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Sean Hollister

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    Jabba the Hutt has his own $500 Lego set.

    The Star Wars slimelord’s Sail Barge is 3,942 pieces and comes with 11 figs, including R2-D2 with drink tray, Leia in her infamous bikini, and a gigantic (by minifig scale) Jabba himself. It takes artistic liberties inside the ship, including a food-filled galley.

    No Sarlacc pit or skiff to renact the Boba Fett / Han Solo / Luke battle, I’m afraid — that’s sold separately.

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    Sean Hollister
    TP-Link has a new Bluetooth driver that maybe fixes PSVR2 PC tracking performance.

    My biggest problem with Sony’s PSVR2 PC adapter was controllers that kept misbehaving — even though I was using Sony’s first-recommended TP-Link UB500 Bluetooth adapter to pair them.

    But TP-Link has now shipped a driver for you to experimentally test — and Sony says it’s fixed some distortion and AMD refresh rate options in the app, too.

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    Sean Hollister
    Mechanism just keeps surprising me with its thoughtful modular accessory ecosystem.

    I know, this looks ridiculous — but the last time I was sick, and that time I was injured, I’d have given good money for it! It’s a $9 ball joint adapter that connects Mechanism’s increasingly large array of gaming mounts to popular flexible arms you can buy.

    Also see: Mechanism’s gaming pillow and its delightfully strong MagSafe + twin-finger adapter.

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    Sean Hollister
    iFixit’s USB-C soldering iron will also offer adjustment-by-phone someday.

    You can already adjust temps by dial with the $250 kit, or plug the $80 iron into a PC, but iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens agrees it should work with phones too — and will, eventually.

    The stumbling block: mobile browsers don’t yet support web-serial, which he’d prefer to a dedicated phone app. “There won’t be any changes or additional firmware required for the device once we’ve got something,” he promises.

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    Sean Hollister
    Razer’s hot-swappable keyboard wasn’t a one-off — and this one’s got an OLED screen.

    I believe the Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% is only the company’s second-ever to let you swap out switches, after last year’s non-Pro version. It’s also got a cool screen, dial, and connects wirelessly. But at $300, I’d wait until the mech keyboard community weighs in!

    Wonder if Razer has considered selling BYO-switch keyboard kits?

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    Sean Hollister
    “Annapurna Interactive had become a stamp of quality that I trusted implicitly, like movies directed by Spielberg.

    If I saw their splash screen, I knew I was in for a unique gaming experience.”

    That’s Verge commenter Shabanga, perfectly encapsulating why we care that this publisher is imploding. Annapurna barely makes its own games, but its label stands (or stood) for quality in a way we rarely see — the closest comparison might be Criterion Collection movies.

    Come pixel-peep what the PS5 Pro can maybe actually do

    Will a 10MB screenshot help you justify a $700 purchase?

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