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Depending on how you measure, you could argue that Apple’s iPhones are the world’s most popular gaming devices, what with well over two billion of the things sold and an ongoing installed userbase of nearly a billion. But conspicuously absent from the iPhone’s App Store has been game streaming services. Until now.

You’d think allowing game streaming on iPhones would be a bit of a no brainer. But in its wisdom, Apple has effectively been restricting it to web browsers on iOS devices. That changes today. The news also gives Nvidia a way back into Apple devices after a near decade-long absence.

“Developers can now submit a single app with the capability to stream all of the games offered in their catalog,” Apple says (via The Verge), adding that the new policy applies worldwide.

Previously, Apple has allowed game streaming apps, but only on a per-title basis. The big change here is allowance for a single app offering a library of games to stream.

Curation will be tricky given Apple’s broader App Store policy. “Each experience made available in an app on the App Store will be required to adhere to all App Store Review Guidelines and its host app w…

Ducky makes some beautiful keyboards but this one might take the top spot for me. It’s a limited edition in celebration of the year of the dragon, and only 999 will be sold. One may be stolen at Computex 2024, however.

The most immediately noticeable feature of this keyboard has to be the keycaps. These are a composite design—the PBT legends in the middle are surrounded by a clear polycarbonate around the sides. The result is a floating keycap that shouldn’t wear down too much on the tops but looks absolutely gorgeous.

Also provided in the box are two extra keycaps, and I mean extra in the sense that they’re 3D effect keycaps.

Beneath each key is a tactile-feel Cherry Purple key switch. If you’re not familiar, that’s one of Cherry’s new MX2A switches. The board is hot-swappable as well.

The underside of this keyboard is where things get really interesting, however. The shell of this keyboard is one and the same with the Ducky Outlaw65, the do-it-yourself keyboard kit that I have tinkered with previously. Unlike the Outlaw, the year of the dragon keyboard will come preassembled. 

The shell is a weighty block of anodised aluminium,…

So far, my day has consisted of scrolling through Twitter and examining all the horrifying designs that Dragon’s Dogma 2 players have managed to make now that the pre-release character creator is available. 

Even if you’re not planning to play Dragon’s Dogma 2, the character creator is currently free to try out on Steam and provides the perfect way to make the persona of your dreams or, more likely, nightmares. You can customise your Arisen, the playable character, as well as the Main Pawn, someone who will follow you through your journey. And if all the horrifyingly detailed amalgamations I’ve seen floating around are anything to go by, it’s also an incredibly creative and detailed tool. 

I’ve seen creatures that seem closer to a sleep paralysis demon than anything considered normal—even by fantasy RPG standards. Some of these designs would give me a heart attack if I stumbled across them in a game. So, instead of staring at all these ungodly creatures, I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands and begin to design characters—I just hope I don’t make more accidentally hideous creations. 

Apart from genuinely making me feel quite …

Intel fired a pretty hefty 5% of its workforce in 2023. Now reports are coming in that the company is planning yet more layoffs this year.

Bloomberg reports these new cuts could be announced next week. Currently, Intel has around 110,000 employees. The report doesn’t quote a specific figure, only saying that Intel plans to “eliminate thousands of jobs”.

Still, anything measured in thousands will represent multiple percentage points of the existing workforce. Moreover, this news adds to the broader negative vibe at Intel of late, what with those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, not to mention Intel’s woefully inadequate response to the debacle.

As things stand, Intel still doesn’t have a clear idea of all the reasons why those chips are crashing, it isn’t recalling them, it hasn’t stopped selling them, it won’t say if warranties will be extended or how many chips it thinks has been damaged. Nice.

Bloomberg also reports that it expects Intel’s revenues for the second quarter of this year to be flat compared with the same period in 2023, with the possibility that the company will begin show some signs of growth in the second half of the year.

Despite a…

Meta, the social network formerly known as Facebook that is definitely going to rename itself Facebook in a few years, has announced that its metaverse division has made a huge loss, again, despite last year’s stunning addition of legs to avatars. The VR and metaverse division, Meta Reality Labs, lost $4.279 billion in the fourth quarter (compared to a mere $3.304 billion in the same quarter last year), with revenue of $727 million ($877 million a year ago).

The Reality Labs division used to be known as the Oculus division, before Meta decided it didn’t like that name, and is now the umbrella under which both VR and the wider metaverse project is accounted for. This was the quarter that saw Meta increase the price of the Quest 2 headsets by $100, and launched the ludicrously priced Meta Quest Pro headset ($1500), which explains some of the revenue dip. But the real headline is that Meta doesn’t care about these losses, seeing the metaverse project as its long-term future rather than the current money pit it is.

Meta says it’s continuing to invest in the upcoming Meta Quest 3 headset, which is aimed at the broader market, the Meta Quest Pro which is intended as…

One reason people play life sims, says former Sims studio head Rod Humble, is that they offer a noncommittal way to explore self-identity. Players can try on lifestyles and experiences they’re curious about, but if they feel uncomfortable, they can always hit the eject button by deciding that they’re playing a game about their sims rather than as them. That tendency to experiment and then retreat was completely apparent during focus groups, according to Humble, because players would deny doing things he watched them do.

“Remember, we’ve just watched these people play the game,” Humble told me, “and I had people come out and lie to us, to the whole group, about what they just did.”

Humble hasn’t worked on The Sims for a while now—he’s currently making a new life sim called Life By You—and he mostly avoided direct references to the EA series when I spoke to him at GDC last week, but it’s obvious that he was referring to The Sims when describing these focus group fabrications.

“I remember a bunch of young guys,” said Humble, “and they get into the room, it’s a mixed room, and we’re like, ‘Hey, what did you do?’ and they’re like, ‘Murd…

Two months after saying that Cyberpunk 2077’s massive 2.0 patch and Phantom Liberty expansion would be the last of the “big updates” to the game, CD Projekt has surprised everyone with an announcement that update 2.1 is coming in December with “new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements.”

It’s not overstating the matter to say that Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc is one of the most impressive videogame turnarounds I’ve ever seen. From an infamously catastrophic launch in 2020 to a highly-regarded RPG today, the whole thing has been positively breathtaking. And now, with the game finally in proper shape, CD Projekt said in September that it was finally turning its attention to the sequel.

“2.0 and Phantom Liberty are the last big updates,” game director Gabe Amatangelo told us at the time. “We’ll do a little something more, but those are the last big ones.”

But that “little something more” sounds like it might be pretty big: “On December 5th, the same day Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition hits the shelves, we’ll release a free Update 2.1 introducing new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements,” CD Projekt tweeted today. 

To ensure everyone knows…