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With its Galaxy Z Fold and Flip phones, Samsung has created a popular image for itself in the foldable market. With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 on the way later in the summer, it has been reported that Samsung may introduce a new player in the foldable phone market - a triple foldable device. Therefore, we might see a whole new type of Samsung foldable in the coming months. The news about Samsung's tri-fold phone has created a buzz over how it will look and how the tri-fold will work. While there is little information about what's coming, let's check what the tipster said about the new rumor.

This will be a unique story for us to write, so we need to give some context to it all. Humanity is nothing if not arrogant regarding what it feels it can “get away with” and how it can “showcase things it knows little about.” It’s these kinds of beliefs that have led to stereotypical depictions of various races throughout media for over a hundred years. Movies, TV shows, and, yes, video games have all partaken in this, and society has tried to do better once they were called out for it. The Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered collection is one such title that is a “product of the times,” and Crystal Dynamics wants you to be keenly aware of that.

Two F-Zero games exclusively released on Nintendo's Satellaview SNES service have been restored by fans and are available to play for free.

I don’t think it’s really possible to quantify the “worst game of all time” or even compare kusoge that well. There are so many ways that a game can be deficient, and it’s hard to say what the worst way is.

We weren't expecting Turbo Golf Racing to wind up on PS5, but we're happy it's coming. Yes, the arcade sports title, which has you racing in a car to sink your giant golf ball as fast as possible, has been announced for Sony's system, and it's coming in Q2 of this year (April to June).

No one really expects Microsoft to suddenly step out of the hardware race, but it’s been a hellish week for the Redmond firm, where rumours have swirled with reckless abandon. All the way back on Monday – which feels like an eternity ago now – boss Phil Spencer announced it’d share news about its console strategy the following week, without confirming or denying any of the speculation.

While the most topical discussions about the Forza franchise at large usually have something to do with the latest game’s many fumbles and stumbles, now’s the time to take a look at something different. Did you know that the Forza community maintains a humongous list of real-world car paint specifications?

Turbo Golf Racing will leave Early Access and launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store in Q2 2024, publisher Secret Mode and developer Hugecalf Studios announced. The PlayStation 5 version is newly announced.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been in the news virtually throughout the whole of the last year and 2024 has started with a bang too. This is courtesy of the major strides the company has taken in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) where its big bet on Sam Altman-led OpenAI has meant that Microsoft is virtually leading the race against rival tech titans with Google, Meta Platforms, and Amazon playing catch up. And the biggest rival of them all, Apple, is yet to start the race. With AI set to transform the world in every way imaginable and some ways that are still to be thought-up, the leadership in this space would itself have ensured Nadella's place at the top of the best tech CEOs ever list after Apple founder Steve Jobs.

We may not be using the M word much these days, but the race to build an interconnected avatar-driven virtual world didn’t take the last year off.

Today, the Chinese raiding guild Skyline (天涯) is officially retiring, citing financial burden and general exhaustion over seven years of competitive raiding. Widely regarded as the most accomplished group of eastern raiders, Skyline finished top 10 in every single Race to World First since the launch of Battle for Azeroth, including the #8 spot in Amirdrassil, despite stalling for nearly a thousand pulls against Tindral Sageswift.

Turn 10 Studios has released an initial outline of the changes it's making to car progression in Forza Motorsport.

One of the new items introduced in Season of Discovery is the Cozy Sleeping Bag, an item that will grant the player an experience buff, similar to rested experience. As part of Season of Discovery, players had to uncover how to acquire this bag! We've put together a step by step guide on how to unlock it, so avoid opening the guide if you want to leave it a mystery. How to Get the Cozy Sleeping Bag Blizzard revealed the Cozy Sleeping Bag on Twitter, prior to Phase 2's launch.

Before the world of A Quiet Place became a quiet place, it was a LOUD PLACE. And based on the first trailer for this June’s A Quiet Place: Day One, it was particularly loud on day one, when a species of snarling echolocation-reliant aliens crashed on Earth. As teased in John Krasinski’s newspaper-clipping mosaic in the first movie, New York City went into full lockdown after the ETs arrived. Day One, which gets a big spooky trailer that will premiere to the masses at 2024 Super Bowl LVIII, chronicles that fateful day in the Big Apple.

Forza Motorsport‘s Update 6 – due to release in March 2024 – is shaping up to be a huge step forward for the live-service racing game from Turn 10. Notably, the developer has just revealed that the game’s entire Car Level progression mechanic will be getting upended in accordance with player feedback.

A player can find tons of cute or capable Pals on a tour through Palworld’s Palpagos Islands, but in order to fill out their Paldeck, they’ll need to dabble with breeding. Breeding is a surprisingly deep part of Palworld, and it’s quickly become a rabbit hole — or a Caprity hole, if you will — for my group on our shared server.

A fresh set of weekly freebies has now arrived on the Epic Games Store, this time in the form of acclaimed visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and rogue-like brawling RPG Lost Castle — with Dakar Desert Racing to follow next week.

The Big Indie Pitch is a regular event run by the makers of PCGamesInsider.biz. It sees indie developers engage in a speed-dating-style pitching competition for fame and those sweet, sweet promotional packages.

The internet sure does love a cat, as illustrated by games like Stray, and Copycat eagerly jumps on that bandwagon in its demo debut. Thankfully, that never feels gimmicky, and the Steam Next Fest sampling is packed with enough emotion to make the grumpiest grouch’s heart melt.

I've long been enamoured with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, from the Douglas firs and waterfalls of Twin Peaks to the redwoods I once swam beneath on a road trip. Thanks to Pacific Drive's Steam Next Fest demo, I have now also barrelled through the woods and backroads of a spooky alt-history PNW in a banged-up car which is itself a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-esque artifact. I've had my eye on Pacific Drive for a few years and after playing the demo, I am delighted by parts of it but not entirely sold on its roguelikelike survival scavenge-o-rama structure. Hmm! Give it a go and tell me what you think.

Bloodborne Kart is a fan game which aims to use From Software's gothic horror action RPG as the basis for a PSone-era kart racer. Or it was. Its developers say that Sony have been in touch and, as a consequence, "need to scrub the branding off." It'll stil come out after it a short delay, but it won't be called Bloodborne Kart anymore.

The April Fool's joke brought to life, Bloodborne Kart, has had to postpone its release following «contact» from IP owners Sony.

Nintendo Switch Online game F-Zero 99 has a fresh update today that adds the ability to create private lobbies.

American Truck Simulator's list of confirmed future stops is beginning to pile up; not only has developer SCS revealed trips to Nebraska and Arkansas are on the horizon, it's announced it'll be pulling into Missouri when those two expansions are done.

With the launch of last year's Forza Motorsport — and an initial flurry of patches and fixes — behind it, developer Turn 10 Studios has confirmed its next steps for the racer will be to address three key community concerns over the «coming months».

We didn't review Turn 10 and Microsoft's latest Forza Motorsport and well, thank goodness, because I've just taken a look at the Steam page and it's a regular six-mile pile-up in there. The game's user reviews are Mostly Negative, three months after release, with complaints covering a wide gamut: the online being full of cheaters, the single player being boring, and the game being poorly optimised for PC.

American Truck Simulator is heading to Missouri for its next expansion. It'll be the first appearance of the Mississippi river in the beloved simulation game.

SEGA shared new information and artwork of its recently announced legacy franchise revivals Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage during its Management Meeting 2023 presentation on December 12. The new information appears to suggest Jet Set Radio will be set in an open-world Tokyo, and the Streets of Rage game is titled Streets of Rage: Revolution.

Microsoft has announced a range of offers across a selection of Xbox games, as well as its Series X/S consoles and Elite controllers.

Infamous crowdfunded disaster Godus and its spin-off Godus Wars have both been removed from sale on Steam. A statement from studio 22cans says that "an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services" is to blame. Both games had been in Steam Early Access since first launching in 2013 and 2016 respectively, receiving few updates since and mostly or overwhelmingly negative reviews.

22cans has confirmed it is withdrawing Godus and Godus Wars from sale on Steam.

Ubisoft’s open-world multiplayer driving game The Crew will switch off its servers next spring, just shy of the series’ 10th anniversary. The shutdown will leave the car-based MMO impossible to play, with the game pulled from sale ahead of the move.

Ubisoft has delisted open world racing game The Crew, with servers shutting down next year.

Nintendo has added three more classic N64 games to its Switch Online expansion pack: 1080° Snowboarding, Harvest Moon 64 and Jet Force Gemini.

Peacock has renewed its Twisted Metal TV adaption for a second season.

Sonic the Hedgehog publisher Sega has announced five new projects at The Game Awards this evening: new chapters in a slew of classic franchises.

I don't drive myself, and while that's mostly because I can't afford a car, don't really need one for work and have wibbly environmentalist sensibilities, it's also because the experience of driving, for me, has been thoroughly spoiled by videogames. I mean, just look at this trailer for Ironwood's Vandemeerian vehicle survival roguelike Pacific Drive. How am I supposed to drive on some stupid road after watching that? What's the point of cars if there are no floating cryptid lifeforms, inexplicable walls of energy or lost research facilities involved?

Pacific Drive is set to rev up its engines and pull out of the driveway on 22nd February, across PlayStation 5 and PC (via Steam and Epic Game Store).

Every so often a new game surfaces that aims to be a successor to classic, stylish, mid-'90s antigrav racer Wipeout. Released back in 2018, BallisticNG was among the better attempts, managing to capture the speed and a little of the style while hewing close to the chunky polgyonal style of the PlayStation 1-era original.

American Truck Simulator will head to Kansas next week, with the release of its latest DLC on November 30th. Before that the truck driving and management sim has received a new update which adds improved weather effects, revised mountains, used truck deals, and the Moon.

American Truck Simulator rumbles ever-onward, and developer SCS Software has announced it'll be making its next stop, this time in the state of Kansas — the destination of its newest paid expansion — next Thursday, 30th November. Plus, its substantial 1.49 update — which adds a dynamic night sky, the moon, HDR skyboxes, and more — is out now.

An ambitious-sounding follow-up to The Simpsons: Hit & Run was set to include airships.

GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games were once working on a zombie survival game set on a Scottish island, which sounds like a mixture of GTA: Vice City and legendary Arma mod DayZ. That's according to former technical director Obbe Vermeij, who joined Rockstar North in 1995 back when it was called DMA Design, and left in 2009 following the release of GTA 4. In the run-up to the GTA 6 trailer reveal this month, he's started blogging about the development of several Rockstar games, from GTA through grotty snuff film simulator Manhunt to cancelled projects such as the zombie title and Cold War stealth fest Agent.

Forza Customs is a new game in the Forza series that arrives today on mobile.

Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Switch OLED and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, which also includes three months of Nintendo Switch Online.

Resistor is a narrative RPG about competing in death races. That's exciting enough to me in concept, but there's a trailer below that finally shows what each of those halves look like. It includes: finely animated dialogue options, and frenetic races in which you can swing the back-end of your car to smash rival racers off the road.

Unannounced football game Lego 2K Goooal! has leaked yet again, this time with official artwork via a listing on the PlayStation Store.

Nintendo's Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital have released the new opening movie for Gran Turismo 7 added as part the “Spec II” (version 1.40) update, which is available today.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital will release the “Spec II” (version 1.40) update for Gran Turismo 7 on November 2, which adds seven new cars, a new track, and a large assortment of new features, the companies announced.

Nintendo has announced F-ZERO 99 for Switch. It is available now via Nintendo eShop as a free download for Nintendo Switch Online members.

Publisher Just For Games and developer Zero Games Studio have announced “simcade” racing game Hot Lap Racing for Switch and PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024.

Publisher Electronic Arts and developer Codemasters have announced EA Sports WRC for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, EA App). It will launch on November 3 for $49.99.

Spark the Electric Jester series developer Feperd Games has announced hoverjet racing game XF Extreme Formula for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced. A demo is available now.

Publishers Thunderful Games and Coatsink, and developer Ghosts have announced Phantom Spark, a momentum-based, time-trial racing game coming to Switch and PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

60-player kart racing game Stampede: Racing Royale will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on November 2, publisher Secret Mode and developer Sumo Leamington announced.

This week’s Famitsu review scores are in.

Publisher PLAYISM and developer MercuryStudio have announced battle racing and robot customization sequel BREAK ARTS III for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced. It will feature English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language options.

OVERPASS 2 will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on September 28, earlier than its previously planned October 19 release date, publisher Nacon and developer Neopica announced.

As per NASA, the current known asteroid count is roughly 1,298,148. And now one of them is set to make an extremely close approach to Earth soon. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) uses data collected by telescopes to determine the asteroid's most likely orbit around the Sun. To assess whether an impact is possible and narrow down where the true orbit may be, NASA's new Sentry II then uses a new algorithm and selects random points throughout the entire uncertainty region. This allows Sentry-II to zero in on more very low probability impact scenarios.

Publisher Akupara Games and Rain World developer VIDEOCULT have announced vehicular combat racing game Airframe Ultra for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

Video games are building up quite a tradition of letting us race exotic cars in equally exotic locations, giving players the fantasy racing scenarios that go far beyond the daily commute through Romford in a Ford Mondeo. With that pretty cars in pretty places ethos in mind, The Crew Motorfest leaves the US mainland and North America behind, taking players to the Hawaiian island of O’ahu for a celebration of all kinds of car culture.

The Crew Motorfest races onto PlayStation this September, and recently we were lucky enough to get extensive hands-on time with a PC build of the game. With an expansive Hawaiian archipelago to explore, various racing playlists to drift through, and plenty of sweet new rides to test out, The Crew Motorfest is shaping up to be the expansive arcade racer that PlayStation fans have been waiting for.