Everybody’s got a favorite new game

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 79, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, RIP your free time, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) 

This week, I’ve been reading about dire wolves and Neuralink and the history of the Xbox, watching The Last of Us and Your Friends and Neighbors, underlining a lot of things in Graydon Carter’s book about magazines, setting up a Brick to see if it’ll help me manage screen time, refining macrodata in Rift, and writing down a million tips from this Reddit thread about internet life hacks.

I also have for you the game that will both improve and take over your life, a new season of a favorite show, an AirTag competitor worth checking out, a fun new organizer for your desk, and much more. We were off last week, and I missed you all terribly. Let’s get back into it.

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you into right now? What should everyone else be playing / watching / baking / eating / listening to / downloading this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installe …

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