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It’s time for another entry in Kotaku‘s very sporadic series: Behind The Blog. Earlier this morning, Lego revealed a bunch of new Pokémon sets. So Kotaku’s newest member, Rebekah Valentine, hopped on the story to cover it for the site. But, being new to Kotaku, Rebekah still wanted to check in with the rest of the staff about a simple style question. This led to a strange conversation about Lego vs Legos and the plural form of Amiibo. Here’s the lightly edited conversation that occurred in our work Slack after someone mentioned Legos. If you like this, look behind the…

I’ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to detect and flag spoofed calls, I was ready to hear more. What I didn’t expect from the demo was to hear my own voice.“I’m so excited to be interviewing you today about this new fake call detection feature!” I heard myself saying while a headshot I’ve used publicly for years popped up on the demo device. The caller ID name said “Lily.” “Unfortunately, I lost my wallet and I’m stuck. Any chance you can Venmo me so I can take…

The first-ever Fan Edition foldable is likely to remain the only budget-friendly member of Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip family (at least for the foreseeable future), and if you don’t know why last year’s Z Flip 7 FE hasn’t proven popular enough to yield a 2026 sequel, you just have to look at the handset’s price point and its competition.While something like Motorola’s Razr (2025) was released at $699.99 and frequently marked down to $599.99 (and less) in recent months, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE started at $899 in the US, rarely getting substantial discounts with either 128 or 256GB…

If you were a Toy Story-loving kid between the years of 1995 and 2002, the odds are high that you played a lot of Toy Story games during that era. I know I did. Well, good news, Toy Story game fans: the retro experts over at Digital Eclipse are set to release a remaster collection of over half a dozen classic Toy Story games this October on consoles and PC. On June 2, Disney, Atari, and Digital Eclipse announced Toy Story: Retro Roundup. This is a collection of 11 games (nine Toy Story titles and two A Bug’s Life games)…

A small San Francisco startup known for making well-appointed, beautifully designed webcams is now vying to become the AI hardware company of the moment.Opal Camera is rebranding to Opal Electronics and will expand its product portfolio beyond webcams to a broad range of consumer devices, some of which will be AI-focused. It aims to emulate Sony Electronics as a wide-ranging consumer gadget brand by focusing on design and culture, not just tech.The transition was possible thanks to a $40 million Series B funding round from OpenAI. Some details about the investment were first reported in 2024, but the deal was…

Xiaomi changes things up this year. Its T series of phones were typically upper mid-range phones released later in the fall, but the new Xiaomi 17T and 17T Pro have just launched much earlier, in June, and the price is also higher.But this is not just a greedy price bump, not at all. I’ve been testing the Xiaomi 17T Pro in the past few days, and at 900 euro it undercuts traditional flagships while having an incredibly impressive camera system.If that wasn’t enough, the phone also comes with a sleek design, a massive battery and super-fast charging. Are there really…

Last year, Amazon scaled back its ambitious video game development plans and laid off thousands of people. While the retail giant canceled many projects, including a Lord of the Rings MMO, it is still committed to publishing two upcoming Tomb Raider games. But although those plans haven’t changed, Amazon’s retreat from gaming has indeed had an impact on both titles. In a new interview with The Game Business, Embracer CEO Phil Rogers confirmed that Amazon’s backing out of games in 2025 had indeed had a direct impact on this year’s Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and next year’s Tomb Raider:…

“Partiful will not make money. There is no pitch at scale,” Partiful once posted via tweet in 2023, adding, “Investors gave us money to help u party, and that is what we are here to do. Enjoy it babes.”In a call with WIRED, Murthy said the tweet was always meant to be a joke.“It’s kind of funny how many people took it literally, and now it’s followed us around everywhere, and it’s become a meme,” Murthy said. “But it is nice to say that Partiful is monetizing now.”Last CallCourtesy of PartifulPartiful has done well partly due to its ability to…

For years, the large-screen foldable market has been Samsung’s personal playground. But in 2026, Motorola is officially done playing small.It arrives on that playground in a big way with the Motorola Razr Fold. After spending a full week putting Motorola’s book-style foldable through its paces, let me give you the spoiler right upfront: I really, really like it. Not only does it fix some of the most nagging pain points of the Galaxy Z Fold 7, but it also absolutely crushes its rival in a few critical categories.However, it isn’t a total slam dunk. Before you drop your cash on…

One of the most hated video game companies around is hoping you’ll trust it again one day… Embracer, owners of Saints Row, Tomb Raider, Dead Island, and the rights to set games in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, isn’t a very popular video game company these days. After spending a decade, between 2013 and 2023, buying up multiple studios and publishers, and even digging up the remains of THQ, the company partially collapsed following the last-minute cancellation of a $2 billion development deal. Now, after some corporate shuffling, Embracer CEO Phil Rogers hopes players and devs will start trusting the company again, even…