After quickly selling out of the Steam Controller on May 4th, Valve has launched a reservation system to ensure that you can get one without too much hassle. You may not get one as quickly as you’d like to, but at least you can now easily reserve the $99 controller.

If your Steam account is in good standing, and you’ve purchased something on the account before April 27th of this year, you’ll be able to reserve one. Essentially, this will hold your place in line for future restocks. Once a controller is available for you, you’ll get an email prompting you to purchase. You’ll have 72 hours to purchase your Steam Controller before it gets offe …

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Tezuka helped create the very first Mario and Zelda games.

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As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it’s thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it’s evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games – though many indie developers still reject it – and while Sony calls AI a “powerful tool,” it says that the “vision, the design, and the emotional impact of our games will always come from the talent of our studios and performers.” and that “AI is meant to augment their capabilities, not to replace them.”

At its own studios, Sony says that developers are “automating repetitive workflows, improv …

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The EP-136 KO Sidekick is Teenage Engineering’s stylish new two-channel mixer, clearly designed to connect two of its KO-II samplers for live performances and DJ sets. Though, it can connect any two audio sources, not just TE gear. The mixer leaked a couple of times, but what those leaks didn’t show was that it’s also a robust effects processor that brings some of TE’s beloved punch-in effects to any instrument in your arsenal.

The EP-136 by default supports two stereo ins, but can also be switched to four mono inputs using split audio adapters. In addition, it supports two stereo channels over USB-C, so you can actually use it to control …

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Zero Parades: For Dead Spies comes out on May 21.

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Watch the entire event unfold on YouTube.

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