The Gold Standard

Day one ended the LNG export pause

On 20 January 2025 President Trump signed E.O. 14154. The Energy Department, the same day, ended the Biden-era pause on non-FTA LNG export applications. Commonwealth LNG in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, got the first post-pause license on 14 February 2025.

Commodore puts six Alien Breed games on modern machines

Pixel Arcadia on 24 August 2026 named Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection. Commodore publishes. Antstream builds. Team17 licenses. 24 September on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Switch later in 2026.

Review: Symphony is still a castle

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night shipped in Japan on 20 March 1997 and in North America on 2 October 1997. Alucard, a map that folds back on itself, and a PlayStation disc that taught a generation what a castle is.

Quorn Park is the NEM’s first single-hybrid GPS plant

On 27 August Potentia finished a A$190 million hybrid 10 km northwest of Parkes: 98 MW solar, 20 MW / 40 MWh battery, one GPS, one controller. About 160,000 panels. Zen Energy holds ten years of offtake.

Devil May Cry 5 arrives as a Switch 2 cart

Capcom put the physical Devil Hunter Edition on Nintendo Switch 2 on 28 August. Digital has been on the eShop since 23 June. The series turned 25 on 23 August.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 launches on PS5, Xbox and PC

Daybreak and Cold Iron dated the sequel 25 August 2026. Four-player co-op, five classes plus Specialist, Horde maps at launch. $49.99 standard. Switch 2 waits until 29 September.

Resonance puts Sophia on the Minotaur’s Island

Asobo and Focus dated the Plague Tale prequel 27 August 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC. Sophia, the Minotaur’s Island, a stolen Minoan sphere. Game Pass day one. $49.99 on Steam.

Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters launches on four platforms

Bandai Namco Europe dated World Fighters 28 August 2026 on Switch, PS5, Xbox and Steam. 22 nations, 110-plus characters, 150-plus new specials. $59.99 on last week’s Nintendo Download.

Terranigma gets its first official North American release

Clear River announced Terranigma — Rebirth at Pixel Arcadia on 24 August 2026, for early 2027. The 1995 Quintet game never had an official U.S. release. Kamui Fujiwara is back. Pixel art stays.

NASA’s Starling swarm finds its orbit without GPS

NASA’s 17 August FALCON demo on the Starling CubeSat swarm matched star-tracker sightings to a ~20,000-object catalog, fixed its own orbit, and refined more than 200 others in three days. EraDrive’s Era-Core flew the software.

Metal Gear Solid 4 leaves the PS3 in Master Collection Vol. 2

Konami shipped Master Collection Vol. 2 on 27 August 2026, the first port of Metal Gear Solid 4 since 2008, plus Peace Walker HD and Ghost Babel. Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox and Steam. $49.99 on the Nintendo Download.