I had to download patches manually from Lenovo’s website just last week. Looking forward to never doing that again! I’m not sure what else is in Legion Space 1.2.7, as the company hasn’t issued a changelog yet, but previous updates brought joystick deadzone and sensitivity adjustments for example. There was a new graphics driver in December.
Gary Bowser, that is — the man who was caught selling modchips for the Switch among other consoles, spent two years in prison, and will be paying Nintendo back for the rest of his life.
Former Kotaku EIC Patricia Hernandez caught up with him in this story for The Guardian, and it’s a humanizing read. It’s easy to joke about Bowser stealing from Nintendo; it’s harder to hear about his current plight.
Guess I know what my kids and I are playing tonight! Looks just our speed.
(They sure as heck aren’t playing Sony’s stealth-dropped free Silent Hill.)
In case you missed the tease at the end of Sony’s State of Play, Kojima revealed he’s got a “next-generation action espionage” game in development — and then the entire livestream ended by zooming out to show the “PHYSINT” logo you see below. We checked, and it’s not trademarked, despite the TM sign you see. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long to find out what it means.
The tech works on DX11 and DX12 games and adds fake frames. It is not a silver bullet for low-perf handhelds: it can add so much lag AMD only suggests it for games running 60fps or better.
But this Filterless video shows it’s more nuanced than that. In the right games, you could save considerable battery or add noticeable smoothness. The ROG Ally will get it “as soon as possible”; Lenovo is “looking at how to properly implement” it.
No need to crowdfund — you can just up and buy it right here for its Early Bird price. There’s a lot to like about its design. But it’s unlikely its old Ryzen 5 4500U will even approach a $349 Steam Deck LCD in performance. I tested the very first Ayaneo, which came with that chip, and the Deck beat it soundly.
Also, it will no longer come with any flavor of SteamOS. It’s a Windows machine now.
