Apple AirPods are on Amazon at their best prices yet
Both AirPods and AirPods Pro are seeing significant discounts on Amazon, making it a great time to buy.
Stu-Stu-Studio
Apologies to Phil Collins...
The slow Airspeeder emergence
F1-style drone racing in the Aussie outback? Bring it on!
Moving to Substack
The next step in the evolutionary journey of the Byteside newsletter
How to pitch Byteside
Your guide to delivering a great pitch to write a Byteside story so it catches our eye and delivers a well focused idea readers will love.
Reflections
Paying attention to how we use our time and how we feel about our daily routines is a big part of making choices we’ll later reflect on in a more positive way.
The Wordle domain move has begun and it's killing your precious streaks
Wordle's move to the New York Times website has begun. While your current game will keep its overall stats, that streak you've been working on? Hmmm...
Links to the future
There’s been a lot of great writing about AR, Web3, Metaverse, and the like, so here’s to letting you get on with exploring the curated links this week.
Samsung Galaxy S22 series: Note-orious Ultra
The latest Galaxy Unpacked event showed off the new Galaxy S22 range, with the S22 Ultra the big attention grabber.
The best phones right now
Real recommendations top to bottom. The best phones money can buy: the best iPhone, best Android, best budget phones and the best cheap as chips smartphone for under $200.
The last Wordle
If this summer has taught me anything, it’s that games have great power to help us manage our mental state during difficult times.
Inside the weird world of Devolver Digital
We talk to Devolver Digital Marketing Manager Robbie Paterson about the publisher's "developer friendly" reputation and it's wild E3 video events.
Yes, Microsoft's Activision Blizzard moment is a confusing emotional rollercoaster
Business is business in the buyout of Activision Blizzard, but it makes sense fans and staff could be feeling a mess of emotions about what comes next.
Skullcandy Push Active review: sports earbuds with custom tricks galore
Skullcandy Push Active wireless sports earbuds include voice and button features that offer clever music, camera and assistant controls.
There'll never be One True Metaverse
And that's a good thing.
Is Fortnite a beachhead for the metaverse?
We talk to Fortnite creative devs about the 'Lands Down Under' experience and their thoughts on the bigger potential for Fortnite as a metaverse platform.
WoW vs FFXIV vs Elder Scrolls Online: which MMO suits you?
Having spent ample time across the three biggest MMOs, Seamus shares his thoughts on what style of fun lies at the heart of each game.
Interview: Siobhan Reddy on Dreamshaping for everyone
Media Molecule Studio Director, Siobhan Reddy, joins the Byteside podcast to talk about creativity during the pandemic and the launch of new tutorials to help creators get started in Dreams.
Stephen Cornish, Pentanet Founder, on the future of networks
We're talking to the founder of Pentanet, Stephen Cornish, exploring its Perth wireless network and its ambitions for networks everywhere.
Hearthstone Mercenaries review: great ideas locked behind a grind
Complex layers of skill-based play are a feature of Mercenaries, but all too soon you hit a grind wall that is less fun than it should be.
