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I Am Not At All Relaxed by Animal Crossing

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My house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks like the “guys really live in apartments like this” meme. My landscaping looks like the set of Holes. The host of a Netflix gardening show might issue a begrudging nod toward my patchy garden before they trip on a half-buried tire on their way out and stumble into a bramble of unpruned weeds. Widely lauded—including by WIRED—as the perfect pastime for this quarantine moment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons must mean to be relaxing. It has the telltale signs: chibi animals talking in…

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Google Is Opening a New Studio to Make Stadia Games

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Welcome to Replay, WIRED's rundown of the week's biggest videogame headlines. This week, we've got news about Google Stadia, Riot Games, and some more coronavirus updates. Let's dive in. Google Opens a New Studio to Make Stadia Games First up, some good news for people who actually want things to play on Google Stadia. According to Business Insider reported last weekend, Stadia simply isn't pulling in indies because Google isn't offering the type of incentives, in terms of money or promotion, needed to pull developers away from other platforms. Plus,…

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The TurboGrafx-16 Mini’s Launch Is Delayed Due to Covid-19

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The planned launch of the announced Friday. The plug-and-play retro console, originally set to launch with dozens of games on March 19, has been pushed back because "the manufacturing and shipping facilities in China have encountered an unavoidable suspension due to the current coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak … We deeply apologize for the significant inconvenience, and we humbly ask your understanding and patience while we keep our close attention on the situation." Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's…

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