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    There and back again.

    There’s a new cozy game in the works based on life in the Shire from The Lord of the Rings. Wētā Workshop and Private Division are working on the game, titled Tales of the Shire, which will be available in 2024.

    I’m imagining a game that’s Hobbit life mixed with Stardew Valley, and I can’t wait to learn more.

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    Jay Peters
    The Steam Deck as a DVD player?

    It’s possible, as Verge alum Cameron Faulkner recently found out for Polygon. It’s also apparently his only DVD player?

    Just read his post, it’s so good.

    A photo of a Steam Deck with a DVD player attached.
    Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.
    Photo by Cameron Faulkner / Polygon
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    Jay Peters
    The titanium edges of the iPhone 15 Pro can get discolored by your hands, but Apple says not to worry.

    According to an Apple support document, you just need to wipe the edges with a lint-free cloth to get things looking good again (via MacRumors):

    For iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, the oil from your skin might temporarily alter the color of the outside band. Wiping your iPhone with a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth will restore the original look.

    The side of an iPhone 15 Pro showing smudges from fingerprints.
    You should be able to just wipe off the fingerprints, Apple says.
    Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge
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    Jay Peters
    “I can’t say I was a rabid MLS fan.”

    That’s a quote from Apple’s Eddy Cue in a new interview with GQ about the company’s ventures into sports streaming. Given the recent uptick in interest in the league thanks to Lionel Messi, I think he’s a bigger fan now.

    The interview has a lot of interesting tidbits, and I suggest reading it in full. I just wish Cue had given GQ pictures of this:

    At home, [Cue has] nine televisions arrayed in a grid, plus a digital ticker relaying scores—the sort of sports-viewing system you’d dream up if you were a wildly successful, sports-mad tech executive.

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    Jay Peters
    GTA Plus subscribers can now try out a rotating selection of Rockstar games.

    The first games on offer are the three classic GTA games included with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. You can read more about it on Rockstar’s website.

    The subscription, launched last year, costs $5.99 per month.

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    Jay Peters
    Some layoffs at Roblox.

    The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it laid off about 30 people in its talent acquisition organization.

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    Jay Peters
    Apple updated Pages, Keynote, and Numbers.

    The biggest feature might be the ability to work on a document together with somebody over FaceTime — but that’s probably not enough to get more people to use these apps. MacRumors has more details about the updates.

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    iOS 17.0.1 is out now.

    I’ve got the update on my iPhone 12 Mini. Here’s the full patch notes; they’re short.

    This update provides bug fixes and important security updates for iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models.

    For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

    We’re not seeing the update on our iPhone 15 review devices just yet, but we’re planning to install it on those as soon as we can. Hopefully the patch fixes the seemingly-broken battery charging setting that’s supposed to halt charging past 80 percent.