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The Morning After: The Borderlands movie proves bad video game adaptations can still happen


The biggest news stories this morning: ASUS ROG Ally X review, Intel is bringing GPUs to cars, X now lets you sort replies so blue checks don’t bury other users’ comments.

Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie adaptation sounds like a recipe for a solid sci-fi romp: Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as the wise-cracking gunslinger Lilith; Jack Black as the quippy Claptrap; and even Jamie Lee Curtis. Scientists from the University of Oxford have created an ultra-thin layer of material that can be applied to the exterior of objects with sunlight access in place of bulky silicon-based solar panels. Thanks to some design tweaks and major hardware upgrades, ASUS has turned the ROG Ally X into the flagship Windows gaming handheld it was meant to be.

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