Nintendo having a character who streams in their game when they themselves have been such pricks about people streaming their games is a bit too on the nose.
砂粒shali
Hard to overstate how crazy Halo on PlayStation is. I remember the days of Killzone constantly being marketed as a "Halo killer". If you told me then that we'd eventually see Halo on other consoles, I'd have never believed you.
Finished reading Rainbows After Storms, Vol. 6, and added My Girlfriend's Not Here Today, Vol. 6 and Someone's Girlfriend, Vol. 5 to the reading list.
Finished reading Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms, Vol. 18, and added Now That We Draw, Vol. 4 and Love Bullet, Vol. 1 to the reading list.
Finished reading Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms, Vol. 18.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is Xbox's first Halo game on PlayStation
Microsoft has announced the first-ever Halo game for PlayStation 5: Halo: Campaign Evolved. It's a notable strategic expansion for what was formerly one of the company's Xbox-exclusive franchises, and another step away for the company from the classic console business model.
Microsoft has announced the first-ever Halo game for PlayStation 5: Halo: Campaign Evolved. It's a notable strategic expansion for what was formerly one of the company's Xbox-exclusive franchises, and another step away for the company from the classic console business model.
Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
AI that’s easier to talk to is an AI you’ll want to talk to more—and potentially pay more to access. If an AI chatbot with a warm, friendly face “earns your trust,” you’re a lot less likely to listen to the AI skeptics that generate what Microsoft calls “a lot of noise around AI.”
AI that’s easier to talk to is an AI you’ll want to talk to more—and potentially pay more to access. If an AI chatbot with a warm, friendly face “earns your trust,” you’re a lot less likely to listen to the AI skeptics that generate what Microsoft calls “a lot of noise around AI.”
Yan Kodiac
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
Here's what's most key for contextualizing the Atlas browser: this is the same company whose chatbot keeps telling vulnerable children to self-harm, and they do, and now a number of them are dead.
Here's what's most key for contextualizing the Atlas browser: this is the same company whose chatbot keeps telling vulnerable children to self-harm, and they do, and now a number of them are dead.
Finished reading Now That We Draw, Vol. 3, My Dress-Up Darling, Vol. 14, and Wash It All Away, Vol. 4.
Finished reading Insomniacs after School, Vol. 11.
AI Browsers, ad nauseam
There’s too little investment in the web as a platform, too much focus on routing as much of the web experience as possible through a specific product or service offering, and it’s increasingly tough to even tell one of these Chromium forks apart from the other.
There’s too little investment in the web as a platform, too much focus on routing as much of the web experience as possible through a specific product or service offering, and it’s increasingly tough to even tell one of these Chromium forks apart from the other.
helloimtea
Crazy to think I owned the only version of the iPhone Air Apple’s ever going to make.
iPhone Air orders slashed to almost ‘end of production’ levels, says Nikkei
There’s been a lot of doubt about the number of iPhone Air orders being placed by customers, given that delivery times have never slipped between launch and today.
There’s been a lot of doubt about the number of iPhone Air orders being placed by customers, given that delivery times have never slipped between launch and today.
I swear I wasn't trying to go for the record of most phones owned in a three-month period, but I think I hit it anyway. I swapped my iPhone 17 Pro for a Pro Max.
MAFIALA
I wish the Pokémon games were smarter. For example, if I have 200+ hours of playtime across other games, maybe I don't need the newest game to explain to me what a Pokémon is or how to catch one?
Yan Kodiac
Finished playing Zenless Zone Zero: Update 2.3 - Memories of Dreams Bygone, and started playing Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
妖怪名取@依賴募集中
I was worried there would be performance issues with ZA like we saw with Scarlet and Violet, but so far, that doesn't seem to be the case. Gameplay is fun, and I really dig the setting. A modern Lumiose City is more my jam than the Hisui region from Arceus.
I Apologize, Absolute Batman. I Wasn’t Familiar With Your Game
Gotham is more messed up than it’s ever been, and it needs a different type of Batman to save the day. A Batman who’s already shot up the leaderboard as one of my favorite iterations on the character.
Gotham is more messed up than it’s ever been, and it needs a different type of Batman to save the day. A Batman who’s already shot up the leaderboard as one of my favorite iterations on the character.
I realized I never looped back around and buttoned up the iPhone Air saga. Apple online support told me there would be no issue going into a store and doing an exchange outside of the 15-day return window, but the in-store support said this wasn't true. In the end, they did end up making an exception and let me swap for a silver 17 Pro.
The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making
Wednesday’s end of free Windows 10 support is an environmental disaster in the making, with as many as 400 million computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 set to be cut off from receiving free security updates.
Wednesday’s end of free Windows 10 support is an environmental disaster in the making, with as many as 400 million computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 set to be cut off from receiving free security updates.
Zeon J.
I’m digging Silent Hill f, but I wish it did a better job with wayfinding so I didn’t have to open my map every three seconds to figure out where I'm going.
HomePod 2 Now 1,000 Days Old
Apple's second-generation HomePod is now 1,000 days old, with no sign of a refresh or third-generation model on the horizon.
Man, there's already so much e-waste. We don't need people running out to get a HomePod 3 just because it's been a while since there was a new one.
Man, there's already so much e-waste. We don't need people running out to get a HomePod 3 just because it's *been a while* since there was a new one.
Apple's second-generation HomePod is now 1,000 days old, with no sign of a refresh or third-generation model on the horizon.
Man, there's already so much e-waste. We don't need people running out to get a HomePod 3 just because it's been a while since there was a new one.
Finished playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, and added Pragmata to the backlog.
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With
“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”
Not sure the idiot responsible for Sora knows much about what "people really need".
Not sure the idiot responsible for Sora knows much about what "people really need".
“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”
Not sure the idiot responsible for Sora knows much about what "people really need".
pixel.lyf
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
Reports on Reddit and from The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more than one Echo Show, suggest that Amazon has increased the amount of ads it shows on its smart displays' home screens. The Echo Show’s apparent increase in ads is pushing people to stop using or even return their Echo Shows.
You don't say.
You don't [say](https://crashthearcade.com/blog/2025-04-29-dont-buy-echo-show).
Reports on Reddit and from The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more than one Echo Show, suggest that Amazon has increased the amount of ads it shows on its smart displays' home screens. The Echo Show’s apparent increase in ads is pushing people to stop using or even return their Echo Shows.
You don't say.
Less than a month into owning the iPhone Air, I'm growing increasingly disappointed with it. It's the epitome of form over function: it's gorgeous but has by far the worst battery life of any iPhone I've ever used.