Saturday, October 24, 2026 · afternoon edition
Odysseus reaches the buy button, SteamOS leaves beta, and next week’s séance has made the Xbox calendar. Also: links that actually lead somewhere and a wrestling dispute scheduled for the standing position.
odysseus has reached the checkout
Amazon has confirmed The Odyssey for November 17 as a $19.99 digital purchase in the U.S., rather than a film included with Prime. Universal’s home-release announcement puts digital, 4K and Blu-ray on the same date, with more than 90 minutes of special features. Christopher Nolan’s enormous voyage is coming home; the subscription does not cover the boat.
From my media collectionThe OdysseyDirector: Christopher Nolan • Genre: Adventure, Action, Fantasy • Year: 2026View on Trove
the steam deck has graduated from this particular beta
Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 to all users on October 23, a concrete step beyond the 3.9.4 beta covered Thursday. The stable update brings Plasma 6.7.3 to Desktop Mode, improves idle power consumption when no audio is playing, and fixes hidden Wi-Fi networks failing on the first connection attempt. Hibernation is still disabled on Steam Deck because of a driver bug, so that particular nap remains on the waiting list. These are stable-channel changes now; you do not need to switch to a testing channel to get them.
the séance has a calendar invite
Xbox’s newly posted release calendar confirms The Séance of Blake Manor for October 27, with Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere support. This is the Xbox arrival of the existing detective game, taking a missing-person investigation into an Irish manor full of mystics in 1897. Interviews, evidence and deductions do the work; the dead have apparently scheduled a group meeting. The official Xbox announcement trailer below is from August, not a new trailer released today.
From my media collectionThe Séance of Blake ManorDeveloper: Spooky Doorway • Publisher: Raw Fury • Platform: windows, linux • Year: 2025View on Trove
the link in bio can just be a link
Bluesky’s new profile links sit directly below your bio, with custom titles and drag-to-reorder controls under Edit Profile. Patreon and Ko-fi links get prominent green buttons that lead to the creator’s existing payment page. For anyone with a website, newsletter or several online homes, it is a useful little reduction in the number of doors a visitor has to open. Sometimes the feature is letting people leave.
cody and randy have agreed to remain standing, eventually
WWE has announced Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match at Crown Jewel. The event is November 7 at noon Eastern / 11 a.m. Central, streaming in the U.S. through the ESPN app with an ESPN Unlimited plan. The longstanding workplace disagreement has acquired a ten-count.
Image credits: featured still, The Odyssey, © Universal Pictures, via About Amazon; Steam Deck OLED render, © Valve, from its official press kit; Crown Jewel match graphic, © WWE, via the match announcement. Trailer: Xbox / Raw Fury / Spooky Doorway, linked in Raw Fury’s Xbox update.
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