Remember the Dbrand Darkplates that pissed off Sony and eventually let you make your PS5 retro-translucent? You can now buy a $60 black version for PS5 Slim that unifies the original split panels — and for $70, it’ll come with a self-aligning magnetic stand.
Stand doesn’t work without panels; panels don’t work with Sony’s tiny stand.
The 3,093 piece X-Mansion is Lego’s largest X-Men set to date and will be available starting on November 4th for $329.99. It comes with 10 minifigures including our first Lego versions of Gambit, Professor X, Iceman, and Bishop, plus a buildable Sentinel robot. The set’s modular design gives easy access to interior features like a Danger Room and Cerebro.
The future of marketing — and, in a way, everything else — is getting a shakeup.
Amongst the throwback consoles and handhelds packed full of retro games available on Atari’s website, you’ll now find a $125 decanter set complete with a glass version of the CX-10 joystick that shipped with the original Atari 2600.
The decanter holds 750ml of your favorite libation, and the set includes a pair of 300ml glasses, plus a matching display tray.
Cory Doctorow makes a strong case for replacing pretty much your entire internet feeds experience with an RSS reader, and spoiler alert he’s right and you should:
Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.
[Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow]
It was announced in May but the deal to sell the website maker to private equity firm Permira is now closed, following some haggling which raised the final price from $6.9B to $7.2B. CEO Anthony Casalena is staying on board and keeping his ownership stake — he told me on Decoder in 2023 that it wasn’t “the most fun time to be a public tech company,” so we’ll see if he likes being a PE CEO any better.
