Improve your Android Auto experience by doing these simple things - Engadget

Its customization options are pretty much infinite.

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Android Auto is easily one of the most useful tools drivers have today, but most people only use it with default settings, missing out on some really cool features. You connect your phone, the interface loads up and you accept whatever Google decided to serve you. That's an understandable starting point, but there's so much more to Android Auto — so many more features that can help you optimize it for your particular needs.

Apple Arcade just got this retro-inspired gem - Engadget

Retro Bowl College+ brings old-school college football to the service with its paid features unlocked and no in-app purchases.

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Apple Arcade added another football game to its roster on August 6, but this one is considerably less interested in photorealistic grass. Retro Bowl College+ is the Apple Arcade version of New Star Games' 2023 college football spin-off, and it puts you in charge of one of more than 250 teams while keeping the series' chunky pixel art and deliberately old-school approach.

Doom Meets Hades In the Coolest New Action Game of Gamescom 2026

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Published Aug 29, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT

Murals is isometric but... not a roguelike?

Gamescom’s most promising action game grabs from Hades and Doom in all the right ways

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If you play video games, you’ve probably internalized an automatic association without even realizing it: see isometric, think roguelike. Murals, a new action game from the makers of Disney Illusion Island, bucks that trend.

The Long Dark sequel Blackfrost hasn't been cancelled, but developer Hinterland are shifting a bit more focus onto the original's survival mode

No layoffs at least!

Things are shifting around a bit over at The Long Dark developer Hinterland Studio. Earlier this year, The Long Dark's story mode wrapped up with the release of Wintermute's fifth and final episode. After that, you may have fairly assumed that focus would have been mostly placed on the sequel that was announced in 2024, Blackfrost. But according to Hinterland, while Blackfrost is still in the works, the main focus will actually be put on The Long Dark's survival mode for a while.