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Have all the RGB lights, nostalgia and excess gaming gear on your desk made you long for a simpler, more pixelated gaming experience? Govee’s latest lighting products, the Gaming Pixel Light and Mini Panel Lights, offer the best (or potentially the worst) of both worlds. Its Pixel Light especially comes with a modern, spaceship-like aesthetic and contains all fake LED pixels to remind you of the 8-bit era.
Govee’s latest lighting product is designed explicitly for gamers with its wide frame and decals. Although the Govee frame includes a 32 by 32 pixel count, thanks to modern LED capabilities, it is capable of rendering images with a much more varied color palette than a traditional NES game could achieve. It has over 150 preset “scenes,” including a clock or time display. The frame supports still images and GIFs at up to 30 FPS, which you can create and edit through an app.
If you’ve ever seen Divoom’s range of pixel art speakers and wall art, you’re probably feeling deja vu. Divoom products, such as Evo time box and the non-speaker 64 by 64 pixel wall panel, Includes creating your own pixel art and animations and then setting them to music. What separates the Govee box is the sci-fi aesthetic framework that may feel more comfortable with some desktop setups than others. You can also use the AI in the Govee app to generate pixel art with a message, although it takes so little effort to create 32 by 32 pixel art that you might as well ignore the AI’s capabilities entirely.
Better yet, you can connect the frame to a Govee HDMI 2.1 Sync Box and the Govee app. This allows you to stream your on-screen game images to the Gaming Pixel Light, displaying your detailed 3D game in a pseudo-2D pixel art style. Govee said its Gaming Pixel Light will also recognize music played through its speakers and change images based on the beat of the music.
Govee said the Gaming Pixel Light will be available sometime in the second quarter of this year.
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