Just days after South Africa’s PlayStation distributor confirmed the launch of the PS5 Slim in April, we’re hearing news of Sony’s next big thing: the PS5 ‘Pro’. This isn’t coming from Sony directly, of course. It’s coming, as everything that counts as ‘news’ these days does, from an unofficial source (it was leaked) — by YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead. And later confirmed by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson.

Oh, and it’ll be arriving sometime in the holiday shuffle — to better target those Christmas wishlists — as long as it pumps out enough first-party titles, that is. Good thing Nintendo stood aside this year, huh?

Anyone familiar with the scene knows who Tom Henderson is, and that he doesn’t mess around. He verified that the documents seen in Moore’s Law is Dead’s video are the real thing, coming from a PlayStation developer portal — with the documents hitting relevant developers a few weeks back.

We won’t bore you with all the nitty-gritty details. This is a PS5 Pro, after all. It’s a PlayStation with hardware befitting the four-year gap between itself and the original console — one that’s reportedly being kitted out to best suit any customers picking up GTA VI when it drops next year thanks to its improved GPU that’ll apparently render up to three times faster.

A more consistent frame rate is expected at 4K resolutions, and there’s talk that its ray tracing capabilities could be three (or even four) times faster than the previous iteration. PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling (PSSR) has been rumoured to use Sony’s machine learning — similar to AMD’s FSR or Nvidia’s DLSS image upscaling features to possibly boost graphics up to 8K.

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Let’s settle this on LinkedIn…

Anyone against the idea of starving themselves to death probably has a LinkedIn account, perhaps against their will. Microsoft’s social platform has long been a place to go in search of jobs, or employees to fill those jobs — with everyone patting themselves on the back in the process. Now, the platform is looking to branch into gaming.

That might sound like we’re pulling your leg, but it’s true. The billion-strong userbase will soon be treated to at least three of the company’s in-house games; akin to the surge of simple internet games like Wordle or something from neal.fun. They’re called Queens, Inference, and Crossclimb. It isn’t Linkle or something equally Wordle-y, so the NYT should leave them be.

The obvious implementation would be to allow employees to compete against one another, or against other companies. And, according to app researcher Nima Owji, that’s exactly what’s happening.

LinkedIn later confirmed in a message to TechCrunch that it was indeed working on a selection of games, though failed to provide any sort of release window. “We’re playing with adding puzzle-based games within the LinkedIn experience to unlock a bit of fun, deepen relationships, and hopefully spark the opportunity for conversations,” the spokesperson said in a message to TechCrunch.

It’s… a strange move. A website aimed at professionals, would-be or otherwise, succumbing to the pull of time-killing games — designed to kill company time? We hope it all works out.

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Sony hits the pause button on VR

Virtual reality (VR) isn’t for everyone, apparently. You’d think Sony, a company where the bucks flow out of every orifice, would find a way to make it work. But if the rumours are true, the Japanese conglomerate has hit the pause button on PSVR 2 production and begun stockpiling the headsets thanks to declining sales quarter after quarter. Yikes.

We’re just spitballing here, but we reckon the R15,000 price tag — or the fact that it requires a PS5 to work — might have something to do with the declining sales. Don’t even get us started on the lacklustre support for games since its debut, riding on the Horizon Call of the Mountain high ever since. The closing of the PlayStation London division, reportedly working on VR titles, hasn’t helped.

The company’s saving grace could be its decision to allow PC support for the PSVR 2 headset. Or it might continue to sink deeper into this mess, as more people flock towards the similarly priced Meta Quest 3.

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Google’s Gemini on Apple iPhones

AI might be coming to Apple’s iPhones sooner, rather than later. That isn’t thanks to a massive push to get Apple’s in-house AI out sooner, but because of a possible deal that’ll put Google’s Gemini engine on Apple’s devices, according to Bloomberg’s sources familiar with the matter. If the reports are true, Apple’s also explored the possibility of plugging OpenAI’s engine into the development of its next phone.

Whatever the case, we won’t be hearing about it until June at the earliest at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. It seems that nothing has yet been agreed upon between Apple and Google — with no ideas of how a partnership would work, or how the AI would be introduced to the devices.

Whether this will affect Apple’s long-rumoured plans to develop its own artificial intelligence in-house has yet to be seen. Just last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook was going on about the massive potential of AI, and that the company was investing heavily in the area in general.

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As for the new console’s accessories — the standalone BluRay disc drive and Slim Vertical stand will be released alongside their console counterparts on 5 April 2024. The disc drive will cost R3,000, while the vertical stand (also sold separately) will cost R700.

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Seriously, it’s time to say goodbye to that first-gen PS4 you’re still holding onto. We get it. A failing economy, nostalgia, and the fact that it doubles as a mini heater in Winter makes it an enticing bit of kit. But it’s 2024. It’s time to move on and what better way to do so than with the PS5 “Slim”, which is expected to land in South Africa sometime in early April.

It might not be a “Slim” in Sony’s eyes — who insists on calling it a plain old PlayStation 5 — but the massive weight and volume reduction coupled with a facelift that doesn’t make us want to hurl beg to differ. It’s a Slim, Sony. Get over it. And it’s turning up in South Africa, and soon. That’s what South Africa’s PlayStation distributor, Gamefinity had to say on the subject.

Will the real PS5 Slim please stand up?

When Sony first launched the refreshed PS5 in November last year, it didn’t come with any technical upgrades. It’s rocking the same hardware as a regular COVID-era PlayStation 5, wrapped in a smaller, lighter and prettier package. The most notable change was the loss of the disc drive, making the “Slim” an entirely digital affair.

Don’t worry, physical isn’t dead (yet). Sony’s dreamed up a solution that’ll see customers picking up their own disc drives and installing them separately, bringing in a new revenue stream for the Japanese company.

Read More: PS5 vs. PS5 Slim – What’s the difference?

If you were hoping for a price cut once the new consoles arrived, we envy your naivety. Sony’s sticking with the current console’s RRP of R12,000 for a PS5 with a single controller and no BluRay disc drive. If you’re after a bundle that contains a disc drive out of the box, you’ll be paying R14,000 — the price of the base PS5 in store now.

The PS5 Slim without a disc drive should arrive in the first week of April, as long as South Africa’s port services remain on track. The console’s Disc Drive Edition will only arrive three weeks later, nearer the end of April, again, contingent on South Africa’s port services.

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SIMA, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is currently still in its research phase and is being trained to learn a broad range of gaming skills across a variety of scenarios — instead of just destroying humans at StarCraft II.

Through partnerships with video game developers Hello Games, Embracer, Tuxedo Labs, Coffee Stain, and others, SIMA is learning how games work and how to apply what it learns to games it’s never seen before. DeepMind’s eventual aim with SIMA, other than furthering natural language AI model research, is for it to be a devoted member of your party that does what it’s told and doesn’t take all the good loot.

Does this SIMA good idea?

“SIMA isn’t trained to win a game; it’s trained to run it and do what it’s told,” said Google DeepMind researcher and SIMA co-lead Tim Harley, according to The Verge.

SIMA researchers have focused on games that involve open-world play, rather than linear or story-driven titles, so the agent can learn to follow instructions. To achieve this, SIMA was trained by watching pairs of humans play a game — where one watched and gave instructions while the other carried them out. In a different scenario, players played freely while DeepMind researchers recorded instructions that would’ve resulted in what the player did.

We’ll admit this sounds rather appealing. If you’ve ever played an online co-op game that drops in randoms, you’ll know how risky that can be. There’s a good chance of them ruining your game, whether through incompetence or toxicity.

Having an AI party member who follows instructions means you won’t have to worry about watching your back or your hard-earned loot. Don’t feel like spending hours collecting resources? Tell SIMA to do it while you handle more important tasks.

Read More: DeepMind is back at it again, this time teaching AI how to play football

However, as appealing as this might sound, it’s worth remembering how training AI models on human behaviour — especially when online human interaction is involved — has gone in the past. TayTweets, anyone?

This probably isn’t a problem in a controlled research environment but, should SIMA ever be trained on average human-based online gameplay, we doubt it will take long before the griefing starts.

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Elon Musk still hasn’t given up on the idea of turning X into an ‘everything app‘, recently adding phone and video calls into what was once Twitter. Now the app is apparently expanding to… TVs. Yup. According to a Fortune report (via Bloomberg) over the weekend, the eccentric billionaire wants people tuning in to, uh, Tucker Carlson, we guess, on Samsung and Amazon TVs as early as next week.

Fortune doesn’t name its sources, only citing an unnamed employee within the company, but this is Musk we’re talking about. Of course he’s got a video app in the works — one that reportedly looks “identical” to YouTube’s own app — a ploy to try and draw customers and compete with YouTube simultaneously. Whether it’ll work is yet to be determined. Our guess? It’ll be abandoned within the year, tail tucked between its legs.

Or, we’ll be proven wrong, and have to bow down to a new overlord of internet TV. We’re not particularly excited about that prospect. That can only happen if X can lay hands on exclusive content and push the app out to a far-wider host of TV brands. The odd Putin interview or shoddy Diablo IV stream might garner at least a few eyeballs. We’ll find out if X’s unnamed would-be YouTube killer has enough gall to do so next week.

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MAR10 Day, unsurprisingly, delivered a bunch of Mario news

Yesterday was Mario day. MAR10 Day, et cetera et cetera. As usual, Nintendo served up a slew of Mario-related news on a platter, including a Super Mario Bros. sequel film that reminded us water is wet, and a few other announcements that took our cynicism down a notch. The first involves release dates for two classics remastered: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.

Announced in September and June of 2023 respectively, it’s clear Nintendo’s been sitting on these titles for a while — possibly in an attempt to bolster the Switch’s 2024 line-up in the event of a delay to its follow-up console. That, unfortunately, happened. It’s fine. The 23 May release for Paper Mario and a 27 June release for Luigi’s Mansion should do enough to hold us over ’til 2025. Also, a Tears of the Kingdom replay might be on the cards.

The last announcement and possibly the most important involved a teaser for something going by called LEGO Mario Kart (a new game, maybe, or just new sets?) and three new Mario Lego sets hitting shelves this August. The Bowser Express train set is the most expensive of the lot, but honestly, King Boo’s Haunted Mansion set or the Battle with Roy at Peach’s Castle would suit us just fine.

Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t just in the business of deleting movies

You might have thanked Warner Bros. for vaulting Batgirl in 2022, but there’s no denying it set a horrific precedent that’s created a ripple effect across the rest of the business. Coyote vs. Acme is the latest (completed) film to be sent to the bins — and now the company is looking to do something similar for its games.

Several developers under the Adult Swim Games umbrella said that Warner Bros. Discovery reached out to them to essentially tell them that their games would be removed from digital storefronts on PC and consoles. Why? It might hint at the company’s plans for the Adult Swim Games brand — possibly looking to kill it off and watch the tax breaks roll in. Because that’s how business works, right?

Some of the affected developers said they would be republishing their games on Steam, but would lose out on the title’s community pages, Steam achievements, forums, and screenshots. That wouldn’t be the case if Warner would transfer publishing permissions to those developers — a process that takes roughly three minutes and three clicks according to @onemrbean — but isn’t being done due to a ‘lAcK oF rEsOuRcEs’.

You can see a list of the 25 games being removed by the $21 billion company right here.

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Your favourite Wordle clones might not be Wordle clones for much longer

Wordle, the word-guessing game that grabbed the world by its genitals in 2022, is looking to stomp out the thousands of clones riding off the back of the Wordle brand, idea, and colour scheme that The New York Times picked up for a cool “undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” in 2022.

The New York Times has reportedly filed several DMCA issues over any Wordle clones still out there, specifically targeting Reactle earlier this week, an open-source clone used to power around 1,900 other versions of the game. The NYT reckons the clones using Reactle’s code did so in “clearly bad faith,” and have been served the same DMCA takedown issue.

“I write to submit a revised DMCA Notice regarding an infringing repository (and hundreds of forked repositories) hosted by GitHub that instruct users how to infringe The New York Times Co.’s (‘The Times‘) copyright in its immensely popular Wordle game and create knock-off copies of the same,” the notice reads.

Expect plenty of those 1,900 or so games taken down to reappear in the coming weeks with Wordle-less names attached, and maybe a fresh coat of paint.

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The fun involved includes a decent store-wide sale on Switch consoles, games, and accessories — both online and in-store (check out what we thought of that) — and a competition that’ll see someone pick up a Switch bundle worth R10,000. So… a Switch and there might just be enough left over for a game or two. We’d recommend Super Mario Bros. Wonder or Odyssey, but we doubt Nintendo will let you do the picking.

There’s a fire! (sale)

The sale isn’t particularly special aside from a couple of standout items. The obvious leaders are the two Switch consoles on sale — the Switch OLED Mario Red Edition (for obvious reasons) or a plain ol’ Switch with a physical copy of Wonder for R8,000. That’s important. Seriously. Give it fifteen years, and it’ll pick up a couple of grand on eBay, easily.

The game that’s been slashed down the most is WarioWare: Get it Together! selling for R500 — R600 off the initial retail price. We’re not sure why you might want a Mario-branded SD card for the Switch, but we won’t stop you. Nintendo’s cut the price from R1,400 for a 256GB card to R700. Something similar fetches a lower price on Takealot, but we’re not telling you how to spend your money.

There are around five pages of sales explore, which you can do here.

O MAR10? Wherefore art thou, Mario?

As for the people who aren’t so interested in actually paying Nintendo, the company is running a competition that’ll win one lucky person a Switch hamper worth over R10,000. All you need to do is head to Nintendo’s official store in Sandton and… find Mario. Simple enough.

Find the fella (pictured above) sometime between 10:00 and 16:00 on Saturday or Sunday (9-10 March), snap a picture with him, and post it to social media using the tag #MAR10Day_SA and tag @NintendoSADistributor and @SandtonCityMall in the same post. Make your way back to the official store — use the Switch on display, play a round of Mario Kart (using Mario), and have a store representative mark off your lap and enter you into the competition.

Unfortunately, you’ll only reap the benefit of the 19 March release of the title if you’re an Apple customer. The game will be available on iPhone and iPad and only to Netflix subscribers. Even though it’ll be free, Netflix has opened pre-orders (more or less) for players keen to explore the tale of Zagreus.

Go to Hades

If you haven’t already hammered the pre-order link above so hard that you’ve left a dent in your iPhone screen, you should. Hades is a roguelike title that sees you playing as the son of the titular Greek god. Zagreus has many of the issues a young man faces and he’d really like to depart his father’s kingdom. Getting out of the Underworld will take some doing, however.

The resulting randomly-generated trips towards the Earth’s surface are a nigh-perfect blend of engaging gameplay loop, smoothly-developing and excellently-written narrative, and gradual unlocking of new weapons and abilities. It’s enough to keep you focused on the rapid combat for hours at a time. Even when players achieve their ultimate aim, there’s still more to see, experience, and unlock.

For Android fans, there’s unfortunately no timeline for a Hades release on mobile and there probably never will be. Supergiant Games has “no plans for additional versions of Hades at this time.” It’s that “at this time” remark we’re holding onto dearly in the hopes that plans might change down the road. We’ll have to make do with the game’s sequel that’s in the works, for now. Pity, that. It’s really an incredible game.

This might be a little difficult to believe, but Apple is foregoing the dramatics and plans to launch a slate of new products “in the next several weeks” via a regular old press release on its website, with no event on the horizon. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and his ‘Power On‘ newsletter, those products are the refreshed iPad Pros, 12.9in iPad Air, Apple Pencils and some Magic Keyboards for those iPads. And we haven’t even gotten to the Macs, yet.

As for those, we will see the new 13- and 15in MacBook Airs kitted with the M3 chip arrive at the same time as the iPad revamp. These might sound like run-of-the-mill ‘filler’ products unworthy of Apple’s attention, but we’d argue that isn’t the case for at least one of these — with the iPad Pro getting its first (major) upgrade since before Silksong was announced. Yikes.

But, as the old saying goes, good things come to those who wait. The 2024 iPad Pro will be outfitted with an OLED display and internally repping Apple’s M3 chipset. That alone would be enough for Apple to throw a party to give these badboys a boost. Apparently, nope. Gurman reckons Apple is going to announce the products on its website “with a series of online videos and marketing campaigns,” sometime in “March or April.”

The PC Master Race is bolstering its ego with a Ghost of Tsushima port

While Xbox might be okay with dolling out its exclusives like a dodgy dude handing out candy, Sony is a little more hesitant to give up those sweet, sweet IPs to other consoles (here’s what we thought of Returnal for PC, by the way). It spent the better part of two years porting over some of those games to PC (and only PC) and the latest fruit of its labour appears to be a Ghost of Tsushima port.

That’s according to @Shpeshal_Nick on Twitter (sorry, X), who posted:

“I’m hearing that we might be getting something about the Ghost of Tsushima PC port pretty soon. Maybe around the 5th?”

Even if the tweet wasn’t coming from a reputable leaker such as Nick, we’d have believed it. As we’ve said, Sony’s been on a bit of a PC port roll, with only a couple of exclusive IPs left to go before Steam is on a similar playing field. But if you’re after proof of Nick’s sources being the real deal; just look at the last time he delved into Sony matters — correctly noting the games that would turn up at the then-next State of Play.

Fingers crossed for a reveal tomorrow, huh, Duncan?

Sony’s SRS-XV800 party speaker

If the idea of spending R10,000 on a Sony speaker didn’t at least make you giggle thanks to the absurdity, we’d recommend keeping on reading. Sony’s SRS-XV800 has come to South Africa and Sony’s got some shilling to do. Fortunately, the speaker’s good enough that we’ll do it for them, showing off the sort of features you can expect after spending four zeroes on a piece of audio equipment.

The first thing you’ll notice is that this thing is massive. The pair of wheels fixed to the speaker’s base should give you a good idea that this isn’t as quite portable as your friend’s JBL he’s always got with him. Sony’s made this thing portable enough to carry with you to a friend’s pool party, but for your sake, we hope you’re the friend with the pool.

It’s got all the usual features of a party speaker, namely; Bluetooth (and even HDMI). What it does differently is the speaker’s built-in Karaoke mode and the 25 hours of battery life that go with it. It’s even IPX4 splash-resistant, so it can enjoy the party from a safe distance. It’ll be loud enough that a safe distance won’t make much of a difference, fortunately. It’s even got a TV Sound Booster that’ll do a decent job of removing any buyer’s remorse you might have (and, uh, make your TV sound a bit better, too).

Doom on a… toothbrush

When Stuff’s own Toby Shapshak returned from MWC 2024 with news of Doom running on a lawnmower, we thought humanity had reached the pinnacle of technology. How wrong we were. Less than a week later, and someone’s managed to get the 1993 first-person shooter running on… an electric toothbrush.

That someone is Aaron Christophel, a YouTuber who took advantage of just about every piece of tech around him coming equipped with some sort of screen, including his toothbrush. That toothbrush is an Evowera Planck Mini — running with just about all the features required to get something like this done; colour display and Wi-Fi.

Christophel used the toothbrush’s OTA functionality and his own ESP32 development board to get the game running here. He even has Bluetooth mouse capabilities going, linking basic forward and backward movements, not being able to make use of the toothbrush’s own sensor data. If you’re left scratching your head wondering why someone would ever play Doom on an electric toothbrush… you’ll never get it.

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A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat the game. Beating it means the player moved the tiles too fast for the game to keep up with the score, causing the game to crash. Artificial intelligence can suggest strategies that allow players to more effectively control the game tiles and slot them into place faster – these strategies helped crown the game’s first winner.

But there’s far more to Tetris than the elusive promise of winning. As a mathematician and mathematics educator, I recognize that the game is based on a fundamental element of geometry, called dynamic spatial reasoning. The player uses these geometric skills to manipulate the game pieces, and playing can both test and improve a player’s dynamic spatial reasoning.

Playing the game

A Russian computer scientist named Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris in 1984. The game itself is very simple: The Tetris screen is composed of a rectangular game board with dropping geometric figures. These figures are called tetrominoes, made up of four squares connected on their sides in seven different configurations.

The game pieces drop from the top, one at a time, stacking up from the bottom. The player can manipulate each one as it falls by turning or sliding it and then dropping it to the bottom. When a row completely fills up, it disappears and the player earns points.

As the game progresses, the pieces appear at the top more quickly, and the game ends when the stack reaches the top of the board.

Dynamic spatial reasoning

Manipulating the game pieces gives the player an exercise in dynamic spatial reasoning. Spatial reasoning is the ability to visualize geometric figures and how they will move in space. So, dynamic spatial reasoning is the ability to visualize actively moving figures.

The Tetris player must quickly decide where the currently dropping game piece will best fit and then move it there. This movement involves both translation, or moving a shape right and left, and rotation, or twirling the shape in increments of 90 degrees on its axis.

Spatial visualization is partly inherent ability, but partly learned expertise. Some researchers identify spatial skill as necessary for successful problem solving, and it’s often used alongside mathematics skills and verbal skills.

Spatial visualization is a key component of a mathematics discipline called transformational geometry, which is usually first taught in middle school. In a typical transformational geometry exercise, students might be asked to represent a figure by its x and y coordinates on a coordinate graph and then identify the transformations, like translation and rotation, necessary to move it from one position to another while keeping the piece the same shape and size.

Reflection and dilation are the two other basic mathematical transformations, though they’re not used in Tetris. Reflection flips the image across any line while maintaining the same size and shape, and dilation changes the size of the shape, producing a similar figure.

For many students, these exercises are tedious, as they involve plotting many points on graphs to move a figure’s position. But games like Tetris can help students grasp these concepts in a dynamic and engaging way.

Transformational geometry beyond Tetris

While it may seem simple, transformational geometry is the foundation for several advanced topics in mathematics. Architects and engineers both use transformations to draw up blueprints, which represent the real world in scale drawings.

Animators and computer graphic designers use concepts of transformations as well. Animation involves representing a figure’s coordinates in a matrix array and then creating a sequence to change its position, which moves it across the screen. While animators today use computer programs that automatically move figures around, they are all based on translation.

Calculus and differential geometry also use transformation. The concept of optimization involves representing a situation as a function and then finding the maximum or minimum value of that function. Optimization problems often involve graphic representations where the student uses transformations to manipulate one or more of the variables.

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Lots of real-world applications use optimization – for example, businesses might want to find out the minimum cost of distributing a product. Another example is figuring out the size of a theoretical box with the largest possible volume.

All of these advanced topics use the same concepts as the simple moves of Tetris.

Tetris is an engaging and entertaining video game, and players with transformational geometry skills might find success playing it. Research has found that manipulating rotations and translations within the game can provide a solid conceptual foundation for advanced mathematics in numerous science fields.

Playing Tetris may lead students to a future aptitude in business analytics, engineering or computer science – and it’s fun. As a mathematics educator, I encourage students and friends to play on.

• Leah McCoy is a Professor of Education, Wake Forest University
• This article first appeared in The Conversation

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The PC Master Race is pleased

“We’re pleased to share that we are currently testing the ability for PS VR2 players to access additional games on PC to offer even more game variety in addition to the PS VR2 titles available through PS5. We hope to make this support available in 2024,” Sony said in a blog post detailing the announcement.

Surprisingly, the announcement of the PSVR 2’s newfound powers wasn’t headline news for Sony. It was relegated to the small paragraph you see above, hidden among the company’s other announcements, such as game reveals and release dates for upcoming VR titles. Interesting stuff, sure, but we’ve got to say that PSVR 2 PC compatibility takes the cake.

Read More: Sony’s PSVR 2 – Hands-on and first impressions

Unfortunately, that small paragraph is all we’re getting for now. Sony didn’t go into more detail on how this PC compatibility might work, leaving many wondering whether they’ll be able to use Sony’s headset for other games, like Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx, or if it’ll limit titles to games already available on both PC and PlayStation. We’re guessing it’ll be the latter.

But that might not matter. Modders like iVRy have been attempting to bypass the headset’s exclusivity for quite some time now — spending over $15,000 and countless hours in the process. Who knows? They might just beat Sony to the punchline.