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After that whole tariff tango, Nintendo is readying its North American pre-order system for the Switch 2. The original Switch 2 price will remain the same, $450, as will the original $500 for the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle. However, some Switch 2 accessories will receive price adjustments due to market conditions. (As a non-North American, I may have splurged on the Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera I have no regrets.) Take a picture. It'll last longer.Hori There are some fine-print details attached to pre-ordering directly from Nintendo. You must be 18 years or older, sign in with your Nintendo account and register your interest in pre-ordering. Then, youll get an invitation email when its time to play your pre-order, and the invitation will be valid for 72 hours. And for extra jeopardy: Invitation emails will be prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis for registrants who have purchased a Nintendo Switch Online membership with a minimum of 12 months of paid membership and a minimum of 50 total gameplay hours, as of April 2, 2025. If you dont meet those criteria of die-hard/flush with cash Nintendo fan, there are other options: Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart and Target have confirmed theyll open pre-orders on April 24. Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! All the stories you might have missed Watch Paul Rudd not age between a vintage SNES commercial and a Switch 2 ad The 6 best air fryers, tested and reviewed Blizzard explains hero bans in Overwatch 2 Bluesky is getting an official verification system And blue checkmarks. Bluesky is adopting an official verification system, after all. The company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to authentic and notable accounts. It will also allow some trusted organizations to verify users. The platform previously resisted centralized verification, relying instead on a domain-based verification system, which allows users to change their handles to match domains theyre associated with. Its a bit of a mess. For example, when Barack Obama joined Bluesky recently, his handle did not use a custom domain. Individual Bluesky employees ended up publicly vouching for the former president. The company will now proactively verify certain accounts and add a prominent blue checkmark to their profile. Its still not clear what criteria Bluesky will use to verify its users. Continue reading. Nintendo is going after the person behind last years massive Pokémon leak It wants Discord to give up the users identity. Nintendo Nintendo is going after the leaker behind last years massive Pokémon data breach. It wants Discord to reveal the identity of the person behind the leak, who goes by the name GameFreakOUT on the platform. Nintendo said in a subpoena the person uploaded confidential materials not released to the public to a Discord server called FreakLeak. After that, the leaked materials spread to every corner of the internet. It included early character designs, source codes and even an upcoming Pokémon MMO. Continue reading. Using generative AI will neither help nor harm the chances of Oscar nominations Both The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez came under fire for using AI. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided AI is fine. The issue of award-nominated films using AI was first raised in 2024 when the productions behind Best Picture nominees The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez both admitted to using the tech to alter performances. With regard to Generative Artificial Intelligence and other digital tools used in the making of the film, the tools neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination, AMPAS writes. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-112038131.html?src=rss
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Uber Shuttle is expanding to Atlanta. This is the companys bus service that takes people to airports. Shuttle operations will launch in the region next month, delivering folks to and from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. There will be numerous routes for residents to choose from. Uber says itll be picking people up from various locations throughout downtown and midtown, with service scheduled for every 30 minutes from 6AM to 10PM every day of the week. As previously mentioned, these shuttles will also take folks from the airport to the same locations. We dont know the exact location of the stops yet. Uber says itll share that information closer to launch in May. We do know that riders will be able to book up to five seats at a time from up to one week before the departure. As usual, customers will be able to track the real-time location of their Uber Shuttle via the app. The fare will also be displayed on the app and the company promises it wont use surge pricing. Early users will pay just ten bucks to use the service, but the cost will eventually go up. Uber says prices will, however, max out at $18.50 per ride. Uber Shuttle has been operating in NYC for a while now, with service to both LaGuardia and JFK. Uber Uber also released a bit of news regarding a partnership with Delta. This allows folks to rack up Delta SkyMiles by using Uber. The partnership even extends to Uber Eats.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/uber-shuttle-is-launching-at-the-atlanta-airport-110018400.html?src=rss
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The Fyre Festival saga is getting an unexpected new chapter. Shawn Rech, who co-founded the TruBlu streaming network for crime and investigative content, is planning to leverage the Fyre Festival name for a new music streaming platform. He's acquired select intellectual property trademarks for the famously failed music event whose co-founder Billy McFarland went to jail for fraud. However, Rech will not play a role in Fyre Festival's hypothetical live events. According to him, he's just trying to capitalize on the name's familiarity for his own project. "It has nothing to do with music," Rech told Deadline in a surprisingly candid statement. "I needed a big name that people would remember, even if its attached to infamy, so thats why I bought these [trademarks] to start the streaming network." Deadline reports that the Fyre Music Streaming will have a subscription video-on-demand platform and free ad-supported television channels. Rech claims it will launch at Thanksgiving. "Were building something authentic and lasting," he said. It takes an impressive amount of hubris to use the name of a comically ridiculous music festival fraud and expect people to give you money for it. But considering Rech did manage to get TruBlu off the ground, maybe his music platform will actually exist. If the fact that the second Fyre Festival has already been indefinitely postponed is any sign of what's to come, though, it will be a hilarious exercise in schadenfreude.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/fyre-festival-is-becoming-a-music-streaming-service-that-might-not-be-a-scam-this-time-221058381.html?src=rss
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