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Minecraft Live returns March 21 with behind-the-scenes secrets and guests

Minecraft has announced its bi-annual showcase will take place on Saturday, March 21, and the trailer hints at an event worth watching. The announcement itself doesn’t reveal new content, but it promises the “scoop on game drops,” notable since Minecraft has not yet received its first drop of 2026.

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Resident Evil Requiem uses GPU decompression inconsistently

Resident Evil Requiem is among the few recent games to use DirectStorage and GPU data decompression, but which systems actually use that GPU path is surprisingly inconsistent. The game appears to choose GPU decompression on some cards while falling back to CPU decompression on others, even when the GPU should

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Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry to enhance The Witcher 4's forests

Nvidia will use a new RTX Mega Geometry foliage system to improve the path-traced trees in The Witcher 4, the Unreal Engine 5-based game famous for its dense forests. The announcement came as part of Nvidia's GeForce On community update. By updating clusters of triangles in batches, Nvidia

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DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation arrives in Nvidia App beta on March 31

Dynamic Multi Frame Generation in DLSS 4.5 will reach Nvidia App beta users on March 31. The update raises the top frame-gen count for RTX 50-series GPUs to 6x, made up of five AI-generated frames for every one rendered traditionally, and lets the upscaler change the number of generated

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Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive

Fortnite is hugely popular and brings in substantial revenue, but it also costs a lot to run. Server infrastructure and payments to Fortnite content creators add up, and V-Bucks, Fortnite's virtual currency, are about to get more expensive. Epic said, "The cost of running Fortnite has gone

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Redditor builds stained glass-style panel for gaming PC with 'magnificent and luxurious' deer

User Nososochek spent two months creating a stained glass-style deer illustration on a tempered glass side panel for their gaming PC. They manually coat each section with a special acrylic that hardens over time, making sure the stain actually penetrates the tempered glass rather than just sitting on top. The

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Palantir CTO on managing top talent and owning a major mistake

Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, uses a Superman analogy to help employees spot what they do effortlessly and what drains them. “Superpowers are effortless,” he said, pointing to abilities like flying or seeing through walls as things a person naturally does well. He urges staff to also identify

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Report: Mainstream laptop prices could rise as much as 40%

TrendForce warns that rising costs for CPUs, DRAM and SSDs could push mainstream laptop prices significantly higher. The global memory shortage has already driven sharp increases in DRAM and NAND flash prices, and those increases are squeezing notebook bills of materials. Under normal conditions DRAM and SSD account for roughly

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I changed 12 Android settings to extend battery life

I spent years tweaking Android phones to squeeze more battery life from budget models, and I’m sharing the most effective changes I found. The full list runs to a dozen settings you can change right away to gain hours of extra use without giving up a good phone experience.

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Nightdive re-announces the Sin remaster it un-announced 3 years ago

Nightdive has re-announced its Sin remaster, Sin Reloaded, and released an announcement trailer on YouTube. The project was un‑announced three years ago and currently has no firm release date beyond 2026. Nightdive’s remastering approach aims to preserve and enhance the original look rather than simply slapping awkward 4K

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‘Could skew the entire dataset’: Leeser complains after Naplan disruption

The authority that runs Naplan apologised unreservedly after a technical disruption stopped some students from logging on to the online platform for writing assessments on the first day. Acara’s chief executive, Stephen Gniel, said the issue was identified at 9.20am and schools were asked to pause testing for

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Crimson Desert's PC requirements look promising; devs namecheck ROG Xbox Ally

"Overwhelming, chaotic, madcap." That's how Harvey Randall describes Crimson Desert after spending six hours in it, and Pearl Abyss has just released a full set of fleshed-out PC system requirements. It isn't the first time the specs have surfaced—Corsair previously posted about them—

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KaOS replaces KDE Plasma with Niri and wins me over

I've watched Linux distributions change in all sorts of ways, so when KaOS dropped KDE Plasma in favor of Niri I braced for the worst. Niri, a scrollable tiling compositor I hadn't heard of, turned out to be surprisingly good and quickly changed my mind. KaOS

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Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) Project

NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies and tools for various types of aircraft that fly in different speed regimes, including next-generation vertical take-off and landing and fixed-wing subsonic aircraft. The research advances knowledge, technologies, and concepts that enable major steps to lowering operating costs of

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Garry Newman: s&box will 'probably' be priced like Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod has been around for 20 years. Even back in 2006, its $10 price made it an easy decision for people who wanted to clown around in the physics sandbox or use it to make their own games to play and share. Garry Newman's new

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MacBook Neo review: a compelling budget MacBook with durability worries

Apple's MacBook Neo is an affordable 13-inch laptop running on an iPhone chip, presented as a redefinition of what a MacBook could be. It starts at $599 and is aimed at making the MacBook experience more accessible. Under the hood the Neo uses an A18 Pro chip with

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Marvel Rivals devs 'panicked' at the live-service graveyard

NetEase released Marvel Rivals, a live-service hero shooter, in 2024 despite significant risk, coming just months after PlayStation launched and then killed its similar game, Concord. Publishing and marketing lead Yachen Bian said the team felt 'panic' stepping into the live-service graveyard and acknowledged success 'is not

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Bungie is adding more shell skins to Marathon's battle pass after feedback

Many players criticized Marathon's season one battle pass when it launched alongside the full game last week. While the pass' rewards never expire, critics said $10 is steep for a track that mainly offers gun skins and charms and only a single character skin. Bungie is adding

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Marathon ignores extraction shooter 'rules' and is better for it

The extraction shooter is still figuring itself out. Where Escape From Tarkov brought milsim realism and Hunt: Showdown leaned into tense PvP, Arc Raiders showed the format could also host co‑op, roleplay and survival horror. Marathon, from Bungie, takes a different tack by cutting features many players expect: no

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Sonos launches Play and Era 100 SL with modest upgrades

Sonos has introduced two new speakers, the Play and the Era 100 SL, continuing to expand its hardware after an earlier amp announcement. The Play creates a new portable tier between the Roam and the Move 2, while the Era 100 SL offers a lower-cost entry point into Sonos'

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Next Xbox (Project Helix) could cost $999–$1,200, expert says

Tech reporter Moore’s Law Is Dead—who has been ahead of most people on reporting about the next Xbox—says Project Helix could cost between $999 and $1,200. Such a price would be nonsensical for a console and might affirm the truism that an Xbox that plays PC

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Former EA exec still angry about Worst Company award over Mass Effect 3 ending

Peter Moore is one of the most memorable executives the game industry has ever seen. He presided over the Dreamcast at Sega of America and the Xbox at Microsoft and helped stoke the fires of the console wars. Moore's final stop was leading EA's sports division

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Don’t Buy Pokémon Pokopia From Amazon

The Nintendo Switch 2’s Pokémon Pokopia launched last week with a $69.99 physical edition and quickly proved extraordinarily popular. Boxed copies have sold out on the official Nintendo store, and Amazon has raised the boxed price to $79.99. The boxed version doesn’t contain a cartridge; it

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Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review: best magnetic keyboard, but pricey

The Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE stands out as the best magnetic option on the market right now, but its high price tag risks keeping it out of reach for many gamers. It pairs snappy, energetic typing with a wireless connection and a battery that lasts well beyond most Hall

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Gadgets that helped me sleep better this year

Sleep is essential and, for me, requires some intentional habits. I regularly clock around seven hours a night and wake up most days without an audible alarm. It took time to hone my routine, and technology has helped by disabling distracting apps, silencing noise, tracking sleep, and providing gentler wake-ups.