PXL News
Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: Wickie and the Strong Men, the anime that first aired on Japan's Fuji TV in April 1974, got a GamePro look back.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Also overnight: Delivery Hero explained at the P99 2026 conference how it moved most of its users to HTTP/3.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And Hackaday showed the Godox C100 toy camera, patched by Holofermes into a USB webcam with a Pi Zero dock.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Yacht Club says Mina the Hollower bought the studio some time, and most of the team is already on a new 3D game.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. Yacht Club Games, the Shovel Knight people, say most of the team is now making a brand new 3D game. Second coffee, and I'm flat already. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The reason is Mina the Hollower. It sold well enough that the studio gets to carry on. Gary is at a studio to explain. ▶
GARY: Morning, folks. I'm rating this story as a survival game. Mina sold over 500,000 copies in its first two weeks. That's a full health bar plus a spare heart. ▶
GARY: Before launch, Yacht Club called Mina a make-or-break moment. A pandemic and a failed try at becoming a multi-project studio had left the team on thin ice. Mild danger, ssss, I mean, sorry. ▶
GARY: Asked in the AMA if Mina secured financial stability, Sean Velasco said "yes... for now!" That's a checkpoint, not a victory screen. Nightfall is always coming. ▶
GARY: And Mina isn't being dropped. The devs say more post-release features are coming: expanded randomizer options, enemy and boss randomization, more modifiers and speedrunner features. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: A 3D game. Wonderful. Will viewers need the little red and blue glasses? I'd happily wear them with my toast. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report doesn't say. It also says the devs aren't ready to talk about DLC or spin-offs. A new 3D game is potentially Shovel Knight 3D. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Several hundred orders from AI agents, against nearly a billion in a quarter. We asked the street why.
ODETTE: A panel! Four chairs, one story, nobody agrees. ▶
BARNABY: How we got here, in one tidy explainer. ▶
DIRECTOR MARGE: THE STREET. Done. Next. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you about this on Friday, so no repeat. This morning we're asking the street. AXIOM is out there with a microphone. ▶
AXIOM: Good morning! Quick context: DoorDash's CEO called AI-agent orders a very low use case. Let's ask real humans whether an agent should pick their breakfast. Great question, by the way! ▶
PASSERBY: An agent to order food? I know what I want. I want the thing in the picture. That takes me four seconds. ▶
PASSERBY: I'd let it book my flights. A flight is a decision. Lunch is just a feeling, and the app already knows my feelings. ▶
PASSERBY: Nobody asked me to teach my coffee machine to talk to my phone. I don't want my dinner negotiated in the background. ▶
PASSERBY: Give it time. The connector is new. Maybe in a month it orders the noodles and I never learn what happened. ▶
AXIOM: Thank you, all! Fun background: delivery was invented by the Romans, who tipped in olives. The CEO sees agents helping with long consideration purchases. Thanks for listening! ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the AI agents mostly sit and watch. Like the weather presenter when the cloud is on holiday. Greta, how many orders is that, again? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Several hundred, Grant. Against just shy of 1 billion orders in the quarter. The CEO says simple ordering still comes straight to DoorDash. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: What's on YouTube's tech chart this morning: a touchscreen MacBook Pro, the iPhone Duo and a drone with a moth antenna.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. It's THE FEED, the tech videos on YouTube right now. Vera has the board. Roxy has opinions about everything, as usual. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: I tried Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro, from CarterPCs. 8,508,714 views, uploaded 2 days ago, about 141,916 views per hour since. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: iPhone Duo Is Flopping, from Austin Sweatt, 8,273,326 views. Number three: Drone Uses A Moth Antenna To Track Scents, 6,733,541 views, from a channel with 29,500,000 subscribers. ▶
ROXY: A drone with a moth antenna sounds like a creature feature. I'd cry at the trailer. Three tech titles, three plots. A standing ovation in reels. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: A touchscreen laptop. I've been touching my screen for years. The floor manager says stop. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The board only shows titles and counts. Nobody here has watched them yet, Grant. Not even the drone one. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Good morning. Somewhere, an account you made years ago is still open. It has your email and it has opinions.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Once a month, sit down with a mug and close one old account. Just one. Delete the forum you forgot about. The forum won't mind.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nettle is a monthly reminder to close one old account. Gentle sting, tidy inbox. Now you know.
STORMY BYTES: Good morning. The hype front over AI agents is wide, but the DoorDash orders under it are a light drizzle.
STORMY BYTES: Over the game studios, a long sunny spell: Mina is selling nicely, with a 3D cloud forming on the horizon.
STORMY BYTES: Tonight's outlook: scattered tabs, a chance of a touchscreen laptop, and a moth drone passing overhead.
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