It's easy to dismiss the Lego Smart Brick as just sounds kids could make with their own mouths — but it's way smarter than I thought. This has legs Lego Mario never did. I shot and edited this to show you:

Here's everything I know so far about the Lego Smart Brick, which the company claims is the biggest thing to happen to Lego since 1978: www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...

I'm back in Vegas for CES! Did they have the Uber/Lyft airport parking garage all decorated last year? Asking the important questions here, I know.

I have a bunch of bananas. I also have a bunch of USB-C AA batteries.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This was so much fun! (Disclaimer: I am not a RAM expert)

My wife and I technically met in high school. But we're together because of AIM. Going to watch this with her later! www.theverge.com/podcast/8487...

The Steam Deck no longer starts at $399. It's $549 now. Technically that's because Valve has discontinued the LCD version. Realistically, it changes every conversation about handheld price from here on out. www.theverge.com/news/848595/...

Magnets are the best — and these are the best magnets I've ever seen in a phone grip!

I never stopped testing the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X after our review. Two months later, here's how they're doing for me: www.theverge.com/games/843010...

"Of all the things Google has killed, they killed Stadia the nicest." www.theverge.com/23561541/goo...

Don't let a good gamepad go to the Google Graveyard! December 31st is the deadline to save the Google Stadia Controller. It's easy... and new Steam support makes it even more worthwhile!

Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely. How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/83950...

Do I finally get to take my kids to see the original Star Wars!? Where Han shot first? www.theverge.com/news/839434/...

I will be at CES... and I want to know what gadgets I absolutely must see *and touch* and quite possibly *film* for @theverge.com and my Today I'm Toying With video series! Does your gadget seem like a fit? Don't pitch me text: DM me photos or a video clip! www.theverge.com/gadgets/7128...

Switchblade gamepad. Today I'm toying with the OhSnap MCON, that controller that a 19-year-old originally designed!

End of an era. Crucial was *the* pick for bang-for-the-buck SSDs, not to mention the memory biz. www.theverge.com/news/837594/...

Please help me help Google understand that AI should not replace our headlines? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

So. Remember when Valve announced a VR headset that also plays Windows games? Remember when I played a Windows copy of Silksong on my Android phone? Valve planted the seeds for *all* of that. It's the same technology. Valve is behind Fex. www.theverge.com/report/82065...

My latest dispatch from Lego Game Boy land is a weird one full of feels. I love magnets but did not expect them here and I suspect hundreds of people who put down money feel the same www.theverge.com/gadgets/8326...

A few years ago, a friend handed me a beautiful pocket screwdriver, with 24 tiny bits cradled inside its smoothly spinning frame. I could imagine a fashion model holding it in the pages of a magazine. “Keep it,” my friend told me. It wasn’t pricey; he’d bought a whole bunch just to give away. 🧵

I keep seeing Fanttik and Hoto tools on all my feeds and all over every Black Friday list so I asked @seanhollister.bsky.social to figure out how they just appeared from nowhere. Scandal! Huge influencer budgets! Ferocious gadget competition! A perfect Verge story -> www.theverge.com/report/82926...

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster. (h/t @michaelcrider.bsky.social)

omg

If covering the slings and arrows of Windows wasn't part of my job, I think I would join @grackle.space in this adventure. www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...

Here is our Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller ultimate FAQ. @jaypeters.net and I put our heads (and some extra Valve answers) together. If you've got more Qs let us know! www.theverge.com/games/820293...

The Analogue 3D, that long-awaited FPGA Nintendo 64, is finally shipping... and today I'm toying with it! Favorite: Sin and Punishment. Biggest surprise: Game Boy Pokemon on the big screen! Plus overclocked Perfect Dark in its 16:9 mode!

You can’t spell COP30 without C-3PO

That's the thing about Valve's timing: there's an Xbox-shaped hole in the market, and Microsoft wants to fill it... with something very like the Steam Machine! (But can Valve push it out broadly? Does it even want to? Does it prefer a slow trickle like Steam Deck?)

Scoop: Sony is making a Horizon MMO for your phone www.theverge.com/news/819657/...

Hey, that's me on The Full Nerd podcast talking Steam Machine with @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social @willsmith.fun and fellow special guest @gamersnexus.bsky.social! So fun, so nerdy. www.youtube.com/live/rvbj-XY...

It's time. Hopping in to answer your burning Valve and Steam Machine questions live right now! www.theverge.com/games/818113...

12 minutes till we start answering your burning Valve-Steam-Machine-Frame-Controller-2 questions!

The funniest thing about all of Valves hardware announcements today is that many of them are them going "you know what, fuck it, we were right the first time" and they were, in fact, right.

Bear with me as I take a victory lap, one that's actually mostly a victory lap for @sadlyitsbradley.bsky.social? I can't believe I can finally tell you everything I've been holding back the past couple weeks... after my trip to Valve.

Hey, so... you might want to check The Verge right now if you like Valve hardware.

I prefer @aliszewski.bsky.social's original suggested hed: "Lego's first Spot the cat minifigure comes with a $400 Galaxy class starship." I would buy the crap out of these mini-figs! www.theverge.com/news/815337/...

Epic already won its Google case... twice... and now... it's settling??? I've read through the document and... wow. You can read my TL;DR or the whole doc if you prefer. www.theverge.com/policy/81399...

Yes! Finally! I know people who've bought entire HDMI dummy plugs to trick the Steam Deck into turning off its screen while downloading. www.theverge.com/news/813864/...

After my Xbox Ally review, I never stopped testing. If Microsoft could get it to sleep without losing gobs of battery or crashing, it'd be a huge deal! But Microsoft wouldn't even admit anything was wrong. I switched to Bazzite, and it's like a whole new device. www.theverge.com/games/807711...

Eight years after the right coined "alternative facts," Elon Musk has given them an alternative encyclopedia, one that claims to purge bias while doing the opposite on topics like "climate change." Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries. www.theverge.com/news/807686/...

Halo. Remake. It looks great, and it's coming to PS5 too. @tomwarren.co.uk has already played some! I can't wait. www.theverge.com/news/805174/...

Remember how @nataliethenerd.com made the Lego Game Boy play carts for real? She's going to sell a drop-in kit. It's called the Build a Boy. Everything I know right here: www.theverge.com/games/805673...

♫ It's beginning to look a lot like Xbox... ♫ Hallmark's Xbox 360 Christmas ornament. What do you think? I like the Sega Genesis better, but now I have an Xbox to keep it company under the tree!

Here are Amazon's smart delivery glasses. Definitely want to try these! Wouldn't want to be *required* to wear them... www.theverge.com/news/804962/...

Sharge does it again.

What a world we live in! www.theverge.com/news/804289/...

Samsung and Google's Vision Pro competitor is finally here. $1,800 and here's @vicmsong.bsky.social with the goods www.theverge.com/tech/802299/...

Mini-scoop: Here's how Google is picking the 15 "superfans" who'll test an unreleased Pixel phone — you can read the official rules! www.theverge.com/report/80370... (h/t my old colleague @welch.bsky.social for the original scoop)

Hey, that's me on The Vergecast with @davidpierce.xyz talking about the Xbox Ally! www.theverge.com/podcast/8031...