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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Nintendo Wii and GameCube games get HDR — in the Dolphin Emulator.

    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.

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    Sean Hollister
    Now THIS is how you DMCA takedown a Nintendo emulator, people.

    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!

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    Sean Hollister
    A delightful tiny go kart that also kinda sorta sweeps your floors.

    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.

    (If you’re looking for the product, it’s here: note that if you buy something from that link, Vox Media might get affiliate revenue.)

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Leaked Lego Lunar Rover

    looks like a beaut. JB Spielwaren is listing it at a suggested retail price of €220, and Lego’s likely to charge the same in US dollars. (via Jay’s Brick Blog). There’s also a handful of new Lego Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Marvel sets coming, including a fantastic Milano ship from Guardians of the Galaxy with room for every Guardian in the cockpit.

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    Sean Hollister
    What will AMD do for gamers next?

    Because it sure didn’t paint a rosy picture of gaming in the Q1 2024 earnings call — “The demand has been quite weak,” said AMD CFO Jean Hu. AMD’s gaming biz was down 48 percent year over year on both semiconductor (PS5, Xbox, Steam Deck etc) and GPU sales, and it’s forecasting a “significant double digit percentage” decline for the rest of the year too.

    Gaming is down, will continue to go down.
    Gaming is down, will continue to go down.
    Image: AMD
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    Sean Hollister
    With $1B in sales, AMD’s MI300 AI chip is its fastest selling product ever.

    AMD also says an AI PC refresh cycle will help PCs return to growth in 2024, and that 150 software vendors will be developing for AMD AI PCs by year’s end. The company’s top priority is ramping AI data center GPUs, though, which are “tight on supply.” New AI chips are coming “later this year into 2025,” too.

    AMD’s Q1 2024 earnings summary.
    AMD’s Q1 2024 earnings summary.
    Image: AMD