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Time for some Abe’s Oddysee! | Screenshot: Gamma iPhone users without a penchant for jailbreaking can finally enjoy the blocky polygons and shifty textures of the original PlayStation with Gamma , a free PS1 emulator that hit the iOS App Store last night. Gamma comes courtesy of developer ZodTTD, which has been creating emulators for the iPhone since the earliest days of third-party iOS apps. The app has both iPhone and iPad versions with support for Bluetooth controllers and keyboards, as well as customizable on-screen controller skins. It uses Google Drive and Dropbox syncing for backing up your game files and save states (those are the snapshots you can save at any time and reload, a little like pausing your game — great for old-school games that don’t let you save any time you... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/wi2cG4M

Despite its name, the Pocket 3 isn’t exactly comfortable to stuff in tighter pockets. | Photo by Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge I can’t think of anything permeating mainstream camera culture as aggressively as the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. The Fujifilm X100VI has stolen some of its thunder among film simulation enthusiasts, but DJI’s still having somewhat of a cultural moment on YouTube, Instagram, and the troubled TikTok by spurring all sorts of creator glee. Of course, the camera buffs are all over it, but serious and casual creators from other genres have paused their usual programming to rave about how it transcends amateur vlogging pursuits, whether you’re filming a wedding or self-shooting a scene for a Sundance-hopeful short film. Some of us at The Verge are excited, too: Vjeran liked it enough to call it his favorite gadget of 2023 , and Sean just bought one... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/XrtADVk

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Not all video games need video. Over the years, games that exist only in audio have taken players into entirely new worlds in which there’s nothing to see and still everything to do. These games have huge accessibility implications, allowing people who can’t see to play an equally fun, equally immersive game with their other senses. And when all you have is sound, there’s actually even more you can do to make your game great. On this episode of The Vergecast , we explore the history of audio-only games with Paul Bennun , who has been in this space longer than most. Years ago, Bennun and his team at Somethin’ Else made a series of games called Papa Sangre that were among the most innovative and most popular games of their kind. He explains... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FnyINdW

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 37, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, send me links, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been writing about iPads and LinkedIn games , reading about auto shows and typewriters and treasure hunters , watching Everybody’s in LA and Sugar , looking for reasons to buy Yeti’s new French press even though I definitely don’t need more coffee gear, following almost all of Jerry Saltz’s favorite Instagram accounts , testing Capacities and Heptabase for all my note-taking needs and Plinky for all my link-saving, and playing a lot of Blind Drive . I also have for you a thoroughly impressive new iPad, a clever... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/WucHLB1

Image: Google Google is preparing to hold its annual Google I/O developer conference next week, and naturally, it will be all about AI . The company has made no secret of that. Since last year’s I/O, it has debuted Gemini , its new, more powerful model meant to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and has been deep in testing new features for Search, Google Maps, and Android. Expect to hear a lot about that stuff this year. When Google I/O will happen and where you can watch Google I/O kicks off on Tuesday, May 14th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET with a keynote talk. You can catch that on Google’s site or its YouTube channel , via the livestream link that’s also embedded at the top of this page. (There’s also a version with an American Sign Language interpreter .) Set a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GpR6VfF

Image: SFB Games Even as modern horror games become unnervingly immersive , there’s still a place for the particular mood of old-school survival horror. Through a combo of grimy visuals, cryptic puzzles, slow pacing, and clunky controls, PlayStation-era games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill were able to create a distinct kind of tension and terror. Crow Country is what would happen if that kind of game never went out of style. It has the look and feel of the classics but with just the right amount of modern flourish. It’s a perfect bite of classic horror. Crow Country comes from indie studio SFB Games — led by brothers Tom and Adam Vian — which has so far managed to create quite the eclectic library of releases. There was the playful Switch launch... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/X0iNDbj

Google’s annual developer conference kicks off on Tuesday. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The past few months have made one thing crystal clear: phones remain undefeated . The AI gadgets that were supposed to save us from our phones have arrived woefully underbaked — whatever illusions we might have held that the Humane AI pin or the Rabbit R1 were going to offer any kind of salve for the constant rug burn of dealing with our personal tech is gone. Hot Gadget Spring is over and developer season is upon us, starting with Google I/O this coming Tuesday . It also happens to be a pivotal time for Android. I/O comes on the heels of a major re-org that put the Android team together with Google’s hardware team for the first time. The directive is clear: to run full speed ahead and put more AI in more things. Not preferring Google’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/4dRQWab