The Steam Deck Dock is getting HDMI-CEC to wake your TV from sleep and switch its inputs, and and the Deck OLED will soon be able to decide which Bluetooth devices can wake it from sleep... plus Bluetooth A2DP and BAP audio support, microSD fixes, a new graphics driver, overclocking controls in the Deck LCD’s BIOS, and more in preview!
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“duck game is safe!!” writes Landon Podbielski, developer of one of the best indie couch co-op games ever made and the Steam top seller in Adult Swim’s portfolio. Phew, that was close! Are you a former Adult Swim developer who got the same good news? Hit us up at tips@theverge.com.
We knew one was coming, but apparently it’s coming soon. Tomorrow at 3PM ET, the company will “get hyped about new impending ROG Ally hardware” on this live YouTube stream. Here are the other teases we’ve recently seen.
Anbernic is the biggest name in affordable emu-portables. Many mimic a Game Boy — but the RG35XXSP is first to tackle the beloved folding Game Boy Advance SP.
It’s got dual microSD slots, a headphone jack, Bluetooth 4.2 and “5G WIFI,” plus HDMI output to your TV. Transparent shells, too! No price yet, but Retro Dodo says it’s imminent.
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.
