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Thomas the Tank Engine is being flung skyward by Unreal Engine physics

Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor, released on Steam this week, casts Thomas and his peers in a train sim where players navigate the duties of the North Western Railway—duties that have a tendency to punt these sentient traincars into the upper stratosphere with no discernible cause. The

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Crimson Desert reviews focus on PC; console performance untested

Most reviews of Crimson Desert cover the Windows PC version rather than the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X builds. Reviewers were given access to the game on Steam in early March, while PS5 and Xbox copies were not provided until launch. This distribution is unusual for a major multiplatform

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Lost Ark fans worry as Amazon lays off more staff

Several high-profile layoffs at Amazon Game Studios have left Lost Ark players concerned, even as the game continues to post decent player numbers on Steam. In a message posted on its website, the Lost Ark dev team acknowledged that cuts have happened and said it will "keep working to

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Can the Samsung Frame Pro replace my TV? My advice after weeks of testing

Samsung’s Frame Pro continues the “Art TV” idea by doubling as a convincing piece of wall art when it’s turned off. Its matte, anti-reflection display and Pantone validation make digital artwork look remarkably like physical prints, and the set sits flush against the wall when properly installed. Note

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Death Stranding 2 PC unlock times by timezone

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach arrives on PC in March, less than a year after its PS5 release. It's close enough to taste the weird black goop, and comes as Sony reportedly prepares to scale back its PC port program. For most of the world the game

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Pokopedia App Accused of Profiting From Serebii's Work

Players and fansite operators have flagged a mobile companion app, Pokopedia, for allegedly copying content from long-running Pokémon fansite Serebii. Serebii webmaster Joe Merrick says he spent more than 200 hours documenting Pokopia and that the app appears to have scraped much of that work for its own database. Merrick

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Intel rolls out cloud-delivered precompiled shaders for Arc GPUs

Intel has begun rolling out a cloud-based precompiled shader service for Arc GPUs that is separate from Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery. The company says Intel Precompiled Shaders is custom built and run by Intel, and it will continue working with Microsoft on Advanced Shader Delivery later in the year.

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Pixel phones can become productive desktops with Android Desktop Mode

Pixel 8 and newer phones now offer Android Desktop Mode, which turns a phone into a desktop-like computer when connected to an external monitor and paired with a mouse and keyboard. The setup is simple: a monitor that accepts USB-C, a high-speed USB-C cable, and a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard

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Marathon update adds Cryo Archive end-game map, access unclear

Marathon is in its second week out and Bungie has released the game’s biggest patch yet. The update brings a range of fixes and tweaks, and its headline addition is a new end-game map called Cryo Archive. The map is live in the game and presumably filled with valuable

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When to use a minimal Linux installation

A minimal Linux installation provides only the core components needed for the operating system to work: the boot loader, the kernel, the networking stack, the shell, a command-line interface, basic GNU utilities and a package manager. It excludes a desktop environment, GUI applications, a sound server and productivity tools, and

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Nvidia sells Jensen Huang sweater for $178 at GTC

Nvidia is selling Jensen Huang–emblazoned sweaters at its GTC conference for $178, roughly the cost of a single Nvidia share. Attendees can pick up a range of branded merchandise at the merch stand, from T-shirts, hoodies and hats to bags, mugs, socks and pet clothing, much of it in

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Intel adds Arrow Lake 'Plus' mobile chips with 8% gaming boost

Intel has added mobile versions to its refreshed Arrow Lake Plus family, introducing the Core Ultra 200HX Plus chips with an advertised 8% boost in gaming performance. The Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus retains the same eight Performance and 16 Efficient cores as the Core Ultra 9 285HX and keeps

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Paramount Plus prices plummet just in time for March Madness, now $3 per month

Paramount Plus has cut both its Essentials and Premium plans to $2.99 per month for the first two months, saving up to $11 on the pricier option. The promotion arrives just in time for 2026's March Madness action. Coverage of the men's games is split

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Lab tests find Bluetti AC240 and Oupes Mega 1 most efficient

We tested 10 portable power stations in a Kentucky lab, measuring how much power each delivered compared with how much it drew to charge to determine overall efficiency. These devices, which can weigh from about 15 to 100 pounds, are useful for going off-grid, handling outages, or weekend camping. Tests

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Inside PlayerUnknown Productions' two-day modjam where devs broke their game

About an hour before presentations, Alexander Helliwell was reshaping Prologue's temperate woodland into a scorching desert. Replacing much of the world with sand even gave a performance uplift, but his map soon showed wide stretches of an unidentifiable black substance. "Is that oil?" someone asked. Helliwell

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Afterlight's promising Starfinder combat needs more polish before demo

Afterlight feels like the closest thing to a fully realised Pathfinder 2e videogame on the horizon. It uses Starfinder 2e while retaining the same base rules chassis, and fledgling studio Epictellers—for whom this is the first game—aims high with its visual presentation and notable voice talent such as

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V-color’s 1+1 kits pair a DDR5 module with a dummy to mimic dual-channel

Dummy RAM kits normally pair a functioning DIMM with a blank shell that matches the working module—often with RGB—purely for looks. V-color has taken that idea further with 1+1 value packs that bundle a single DDR5 DIMM alongside a matching dummy DIMM. The result is a single-channel

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Unofficial Animal Crossing Port Brings The OG Cozy Game To PC

A 2002 GameCube classic, Animal Crossing, can now run natively on PC thanks to the work of modders and fan developers. You’ll need to jump through a few hoops to get this unofficial port running, but the end result recreates the original cozy experience on modern hardware. Github user

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Free tool makes it easy to see which sites are selling your data

Have you ever noticed a link on a website you regularly visit that indicates you can opt out of the company selling your data? Probably not. Those links can hide in plain sight, and if you miss one your data may have been saved and sold. Data is valuable to

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Bubsy 4D dev says revival aims to push platformers forward

I went into a GDC demo of Bubsy 4D expecting a joke, but the game surprised me. Within minutes the mechanics—deep, chainable movement and level design that rewards experimentation—pulled me in. Fabraz’s lead developer Ben Miller explained that the studio, fresh from releasing Demon Tides, treated the

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Embark parts ways with cofounder after unsubstantiated misconduct claims

Embark Studios, formed in 2018 by former DICE veterans, has parted ways with cofounder and chief content officer Rob Runesson after allegations emerged that he had an inappropriate relationship with an esports streamer involved with one of the studio’s games. The studio said the decision was mutual and that

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Best early Amazon Spring Sale laptop deals 2026

Amazon's Big Spring Sale runs March 25–31, 2026, but discounts have already started appearing across laptop lines. Retailers often cut prices ahead of the official dates, so several models are already showing notable reductions. The selection spans entry-level to high-end machines, from Apple's latest MacBook

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Stryker restoring systems after pro‑Iran hackers wiped employee devices

Medical tech giant Stryker said it is restoring computers and its internal network after a March 11 cyberattack that allowed pro‑Iranian hackers to remotely wipe tens of thousands of employee devices. The attack caused widespread disruption to the company’s operations and is thought to be the first major

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Highguard Players Receive Surprise PS5 Refunds as Studio Closes

Less than a week after Highguard's servers went offline, PlayStation 5 players began receiving emails on March 17 from Sony notifying them that money spent on the free-to-play shooter's battle pass and skin shop had been returned. Wildlight Entertainment appears to be repaying purchases as the

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Best early Amazon Spring Sale deals under $25

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