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Image: John William Evelyn “I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas, a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam. The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach.“I had been drawing for many years before that […] and I’d always draw with ink straight away, without any kind of prior pencil work or sketching,” he says. “I liked all the incidental details and the accidents that come out along the way.” He compares it to improv music — “actually, sometimes it goes horribly wrong!” — but says that the feeling of getting... Continue reading…

We've seen a lot of people create modern-day devices inspired by the classic handheld consoles of yore, and they usually have some cool additions to the older designs that make them easier to use. However, sometimes you just have to take the original device and make a huge version of it, because why the hell not? That's what someone has done with the Gameboy XL, a hobby project that takes the iconic handheld console and makes a huge version that makes it more on par with modern handheld consoles than a pocket-sized powerhouse.

One of the best things about building your own computers is that you can upgrade them when performance starts to wane. One of the most popular upgrades is adding a more powerful CPU, essentially giving the computer a faster, more powerful brain to process instructions. The modular nature of modern computers is great for this, but you need to know a few important facts about your existing motherboard before you buy a new gaming processor.

Some PC cases cost more than $200 but it's possible to buy a chassis for as little as $40. The question many will ask when shopping around is: "Can you save too much money on a PC case?" The answer like all PC components is "yes," but it depends on what you're looking for. Some more affordable PC cases use higher quality materials and have some features typically reserved for more expensive chassis. But there are also some cases that aren't worth buying or cut corners in the wrong places.

Life is full of documents in different file formats that cater to our changing needs. If you want to draft a letter, you'll need Microsoft Word or another program that can create .doc files. And if youve got a TED Talks presentation coming up, a .pptx made with PowerPoint will do the job. But if you want to share versions of these documents and look professional too, you will probably want to use a PDF.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 38, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and you can also read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about iPads and the future of Google, watching American Fiction and Bodkin, rewatching Her because of… reasons, endlessly replaying the songs of Windows95man, learning how to make better sandwiches, testing Claude for AI stuff, and listening to the new-old Childish Gambino album.I also have for you a new AI model, literally thousands of new Lego pieces, a new way to Google, the fanciest mop you’ve ever seen in your life, more emulators for iOS, and much more.And I have a question: W... Continue reading…

The new iPhone 15 series has a lot of great features, and they're only going to get better with iOS 18. But some of the most useful features can be the simplest ones, including taking a screenshot or recording your screen. You might want to do this for a few reasons, like saving something for your records or sharing pictures with your friends. After you take a screenshot, you can even edit and share your screenshot or screen recording with just a few taps. In this guide, we'll show you exactly how to do it on all our favorite iPhones.

Online gaming is much more than simply connecting to a matchmade game and shooting a few bad guys, or perhaps also choosing to chat and stream while gaming. An online match is mostly affected by ping with network speed playing a much smaller role. But when it comes to streaming your gameplay, that requirement flips. If you want to play online with the option to stream and chat, you'll need to have a router with enough power to handle all of those connections smoothly. Additionally, since regional restrictions play a major role in who is allowed to play, a router with VPN support is more important than ever to some players.

Although Apples M2 iPad Pro was already one of the best tablets outright, the new M4 iPad Pro has raised the bar with yet another new SoC that few were expecting. But while this new tablet represents the top performance tier for Apple products, it is also Apples most expensive tablet to date. This begs two key questions.

Bitwarden is a popular password manager that can help you conveniently create and use more secure passwords for all your accounts. By default, the available apps will use Bitwarden's backend cloud infrastructure to store your passwords and provide access anywhere in the world. Because one of the primary goals of setting up network-attached storage (NAS) may be to run some services in-house, taking full control of your passwords and how they're stored is easy by running Bitwarden on your server. This guide will walk you through how to set Bitwarden up on a Synology NAS.

With all of Google's announcements this week, it's only natural to have missed a few that slipped through the cracks. And even if you paid attention to everything, you may have missed some news that flew under the radar amongst all the hype. Whichever camp you're in, here are the top five news pieces we ran this week.