Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Samsung's $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold works well as a smartphone, especially for entertainment, but falls short as a tablet and laptop, marred by unpredictability  —  The company's experimental new phone can fill in for larger-screen devices, but isn't close to replacing them.

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under “enhanced” Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them  —  Streaming platforms in the U.K. are set to come under “enhanced regulation” from media regulator Ofcom …

Anthropic's weekslong battle with the Department of Defense has played out over social media posts, admonishing public statements, and direct quotes from unnamed Pentagon officials to the news media. But the future of the $380 billion AI startup comes down to just three words: "any lawful use." The new terms, which OpenAI and xAI have […]

Game Informer Issue 376 has just become…Invincible! That’s right, our next cover will be graced by Invincible VS, the tag team fighting game by developer Quarter Up and Skybound Games based on the acclaimed comic and animated series. 

We traveled to Skybound Entertainment to go several rounds in Invincible VS, which includes exclusive hands-on time with an unannounced fighter. Our 14-page cover story features new insights into the game’s conception, development history, and design approach based on interviews with Quarter Up's development leads, Skybound executives, and Invincible creators Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker. 

 

For the first time since Game Informer’s return, our issue features two artist renditions of the cover art showing off Invincible and Omni-Man facing off with new hero Ella Mental watching from afar. The first version comes from Quarter Up art director Dan Eder and is based on the Invincible VS in-game art style. Invincible co-creator Cory Walker lends his artistic talents to the second variation that renders the same scene in his signature style. Both versions appear on the same issue, with one on the front cover and the other on the back. For the subscriber edition, Cory Walker's art graces the front page; the newsstand edition flips the images to feature Dan Eder's art at the forefront. Check out the full spreads of both editions below:

 

Subscribers can read the digital edition when it launches on March 3. Physical versions will begin arriving in the mail in late March, and you can expect to find the magazine in bookstores and newsstands around the same timeframe. Be sure to subscribe today to receive 10 Game Informer magazines a year (physical and digital) and get Invincible VS as your first issue!

The thing about elected authoritarians is that they sometimes lose elections. Such was the case in 2023 with Poland’s Law and Justice party.  The ultra-conservative populist party rode a wave of anti-elite sentiment to power in 2015. What happened next was directly out of the authoritarian playbook: They stacked Poland’s constitutional courts with loyalists — […]