Sean Hollister
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Xbox throws (useful) shade.
The subtext: twelve of those games you just saw announced at Sony’s PlayStation Showcase are also coming to Xbox.
Which is helpful, considering at least one of Sony’s reveal trailers was crafted to exclude competitors.
Jay Peters and Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Did you spot Max Payne in Alan Wake 2?
OK not really, but Remedy creative director Sam Lake lent his face to Max Payne in the first two games before going on to create Alan Wake, and it looks like his mug is getting another outing with a slightly less goofy grin. I will never get tired of this.
Sean Hollister
Big money for Nvidia.
It’s not the pandemic highs — but with $2 billion in profit this quarter, record data center revenue and small bumps in almost every other category, it’s looking pretty rosy for the green GPU giant despite the recent slump in demand for PCs. Just a continuation of the story from last quarter, really.
Sean Hollister
Helldivers 2 is coming.
I wouldn’t call the OG a great game, but I thought Polygon’s 2015 take was spot-on: it’s a game about making dumb, dumb mistakes while blasting aliens and laughing at your friends. Nothing like squishing allies with an ill-timed drop pod! Originally isometric, the just-announced sequel is full 3D like Earth Defense Force, another guilty pleasure of mine.
Sean Hollister
Find my mug.
Apple is now selling an Ember Travel Mug 2+ that works with its Find My network — letting you find a lost mug, and/or remind you that you’ve left it behind, when you aren’t keeping the $200 auto-heating mug on its charging coaster.
Yes, it’s pricey — but these mugs are a frequent Verge favorite!
Sean Hollister
PlayStation confirms... something something cloud... is coming in a matter of months.
Here’s the full quote from PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, which could really mean anything:
We do have some fairly interesting and quite aggressive plans to accelerate our initiatives in the space of the cloud that will unfold over the course of the coming months.
My mind immediately goes to my scoop from last month about Sony’s new cloud gaming push.
Sean Hollister
The Last of Us Part I’s troubled PC port sold 368,000 copies.
That’s straight from Sony’s big business strategy presentation today.
The figure is admittedly a month out of date... but between bad word-of-mouth about poor PC performance, the March finale of HBO’s The Last of Us TV show, and the general tendency of big heavily marketed single-player games to burn brightly at first, it’s reasonably likely the game had the lion’s share of sales at launch.
