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You can grab three months of Apple TV Plus for $2.99 a month right now

You can grab three months of Apple TV Plus for .99 a month right now

You can grab three months of Apple TV Plus for $2.99 a month right now Curious what all the fuss over shows like Severance and The Studio is about? If you’re interested in streaming either, new and eligible returning subscribers can sign up for Apple TV Plus through April 24th for just $2.99 a month […]

Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariffs

Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariffs

Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won't survive Trump's tariffs Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariffs The original Arduboy. Kevin Bates managed quit his day job and move to China after his game-playing business card, the Arduboy, went viral in 2014. But a decade later, Trump’s staggering and inexplicable […]

YouTube says Nope! to age-gating Balatro videos

YouTube says Nope! to age-gating Balatro videos

YouTube says Nope! to age-gating Balatro videos On Friday, the YouTube channel Balatro University posted a video highlighting how some of their videos had recently been age-restricted after the company tightened its policies about gambling content. But in a post Monday night, YouTube said the restrictions shouldn’t have been applied. “Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should […]

Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream

Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream

Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream Elon Musk, seemingly keen to repair some of his gamer cred after he admitted to account boosting, streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2 during a flight as a part of an “airborne continuity test” of his Starlink internet service. But during the […]

Switch 2: the good news and bad news

Switch 2: the good news and bad news

Switch 2: the good news and bad news In most ways, Nintendo’s Switch 2 is exactly what we wanted: a Switch, only better. Nintendo has an occasional tendency to follow its best and most successful consoles with some of its weirdest ideas – Wii U, anyone? — but this time seems to have stayed the course […]

22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive

22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive

22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive Search for “SimCity 4” on YouTube, and you’ll see players constructing multilevel highway interchanges and intricate railroad networks, or maybe even a swooping flyby of a sprawling metropolis. None of these features came with the original game, which was released just after the turn of the […]

Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons don’t use Hall effect joysticks

Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons don’t use Hall effect joysticks

Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2's Joy-Cons don't use Hall effect joysticks Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons don’t use Hall effect joysticks Nintendo hasn’t confirmed what joystick technology the Switch 2 is using, but its not Hall effect sensors. After several days of not providing a direct answer about the technology used in the Switch […]

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs — even when no one is […]

One streaming app to (almost) rule them all

One streaming app to (almost) rule them all

One streaming app to (almost) rule them all Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 78, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry everything’s about to get so expensive, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been […]