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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    The tenth TITW gadget giveaway has ten entries so far.

    That’s how many realized they could enter to win before this weekly reminder! See, I give away gadgets every Wednesday, but you’ve got to enter each time. You can use email — see the official rules — as long as the subject line’s right. It’s not “Email Entry,” but rather “Today I’m Toying With Giveaway #10” this time.

    Image: Gleam.io
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Wait, you’re telling me Star Wars: Zero Company could have been a Titanfall game?

    In another timeline, anyhow. In court documents spotted by journalist Stephen Totilo, Bit Reactor co-founder Greg Foertsch claims he originally pitched a game set in the Titanfall universe, but Respawn asked him to make it a Star Wars game instead. Shooting clankers is great and all, but pretty please greenlight the airdropped robots, too!

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    Sean Hollister
    The Steam Frame will get color passthrough after all — with a snap-on aftermarket camera.

    Leaked photos and demo videos claim the Arcturus Vision Camera works out of the box! Plug it into the Frame’s nosebridge port, and get 5K60 10-bit HDR color plus spatial video recording. Valve isn’t offering native color passthrough to keep costs down, but looks like its passthrough partner got the greenlight! No price yet.

    A shiny horizontal camera bar atop the Steam Frame’s curved front lens.
    The Arcturus Vision Camera, as leaked.
    Image: Komodo Station leak
    The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges

    The Epilogue SN and GB Operator are dream gadgets for Nintendo cartridge collectors.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    NBA 2K27 is the first game brave enough to ship with DLSS 5 faces.

    Nvidia originally announced DLSS 5 would come to as many as 16 specific games from a wide variety of studios… but at its September 3rd launch, 2K Games’ NBA 2K27 is going it alone. Probably a smart idea to see how gamers react first? These do look better than before.

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    Image: Nvidia
    Nvidia’s DLSS 5, explained

    A show-and-tell with Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 neural rendering, launching this week.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Hoto’s automatic staple gun counts your nails and tells you when it’s ready to fire.

    You can certainly find other cordless 4-in-1 staple guns for the $80 pricetag, but how many have an integrated digital ammo countdown? Thankfully, it resembles a Star Trek phaser rather than a gun — also see Hoto’s flagship screwdriver and power drill.

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    Sean Hollister
    See SNES carts in an Xbox Ally and Doom on a Canon PowerShot, hear hot handheld news.

    I guest-starred on the Expedition: Handheld podcast this week and brought LOTS of show-and-tell. It’s almost like an extended version of Today I’m Toying With, though it’s on audio podcast platforms as well! Let me know what you think?

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    Sean Hollister
    Xbox CEO says she’s not retreating.

    How can Xbox possibly get to a billion users per day while cutting studios? Oh, just by obtaining three more hits as big as Minecraft, Call of Duty and Candy Crush. “We’ve got three billion-dollar annual franchises every year. I think we should have six to eight in the coming years,” she tells BBC News.

    She says she will invest: “Last year was a record spend on content and services and we’re going to match that.”