Take-Two’s 2K label just turned the ashes of Xbox’s canceled Perfect Dark reboot into a fresh start. Darrell Gallagher and Brian Horton, the leaders behind Tomb Raider and several Marvel’s Spider-Man games, are now building a brand-new studio for 2K. Some fans see a smart grab for top talent, others see a risky repeat of an expensive failure, but this team could end up shaping 2K’s next big cinematic franchise later in the decade.

Redmi is warming up for the global launch of the Note 15 5G, starting with a big teaser in India for the 108 MP Master Pixel Edition. The phone is shaping up as a classic Redmi all rounder: a 6.83 inch FHD+ AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 6 Gen 3, 8 GB of RAM with 256 GB of storage, a 108 MP main camera backed by an 8 MP ultrawide and 20 MP selfie, plus a 5,520 mAh battery with 45 W charging. It looks less like a radical redesign and more like a smart evolution of the Redmi Note 14 5G, with a brighter focus on camera quality, endurance and everyday performance.

Realme seems in a hurry to move on from the lukewarm 15 series. A leaked Realme 16 Pro+ box in China is stirring talk of a periscope telephoto camera making a comeback, hinting at a pricier but far more interesting flagship and sparking the usual mix of hype, sarcasm and curiosity around the brand’s next big launch.

vivo is sending its X300 and X300 Pro straight into India’s forests, mountains, deserts and coasts with National Geographic, turning a flagship smartphone launch into a real wilderness test. Every frame in this Go Into the Wild project is shot on the phones, showing what ZEISS optics, pro level stabilization and modern mobile imaging can do when the light is harsh, the wildlife is unpredictable and nothing is staged.

The new sales data is in, and it is last year’s iPhone 16 – not the shiny new iPhone 17 – that has taken the crown as the world’s best-selling smartphone in Q3. Apple’s entire iPhone 16 lineup stacked the top of the global chart, while Samsung’s Galaxy A series carried the Android flag in the budget and midrange segments. The result is a sharply polarized market where previous-gen iPhones dominate the premium space and affordable Galaxy A models scoop up value-conscious buyers.

Google might actually be forced to rename its TPU AI chips after a trademark clash with Tachyum, showing how three letters can spark a big fight in the race for data center dominance.

Netflix just spent 82.7 billion dollars on Warner Bros. Discoverys streaming and studio business and treated WB Games like a rounding error. That is the same publisher behind Hogwarts Legacy, the top seller of 2023 and now a 34 million copy juggernaut. From Harry Potter and DC to Lord of the Rings and the Nemesis system, Netflix may have quietly picked up the backbone of a future Game Pass style platform while telling investors it barely counts. The real question is whether the company will keep treating games as an experiment or finally build the cross media ecosystem that these franchises deserve.

Samsung’s Exynos 2600 finally looks like serious 2nm silicon, but yield issues and Qualcomm contracts mean it may stay locked to Korea-only Galaxy S26 models, just as TSMC packaging struggles and Intel’s 18A ambitions shake up the chip race.