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⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 196th edition here, with Samsung Exynos chip news, updates from Computex and Microsoft Build 2022, a first peek at the Motorola Razr 3, Witcher 4 news,and more… phew!

📺 I’ve been excited all week for new Stranger Things episodes but it doesn’t feel like three years since we last saw the gang (who aren’t really kids anymore)!

Are your favorite video games ones that came out years ago? Do you spend your days setting up emulators to play N64 classics? Or (like me) do you prefer more-recent-but-still-getting-on-a-bit games like the Uncharted series and the original The Last of Us? Axios Gaming recently shared this chart, originally tweeted by NPD analyst Mat Piscatella, which revealed some of the most-played video games in the US are older games.

Narrative-focused games like Horizon: Forbidden West, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are still popular, with Xbox’s Phil Spencer stating in summer 2021 that Xbox would be building more narrative-driven games.

Bear in mind that the top-played games look a bit different from the top-selling games:

If all this is making you want something new to play, why not check out our roundup of the best games on Steam in 2022?

What games are you most looking forward to this year?

Something extra: From Trung Phan’s SatPost — This 13-minute video asks a former mobster if scenes from films like The Godfather and Casino are real.