A bunch of the Engadget crew loves the Playdate, the tiny, quirky portable console with a load of great indie games and a crank on the side. I’ve long had my eye on it, but never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. I do get Playdate emails, t…
Continue reading "I like this ridiculous Playdate pizza case so much I bought a Playdate"Halide is one of the best camera alternatives for the iPhone, a lovingly-crafted app that gives users plenty of manual control over the images they take. And today they just pushed out a major update with an intriguing proposition: an “anti-intelligent…
Continue reading "iPhone camera app Halide has an ‘anti-intelligent’ mode to make shooting with RAW easier"I first started hitting arcades in the late ’80s, and one of the first games I remember playing was the seminal 1987 beat-em-up Double Dragon. Probably not the most appropriate thing for a seven-year-old, but I pumped plenty of quarters into it and su…
Continue reading "The Double Dragon series returns yet again with an ultra-modern tribute to the original game"It's been about a decade since Nintendo released a new game in the Donkey Kong Country series — and while there isn't a new one coming any time soon, there is a port of one you may have missed on its way. Donkey Kong Country Returns, orig…
Continue reading "Donkey Kong Country Returns, originally released for the Wii in 2010, is coming to the Switch"Blink and you'll miss it: Apple just confirmed that RCS support will be in iOS 18 via a three-word update at the end of Craig Fedherigi's update on the new software. I wish this post was longer, with more details, but they said literally nothin…
Continue reading "Yes, iOS 18 will include RCS support"Qualcomm’s new commercial that revives Justin Long as a frustrated Mac user who decides to spend hundreds of dollars on a new computer rather than manage his notifications is objectively terrible. (The mocking has been so brutal that Qualcomm deleted t…
Continue reading "My one wish for WWDC 2024 is better notifications on iPhone and Mac"Somehow, it’s already been almost a year and a half since the first season of The Last of Us arrived on HBO. Things are well underway with the second season, and we’ve known for a while that it won’t premiere until 2025. We still don’t know exactly whe…
Continue reading "HBO’s The Last of Us season two will only be seven episodes long"Sony has ported lots of its biggest games to PC recently, and the next one will be God of War Ragnarok. As part of the State of Play presentation, Sony showed off a trailer for the most recent adventure of Kratos and his son Atreus, and it looks as goo…
Continue reading "God of War Ragnarök comes to PC on September 19"Last week, Sony published a seemingly innocuous bit of fluff, touting its long-term “creative entertainment vision” in broad terms, along with some interviews of key employees. Neil Druckmann, studio head of Sony’s Naughty Dog, was one of those — and h…
Continue reading "Sony pulls fabricated ‘interview’ with Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann"In the last few months, news organizations have leapt into bed with OpenAI, hatching Faustian bargains where the cash-strapped media industry exchanges a monetary pittance for OpenAI’s right to scrape and integrate their content into things like ChatGP…
Continue reading "The Atlantic and Vox Media made their own deal with the AI Devil"