I’ve been dreaming of something like this since my own first gaming laptop — which was old enough to largely predate “gaming laptops” and old enough to have twin removable batteries. This one starts at $1399 DIY or $1699 prebuilt — plus $400 extra for a discrete modular AMD GPU — and ships Q4.
More in our exclusive hands-on:
We upgraded a laptop GPU with a snap — and six screws.
1) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s fans can blow things way faster than they push them. 2) You can harvest an unusually lightweight rail segment from mineshaft elevators in the Depths.
So: Trap a fan between those rails and you get a RAILJET. r/BilboniusBagginius’s TIE Advanced, below, is the most awesome I’ve seen yet.
No doubt inspired by Nerf community mods, the Motoblitz is the first official Nerf rifle with a built-in underbarrel shotgun. Everything you need for indoor foam warfare in a single package, for an unheard-of $15 clearance price from Amazon and Walmart.
For longer-range play, Out of Darts sells a full modkit.
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The other day, Vjeran discovered we still have the original Oculus Rift dev kit I brought back from Oculus HQ ten years ago. It made me nostalgic, so I decided to spruce up my story about touring their early offices to fix a little linkrot.
Then, an old photo suddenly caught my eye.
No idea how long this was on display, but it had a seat of honor at the front desk. Oculus sold to Facebook one year later.
Bloomberg says Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are only “considering giving up” those UK rights, but I suspect it might genuinely work if they do.
The CMA’s primary remaining objection to the $68.7 billion deal was a fear that Microsoft would make Activision games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service. (There’s a bit more to it, but still.) If Microsoft permanently removed its own ability to do so...
Our very own Owen Grove briefly teleports you into a three-dimensional world of ASMR gadget sounds (assuming you wear headphones). More binaural audio, please! It’s awesome stuff.
