How much will you pay for the 144Hz 5G UW Android gaming handheld?
Verizon customer? $10/month over 36 months + $10/month for service after three free months = $690 over three years
New customer? $10/month over 36 months + $90/month for service after three free months = $3,330 over three years
Don’t forget $20/month for GeForce Now Ultimate or $15/month for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
PCGamesN has already deleted its story (and tweet) but just to be clear, the GDC survey in question was from an entire year ago, before the Deck even went on sale.
GDC’s new survey just came out last week. While it doesn’t ask about the Deck, a majority of developers say PC is the platform they’re most interested in — just like they did last year.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Cory Doctorow skewers TikTok, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook by comparing their modus operandi to a classic carnival ploy. How do we escape the enshittification cycle?
[Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow]
I’ve been in awe of this nostalgia-filled spinoff of The Karate Kid since I finally discovered it on Netflix — it’s one of the greatest homages I’ve ever seen, with an incredible number of original cast coming along for the ride. It’s also had its highs and lows, though, so I’m glad they’re trying to end it right.
For $20 a month, Nvidia will rent you an RTX 4080 gaming PC in the cloud.
