My Neighbor Alice, the fully onchain multiplayer game built on Chromia, has announced a new creative partnership with Persona Journey. Through its newly launched initiative, the Alice Collective, the game is merging retro aesthetics with blockchain-powered experiences. The partnership marks the beginning of Alice’s expansion into new Web3 frontiers.

Key Takeaways:

• My Neighbor Alice partners with Persona Journey to introduce vintage-inspired content.

• Joint events, retro-themed rewards, and content will roll out across both platforms.

• A new “Prismatic Collection” of custom wearables and exclusive emotes is launching in Lummelunda.

• Gamified tasks will offer players chances to earn $ALICE tokens and participate in airdrops.

• Web3 creators can apply for grants to join the expanding Alice ecosystem.

At its heart, the collaboration brings My Neighbor Alice into contact with the vibrant world of Persona Journey.

Set in the Lummelunda Archipelago, Alice invites players to gather resources, build, and express themselves creatively through gameplay and NFTs.

A Creative Exchange of Nostalgia and Tech

Persona Journey is all about breathing new life into classic tech — think cassette players, old-school Polaroids, and even Betamax tapes — by fusing them with modern AI and Web3 elements.

The Alice team saw an opportunity not only to explore this shared aesthetic but also to collaborate with a community that’s genuinely passionate about digital culture. In turn, the partnership gives Persona Journey broader exposure to a new wave of Web3 players and creators.

Source: My Neighbor Alice

What Players Can Expect

Over the coming months, themed experiences will be hosted inside both My Neighbor Alice and Persona Journey. These include casual game nights, interactive livestreams, and exclusive emotes for use in Lummelunda.

The collaboration also debuts the “Prismatic Collection” — a new line of wearable NFTs that brings together Persona’s retro influences with Alice’s imaginative flair.

Ways to Earn and Participate

Beyond cosmetics and events, the partnership has a practical angle. Persona-themed challenges will appear on the Alice Rewards Boards, giving players opportunities to earn $ALICE tokens.

These challenges range from completing in-game objectives to taking part in social campaigns. The tokens themselves are used for in-game purchases and even governance decisions, meaning your participation could help shape the future of the game.

Looking Ahead

For My Neighbor Alice and the Alice Collective, this is just the start. The team plans to bring more like-minded Web3 projects into the fold — those that share a focus on creativity, collaboration, and community. Developers and creators who are interested can apply for grants to join the Alice ecosystem and help co-create what comes next.

In a space that often moves too fast to savor, this partnership between My Neighbor Alice and Persona Journey offers something different: a chance to build, play, and create together, while honouring the past and imagining the future.

I’ll start by saying that I generally like 8BitDo’s products; I bought several controllers from the brand over the years, and they’ve held up well. A big part of the allure with the brand is the styling; most of its products have a delightful retro aesthetic, and that’s even more true of its mechanical keyboard.

The Retro Mechanical Keyboard has a fabulous design that evokes memories of retro gaming consoles, and 8BitDo did a great job staying true to its design ethos. The keyboard is available for $89 on Amazon, and it is sold in four editions. I’m using the N Edition, and you can pick up the C64 Edition, Fami Edition, or the M Edition. The feature-set is identical with all the models, and the only difference is the design.

The N Edition is styled to resemble the NES, and it looks fantastic; the design is a definite differentiator, and 8BitDo did all the right things in this area. The keyboard has a power button on the right that light up when it’s connected, and you get dials to switch between modes; there’s Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connectivity in addition to the standard USB-C.

There are physical buttons to pair the keyboard, and I set it up with my iPad Pro M4 and Vivo X200 Pro in addition to testing it with my Windows machine. There are no problems whatsoever with connectivity, and 8BitDo’s unique 2.4GHz receiver slots into a magnetic cubby at the back, ensuring you don’t lose it.

The keyboard uses an aluminum plate, but the chassis itself is made out of plastic. I don’t mind the plastic build (it is a faithful recreation, after all), and the build quality itself is pretty good. Coming in at 1050g, the keyboard isn’t particularly heavy, but it stays planted on a table thanks to rubber feet on the underside.

I like the dual knobs to switch between modes and adjust the volume; they have a decidedly retro flair. The keys are similarly great, with 8BitDo using dye-sublimated PBT keys with a custom MDA profile. Another interesting inclusion is a set of buttons — dubbed the Super Buttons — that you can connect to the keyboard via custom connectors. You get one set of buttons in the package, and you can easily connect three additional sets. The buttons are programmable, so you can set up macros or launch a program with relative ease.

Similar to most keyboards today, 8BitDo went with a TKL design — you miss out on the dedicated number pad. That said, if you need a full-size model, that edition is available for $115 — and it retails the same design. The TKL model has the standard 87 keys, and it is available in ISO configurations.

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The keyboard comes with Kailh Box V2 White switches as standard, and the pre-lubed clicky switch is loud — it’s similar to the Cherry MX Blue in this regard. The switch has a 45gF actuation and 3.9mm total travel, and it feels wonderful to use. I generally prefer Gateron’s linear switches, and the feel of these Kailh switches is totally different.

That said, if you need a mechanical keyboard with quiet switches, this isn’t the one to get. Of course, you can easily take out the switches and use your own if you want — the keyboard takes standard 3- and 5-pin MX switches. While it doesn’t have VIA, 8BitDo’s software does a decent enough job, and it is easy to program buttons and macros.

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Now, the biggest limitation with the keyboard is that it doesn’t have backlighting. I get that some brands don’t want to include RGB lighting on their keyboards, but there isn’t any backlight whatsoever with this model, and that is annoying. 8BitDo should have at least used white LEDs to accentuate the design, because as it stands, the keyboard isn’t that usable in a dark room.

I would have liked a metal chassis as it usually delivers better acoustics, but the choice of switch mitigates that issue to an extent. Outside of that, I don’t have any problems with the Retro Mechanical Keyboard. The keyboard has a 2,000mAh battery, and 8BitDo touts 200 hours of usage between charges. That’s because of the fact that it doesn’t have any backlighting, and in my usage, I got two weeks of usage out of a charge, and that’s considerably more than any other keyboard.

Overall, the Retro Mechanical Keyboard has one of the best designs of any keyboard I have in the house (and I have over 30 boards), and the versatile connectivity makes it a breeze to use it with just about any device. It’s annoying that there’s no backlighting, but if you don’t mind the omission and want a keyboard that celebrates the glorious era of retro gaming, you should buy it.

The Alice Collective, a new initiative to grow the My Neighbor Alice universe, has announced its first collaboration — a creative alliance with Persona Journey. Merging retro aesthetics with blockchain-powered experiences, the partnership marks the beginning of Alice’s expansion into new Web3 frontiers.

Key Takeaways:

• Alice Collective’s first official partner is Persona Journey.

• Joint events, retro-themed rewards, and content will roll out across both platforms.

• A new “Prismatic Collection” of custom wearables and exclusive emotes is launching in Lummelunda.

• Gamified tasks will offer players chances to earn $ALICE tokens and participate in airdrops.

• Web3 creators can apply for grants to join the expanding Alice ecosystem.

At its heart, the collaboration brings My Neighbor Alice — a fully onchain multiplayer game built on Chromia — into contact with the vibrant world of Persona Journey.

Set in the Lummelunda Archipelago, Alice invites players to gather resources, build, and express themselves creatively through gameplay and NFTs.

A Creative Exchange of Nostalgia and Tech

Persona Journey is all about breathing new life into classic tech — think cassette players, old-school Polaroids, and even Betamax tapes — by fusing them with modern AI and Web3 elements.

The Alice team saw an opportunity not only to explore this shared aesthetic but also to collaborate with a community that’s genuinely passionate about digital culture. In turn, the partnership gives Persona Journey broader exposure to a new wave of Web3 players and creators.

Source: My Neighbor Alice

What Players Can Expect

Over the coming months, themed experiences will be hosted inside both My Neighbor Alice and Persona Journey. These include casual game nights, interactive livestreams, and exclusive emotes for use in Lummelunda.

The collaboration also debuts the “Prismatic Collection” — a new line of wearable NFTs that brings together Persona’s retro influences with Alice’s imaginative flair.

Ways to Earn and Participate

Beyond cosmetics and events, the partnership has a practical angle. Persona-themed challenges will appear on the Alice Rewards Boards, giving players opportunities to earn $ALICE tokens.

These challenges range from completing in-game objectives to taking part in social campaigns. The tokens themselves are used for in-game purchases and even governance decisions, meaning your participation could help shape the future of the game.

Alice Collective: Looking Ahead

For the Alice Collective, this is just the start. The team plans to bring more like-minded Web3 projects into the fold — those that share a focus on creativity, collaboration, and community. Developers and creators who are interested can apply for grants to join the Alice ecosystem and help co-create what comes next.

In a space that often moves too fast to savor, this partnership between My Neighbor Alice and Persona Journey offers something different: a chance to build, play, and create together, while honouring the past and imagining the future.

The benchmark was designed to evaluate vision-language models like GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.5 Pro using a set of 20 popular games, including Doom, Prince of Persia, and Warcraft II.

Instead of relying on code or special inputs, these models were only given the visual game screen to decide their next move. The AI takes a screenshot, analyzes it, suggests an action, and then tries to carry it out.

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This delay is especially noticeable in fast-paced games like Doom, where quick reactions are key. If the AI takes too long to respond, the situation on the screen has already changed, which makes its decision outdated. For example, an enemy might have moved, or the player may already be in danger before the model responds.

According to the research team, current models are not only slow to react but also struggle with basic tasks. They often miss items, fail to interact with the environment properly, or keep repeating the same actions without making progress.

The team used older Game Boy and MS-DOS games because their simple graphics and variety of control types provide a good way to test how well models understand space and timing.

The benchmark was developed by computer scientist Alex Zhang, who explained that these games help reveal how much work is still needed before AI can play games reliably in real-time.

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