Editor's take: Remember when cell phones used to be used to… you know, make phone calls? It seems like an eternity ago considering how many additional tasks and responsibilities we had piled on top of the smartphone. Stranger yet is the fact that it has seemingly taken a global pandemic to remind everyone that smartphones are still telephones at heart.

With millions now adhering to stay-at-home measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, the impact of isolation is starting to take its toll on

WTF?! If you’re one of those people who find the Dark Souls games difficult enough as they are, seeing people beat them without taking any hits, wearing no armor, or even using bongos is frustrating. Now, a modder has shown how another weird peripheral can be used to play the game: a Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure controller.

Super Louis 64 modded the Ring Fit Adventure so that players can only move within the game when they are running on the spot, which lets them use the left

In brief: LG has long been struggling to find a market for its ailing smartphone business, but a new design language focused on minimalism could help in turning things around for the company.

Although the craze for all-screen smartphones has advanced the industry in pretty much every way, phone design has increasingly become stagnant, with almost all modern flagships bearing the same look and feel in the hand.

LG has been one of the more daring manufacturers, often with innovative hardware design and features on its G and V series of

Bottom line: The tech community was looking forward to Microsoft's interesting take on foldables with its Windows 10X-powered Surface Neo. However, the company has seemingly changed its plans from releasing the device this year, along with Windows 10X, and is now focused on bringing the OS to single-screen devices and porting some of its features to Windows 10.

The Surface Neo and its underpinning Windows 10X OS were poised for a late-2020 release, but both

Why it matters: CD Projekt has released a financial overview of the previous year, and despite launching in 2015, the Wither 3 helped the company to record profits. The statement also confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 remains on track to release this September.

Even before the Netflix series arrived, the Witcher 3 was already proving more popular in 2019 than the previous year. Henry Cavill’s portrayal of Geralt triggered a spike in the game’s usage, and by the end of

A hot potato: Here’s a story you’ve heard before: a company has been caught cheating on mobile benchmark software. Rather than being limited to phones from a particular firm, the culprit in this instance is chipset maker MediaTek, meaning multiple handsets from several vendors are engaging in the practice. Its excuse? Everyone does it.

Anandtech discovered the cheating after benchmarking the MediaTek Dimensity 1000-powered Oppo Reno3 (Chinese version), and the European version of the Oppo Reno3 Pro,

In a nutshell: With the CDC and government now advising people to wear masks outside to help prevent Covid-19 infection, there’s good news for Newegg customers in the US: the retailer is giving away protective masks free with every purchase.

Newegg CEO Anthony Chow told Tom’s Hardware that the company secured a shipment of the single-use masks for its employees and is now making 5-packs available to customers for free. “They simply need to apply the discount once they add a mask 5

Bottom line: Nintendo is working to address continued inventory shortages of its Switch handheld console created in part by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Relief is coming, but don't expect things to get better overnight.

A representative for Nintendo’s US division told GamesIndustry.biz that Switch hardware is selling out at various retail locations in the states but added that more systems are on the way. “We apologize for any inconvenience,” the spokesperson noted, but stopped short of providing any specific dates as to