After 7 years, the Nintendo Switch finally has an official Joy-Con charging stand
You’d think Nintendo would have released a Joy-Con controller charging stand by now, but you’d be wrong. Nintendo is finally releasing one on October 17.
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China is dispatching crack teams of AI interrogators to make sure its corporations' chatbots are upholding 'core socialist values'
If I were to ask you what core values were embodied in western AI, what would you tell me? Unorthodox pizza technique? Annihilating the actually good parts of copyright law? The resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come?
NYT Connections: hints and answers for Wednesday, July 17
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.
Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 17, 2024 (Puzzle #401)
Sometimes you might feel inhibited and like all your skills have been inhibited, but there are lots of ways to recover and get back in the game. There are tougher puzzles than others on certain days, and today there are some interesting red herrings that might lead to a few false guesses. However, if you look closely, you can see past the creator's tricks.
Hidetaka Miyazaki's reputation grows as an Elden Ring poster signed by the director himself goes for $12,600 and counting
A charity auction supporting the Immune Deficiency Foundation has turned up a rare bit of FromSoftware swag: an Elden Ring poster signed by director and studio president Hidetaka Miyazaki himself. And you can get it yourself if you can beat the current top bid of a mere $12,600.
Trails developer working on new IPs because making the same JRPG giant for 20 years is "like developing an online game" and "stagnates" the team
Developer Nihon Falcom has been pumping out JRPG hits in the Trails series for two whole decades, but the studio is now working on new ideas "in the background" to avoid stagnation.
IOC Announces Olympic Esports Games To Be Hosted in Saudi Arabia in 2025
The International Olympics Committee only recently established the Olympic Esports Games, and it will vote on its establishment on the eve of the Paris Olympics 2024. Additionally, it has proposed that the Olympic Esports Games be held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Metaphor: Refantazio and Persona studio isn't a "rival" to other JRPG devs trying to break through: "It's more a feeling of cooperation"
A developer behind some of the longest-running JRPG series out there says big hitters like Megami Tensei and Persona studio Atlus don't provide competition regarding breaking out beyond Japan but contribute to a "feeling of cooperation."