Author: Zach_Wilson
Blizzard says designing a StarCraft open-world shooter presents specific challenges in scale and perspective — ‘If you’re 10 feet tall and you’re wearing something that weighs 1,000 pounds, doors are a challenge’
StarCraft general manager says that approaching the concept of scale was one of the biggest challenges in switching to the shooter genre The shift from real-time strategy to an open world also introduced a huge change in perspective But one of the biggest individual challenges was simple The next StarCraft…
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Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta’s launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators,…
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Now Light’s minimalist phone can easily call an Uber
More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a “cell phone designed to be used as little as possible,” Light is adding a direct connection to Uber and Lyft with a new Rideshare tool. For owners of either the Light Phone III or the upcoming Light Flip, they can use…
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Meta adds new subscription tiers for businesses, creators and ‘AI power users’
The company's Meta One plans range from $2.99/month to $499/month. Source
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Fujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 is a tiny digital camera that may not disappoint
The Instax Pal 2 will launch in the US later this month for $169.95, according to PetaPixel, and uses a ⅓.06-inch sensor paired with an f/2.2 28mm lens to capture images up to 10-megapixels in size. That’s a big step up over the Kodak Charmera’s 1.6-megapixel sensor. The Pal 2…
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Aemagic’s retro Nintendo-style mini PC with powerful Ryzen 7 performance drops $100 as Amazon launches its Early Prime Day sale
This mini PC is one for Nintendo fans and gamers. The Acemagic X3 mini gaming PC is specifically designed to look like a certain 1980s games console, and inside you get an AMD Ryzen 7 H 255 processor, Radeon 780M graphics, 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and a 1TB PCIe 4.0…
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