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Jay Peters

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    Hyper Light Breaker’s early access release has been pushed to next year.

    Early access was supposed to launch this fall, but now it’s happening “early” next year, creative director Alx Preston said in a video. The 3D, co-op, open-world roguelike looks like my absolute jam, so I’m happy to wait a bit longer until it’s ready.

    If you’re interested in learning more about Hyper Light Breaker, check out my interview with two of the game’s composers.

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    Microsoft has pulled more of its poorly-written travel articles.

    Business Insider found that Microsoft removed articles that defined the terms “hamburger” and “seafood” and a photo recommendation article that suggested eating wagyu beef.

    None of those are as egregious as the one suggesting people go to an Ottawa food bank on “an empty stomach,” but they cast further doubts on Microsoft’s processes for making these articles.

    Microsoft said last week that the Ottawa article was due to “human error” and “was not published by an unsupervised AI,” but didn’t comment on the processes for the other stories to Business Insider.

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    A new third-party Reddit app for iOS is now in public beta.

    The developer of Narwhal 2 is now in beta, and you can read more about it on the r/Apple subreddit and sign up for the beta on the app’s website. Like some other third-party apps, Narwhal 2 will have subscription tiers at some point down the line.

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    Bad news for the few Meta Portal fans still out there.

    On August 29th, you apparently won’t be able to share photos or videos directly from the device, according to a screenshot from a Portal user group on Facebook shared by Portal superfan Katie Notopoulos.

    Meta discontinued the product line last year, and this probably won’t be the only feature to go away. From the Portal website:

    While supported features will change over time, we will provide notifications of major changes to the device experiences through the device itself. We also plan to maintain system software with critical bug fixes and security patches.

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    Jay Peters
    Maybe things aren’t as bad as I thought?

    Sean Hollister and I fell down a rabbit hole today trying to figure out why the screenshots from my article about Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck look so rough. We’re still puzzled, but we did find some unexpected differences in default settings that we’ve added to my article; there might be something going on with the game’s implementation of FSR.

    And I want to be clear: the game still totally rules.