“Even Palmer would rather release a handheld than a VR HMD, just like Valve,” joked Valve watcher Brad Lynch, after seeing Luckey’s new Game Boy. (Valve context here.)
Luckey replied: “I am going to be announcing the fact that I am working on a new HMD at AWE!”
Augmented World Expo starts June 18th in Long Beach, California.
It lets modders bring modern graphics to old games, including but definitely not limited to ray-traced Half-Life and Half-Life 2. This month, there’ll be an SDK to extend it beyond DX8 and DX9 games, new AI modding tools, and more in open source.
Could it match the Steam Deck OLED?
Like a certain Asus monitor we saw at CES and an LG before that, the new Acer Predator X32 X3 has a dual-mode panel that can do 480Hz at 1080p, or 240Hz at 4K. Typical brightness is just 275 nits, but it can peak at 1,000 — and it offers built-in KVM with 90W of USB-C PD charging, all for $1,200.
How? Where? Did Playdate get all of them back? I just asked the company, and I’ll let you know what we hear.
WoW Dragonflight, WoW Classic and Cataclysm Classic flavors are each represented, and Nvidia says The War Within expansion is on the way. They’re the latest Blizzard Battle.net games to make it to GFN, following StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, and Overwatch 2.
PlayStation’s soon-to-be-co-CEO Hermen Hulst just set the record straight: Sony will indeed publish live service games “simultaneously, so day and date, on PlayStation 5 and PC.”
But not necessarily Sony’s biggest single-player games: he’ll “take a more strategic approach” to those “tentpole” titles. Why?
“We’re finding new audiences that are potentially going to be very interested in playing, for example, sequels on the PlayStation platform.”
