Author: Jack Slater

  • Next PlayStation Detailed in Wired

    Peter Rubin has the scoop on what might be the PlayStation 5 at Wired with a Mark Cerny interview. It’s mostly about the tech details. The SSD, backwards compatibility, ray tracing, PSVR compatible, not in 2019, not at E3. My fear with anything like this as I sit here in April 2019 is that a…

  • Astroneer Out of Early Access

    Space explor-o-build-emup, Astroneer, exited Steam’s Early Access program and it’s still as cool as ever if you’re interested in mostly calmly exploring unknown worlds, building new things on them, and then occasionally running low on oxygen. Mike Williams enjoyed Astroneer for it’s chill nature: In terms of the survival genre, Astroneer is definitely on the…

  • Operencia: The Stolen Sun

    The people behind the Zen Pinball games, Zen Studios, have put out a first-person, turn-based, dungeon crawling, RPG called Operencia: The Stolen Sun that looks a lot like a modern take on the old Wizardry games. Unfortunately there are very few reviews of the game available, the one I found from IGN Spain is worth…

  • Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

    That’s the headline to Joanna Stern’s latest column about Apple’s keyboard ongoing nightmare. It’s a hilarious column to read, Stern had her colleagues make some custom tech to remove or add letters from the article to match her brand new MacBook Air’s broken keyboard, and the video has a great conclusion. Don’t worry, there are…

  • Apple Services Event March 2019 Notes

    Apple opened yesterday’s event at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino with a 1960’s-style movie credits animation that paid homage to previously successful products their people have created. The iPod, the iPhone, the Mac, all great things but an odd thing to reference for an all-services event. Tim Cook came on stage to introduce the notion…