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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Welcome to the Mothership.

    Former Polygon staffers Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah are launching a new publication called Mothership, “which aims to analyze games specifically through the lens of gender and identity.”

    It launches on January 26th, but they published a YouTube Short and a blog post explaining what the site’s all about.

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    Jay Peters
    Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is now available to play on Switch 2.

    If you have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription, you can now play the 2005 GameCube release as part of the Switch 2’s collection of GameCube classics, according to a press release. Here’s Nintendo’s Japanese trailer for the launch. (I haven’t seen an English one yet.)

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    Jay Peters
    Parts of the World Cup will stream on TikTok.

    As part of a partnership between TikTok and FIFA, select media partners can livestream “parts of” World Cup matches as well as “post more curated clips and access special content produced by FIFA for TikTok.”

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    Jay Peters
    Look at those RGB stripes.

    RGB stripe subpixel arrangements are the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors, and my colleague Antonio took some great photos of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor at CES so you can see the arrangement on a real monitor. Sean snapped a few photos of RBG stripe screens, too.

    A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout.
    A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout.
    A photo of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor.
    A photo of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor.
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    The monitor up close...
    Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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    Jay Peters
    Who will be Apple’s next CEO?

    Apple is stepping up succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, and hardware chief John Ternus could be the lead pick, according to a New York Times profile. However, the publication says Cook is “also preparing several other internal candidates.”

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    Jay Peters
    The Switch’s Hulu app is being discontinued.

    “The Hulu app is no longer available in the Nintendo Switch eShop with support for the application ending on February 5, 2026,” Nintendo says in a support document. It originally launched way back in 2017.