In a bid to drum up excitement for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie, Paramount Pictures is resurrecting the original, ill-fated Sonic design for an ugly sweater that you can potentially win.
The sweepstakes is only open today, December 11, and wraps up at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET, so anyone interested should enter the sweepstakes now before it’s too late. In addition to the ugly holiday sweater, fans can win prizes like Sonic-themed Rebook shoes and Jones soda, as well as Sonic Lego sets and Sonic plushies, among other things. Go to the sweepstakes website to learn more.
For anyone just catching up, when the first trailer for 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was released, fans immediately criticized the design of Sonic. Paramount later made the seemingly expensive and shocking ann…
A successor (of sorts) to PlayStation Portable and PS Vita is reportedly in development at Sony. The company is apparently working on a handheld PS5 system that would seemingly compete with Nintendo’s upcoming Switch 2 and Valve’s Steam Deck.
According to Bloomberg, the PS5 portable system is years away from hitting the market–if it does at all. There is still a possibility Sony decides to pull the plug on the handheld. The report states that the PlayStation Portal was originally planned as a similar product to Steam Deck before becoming dependent on streaming via a PS5 console. However, a new PlayStation Portal update has introduced a cloud-streaming beta for PS Plus Premium members. This means a PS5 isn’t required to play games on the device.
Sony’s plans to augment its game-development process with AI and machine learning is already underway, the company revealed in its 2024 Company Report. In one example cited in the report, Sony used machine learning to augment the subtitling process for certain languages in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Sony has revealed it used voice-recognition software to automatically synchronize subtitles with their corresponding voice lines in certain languages, dramatically reducing the speed of the subtitling process. Spider-Man 2 launched with text support for 27 languages, with 12 of those also available in fully dubbed audio.
The company said that this use of machine learning, a subset of AI computing, was part of a broader plan to “[deliver] our IP rapidly and at low cost to a broader ra…
Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 this week with a brief teaser trailer. The full reveal is slated for a Nintendo Direct on April 2, so fans will have to wait a few more months to find out when the next-gen console hits store shelves. In the meantime, you can clear out your Switch wishlist and chip away at your backlog for less thanks to Woot’s massive ongoing Nintendo Switch game sale. Dozens of Switch games, many of which are exclusives, are discounted at the Amazon-owned retailer Come from malaysia online casino . The lineup of Switch game deals includes a bunch of Super Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda games.
For starters, Woot has discounts on all of Nintendo’s biggest exclusives released in the past year, including Donke…