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    Dropbox Shop is closing up.

    Dropbox is ending support for Dropbox Shop, a suite of features creators can use sell digital content online, following its open beta launch almost exactly a year ago. Shop will enter read-only mode on May 15th, and storefronts, listings, and purchase links will disappear on July 7th.

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    Jay Peters
    The Last of Us on PC gets another big patch.

    Naughty Dog has just released patch 1.0.2 for The Last of Us Part I on PC, and it looks to address a lot of issues. The game launched in a rough state last week, and the developers have released a few fixes since to try and clean things up.

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    Jay Peters
    More Resident Evil 4.

    Capcom has added the arcade-y Mercenaries mode as free DLC to the excellent Resident Evil 4 remake. I’m excited to play it, though I dread having to face more chainsaw-wielding zombies.

    In the future, Capcom will be releasing a VR mode for the game on PSVR 2. And it seems likely we’ll get a remake of the Ada Wong-led Separate Ways DLC at some point, too.

    Promotional art for the Mercenaries mode.
    Image: Capcom
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    Jay Peters
    Some ad execs aren’t thrilled to hear from Elon Musk.

    The Twitter CEO will be speaking at a big marketing conference next week, but according to an email thread obtained by Semafor, some board members of the group putting on the event aren’t exactly fans of his:

    “For many communities, his willingness to leverage success and personal financial resources to further an agenda under the guise of freedom of speech is perpetuating racism resulting [in] direct threats to their communities and a potential for brand safety compromise we should all be concerned about,” wrote McDonald’s chief marketing and customer experience officer, Tariq Hassan. “Further, all of us who lead our brand’s investments across platforms were required to navigate a situation post-acquisition that objectively can only be characterized as ranging from chaos to moments of irresponsibility.”

    Not a good sign for a company that could really use some advertisers.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    The Doge is gone.

    Twitter had replaced its iconic bird logo with a Doge icon in parts of Twitter earlier this week, but as of a few minutes ago, the cheeky Shiba Inu has finally disappeared for me and a few other Verge staffers. Good riddance, I missed the bird.

    A screenshot of the top-left corner of a Twitter feed.
    I never thought I’d be so happy to see the bird.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge