The Morning After: You can buy your next EV on Amazon
Users in 48 US cities can now buy a new Hyundai car from a local dealership through Amazon. Just like buying a car from a dealership, inside Amazon Autos you can browse by make, model, trim, color and features. And! Finance options! Whee! The interface also offers an instant valuation of your current vehicle’s trade-in value, then you just drop it off when you collect your new ride. Amazon even claims transparent pricing and says this will remove the need for haggling with a salesperson. (Surely, that’s part of the thrill?) If you’re not up for a Hyundai, Amazon Autos will add more manufacturers, brands, cities and features in 2025. — Mat Smith Get this delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The biggest tech stories you missed Apple’s latest MagSafe charger is on sale for $35 Despelote, the story-driven soccer game, is coming to the Nintendo Switch Which iPhone should you buy? YouTube introduces multiplayer mini-games It’s part of its Playables platform. YouTube Playables users can now play some of its games with other humans. It doesn’t extend to all YouTube Playables’ 100-plus games, however. Right now, multiplayer is available on two games, Ludo Club and Magic Tiles 3, on both desktop and mobile. Or, you could see what games Netflix has for free. Speaking of which… Continue reading. Monument Valley 3 is out now And free to play for any Netflix subscriber. ustwo As teased in the fall, the latest installment in the spatial puzzle series Monument Valley is available on Android and iOS, free if you’re a paying Netflix user. The levels, once again, have that M.C. Escher vibe, where paths and structures don’t follow the laws of physics. Monument Valley 3 will also be getting new content updates every season. In an interview, ustwo Games lead designer Emily Brown called them “Monument Valley snacks,” bite-sized additions to the standalone game. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-121205258.html?src=rss
Users in 48 US cities can now buy a new Hyundai car from a local dealership through Amazon. Just like buying a car from a dealership, inside Amazon Autos you can browse by make, model, trim, color and features. And! Finance options! Whee!
The interface also offers an instant valuation of your current vehicle’s trade-in value, then you just drop it off when you collect your new ride. Amazon even claims transparent pricing and says this will remove the need for haggling with a salesperson. (Surely, that’s part of the thrill?)
If you’re not up for a Hyundai, Amazon Autos will add more manufacturers, brands, cities and features in 2025.
— Mat Smith
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YouTube introduces multiplayer mini-games
It’s part of its Playables platform.
YouTube Playables users can now play some of its games with other humans. It doesn’t extend to all YouTube Playables’ 100-plus games, however. Right now, multiplayer is available on two games, Ludo Club and Magic Tiles 3, on both desktop and mobile. Or, you could see what games Netflix has for free. Speaking of which…
Monument Valley 3 is out now
And free to play for any Netflix subscriber.
As teased in the fall, the latest installment in the spatial puzzle series Monument Valley is available on Android and iOS, free if you’re a paying Netflix user. The levels, once again, have that M.C. Escher vibe, where paths and structures don’t follow the laws of physics. Monument Valley 3 will also be getting new content updates every season. In an interview, ustwo Games lead designer Emily Brown called them “Monument Valley snacks,” bite-sized additions to the standalone game.
Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-121205258.html?src=rss
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