Rob Dubbin’s Verge story about World of Warcraft drove me to check Metacritic’s aggregated review scores, filtered by that year. Apparently, that’s when some of my favorite sequels of all time released. To name a few:
• Half-Life 2
• Halo 2
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
• Pikmin 2
• Viewtiful Joe 2
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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After announcing it last month, Google has been rolling out its smart home panel feature widely to TVs from TCL and Hisense, as well as other devices that run the software, according to 9to5Google.
The feature lets you control things like smart lights and thermostats or get security camera alerts. Google has instructions for setting up the home panel on its site.
We’ve seen the first Thunderbolt 5 port, the first cable, and the first dock to theoretically offer its blistering 120Gbps speeds. Now, behold the first TBT5 cards from Gigabyte and from Asus.
Neither one magically adds Thunderbolt to your PC — to create two do-it-all Thunderbolt 5 connectors, you need to plug power, USB, mini-DP video and your motherboard’s existing internal Thunderbolt header into this thing.
Redherring32 says they spent four months figuring out how to trim the motherboard, build 12 custom PCBs (and custom flex ribbon cables, it seems!), put it all together, and open source it.
My dumb question: can I get a full-fat version based on the chonky original Duke instead of the superior but boring Controller S?
