ONEXPLAYER handheld gaming PC hits Indiegogo May 10 for $819 and up

The ONEXPLAYER is a handheld gaming computer with an 8.4 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display, built-in game controllers and an Intel Tiger Lake processor with Iris Xe graphics. First revealed with a brief teaser in March, the ONEXPLAYE…

The ONEXPLAYER is a handheld gaming computer with an 8.4 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display, built-in game controllers and an Intel Tiger Lake processor with Iris Xe graphics. First revealed with a brief teaser in March, the ONEXPLAYER is set to go up for pre-order next week through an Indiegogo crowdfunding […]

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Nintendo warns global chip shortage to hit Switch production

Nintendo follows rival Sony in saying supply crunch threatens console sales.

Overwatch running on the Nintendo Switch.

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Japan’s Nintendo has said that production of its popular Switch gaming console could be hit by global chip shortages, following a similar warning from rival Sony last week.

At its full-year results on Thursday, Nintendo forecast a 12 percent drop in sales of its flagship Switch in the financial year ending in March 2022, citing potential issues with procuring important components.

Nintendo’s comments contrast with its performance over the past 12 months, when the Kyoto-based company’s fortunes were boosted by coronavirus pandemic restrictions that forced entire nations into lockdown and increased demand for home-based entertainment.

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NASCAR ditches decades of tradition for its Next Gen race car

Cup cars will run centerlock wheels, paddle-shift transmissions, and flat floors.

Big changes are coming to NASCAR. On Wednesday afternoon, the sport formally unveiled its new race car, called the Next Gen. It makes its racing debut in 2022, and it's a radical upgrade for a series that has earned a reputation—unfairly, as it happens—as a low-tech zone.

As I found out in 2018, stock car racing is no place for luddites. But a casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that, based on the specs of the sport's current Gen6 car. Transmissions with only four speeds, wheels with five lug nuts, and a solid rear axle all seem highly anachronistic to fans of most other types of motorsport. But from next year, all that stuff is gone.

Now, that actually looks like a modern race car

At its core, the Next Gen car sticks with a steel tubeframe chassis with integrated roll cage. But it's clothed in composite body panels, not aluminum, and the bodies are now symmetrical. At the front, the most noticeable difference is that the cars from Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota really do look like Chevys, Fords, and Toyotas.

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