The Verge: Zelda возвращается в новом формате
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 151, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get psyched because it’s officially Bad Holiday Movie Season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Zelda is back and better than ever Plus, in this week’s Installer: Godzilla is back too, a couple of new phone accessories, and the best pen in the world. Plus, in this week’s Installer: Godzilla is back too, a couple of new phone accessories, and the best pen in the world. This week, I’ve been reading about Andrew Garfield and GTA VI and sexy joke thieves, finally actually watching The Sopranosfor the first time (I know, I know), mourning the end of Salon, reinstalling the new and extremely improved Notion Calendar, testing the new Keurig Alta coffee machine, reviewing the iPad Mini and the touchscreen MacBook Pro, and really thinking about just throwing it all away and buying an Enough Phone. I also have for you the long-awaited return of a classic Zelda game, a monster movie worth the trek to the theater, a couple of great new phone accessories, awesome retro headphones, and more. Let’s do it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / hacking onto an E Ink display this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) The Drop - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I have a confession to make: I’ve never played this game all the way through. Not sure how! Just missed it. But seeing my friends and coworkers fall back in love with Hyrule has convinced me to get all the way into the remake. I genuinely can’t wait. - Godzilla Minus Zero. Three years ago, Godzilla Minus One was a big hit and a surprisingly great movie. The sequel came with much higher expectations, but everyone seems to agree it’s a deserving follow-up. I’m not generally one for monster movies, but this series really does it for me. - Affinity for iPad. Canva’s app now unifies all its tools in one place, just like on the Mac. Affinity makes perfect sense on the iPad, and comes with lots of Apple Pencil integration and clever touch-friendly tools. I’m no designer, but I am excited to play with this as a photo editing tool. - The Moft Dynamic Folio Case. Here’s one for all you iPhone Duo buyers. Moft’s cases are a little complicated to figure out, but really cleverly designed to make your phone even more useful. I’m guessing this is going to be a lot better than Apple’s weird case / kickstand thing. - The Peak Design Kickstand Travel Battery. While we’re on the subject of kickstands, here’s the one I’m buying this week. Peak Design makes good stuff, and I frequently find that I need extra juice at exactly the moment I want to watch something on a plane or train. This one’s going right into my backpack and probably never coming out. - The Bambu Lab H3C. I am dangerously close to becoming a 3D Printer Dude. At $2,500, this one’s a little steep for my wallet, but I think my colleague Sean Hollister is right that this is what the future of 3D printing looks like. Simpler, more foolproof, easy enough even for a goofus like me to make some pretty cool stuff. - “Ranking the world’s most popular pens for journaling.” I know we all love a good pen — and Peter McKinnon does an excellent job of breaking down a few dozen supposedly good pens to see which ones really hold up. I bought more than one pen after watching this. - Instagram Edits for Mac. Oh, great, just as I was finally getting good at CapCut! I like the Edits mobile app a lot, and the desktop app seems to be even a little more powerful. Plus: free. This is how I finally take down Cristiano Ronaldo. - The Sony MDR-3R headphones. Respect to Sony for taking the retro headphone trend all the way to its logical conclusion and just releasing the headphones from the original Walkman. You’ll look a little like Nathan Fielder in You Can See Everything when you wear them, and $60 ain’t cheap, but there’s something so incredibly ’70s-era cool about them. - The Motorola Signature 27. This is just a pure tour de force of a smartphone spec sheet. Monster camera; brightest screen; giant battery. Also very cool to see a flagship phone with support for GrapheneOS, for the less Google-inclined among us. It’s expensive, and only shipping… someday… but I just like that phones like this exist. We talked last week about Readwise Books, the new app that’s a mix of Kindle, Goodreads, and Strava. I’m a longtime fan and user of Readwise Reader, so I wasn’t shocked that I liked the new app a lot, too. And I’ve heard from a bunch of you that you do, too! I’ve talked to Tristan Homsi, one of the Readwise cofounders, a few times over the years, and have always enjoyed hearing his thoughts about reading, apps, and digital products in general. I asked him to share his homescreen to see if I might be able to get a hint about what he’s reading and the other stuff he thinks is good. (I also asked Daniel Doyon, Readwise’s other cofounder, to share, and he didn’t respond. Daniel is dead to me.) Here’s Tristan’s homescreen, plus some info on the apps he uses and why: The phone: iPhone 13 (!).Believe it or not, I chose to buy this relatively outdated phone last year… not because it’s my favorite form factor or anything, but because it’s closer in specs to the median device our Readwise users have and helps me build a bit more user empathy with them. I’m able to catch performance regressions and bugs in Readwise that the developers on our team with Duos and Pro Maxes and such miss. Let me tell you though, iOS 26 itself does not work amazingly on an iPhone 13. Lots of lagging and janky animations. I am somewhat bought into the conspiracy theory that they make the old phones suck so you buy a new one… not so much intentionally, but rather by virtue of just making each su