First Asus quietly changed the name of its original handheld to “ROG Ally (2023),” then VideoCardz obtained an internal document mentioning an “ROG Ally 2024.” Now, the community has spotted a black ROG Ally in a new post from Asus itself.
This is a company that loves to tease — remember, the first Ally was introduced on April Fools’.
Ever heard of Flick Stick, which rotates your camera a number of degrees when you flick a joystick that way? How about gyro aiming to precisely nudge a crosshair simultaneously? New “Dots per 360” and “Turn Camera 360” features make calibrating them easy. Add the new “Turn to Face Direction” key, and you can instantly face whichever direction you’ve been strafing.
Microsoft’s Surface and AI event is coming May 20th, expected to reveal the consumer Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, featuring Qualcomm chips that could (maybe?) give Apple a run for its money. But Asus will have such a Qualcomm laptop, too. To make sure you’re aware, it’ll do its own virtual launch at 11AM PT that day.
They got the 10,000 votes to join these amazing Lego Ideas candidates. Outer Wilds and Interstellar builds come from fan designers I profiled here!
Many will enter, few will win: on Thursday, Lego greenlit a steamboat and a prize gumball machine but disqualified dozens, including the working mini bicycle I coveted and five Taylor Swift sets.
If you’ve got a good HDR monitor or a recent MacBook Pro, you can even check out some sample images here in Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers. More details in Dolphin’s big progress report.
“Our HDR enhancements are not magic. Expect quirks and problems,” MayImilae and co warn.
You may not like it, but I’m having a hard time finding issue with how Microsoft-owned GitHub wiped 8,535 forks of Switch emulator Yuzu off the web. It says it warned repo owners, let ‘em make changes, let them submit DMCA counternotices, and publicly posted Nintendo’s takedown request.
That’s a lot more than we can say for Discord and GitLab!
I swear, I did not dress my daughter in Mario duds just so she could do real-life Mario Kart! It’s too perfect, I know, but she picked them out herself hours before she ever saw the toy.
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