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Sean Hollister

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    Sean Hollister
    Lenovo is planning a Legion Go 2 — and another Intel Arc handheld is inbound.

    Lenovo’s Clifford Chong says “of course” there’ll be a next generation of the Legion Go handheld, in this roundtable interview recorded by Chris Stead. Here’s hoping it keeps kickstand and joy-cons, but not the ergonomics.

    Separately, Aokzoe will announce a new Intel Core Ultra handheld on April 14th, the third to try Meteor Lake after the MSI Claw and OneXPlayer X1.

    The original Lenovo Legion Go.
    The original Lenovo Legion Go.
    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    The toaster was OP, but I did my best.

    Where can you battle a toaster with a waffle iron? Wield a barcode scanner for fun? Navigate a digital character through a real-life paper pop-up book?

    The Game Developers Conference Alt.Ctrl showcase, that’s where. It’s my happy place at GDC, and this year I wanted to share some of the zany magic with ya’ll.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Go read how this “passive income” ChatGPT scam is stealing people’s faces and voices the old-fashioned way.

    Matt Novak has a banger of a new entry for the Internet of Shit. Over at Gizmodo, he’s discovered a YouTube scam that doesn’t just drain your crypto wallet — it also scams the actors hired to read bullshit testimonials about how they make money while they sleep.

    Who needs AI when you can get a real, live human to legitimize your scheme on camera?

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    One of the Lego designers I interviewed quit to become a YouTuber.

    I’m still pretty proud of my big story on how Lego builds a new Lego set — but why not hear about the Lego Polaroid directly from its Lego designer? James May, who also recently worked on the BTS Dynamite and Hocus Pocus witches’ cottage sets, has now left the company to start a YouTube channel, design toys for UK schools, and also write for Brickset.

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    Sean Hollister
    The case of the missing $400,000 worth of cute hand-cranked game consoles.

    Did they “fall off a truck”? Kinda! Playdate’s Cabel Sasser says the company lost two entire pallets of the tiny yellow Game Boy alternative in Las Vegas, when they were delivered to a nextdoor gas station instead of Playdate’s warehouse.

    It seems whoever signed for the handhelds may have gotten, ahem, creative: “Seven of them have been registered to people who live in north Las Vegas.” More at Game File and Game Developer.

    A photo of the Playdate.
    Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Bambu’s A1 Mini 3D printer gets a $50 price cut.

    I found its bed too small for the stuff I like to print — and I still need to re-test a few issues from my hands-on — but assuming they’re fixed, $400 is a great price for an auto-feeding four-color printer of any size at all.

    Bambu says the Mini can also detect additional kinds of errors now, like when nothing’s coming out of the nozzle or molten plastic is clumping on its end. And no, this wasn’t the printer that got recalled.

    The Bambu A1 Mini with AMS Lite.
    The Bambu A1 Mini with AMS Lite.
    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge