Nintendo announces Game Builder Garage, an easy way to make your own games

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by on May 5, 2021 at 11:41 pm
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In something of a surprise reveal, Nintendo today announced Game Builder Garage, a Switch title that aims to make it easy to create your own games. Somewhat like the PS4’s Dreams, Game Builder Garage lets you create games without having to write any code. Instead, it uses visual programming, allowing you to connect and interact with creatures calls ‘Nodons’ — a play on a ‘node‘ in the programming sense, one assumes. Each Nodon has unique abilities, including a Person Nodon that functions as your controllable character. Other Nodons include controls for the analog stick, buttons, in-game objects, timers, background music, counters,…

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Instagram now lets you add captions to your Stories

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by on May 5, 2021 at 12:22 am
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Instagram is today adding a small but incredibly welcome feature: you can now add subtitles to your Stories. And in a very Instagram-y move, you do so via a special sticker. Sound off 🗣…with sound off 🔇 Now you can add a captions sticker in Stories (coming soon to Reels) that automatically turns what you say into text. We’re starting in a handful of countries and hope to expand soon. pic.twitter.com/OAJjmFcx4R — Instagram (@instagram) May 4, 2021 Although captions were already available in the IGTV app, bringing them to Instagram proper adds a welcome layer of accessibility for those who…

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Apple analyst predicts an 8-inch folding iPhone will arrive in 2023

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by on May 4, 2021 at 1:33 am
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Ming-Chi Kuo, the usually-reliable Apple analyst, is at it again with another prediction years in advance. According to Kuo, Apple may be planning to release its foldable iPhone in 2023. As reported by MacRumors, Kuo claims that the foldable iPhone might sport an “8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display.” Kuo estimates that the company expects to sell 15-20 million folding units in 2023 “based on Apple’s requested capacity plan.” Interestingly, Kuo notes that he expects Apple will adopt a fancier “silver nanowire” touchscreen because existing capacitive technology does not support more than one fold or rollable designs (Apple actually already used this…

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