or a shot list so it follows your direction more closely. From there, you can replace clips, tweak the pacing, and shape it so it feels more like your own work.

Adobe Stock inside the editor

Adobe Stock is available right inside the editor too, with access to more than 800 million licensed assets without leaving the app. You can pull in videos, images, music, and sound effects from there. Whatever you download lands either in the Project media panel or directly on the timeline, depending on where you opened Adobe Stock.

Turn a product photo into an animated ad

If all you have is a single product photo, the Product Ad Microstudio walks you through it. Upload the image, follow the guided workflow, and you come out with an animated product ad without building anything from scratch.

And make the thumbnail that goes with it

The Thumbnail Microstudio does the same job for the thumbnail. It creates one that complements the video and is ready to publish, instead of something you throw together at the last minute.

How to get the most out of Firefly Video Editor

Here are two ways to get started with Firefly Video Editor: a short social clip, and a cut made from a longer video.

  • Upload your clips to Firefly Video Editor.
  • Trim them down and arrange your strongest takes on the timeline. If you’re speaking on camera, Text-based editing makes cleanup faster because you can remove lines straight from the transcript.
  • Use the Color adjustments section to make the footage look more consistent.
  • Move the playhead to the spot where you want to begin, then click Record voiceover to record your voice-over, up to five minutes at a time. If you’d rather not record it yourself, choose Generate Speech.

If what you want is to turn a longer video into a shorter social clip, here’s another way to do it:

  • Upload the full-length video to Firefly Video Editor.
  • Open Quick Cut and describe what you want.
  • Pick the vertical format and set the duration you need.
  • Review the draft, then fix whatever needs work. If a clip doesn’t sit well in a vertical frame, use the Aspect ratio icon on the timeline to set it correctly. After that, turn on Auto reframe from the Properties panel.
  • Add subtitles from Captions, and it’s ready to publish.
  • If the audio came out rough, run the footage through Enhance Audio to clean it up and fine-tune the music, ambience, and sound effects.

If you already work in Premiere Pro, Firefly doesn’t replace it. It gives you somewhere to think out loud, put a first assembly together, or spin off the social version without tying up your main edit. And if you come from Photoshop, the thumbnail and product-visual workflow fits when you need every piece of brand material to look like it belongs together.

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You don’t have to install software to use Firefly Video Editor since it runs in the browser. Right now, Adobe says it works in Chrome and Edge, on both Windows and macOS computers.

Paid plans include monthly generative credits, which is what video generation and third-party models draw on. As of October 2026, Adobe also lists a free tier with generations that refresh daily if you want to try it before committing. Adobe Stock works a bit differently: some assets are free, and others are paid.

Adobe also says Firefly’s own models are trained on licensed Adobe Stock content plus other public-domain material. That’s why the company says those models are safe for commercial use.

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Doctor Sleep returns to Netflix in the U.S. on October 15: Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King sequel is back

Doctor Sleep is headed back to Netflix in the U.S. on October 15, 2026, which gives viewers another shot at Mike Flanagan’s 2019 sequel, the one that connects Stephen King’s The Shining to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film.

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Part of what makes Doctor Sleep so interesting is the history behind it. Stephen King spent years criticizing Kubrick’s version of The Shining, especially Jack Nicholson’s casting, the way Wendy Torrance was written and played in what King saw as a misogynistic portrayal, and the fact that Jack’s slow, tragic unraveling was mostly stripped out. King even said Martin Sheen was closer to what he had in mind. That’s why it lands a little differently when the same King later said Doctor Sleep “redeems” Kubrick’s movie.

Flanagan pulled from both sources, King’s book and Kubrick’s visual language, and somehow made them live in the same film. The story follows an adult Danny Torrance, played by Ewan McGregor, still carrying the Overlook with him, along with the damage from his father’s abuse and the rest of that childhood trauma. He uses his psychic ability to comfort dying patients, then gets pulled into a fight alongside Abra against the True Knot.

For anyone who keeps up with Stephen King adaptations, this one’s well worth revisiting. The film is Certified Fresh, $72.3 million worldwide on a $45 million budget, and feels even more relevant now, with Mike Flanagan’s Carrie hitting Prime Video this October, The Life of Chuck already out, and The Dark Tower still making its way through development.

You can stream Doctor Sleep on Netflix in the U.S. starting October 15. It had left the service on January 1, 2026.

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Friends returns to Channel 4 in the UK: all 10 seasons arrive in January 2027

Friends is heading back to Channel 4 in the UK in January 2027. All 10 seasons will air on E4 and sit on Channel 4’s on-demand service, roughly 15 years after the sitcom was last shown across Channel 4’s networks, the broadcaster said. Channel 4 added that the show first arrived on its channels in the mid-1990s, shifted over to E4 in 2001, and that HBO Max will still hold the UK subscription rights while Channel 4 picks up the free-to-air rights from 5.

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Channel 4 is going back to something it knows people still watch. The company pointed to the 8.6 million UK viewers who tuned in for the 2004 finale, then to later E4 repeats that pulled in around 400,000, according to Channel 4. There’s also the broader pull of nostalgia TV, which still works for older fans and for younger viewers who’ve come to the show through streaming.

If you watch Friends regularly, this also reads as a useful get for Channel 4 just as David Brindley takes over. That comes during a rougher stretch for the broadcaster, with cuts affecting about 50% of the commissioning team, a harder ad market, and 2025 revenues that held steady alongside £640 million in content spend, according to Channel 4’s 2025 results.

From January 2027, you’ll be able to watch Friends for free on E4 and on Channel 4’s on-demand service, while HBO Max remains the subscription home. Warner Bros.’ Skydance-owned sales arm handled the deal, which was one of the talking points at MIPCOM, and neither side disclosed the price.

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Tulsa King returns October 16: winning big in The Sopranos’ shadow

Tulsa King is back on Paramount+ on October 16, with Dwight “The General” Manfredi trying to turn his operation into something legitimate while fending off corrupt politicians and a fresh set of enemies.

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The numbers make it pretty obvious why Paramount+ is leaning in. According to the service, the season 3 premiere drew 21.1 million viewers, the biggest global series-premiere audience in Paramount+ history. That follows a strong season 2 launch, which pulled 2 million views in its first 24 hours and reached 5.4 million households over seven days. There’s still a big crowd for dark, character-driven crime stories built around charismatic antiheroes.

And that formula didn’t come out of nowhere. You can trace a lot of it back to The Sopranos, which changed television in 1999 with serialized storytelling that was psychologically rich and morally messy, then helped clear the way for shows like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Succession.

More than 25 years later, The Sopranos still pulls viewers on HBO Max and Apple TV VOD, still connects with Gen Z, and still leaves a mark. During its original run, it peaked at 13.43 million viewers and averaged about 12 million. Its 25th-anniversary footage and the Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos documentary have kept it in circulation, and so has its influence on masculinity, therapy, antihero TV, mob-wife fashion, New Jersey tourism, and merchandise.

If streaming crime dramas are your thing, Tulsa King’s return has a lot going for it on Paramount+, and The Sopranos is streaming on HBO Max.

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Apple’s foldable iPhone could cost $1,999: the iPhone 18 Pro Max and MacBook Neo may be smarter buys

Apple still hasn’t announced a foldable iPhone. Even so, the rumored device some people are calling the iPhone Duo is already being priced out by analysts and supply-chain sources at about $1,999 for 256GB. That would put it almost neck and neck with buying an iPhone 18 Pro Max and a MacBook Neo together.

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And that’s where the comparison gets awkward for the foldable. For roughly the same money, you’d be picking one still-unconfirmed hybrid instead of two separate Apple devices: a 256GB iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299 plus a MacBook Neo at $699 comes to $1,998. The bundle looks even better when you remember the MacBook Neo was closer to $599 before its recent $100 price bump.

Current rumor ranges also place the foldable somewhere between $1,999 and $2,199. You’d also be buying into the usual foldable compromise. If that all-in-one device runs out of battery, breaks, or has to go in for repair, you’re suddenly without both your phone and your larger work screen. Apple’s ecosystem does make the whole concept easier to believe than it would from most other companies, and analysts are still talking about 20% to 25% share in 2026, 35% to 40% in 2027, and roughly 14 million units in fiscal 2027.

If what you want is the safer Apple setup, the iPhone-and-MacBook combo still looks like the better buy.

There’s nothing to download yet. Apple hasn’t announced the device, and all of these expectations still come from analysts and supply-chain rumors.

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JetBrains DevOps survey: AI-generated code boosts output but slows reviews

JetBrains has published new DevOps survey data, and the main takeaway is pretty straightforward: code assistants can raise software output, but the bottleneck doesn’t disappear. It moves to review, testing, and delivery.

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On the pipeline side, CI/CD is still the core setup for most teams, at 83.4%. GitHub Actions leads, followed by GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Server, TeamCity, AWS, Bitbucket, and internal systems. Most teams aren’t switching, and the reasons are familiar: customer requirements, mixed stacks, and legacy estates. The teams that do move tend to cite cost, maintenance, consolidation, and complexity.

The hosting numbers tell their own story. 72.8% still run self-hosted CI/CD because they want tighter control over security, data, builds, network access, and cost. And 48.8% say they use coding assistants for CI/CD work. That said, AI still hasn’t made much of a dent in build or test stages, where usage sits at just 8%. It shows up more often in reviews, tests, failure analysis, pipeline configs, quality work, security, deployments, and incident response.

If you’re running DevOps, this is probably the part of the report you’ll want to read closely. JetBrains links code generation to 34% higher output, but also to PR reviews that are 441.5% slower, PRs that are 51.3% larger, 59.7% more files touched, and deployment frequency that’s 11.7% lower. There’s also a clear trust issue: 96% say they don’t fully trust generated code, and only 48% say they always check it. Among non-users, the reasons are low priority, privacy and IP concerns, satisfaction with current processes, and cost, especially at smaller companies.

The full survey is on the JetBrains website.

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Master Replicas’ Battlestar Galactica Prometheus arrives in October 2026: only 500 will be made

Master Replicas has revealed the Battlestar Galactica (Classic) Prometheus Limited Edition, set for October 2026. It’s an officially licensed 10.5-inch model drawn from the 1978 series and built around the battlestar Prometheus, a ship that was part of the lore but never actually made it onto the screen.

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Only 500 are being made. The model uses die-cast metal and ABS, and Master Replicas is framing it as a way to give physical form to a piece of Colonial Fleet history that fans had mostly known through rumor and background mythology. In that sense, Prometheus sits alongside names like Cerberus and Solaria from the original canon.

Master Replicas says the Prometheus is due to ship in October 2026, and it fits into the company’s larger Battlestar Galactica run stretching across 2026 and 2027. That lineup has already included Galactica, Pegasus, Viper Mk 7, the Blood and Chrome Viper, the Blood and Chrome Cylon Raider, and Muffit II.

For anyone whose heart is still with classic Galactica, this feels like an easy one to put on the list, especially now that the Peacock reboot once associated with Sam Esmail was scrapped in July 2024. The franchise is still out there, just in a different form: collectibles, conventions, Fantasy Flight Games’ 2008 board game, and Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes.

You can order the Battlestar Galactica (Classic) Prometheus Limited Edition from Master Replicas for October 2026 delivery. The company has also named Cerberus as another limited battlestar release it plans to do.

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The Psychic is now streaming free: Lucio Fulci’s cult thriller hits Tubi

Lucio Fulci’s 1977 thriller The Psychic is now streaming free on Tubi. That makes it an easy way into Fulci’s work, and into a film Quentin Tarantino has pointed to as one of his favorite Fulci titles.

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If you mostly know Fulci from The Beyond or City of the Living Dead, this one shows a different side of him. The Psychic, also released as Sette note in nero or Seven Notes in Black, is cleaner, more controlled , and more elegant than those later horror films. Tarantino has been vocal about his love for it and has even mentioned wanting to remake it. Severin Films’ 2023 4K restoration, taken from the original camera negative, helped bring the movie back into view, with interviews and a Fulci documentary included in the package.

The story follows clairvoyant Virginia Ducci, whose visions lead her to a skeleton hidden inside her husband’s wall. From there, The Psychic leans less on the flashy giallo murders and more on Hitchcock-style dread, tight, boxed-in tension, and a sharper psychological edge than the dreamlike, operatic thrillers usually associated with Dario Argento.

If you want a way into Lucio Fulci that gets past the gore-heavy reputation, this is a strong place to start. Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, and Vince Tempera’s eerie seven-note theme later showed up in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1. The film didn’t do much business when it first came out, but over time it’s become one of Fulci’s sharpest and most approachable cult favorites.

You can watch The Psychic on Tubi now, or track down Severin Films’ 4K edition if you want the bonus features.

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