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PlayStation Plus March 2026 games: Persona 5 Royal, Warhammer and more

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed the lineup of games joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on March 17 for Premium and Extra subscribers. Like February's additions, the March set includes several notable entries for the subscription service. Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced re-release of 2016's Persona

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I switched password managers without losing a single login - here's how

Switching password managers is easier than it sounds. Most let you export your current passwords so you can import them into a new product, and while you will need to configure settings in the replacement app, your accounts should all be in place. Start by installing the new password manager,

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FUELEAP develops hybrid fuel-cell power system for small aircraft

NASA’s work on fuel cell electric power systems goes back to Project Gemini in the 1960s. Building on that legacy, Langley’s ASAB branch led the Fostering Ultra Efficient, Low-Emitting Aviation Power (FUELEAP) activity to develop a hybrid-electric fuel cell power system for future electric aircraft. Fuel cells generate

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Solasta 2 early access release time in your time zone

Solasta 2 enters early access on Thursday, March 12, launching at 12 p.m. EDT for Windows PC, the developer said in a post on X. The fantasy CRPG from Tactical Adventures leans into tabletop-style play, with D20 rolls for checks, full voice acting and an explorable magical world. That

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Seven tricks that stopped my scrolling and cut my screen time

A few months ago I noticed my iPhone screen time was about 13 hours a day, with my Mac included. Excluding work, that added up to more than 100 days a year spent looking at screens. I set a goal: get daily phone use down to one hour, and quickly

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Xbox Project Helix won't be in developers' hands until 2027

Microsoft said at the GDC Festival of Gaming that alpha development kits for Project Helix will be delivered to developers in 2027, a schedule that casts doubt on the company's reported ability to ship the next Xbox in late 2027. Jason Ronald, vice president of next generation at

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MSI updates 32-inch 4K OLED with Samsung's latest Tandem panel

MSI has refreshed its 32-inch 4K OLED line with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel, releasing the MSI MPG 322UR X24 as an update to the MPG 322URX and the earlier MPG 321URX. The chassis styling remains similar to those previous models. The HDR numbers are a little odd:

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How to set up a SwitchBot smart switch and what to avoid

The SwitchBot is a battery‑powered mechanical “finger” that sticks to a switch and can push or pull it, offering bidirectional control without any wiring or an electrician. It works either directly over Bluetooth or via an optional hub that links the device to your Wi‑Fi for remote access.

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Xbox: indies 'never been more important' as Project Helix looms

Xbox turns 25 in 2026 and ID@Xbox, the platform’s indie program, hits 13, meaning independent developers have been central to Xbox for half its life. Major leadership changes have left the platform’s future in flux as Asha Sharma settles in as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, but ID@

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NASA develops GRASP tool to assess UAS ground risk

Commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is expected to grow as industries explore benefits such as goods transport, news coverage and wildfire spotting. Law enforcement agencies are expanding applications as well, including search and rescue and protecting endangered species. A major challenge for urban operations remains reducing risk

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At Fate's End was a showstealer at GDC

Thunder Lotus unveiled At Fate’s End at this year’s Game Developers Conference with a 40-minute playable demo that transformed what at first looked like a typical 2D Metroidvania into an emotionally driven experiment about family baggage and succession. On the surface the game offers familiar action-adventure elements — traversal

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8 apt commands Linux users should know

Apt is more than a basic installer; the Debian/Ubuntu package manager offers several lesser-known options that make package management more efficient. The author draws on long experience with Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions and introduces commands that go beyond install, remove, update, and upgrade. To see which packages are available, installed,

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Dispatch lies about RNG to help players, just like XCOM

Just like when kids show off their questionable hand-drawn family portraits where everyone's missing a torso, but their parents tell them it's great and put it on the fridge anyway, Dispatch developer Adhoc has been lying to you about the game's random number generation

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Safe2Ditch: autonomous crash management for small UAVs

Safe2Ditch was an autonomous crash management system designed to run on a small processor onboard unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Inexpensive and light, the technology took advantage of components already part of many small UAV systems, such as visual spectrum cameras and commercial off-the-shelf autopilots. Its sole mission was to get

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Solasta 2’s character creator makes party building the best part

Solasta 2’s early access is estimated at 10 to 15 hours, but I kept returning to the character creator instead of the campaign. The sequel moved from Unity to Unreal Engine 5, and the jump in detail and graphical fidelity is obvious from the moment you start building your

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Microsoft details Project Helix Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC, still years away

Microsoft laid out more of Project Helix at GDC in a talk led by Xbox VP Jason Ronald, describing a machine meant to bridge the gap between a console and a traditional PC. Ronald said Helix will behave similarly to Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, while also "playing

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Valve rebuts New York lawsuit, says deal would hurt users and developers

Two weeks after the state of New York sued Valve for "letting children and adults illegally gamble," Valve issued a rare public rebuttal. It said the containers in its games do not constitute gambling under the state's laws and expressed disappointment that the attorney general'

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Nearly 5,900 Steam games earned more than $100,000 in 2025

At the Game Developers Conference on March 10, Valve presented Steam data in a talk led by communications lead Kaci Aitchison Boyle and business-side staffer Tom Giardino. Photographs of the slides were shared on BlueSky by GameDeveloper's Chris Kerr (first spotted by PCGN). The headline figure: 5,863

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Security flaw could affect one in four Android phones — how to check

Researchers have uncovered a hardware security flaw in chips used by many Android phones that can be exploited simply by connecting a device to a computer over USB. In under a minute, white hat hackers were able to gain access, decrypt storage and extract sensitive data including messages and crypto

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Valve: loot boxes are like Pokemon, Magic and Labubu as it rebuts NY lawsuit

Valve says a court will decide whether the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the company, which contends loot boxes are essentially gambling, has merit. In a statement to fans of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 in New York, the company said it has “serious concerns”

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Meta disables over 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world. The operation was led by Thailand’s Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice

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Valve clarifies Steam Machine and Steam Frame verification requirements

At this year's GDC event in San Francisco, Valve gave a talk on its Steam hardware family that focused on what developers must do to get their games verified. The session covered verification for the forthcoming Steam Machine and the Steam Frame VR headset, rather than the Steam

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Asus CFO Nick Wu says MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'

Asus CFO Nick Wu said he was surprised by Apple’s new, lower-priced MacBook Neo. “Given Apple’s historically very premium pricing, launching such an affordable product is certainly a shock to the entire market,” he said. Tom’s Hardware called the Neo a “budget-priced game changer,” praising its design

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Fortnite raises V-Buck prices and trims bonus rewards

Epic Games needs some extra cash to help pay all the bills associated with Fortnite. The developer is raising the price of V-Bucks, reducing the number of V-Bucks that Fortnite Crew subscribers get each month, and removing the bonus currency rewards from the main battle pass. It’s not all

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Warface: Clutch to shut down more than 15 years after reveal

More than 15 years after it was first announced, the PvP military shooter Warface: Clutch is closing. The publisher said in February it had "made the difficult decision to begin the sunset process," and the PC version will shut down on May 27. Crytek first revealed the game