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Jay Peters is a News Editor at The Verge. He covers breaking news in consumer technology, social media, video games, virtual worlds, streaming, and more. He’s appeared on CNBC, NPR, BBC News, WNYC, and other broadcast outlets to discuss technology news.
Before joining The Verge as a News Writer in 2019, Jay worked for Techmeme, where he helped curate the most important technology news of the moment. He actually started his career in technology public relations, working in the field for more than five years. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.
When he’s not writing, Jay really likes running. But he prefers to run far, not fast.
The show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is an adaptation of The Hedge Knight, a novella by George R.R. Martin. There will be six episodes in this initial season.
Here’s the show’s synopsis, from Warner Bros. Discovery:
A century before the events of “Game of Thrones,” two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.
CMF by Nothing’s “Phone 1” looks like it will have a cool rotating dial — perhaps like the CMF Buds. You can see a few more teases of the phone on CMF by Nothing’s X account, and for rumored specs, check out 91Mobiles.
The Phone 1 will be announced on July 8th at 5AM ET alongside the Buds Pro 2 and the Watch Pro 2.
Bloomberg has a big report on X’s efforts to let you make payments through the app, including that it has made agreements with payment processors like Stripe.
Bloomberg also found not-great financials from 2023:
[Documents] show that X generated $1.48 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2023, down almost 40% from the same period in 2022, before Musk bought the company.
If you want the TL;DR, read Kurt Wagner’s Threads thread.
Paradox Tectonic, which employs 24 people, has been working on the game since 2019, but the studio is being shut down following the life sim’s cancelation, according to Paradox Interactive.
I asked if all Tectonic employees are being laid off and if any staffers will be offered other positions at Paradox, but spokesperson Jesse Henning declined to comment.
The game, first announced in 2021, is coming out on November 14th, 2025, and it looks incredible in a new trailer. It’s set to release on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X / S, Steam, and Windows.
And that’s not all: an HD-2D remake of the first two Dragon Quest games is coming in 2025.
Fantasian is an RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi featuring composer Nobuo Uematsu that was previously only available on Apple Arcade. It’s coming out this winter.