Weekly Round Up #74: Gawker.com shutters, No Man’s Sky patches and Gamescom 2016

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation, and news from the last few days.

This week, Hadlee Simons plays host and talks to Matthew Alexander and Andy Walker.

The team discusses Univision buying Gawker Media and what that means for Gawker.com. Hadlee explains how you can spot a hoax story. We also discuss the latest patch issued for No Man’s Sky on PC and PlayStation 4, and sticking with gaming, we take a look at the new announcements at Gamescom 2016.

What are we watching, reading, playing: Andy and Matt are playing No Man’s Sky, while Hadlee’s playing F1 2015 (F1 2016 is coming out today, by the way).

Tweet of the Week: It’s about Usain Bolt and his mad 200m dash to win another gold medal.

Have a listen to the podcast below. Be sure to catch the Recommended Reading list at the foot of this article.

Recommended Reading:

• Update: Gawker.com will shut down next week
• Don’t share it! Spot fake news and images with these tips
• No Man’s Sky version 1.04 hits PlayStation 4, fixes mild bugs
• Gamescom 2016 trailers megalist: all the new trailers you might’ve missed
• Metal Gear Survive is not the Metal Gear you know and love
• Metal Gear Survive gets 25k downvotes on YouTube, seriously acidic comments [update]