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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Skyrim’s Switch 2 input latency has been “fixed,” Bethesda says.

    That’s according to a support doc, at least. Based on Digital Foundry’s video, the input latency for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, which launched earlier this month, seemed pretty bad.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Neon Genesis Evangelion will celebrate 30 years with a new 13-minute animated short.

    The short will exclusively premiere at an event in Japan, as reported by Gizmodo; it’s unclear if or when the short might be available more widely.

    STAGE AREA

    [EVANGELION:30+;30th ANNIVERSARY OF EVANGELION]

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    Jay Peters
    Mango.

    That’s the code-name of Meta’s new “new image and video-focused AI model,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is also developing an LLM code-named Avocado.

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    Jay Peters
    Intergalactic crunch.

    Naughty Dog asked staffers to work overtime to complete an internal demo of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. The game is scheduled to launch in mid-2027, Schreier reports, though Sony hasn’t publicly announced a release window yet.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    The situation at Arcade1Up is still murky.

    Toy company Basic Fun has acquired “select assets” of arcade cabinet maker Arcade1Up, which was rumored to be closing operations, but Arcade1Up has still not confirmed whether it has laid off staff, stopped sales, or ended production. A spokesperson told me Basic Fun and Arcade1Up had “no further info to share.” Read the full story here.