Photo† Piotr Swat †Shutterstock† Google Hangouts becomes replaced by Google Chats later this year, add another item to the ever-growing list of dead Google services† The closure is scheduled to take place sometime in October, but Google is already starting the transition. While the process will largely be on Google’s side, the company is warning …
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Raspberry Pi Pico WImage† raspberry pi Raspberry Pi adds to its family of ultra-low-cost microcontrollers with the debut of three new Pico models. Perhaps DIYers will be most excited to see the Pico W, an exact copy of the original Pico, except with the addition of 802.11 Wi-Fi connectivity, a feature that will greatly improve …
Image† Valve / Kotaku / Notion Pic †Shutterstock† 20-year-old Brian Haugh has been buying for the past six years thousands of “:steam2016:” emoticonsthat Valve created to promote the 2016 Steam Summer Sale and appearance like a hot dog wearing tiny shoes† On Steam, you can buy emoticons from other users on the Community Marketplace or …
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Screenshot† HoYoverse / YouTube / Kotaku Genshin impact fans have been eagerly awaiting the new Sumeru region since it was first mentioned in a launch trailer long ago in 2020. But since the new one Sumeru characters leaked online yesterdayfans have expressed concern that the developers money laundering the characters. The community broadly agrees that …
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Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, recently laid off hundreds of employees, multiple sources say. Kotaku† Founded in the mid-2000s, Unity is used by thousands of developers; you’ve almost certainly seen its logo appear in the loading screens for some of your favorite or least favorite games. In …
Photo† Lukas Schulze †Getty Images† At a meeting on Thursday, Xbox spoke about growing employee concerns about working conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was “confident” that the studio wasn’t crunching and that it was “unfair” to attribute crunch culture to Bethesda …
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Google Chat is officially the dominant chat app on the Google Workspaces platform. Photo† Florence Ion / Gizmodo Google is officially requests Hangouts holdouts to migrate to the new messaging suite called Chat. Starting today, if you’re still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you’ll see an in-app screen prompting you to go to Chat …
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Photo† Valve For those of you who have watched longingly (…or enviously) as a lucky few get to play with their beautiful new steam decksWell, I have good news. Valve has announced that it will be sending out Q3 Steam Deck reservation emails later this week. And it also confirmed that it will actually ship …
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†Schopenhauer always talked about creative destruction. New innovations often destroy old dominance. And that’s what you want to do, because you’re not going to beat Microsoft at their game. But you can beat them in a game you own.’† That’s the advice from Atari founder and mass-market video game maker Nolan Bushnell to current CEO …
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Valve’s Steam Deck is a cool one portable pc you probably don’t want to change too much. However, if the creative juices start flowing and you feel the need to tinker with it, Valve user experience designer Lawrence Yang recommends at least a mod that increases the literal size of the Deck’s SSD. The reason? …
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