Despite Nintendo’s carefully cultivated family image, the company has produced its share of mature games over the years, from the darkly atmospheric Metroid series to the risky Bayonetta 3. And while it has seldom dabbled in outright horror, it came fairly close with Famicom Detective Club , a pair of obscure detective games from the company’s early years that are perfectly suited for Halloween.

Originally released in the late ’80s for the Famicom Disk System, a disk-drive peripheral for the company’s first home console that never launched outside of Japan, the Famicom Detective Club series spans two games: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind, both of which have been lavishly remade for the Nintendo Switch. (A third installment in the series was also released for Super Famicom’s short-lived Satellaview accessory, but it remains unlocalized.)

Written by Yoshio Sakamoto, who would become a household name among gaming fans for his work on the aforementioned Metroid series, the Famicom Detective Club duology stands as an early example of the visual novel genre: a type of interactive story driven primarily by the choices you make. Delving into much darker subject matter than other Nintendo games, both Famicom Detective Club titles put you in the shoes of a fledgling detective tasked with unraveling a series of mysterious murders.

While each game weaves a compelling tale full of suspense and intrigue, The Girl Who Stands Behind is particularly thrilling thanks to its snappier pace and haunting, supernatural atmosphere. After the body

Slack’s features help millions of people communicate in hybrid workspaces, but it might feel overwhelming trying to keep up with all the notifications across channels and chats. You probably need to know about an upcoming meeting. A meme from a reality TV show, though? Probably not.

Thankfully, there are ways to amplify and mute certain channels in Slack so aren’t bogged down with unnecessary notifications. Here’s how to do both on your desktop and mobile devices.

Manage Slack channel and chat notifications from desktop

1. Open and log in to Slack from a web browser or the Slack app.

2. Click into a channel or chat you want to amplify or mute.

3. Click either the channel name or the member names across the top of the window.

4. Click the middle drop-down menu with the bell icon across the top of the new window. The first time you see this menu, it might read Get Notifications for @ Messages or Get Notifications for All Messages depending on your settings.

5. From there you can choose one of the four notifications options:

• All messages: Notifies you of every new message.
• @ mentions: Only notifies you for @mentions, @channel and @here.
• Off: You won’t receive any notifications.
• Mute: You won’t receive notifications, but you will see the red badge icon if you are mentioned in the channel. This channel will also be moved to the bottom of your channels list.

6. Once you’ve made your choice, click the X in

Toto Wolff, the 50-year-old Austrian chief executive, team principal and part-owner of the Mercedes Formula 1 team who was recently described by the New Yorker as someone who might breeze “past you in the airport, smelling good, wearing loafers and no socks,” talked openly yesterday about his team’s terrible, no-good year. Sitting with Oliver Steil, the CEO of the German company TeamViewera popular maker of remote support software, Wolff also described how the troubled racing team is counting, in part, on TeamViewer’s tech to give it an edge in its bid to recapture its former glory.

The two were speaking at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, and Wolff was cheered when he appeared before the crowd, owing in no small part to “Drive to Survive,” the Netflix series that has made him famous. (He finds this amusing, recounting to New Yorker writer Sam Knight how a young woman threw herself through the open window of his car to get her picture taken.)

Wolff also immediately acknowledged the obvious. “We won the championship eight times in a row,” he said, “but that is the past.” Mercedes, he continued, “just got the physics wrong . . . and got the concept of the car not in the right place,” he said, referring to the design of its floor, which he has previously pointed to as the root of the team’s lackluster year. (Every few years, the F1 teams — there are currently 10 altogether — are forced by the body

This story is part of 84 Days of Holidaya collection that helps you find the perfect gift for anyone.

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the musician or music lover in your life, you’ll want to consider the Focusrite Scarlett Solo. Whether they’re an aspiring singer, journeyman guitarist or gifted professional, the Scarlett Solo makes getting your music into your computer a breeze.

Why it’s a great gift: The Scarlett Solo is a stylish USB interface for connecting audio sources to your computer for recording or just goofing around. Use the XLR jack on the front to connect a pro-level microphone (with a phantom power control) to record your vocals or sing along with karaoke videos.

The second input is a 0.25-inch jack for connecting an instrument like a guitar or bass. There’s also a headphone jack with a Direct Monitor feature so you can hear the clean signal coming into the computer or the output from the computer itself. Or use the line outputs on the back to hook up your favorite speakers.

The Scarlett Solo couldn’t be more simple to set up, especially if you use Focusrite’s Scarlett Solo user guide, available on the company’s website. Once you’re hooked up, it’s easy to connect it to programs like Pro Tools, GarageBand and Ableton.

I’m only still learning to play guitar, so I haven’t made a ton of recordings yet, but I do get a kick out of plugging it in, firing up GarageBand and