I'm going to admit, I've been tempted by the allure of a foldable phone. A phone in your pocket, but a tablet in the right environment, there's an appeal there that makes sense to me. Ultimately, it's the price and hinge that have always put me off. If you plan on spending days opening up and closing yours, like a bibliophile breaking in a good book spine, I have some...

Somebody's marketing team didn't stop to ask whether they should, only whether they could, and as a result Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting an expansion that lets you do a velociraptor fly-by. The Jurassic World: Archipelago add-on will bolt onto your globe the islands of Isla Nublar, Isla Sorna, and the rest of the Muertes Archipelago added in The Lost World because one dinosaur island wasn't enough.To get there...

Feel free to use as much of our Wordle help as you need to keep your win streak going. Our August 7 (1510) clue is a great place to start, and if you're being tormented by stubborn yellow letters that just won't turn green our hints can quickly sort things out. Running out of rows for all of your amazing guesses? That's why the answer to today's Wordle is just...

Fata Deum cites Black & White and Populous as inspirations, and it sure does look like a god game in the classic mold. You get to lord it over a bunch of tiny people, granting their wishes with miracles or punishing them arbitrarily at your whim. If God really is a gamer, we're probably screwed, aren't we?One of Fata Deum's hooks is that it's got a day/night cycle and, while...

I like ghost stuff. I like stories about ghosts, I like seeing old photographs that supposedly show evidence of ghosts, and I like videos that claim to show ghost activity.But I view all that stuff as goofy fun. There's always a reasonable explanation for whatever shadowy face can be seen in an old photo or brief swirl of light someone claims to be a ghost captured on film. I don't...

There's a board game for everything now. Last time I looked in at my local store they had board games based on Oregon Trail, the Iliad, and World War II espionage in the Mediterranean theater specifically. I shouldn't be surprised there's going to be a board game based on that one fighting game where you can be a jaguar man, and that it comes with flash-looking miniatures including one of...

Anthem isn't getting shuttered for good until January 2026, but it's already spent years as one of the industry's preeminent tragedies. This week, former Anthem executive producer and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah published the first of a multi-video YouTube series about the game's ill-fated production history, and how BioWare's storytelling chops might have been too capable for its own good.While Darrah didn't take over as Anthem executive producer until late...

We don't know a whole lot about the setting for Battlefield 6, but the broad strokes were revealed late last week: "Major European countries" have pulled out of NATO, leaving the US and some unspecified number of remaining allies to stand alone against a massive mercenary outfit called Pax Armata. It's a scenario that feels at least loosely rooted in reality—how firm is NATO's footing these days, really?—but EA insists...

Elden Ring Nightreign's latest update brought many great things with it: a new Everdark boss (Augur), highly anticipated duo expeditions, and a brilliant new relic sorting system. But something rather unexpected also came with: whispers of upcoming (unannounced) Nightreign content.After the recent patch, dataminers got to work sifting through files to see if there was anything new to find, and there was quite a bit, actually. Not only was there...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it's bad.Do you ever wish everyone in our hobby were more angry about something that grinds your gears? For me, it's the state of bots in multiplayer games. A time-honored, genuinely useful feature has been contorted into something insulting and...