[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ef464iOqee4 The Wavelengths YouTube channel hit five thousand subscribers today, which is outpacing my most aggressive early goals for the first few months of doing this in earnest....
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/v8f4O-Hx0hU There’s a new episode of NPC out today, and in it I talked about three of my dream gaming devices — mainly because Federico spends a good...
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQ1FbkIw1oI Video essayist Sarah Z is kicking off a 12 hour fundraising livestream to raise money for the Transgender Law Center, which started mere minutes ago at the time...
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vx8VQRIxFNM?si=gheeYGlXAEnD049_ I know that title sounds sarcastic, but I mean it: Tyrant’s Realm is the closest we have to a true “what if Dark Souls was a roguelike”...
I always sketch out posts like these and then either never follow through on them, or get so in the weeds on one specific entry that it becomes its own blog post and the rest falls to the wayside. This time I’m giving myself until I get out of bed for my commute to write the post. Sometimes a time crunch is the reason a thing exists. Here’s what...
The above video review is a very loose adaptation of the below written version. I’ve never done a hardware review on my channel like this, but knowing that there’s an entire world of incredible and detail-oriented people like Russ from RetroGameCorps out there digging into specs, and thermals, and exact meausurements, I wanted to take a different...
Chris Grant with a great price breakdown of Nintendo’s hardware over time for Polygon: “So, where does the Nintendo Switch 2 land? At $399, just under the price of the current...
I didn’t want to do one of those videos where you take a thirty second teaser and turn it into a thirty minute YouTube video so here’s a bunch of Switch 2 thoughts in two minutes and twenty-one seconds — exactly as long as Nintendo’s official announcement1. ⏆
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/mOu2ai5fYU8?si=cY89rJGfXZzLzh4a It finally happened. The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced this morning (at least it was morning in my time zone), so Federico, John, and I jumped on...
My lock screen has looked something like this since the very first iOS beta allowing widgets launched in 2022. I love widgets as glanceable information objects — Carrot Weather’s hourly...
While I posted a bunch about CES while I was there with John Voorhees, eventually the pace of the show floor and Las Vegas itself caught up with me. I...
I’ve been writing about this thing for just under a year at this point, so I felt obligated to mention: Yes, I have a Miyoo Flip! It’s exciting! I received...
I’ve been spending most of the day at the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2025 and I’ve seen a ton of wild looking stuff — including the first Switch 2 accessories I’ve held in my own two human hands. John and I went over to GameSir’s booth for a hot second to check out some upcoming controllers they have in the works and one unnamed...
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/q-WOSGi2je8 Shoutout to YouTube’s recommended page for introducing me to Paper Apps GOLF, a pen and paper version of golf that uses a pencil, one d6, and a special...
Hello from CES 2025! I got in yesterday and pretty immediately hit the ground running by going to a “technology trends” talk that basically involved two people getting on stage and having a scripted conversation about Gen Z (which we hit the eject button on) and a second event where I saw a lamp that can walk around and a spoon that always tastes...
I just walked out of a Samsung keynote that I could mostly sum up as a waste of time. The long and short of it is that they’re very excited that AI is in all of their products, but the only real announcement was that their SmartThings technology will be in some Hyundai electric cars sometime in the future — everything else was just gassing...
It’s the final OTY! At least my final OTY for 2024.
OTY season continues, folks! Today we’re thrilled to share our seventh Game of the Year Spectacular for Into the Aether, which in true ITA fashion is once again our longest...
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/1I0zmdZqTN0 OTY season is upon us, friends. I have — as per usual — inundated myself with little projects and big projects here and there instead of really...
YouTuber MegaLag posted a video a few days ago outlining the main avenues through which Honey — a browser extension that “finds the best coupon codes available during checkout so you don’t have to” — scammed basically every possible segment of customer. The whole video is worth a watch but it basically boils down to three things:
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ZWQ39Gch6M We have a new episode of NPC out today which covers a whole bunch of things, but I’ll highlight three of them with some expanded thoughts: •...
Dbrand — a company best known for making skins for your phone and a “what if Wendy’s, but cantankerous” marketing strategy on social media — posted a tweet with the...
Sean Hollister at The Verge: “If there’s fire where we currently see smoke, Valve is currently preparing a wireless VR headset codename Deckard, a pair of trackable wands codename Roy,...
Update: This is out now! There’s a new hour-long video with a list of changes so huge that I won’t try to list them out here, but having watched through a chunk of it I’m pretty stoked to get home and boot it up. I just published another Pokémon newsbeat mere minutes ago, and a Pokémon Emerald ROMhack story earlier this week, but here’s another:...
Screenshot via Retro Gaming Consoles YouTubers Retro Gaming Consoles and BrumagixGamer posted their reviews of the Miyoo Flip today, which is exciting as someone who has been looking forward to it for a while, but it’s also worth acknowledging that the model both creators received is a developer unit — the same ones the OnionOS developers...
[Youtube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KVIZjoZ8WWQ Panic Inc. — creators of the PlayDate console and publishers of games like Thank Goodness You’re Here — announced some kind of FMV… thing… at Day of...
From the Aardman Animation press blog: “The Pokémon Company International and Aardman have announced a special project coming to audiences in 2027. The collaboration will see Aardman bringing its unique...
The more emulation handhelds the more I come to a conclusion that’s obvious to pretty much every other industry except this one: A device is only as good as its operating system. This is why the Miyoo A30 was a flop at launch but has become more desirable in a world where you can replace the terrible out-of-the-box experience with Spruce. It’s...
Chris Plante on Polygon: Even if I didn’t have this job, I’d still have this gaming diet. Because I find the greatest pleasure in the possibilities. How fortunate we are to experience video games at this moment when there’s something for everyone. Whether that’s enjoying one game all year or a hundred. Read the whole piece as it’s a great...