Payday has come to Fortnite, because today’s cool gamers are ‘discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways’

The ongoing effort to come up with a new Payday game that people actually want to play continued today with the announcement of Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience, a UEFN game that’s available exclusively in (you guessed it) Fortnite. Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience “reimagines elements of Payday as a progressive roguelike shooter,” with three…

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1666: Amsterdam has the makings of something brilliant but I came away from its preview with a bad feeling as it’s early access release creeps too close for comfort

I can think of little else cooler than flying above the streets of 17th Century Amsterdam, in the dead of night, on a broom stick, with a black cat. Looking down on the amber glow of the oil-lit streetlamps is my lasting positive memory of 1666: Amsterdam’s preview, but I can’t say I had the…

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Keychron is experimenting with a mic-equipped mini keeb that lets you chat to your AI agent while it vibe codes, and I have my head in my hands

Hot on the heels of this Codex Micro/OpenAI mini keeb for AI agent monitoring is this… thing that Keychron seems to be experimenting with. Apparently it’s a tiny, three-button, wireless mini keeb with a scroll wheel, but hidden inside is a microphone that lets you talk to your AI agent as it vibe codes. Yes,…

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