Jay Peters

Mike Uyama has handed things off to director of operations Matt Merkle, who is now the majority owner of Games Done Quick, per a press release.

Uyama said last year that he planned to step away due to health reasons — he discussed that decision with my colleague Ash Parrish — but that plan was put on hold in part because of a health scare Merkle experienced.

You can grab your QR code from the YouTube app. Big year for QR codes!

You’ll now start seeing replies from other parts of the fediverse under posts that aren’t yours, as shared by Threads’ Peter Cottle. Nice way to see more posts from other ActivityPub-based platforms.

The Valorant-like shooter where you control two bodies will be available to play for free on Steam starting September 3rd.

Notification summaries powered by Apple Intelligence have expanded from Mail and Messages to all apps in iOS 18.1 developer beta 3, MacRumors reports.

If you’re on that beta, you can try Apple’s Magic Editor-like Clean Up tool, too.

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone is open to it. Per a statement given to IGN:

One time we were playing and someone said ‘what if there was a Pam skin in Fortnite?’ And it kind of became a meme for us, like we were imagining us all playing as a squad with identical Pam skins. It was just a silly fun idea.

Then someone asked me if I would collab with Fortnite and I mentioned the Pam thing. There’s nothing official in the works or anything like that, but yea we would find it amusing and fun if we were able to play as Pam (or any other Stardew character, really) someday.

Epic Games spokesperson Alex Fong declined to comment.

Update: Epic declined to comment.

According to Astrobotic’s post-mission report:

After an extensive review of the events before, during, and after Peregrine’s mission, the board concluded that the most likely cause of Peregrine’s anomaly was the failure of a singular helium pressure control valve, called PCV2, within the propulsion system.