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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Steam Deck + MagSafe + GoPro fingers = brilliance.

    Deckmate was one of the first mounting systems for the Steam Deck, born from the maker community — its creator still lets you print most files for free.

    But I will gladly pay $25 for its new Phone Mount, because it’s much more than that. It’s a do-anything mount with a magnet so strong, you can play on your fridge. Switch, Ally, and PlayStation Portal mounts available too.

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    Sean Hollister
    California is two steps away from making porn websites verify your age.

    The State Assembly has passed a bipartisan bill with zero votes against it. It has to pass the senate and governor next.

    Louisiana passed its law in January, forcing Pornhub to scan government IDs. Pornhub told Gizmodo that traffic fell 80 percent in the state — claiming that seekers “migrated to darker corners of the internet that don’t ask users to verify age.”

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Hellblade II is the first Microsoft Xbox game to hit Nvidia’s cloud on launch day.

    Senua’s Saga arrived on Xbox and Windows on Tuesday the 21st — and also GeForce Now. It’ll even accept a PC Game Pass subscription as proof of ownership.

    In 2023, Nvidia promised it’d release new Microsoft titles “day-and-date or as close to day-and-date as we can with the PC release of the games.” It’s happening?!

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    Sean Hollister
    Nvidia just made $14 billion of profit in a single quarter thanks to AI chips.

    Sales jumped 262 percent in Q1 2025 to hit a record $26B in revenue, of which nearly three-quarters ($19.4B) was data center compute — especially its Hopper GPUs for training LLMs and generative AI apps, says Nvidia. Gaming only accounted for $2.6 billion revenue this quarter.

    Nvidia’s expecting record revenue again next quarter — $28B. Shovels in a gold rush, people.

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    Sean Hollister
    MSI claims the Claw has up to 30 percent better performance now.

    I called the Claw an embarrassment, but there are now two sets of performance-enhancing updates since my tests — MSI now claims “average 26% better performance than competitors in the top 100 most popular Steam games” (albeit with upscaling on).

    I gave the Steam Deck and ROG Ally a second chance, so I’ll do the same for the Claw.

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    Sean Hollister
    There’s a new 3DMark sheriff in town.

    3DMark Steel Nomad is a rasterized bench designed to replace Time Spy. It works on Windows on Arm, Android and iOS, with Linux on the way. It sounds potent: Guru3D benched 25 GPUs against it and only four broke 60fps!

    It has “Easter eggs referencing the last 25 years of 3DMark Benchmarks” in its Explorer Mode, too. It’s a free update to 3DMark, which costs $35.

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