{"id":478209,"date":"2026-06-01T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478209\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:20:08","slug":"the-google-pixel-watch-5-may-have-been-spoiled-by-the-creator-of-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478209\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google Pixel Watch 5 may have been spoiled by\u2026 the creator of Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">We may just have gotten an early look at the Google Pixel Watch 5 \u2014 and from an unusual source. Randy Pitchford, the creator of the Borderlands game franchise, posted a pair of images of a watch on X, saying that his friend found it underwater while scuba diving near Saint Martin, as <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/randy-pitchford-borderlands-weirdest-tech-leak-of-2026-pixel-watch-5-google-2000701121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier by Kotaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cHe noted that the reverse of the watch indicates that it is a Google Pixel 5, which has not yet been announced, let alone released,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DuvalMagic\/status\/2061147076096872836?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pitchford writes<\/a>. \u201cIt seems to be fine. The face indicates an empty battery, but seems to have enough reserve power to display the correct time.\u201d After putting out a call to find its owner, Pitchford said someone contacted him and that he\u2019s \u201carranged for its return.\u201d Google didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Google typically shows off its newest Pixel devices in August. That means we\u2019ll find out if someone really dropped a not-yet-revealed Pixel Watch 5 into the ocean in just a few short months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We may just have gotten an early look at the Google Pixel Watch 5 \u2014 and from an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[93,203,213,1711,6794,61,60,43,1535,216,80,2934],"class_list":["post-478209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-entertainment","tag-gadgets","tag-gaming","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-smartwatch","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}