Here's a quick roundup of games that are free to keep or free to play this weekend. Some of these were previously reported, but we're including them for your convenience. Thanks SteamDB and Ant for some of these.

Free to keep:

• Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on Epic Games Store. Must claim your copy by April 16th.
• Close To The Sun on Epic Games Store. Must claim your copy by April 16th.
• Transpose on Steam. Must claim your copy by April 13th.
• Arcade Moonlander Plus on Steam. Must claim your copy by April 13th.
• Gravity Wars on Steam. Must claim your copy by April 13th.
• Ticket to Ride: First Journey on Steam. Must claim your copy by April 12th.

Temporarily free-to-play this weekend:

• ArcheAge: Unchained on Steam.
• The Crew 2 on Ubistore.
• Gears 5 on Steam.
• Google Stadia Pro.
• Hanako: Honor & Blade on Steam.
• NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 on Steam.
• Volleying on Steam.

UNIGINE announces the launch of the UNIGINE 2 Community SDK, allowing anyone to create "photorealistic virtual worlds" for free. Word is: "To support creative endeavors of individual enthusiasts and small projects, scientists, students, and non-profit organizations from all over the world, UNIGINE launches a highly anticipated free Community edition of its real-time 3D engine." Here's the announcement:

The UNIGINE 2 Community SDK makes the same 3D rendering technology used by leading enterprises available to a global community of programmers and digital artists. Individual developers or projects with annual revenue or funding not higher than 100,000 USD, and non-profit organizations can leverage from the main features of the engine, including photorealistic visual quality, VR optimizations, both C++ and C# APIs, a library of ready-to-use high-level objects, and a visual scene editor. This will enable the creation of various applications with 3D graphics: games, animation, architecture visualization, VR apps, product visualization, interactive art, and much more.

The enterprise-grade features, like large world support with virtual scenes as expansive as the solar system, distributed simulation over a network, embedding into proprietary apps, an extended set of GIS/CAD data formats, advanced video output, professional motion capture, and many others are available in the commercial SDK editions—UNIGINE 2 Engineering and UNIGINE 2 Sim.

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• Two Worlds II Season Pass Sale. Half off.

• Gaming in the 90s! - Final Fantasy Edition. Thanks Ant.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Did You Know There's An Easy Way to Turn Off Your PS4 Controller.
• Nintendo Says Stop Using Alcohol To Clean Your Joy-Cons.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are hiring turnip bouncers now.

• New macOS update is wrecking MacBooks- What to do now. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Why you’re still paying for sports on cable when there’s no live sports. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Nintendo game pulled from Chinese platforms after Hong Kong protest. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Samsung Rising goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos.
• VMware overhauls NSX software to manage, secure larger virtual networks.
• How to bulk rename your files on Windows 10 with PowerToys.
• Glowing silicon nanowire reveals how to put optics in your CPU.
• Windows 10's next update is codenamed Manganese.
• (42) How To Customize Fan Lighting Layout in CORSAIR iCUE 3.27+.
• Razer says: Stay Home, Stay Safe, and Game On.
• TechSpot's Annual Guide to Buying a Used Graphics Card.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet Review - MobileTechReviews.
• EK Water Blocks Classic RGB P360 Complete RGB Liquid Cooling Kit Review - Nikk Tech.
• G-Technology G-DRIVE 14TB Thunderbolt 3 Review - TweakTown.
• GIGABYTE X570 Gaming X Motherboard Review - The FPS Review.
• Intel Xeon Gold 5220R + Xeon Gold 6226R Linux Performance Review - Phoronix.
• LG V60 ThinQ Review- Reasonable price, stellar battery life - 9to5Google.
• Razer Basilisk V2 Gaming Mouse Review- A Better DeathAdder - Tom's Hardware.
• Razer Raptor 27 144Hz Gaming Monitor Review - KitGuru - Part 2.
• Silverstone SETA A1 Case Review - TechPowerUp.
• Tesoro Real Madrid Gaming Chair Review - For Madridistas Only- - TechPowerUp.

• World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic may prove useful to coronavirus researchers…
• An artist created 3D models of every D&D monster, and they’re all free. Thanks Neutronbeam…

Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13, the ill-fated moon mission disaster that was a "successful failure" after the safe return of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert following an explosion that crippled their spacecraft. I don't know how accurate the Ron Howard movie based on the incident is, but it's an incredible story that gives me chills every time I see it. I think I will mark the occasion by watching it again. Gene Kranz: "With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour."

Obituary: Computational Biologist James Taylor Dies.

13 Lucky Links
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Brunch Links

• Coronavirus and pets- What you need to know. Thanks RedEye9.
• Remembering the Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was.
• Inside the Beatles' messy breakup, 50 years ago. Thanks Acleacius.

Stories

• Taiwan Is Exporting Its Coronavirus Successes to the World. Thanks Max.
• Anonymous donor gives every household in an Iowa town $150 in gift cards for food.
• Nudists told to wear face masks by police.

Science

• Gilead’s experimental drug remdesivir shows some hopeful signs in a small group of coronavirus patients.
• Study with jazz improv musicians sheds light on creativity and the brain.
• Flu Shot Ignites Immune Attack Against Cancer in Mice. Thanks Max.

Media

• Huntsman spiders make Aussies scream but are they deadly? - REACTION. Thanks RedEye9.
• Game of Bones.

Follow-up

• A Company Promised Cheap Ventilators to the Government, Never Delivered and Is Now Charging Quadruple the Price for New Ones. Thanks Digg.

The Funnies

• PortugueseGeese.