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Jay Peters

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    Panic knows you want a Playdate with a backlight.

    As part of a broader conversation about Panic’s gaming business and its next title, co-founder Cabel Sasser acknowledged that adding a backlight is “by far the number one request” people have about its Playdate handheld. Hopefully it becomes a reality!

    Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

    The publisher is set to follow Untitled Goose Game with Big Walk, an offbeat multiplayer game.

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    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    OpenAI is delaying ChatGPT’s “adult mode.”

    The feature was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but an OpenAI spokesperson tells former Verge staffer Alex Heath that “We’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now, including gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive.”

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    Jay Peters
    Overcooked, now with a Demogorgon.

    The stressful-yet-delightful party game is now available as one of Netflix’s streaming TV games that you control with your phone. This version lets you play as 10 “Netflix celebrity chefs,” including the famous Stranger Things monster.

    Netflix is also working on an Overcooked reality show.

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    Epic is discontinuing its browser-based MetaHuman creator tool.

    Epic launched the tool to make hyperrealistic human faces in 2021, but it has now “fully integrated MetaHuman creation into Unreal Engine.” The web app will be retired on November 5th.