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Sean Hollister

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    ‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’ declares Amazon’s new Wolfenstein TV series.

    A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.

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    Sean Hollister
    The first gaming handheld with AMD’s powerful Strix Halo.

    GPD, the company behind the most potent tiny laptops, is now teasing the most potent handheld. The GPD Win 5 will somehow fit a AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — also see Framework Desktop and Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet — into a chassis that’s like a large PlayStation Vita with hidden keyboard.

    The Phawx has shown that Strix Halo can already beat today’s handhelds on efficiency, and destroy them plugged into the wall.

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    Sean Hollister
    Intel CEO says he’ll personally approve all chip designs from here on out.

    I’m also instituting a policy. Every major chip design needs to be personally reviewed and approved by me before tape out.

    He says it’ll move Intel “back towards a first time right mindset,” and that he’s already “taken steps to correct past mistakes regarding multi-threading capabilities” in future chips. Tan has a background in chip design and was CEO of chip design company Cadence for a decade.

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    Sean Hollister
    Secretlab now sells a $300 adjustable legrest for your gaming throne.

    Legrests are a thing, and you can find them far cheaper than this, but “You really just want a second tiltable butt cushion, trust us!” is a vibe I haven’t seen before. It’s called the Otto, has height and tilt adjust (down to 30 degrees), and is filled with memory foam.

    The Otto.
    The Otto.
    Image: Secretlab
    Here is Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy — with lenticular display

    It costs $60 and ships October 1st.

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    Sean Hollister
    I tested the Star Wars droid that carries things for you.

    Oh, I had such high hopes for the Piaggio G1T4-M1N1 (“Gita Mini”). An officially licensed Star Wars bot that follows you around, dodging pedestrians while carrying 20 pounds of cargo and playing The Imperial March on its party speaker? Heck yes. But a single walk to the park showed me that this $2,875 bot doesn’t have enough smarts. (I couldn’t fit all its fails into one video!)

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    Sean Hollister
    Chibi Metroid deserves to exist. Pretty please, Nintendo?

    Ever see concept art and immediately say: “I would play the LIVING HECK out of that”?

    Yeah. This is by Castpixel, and her portfolio is filled with fantastic pixel art (and more). She’s done work on Minecraft and Space Jam: A New Legacy and was sole artist on this $8 love letter to Bomberman. “If you can get Nintendo to hire me, it could be playable in 16 months or so,” she says of Chibi Metroid.

    “the 3D corridor segments from Metroid Prime can totally be done as Marble Madness style levels,” she writes.
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    Today I learned a real car can jump spikes and potholes like Speed Racer.

    This is the BYD Yangwang U9, one of the fastest production EVs at 233MPH — but all I care about is how much closer we are to Speed Racer’s auto-jacks! Since BYD doesn’t want to get sued, a disclaimer states that “U9’s Leaping Function is prohibited for practical scenarios,” but it claims the feature works under very specific conditions. Would I rather have this or wheels that turn sideways, hmm...