Obsbot Tiny 3 review

I’ve had quite the journey with the Obsbot Tiny 3, a real emotional rollercoaster. First was the elation I felt unboxing it (how did they manage to make a webcam so cute?). Then, came the unease after learning the wild price difference between the Obsbot Tiny 3 ($349) and its more budget-friendly sibling, the Tiny…

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Obsbot Tiny 3 Lite review

The Tiny 3 straddles the boundary between the worlds of corporate video conferencing and streaming/content creation. Yet I’m not convinced it fully serves either.How useful are swish AI webcam tricks beyond just distracting your manager at your next meeting? Meanwhile, if you’re dropping $300+ for a webcam with the intent of using it for content…

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After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as ‘We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up’

According to our Harvey’s Crimson Desert preview, Pearl Abyss’ upcoming action-sorta-RPG is quite good indeed. It’s also late. It should have been here, let me check, five years ago? Yep. Crimson Desert was first revealed at 2020’s Game Awards with a proposed release year of 2021. After, ah, whiffing that slightly, it’s now due out…

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‘The reason why we’re so beloved in the videogame industry and we’re so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry’ says Nvidia CEO Huang

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at the Morgan Stanley Media and Telecom Conference yesterday, and, yes, AI and a celebration of Nvidia’s recent successes were very much on the table. After a somewhat subdued opening (“Wow, no music, no walk on music, no roaring applause?” said Huang, jokingly), the Nvidia head honcho got down to…

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‘Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened’ says Microsoft CEO

Long-time Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been surprisingly candid in a recent chat with Morgan Stanley, highlighting, in as many words, how much the company has to thank both Intel and Apple for. This came in response to a question—well, more of a statement than a question—commenting on Nadella “embracing openness”. For instance, regarding Microsoft’s…

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You can blame some of Deus Ex: Invisible War’s console limitations on the publisher’s ‘weird theories that FPS games don’t sell or RPGs don’t sell’

As someone who rarely gets to enter the rarefied airs of the C-suite, my conception of what corporate executives do is roughly this: they issue forth critical misunderstandings of basic things that the people in the trenches then have to operate around and overcome in order to keep their jobs. See further—that time retail honchos…

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