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Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N.
Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the.
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WiiM, the audio company that’s challenged the idea that audiophile-level performance requires a small loan, is expanding its whole-home ecosystem with the WiiM Bar, which releases in July. Much like its other speakers and audio components, the WiiM Bar supports a bunch of streaming options and expandability at an affordable price — in this case, $479.
Just in case you were wondering, Nvidia’s RTX Spark isn’t supposed to be a one-off. At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed at least two additional generations of RTX Spark are already planned. The Spark has up to 128GB of RAM, which Nvidia says is enough to hold 120-billion-parameter AI agents.
Nvidia’s announcement that it’s getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great.
Cecil Baldwin’s résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! Picked up a few albums at my local record store: Marianne Faithfull À la Télévision 1965-1967 , Jorge Ben Jor Jorge Ben , and Dr John Gris-Gris.
You may have heard that Valve’s new Steam Controller can ring like a telephone or do the Wilhelm scream. With CrazyCritic89’s “Steam Haptics Singer,” which is available on GitHub in Windows and Linux versions, you can have your Steam Controller (either generation) or your Steam Deck play MIDI tracks — simple digital music files that contain notes rather than actual recorded audio.
Which is what made it so surprising this week when Nintendo launched Pictonico. The games are all very silly in often hilarious ways, so you’ll be plucking hair, licking lollipops, and peeling bananas as quickly as you can. But then it releases something like Pictonico and you’re reminded that it’s at its very best when it stays weird.
The most memorable part of 007 First Light is something that’s typically pretty boring: the tutorial. It may seem like a small thing, but First Light ’s tutorial is just the latest example of how blurry the lines between games, film, and television have become. Things you’re used to seeing in movies, like Bond being beaten during an interrogation while tied to a chair, are now interactive rather than something you just watch.
It’s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical about AI’s impact on humanity. Another person ran the text of the document section by section through Pangram, finding that 62 percent of its first chapter was flagged as AI generated.
