One of the longest-running series in gaming history, The Legend of Zelda is a story of heroic adventures, overwhelming odds, and gameplay refinement that finds new ways to reinvent itself with each iteration. With more than 40 games under the Zelda umbrella, we took a look at the main games in the series and have narrowed down the best of the best.

The combustion engine version of the Chevy Blazer is reportedly being discontinued and will eventually only be offered as an EV, sources tell GM Authority. Both the Chevy Blazer EV and the gas-powered Chevy Blazer have been assembled at GM’s Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, but with the gas Blazer now sunsetting with the 2025 model year, the facility is being retooled only to accommodate electric vehicles, GM Authority says.In an email to The Verge, Chevy representative Chad Lyons says that “we have no portfolio changes to share and will not comment on speculation.”Chevy makes EV and ICE versions of the Blazer mid-sized SUV and the Equinox, a smaller SUV. The models didn’t only differentiate in powertrains from their gas counterparts but also in style and platform. Both the Blazer EV and Equinox EV share GM’s tailored EV platform (formerly called Ultium) and are built in the same plant in Mexico alongside the Cadillac Optiq. Honda’s Prologue, which is essentially a rebadged Blazer EV, is built in the same plant as well.As GM Authority notes, a discontinued gas-powered Blazer means Chevy no longer carries a two-row combustion SUV in North America. Chevy does still use the nameplate for a three-row SUV in China.Chevy sold 52,576 Blazers in the US in 2024, a drop from 94,599 sold in 2020 when the then 2019 model year redesign was introduced. GM also discontinued the Cadillac XT5 and XT6 this year.

PlayStation Network (PSN) has been experiencing a multi-hour outage that started Friday evening. According to Sony’s PSN status page, account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and the PlayStation Direct website are all dealing with issues.For gaming specifically, Sony says that “you might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features.” Sony is vowing to fix the problems “as soon as possible.”Around when I first published this article at 7:28PM ET, a colleague wasn’t able to load their purchased digital games or see their friends, trophies, or even their online status on their PS5. At about 11:45PM ET, I tried to play Fortnite on my PS5, but the game showed an error message and wouldn’t let me log in. I was able to start my digital copy of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, however.“We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” Sony says in an 8:46PM ET post on the @AskPlayStation X account. We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN.For more details: https://t.co/NJX2xGusZM— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) February 8, 2025Sony’s status website says the issues started at 7PM ET, but Downdetector shows user reports starting to come in about an hour earlier at around 6PM ET. At the peak, there were a bit less than 70,000 reports of problems on Downdetector. An r/PlayStation thread about the outage has more than 9,000 comments.Sony didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.PSN had an outage that lasted for around eight hours back in October. It dealt with a partial outage in May, too.Updates, February 7th: Added @AskPlayStation’s tweet, noted that the outage has been going on for hours, and added details about my own experiences with the outage.

While modern games are often highly graphically intensive and require the best graphics cards to perform optimally, there is a whole world of less demanding games that can be played directly from their website URLs. Some of these are highly inventive and require plenty of thought to beat, while some older games have been ported so that they can play straight from your browser. None of them need you to download or install anything, and the contents of this list are all free to play with minimal or no advertising on the sites they're hosted on. So, if you find you have a few minutes wherever you are, open your browser and enjoy some gaming with no strings attached.

During a Q&A with employees earlier this week, one of Meta’s top executives gave an ominous warning.After lamenting “a tremendous number of leaks” from inside the company, CTO Andrew Bosworth said that, while he didn’t want to “ruin the surprises,” the company was “making progress on catching people.”Since Mark Zuckerberg’s comments at a recent all-hands meeting were published, Meta’s leaders have tried to clamp down on an agitated and tense cohort of workers. The power struggle isn’t over. It’s unclear how Meta is going to look on the other side.“There’s a funny thing that’s happening with these leaks,” Bosworth said during his Q&A earlier this week (a recording of which I obtained). “When things leak, I think a lot of times people think, ‘Ah, okay, this is leaked, therefore it’ll put pressure on us to change things.’ The opposite is more likely.” â€œThis is a company that, from Mark’s inception, as far as I can tell, has always played the repeat game,” he said. “And if you create an environment where leaks cause people to make things change internally, then it creates more leaks. You create an incentive structure that’s wrong… I …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've been shopping around, there's a pretty good chance that you've noticed that there's an abundance of gaming mice to choose from. It can be overwhelming for someone that's looking to purchase their first real gaming mouse, but it can be easy if you know what to look for.

Forget roses and chocolates – this Valentine’s Day, it’s time to think outside the box. I’m about to unlock the romantic potential of a tool you might not expect: Microsoft Excel. In this post, I will go over the tips to create a darling README sheet, develop engaging pie and line graphs, design a fun quiz or game, insert custom image charts (think Eiffel Tower), master the art of macros for hidden messages, and even password-protect your heartfelt creation with a special message.

Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink… without a filter like this.Access to water is always a concern when heading off the grid in my van — not when I’m home in Amsterdam, a city surrounded by the stuff. That certainty changed recently when government ministers began quietly prodding citizens to stock up on emergency supplies due to an increased risk of armed conflict and other regional unpleasantries. One recommendation, of many, is to have three liters (almost one gallon) of water per person per day on hand, or 15 liters per day for my five-person household. That means 105 liters for just one week or 450 liters each month! I don’t have space for that. Who does?So, I started thinking: why not augment my emergency freshwater stores with a filtration and purification kit that can adapt to all the water sources around me? And since I’m a budding vanlifer and chronic adventurer, let’s make it portable so I can take it anywhere.I came up with this as a first-time prepper: pairing quick-connect water filters like the $42 LifeStraw sold by Camelbak with Dometic’s portable 11-liter Go water jug ($69.99) and its rechargeable Go Hydration Water Faucet ($99.99). Dirty water goes in and clean water comes out with a double-tap on the fauce …Read the full story at The Verge.

User experience and user interface design is prevalent throughout our modern day experience, as we access web designs from our computers and phones all day, every day. Good UX/UI designs need savvy developers to implement them into code. Penpot makes collaborative design and developer handover a total breeze. Not only does it have great design features, but it is cost-effective and has a great community of help available. Penpot is in constant open-source development, bringing it toe-to-toe with the industry’s best alternative: Figma.

Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert.One user called the move “shameful” and said that the platform is being used to “capitulate to fascism.” Over the last few years, there have been comments and media reports complaining about the presence of the notes, but now they’re gone.Google confirmed it’s made changes to the default Calendar events, but with a different explanation about when and why. Here’s Google’s explanation of what’s going on, provided by spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld:For over a decade we’ve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar. Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.Timeanddate.com didn’t reply to requests for comment.

So, Discord is an Electron-based app, and someone ported it to Windows 95 just because they could. Well what if I told you that someone ported Windows 95to Electron, so that you can download and run it as a standalone app? It's every bit as cursed as you may imagine, but it's also a pretty incredible technological feat, too.

Your old PC can be a useful tool for creating some seriously powerful systems and one such example is a media streaming box. Sure, your "smart" TV and dongles such as Amazon's Fire TV range are perfect for connecting to your favorite streaming services, but you could do this and a whole lot more by using a PC. With a full PC, you can also use it for playing modern games through Steam or classics using emulation. Then there's the ability to throw a few more hard drives inside the PC and create a home server. There's plenty you can do with a media streaming system.