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A new game mode and a range of improvements for Tour de France 2022
The game celebrating the third-most-followed competition in the world returns this year with 14,000km of racing across four different countries. Players can enjoy four game modes and manage 26 teams. The world's top cyclists, such as Tadej Pogačar, Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, Primož Roglič and David Gaudu, are available to race with players in the game's 92 cycling stages.

Pro Cycling Manager 2022 introduces a new interface and more cyclist versatility
Combining management and real-time racing, Pro Cycling Manager puts players into the shoes of a sports director. Scouting, recruitment, sponsor management, training and race strategies are all tasks the director must do to reach the very top of the sport. This new edition has over 260 races and 680 stages, including the 21 official stages of the 2022 Tour de France.

Starting today, players can join Avyanna in a new journey through Nevandaar as they travel the treacherous Paths to Madness in this just released DLC. But be warned, these paths are not for the faint-hearted, and exploring the darkest corners of Nevandaar is sure to unveil sinister secrets and perilous quests. Players that dare to traverse the paths will encounter the laboratory of a mad necromancer, a secret workshop of the veil, a demonic fortress rife with magic, and even a sacred grove of the Elven Alliance.

Cast your fears aside and step foot on the Paths to Madness, featuring new stories, allies, dungeons, and legendary relics. And, of course, who knows what powerful enemies await...

NORCO, the first-ever winner of the Tribeca Games Award, blurs the boundaries between art and video games. Heavily inspired by the titular town of Norco, Louisiana, and the greater New Orleans region, developer Geography of Robots blends true stories and personal history with inspirations from Southern Gothic literature and pulp fiction to create a uniquely dark and captivating game experience.

Set in a gritty, distorted version of South Louisiana, NORCO puts you on the search for your missing brother in the aftermath of your mother’s death. You’ll team up with a fugitive security android and explore the sinking suburbs, run-down strip malls, drainage ditches, and verdant industrial swamps of Louisiana's petrochemical hinterlands.

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• Studio heads rave over four-day work weeks.
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• Call of Duty: Warzone hotfix.
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• Watch this New York City building transform into an @ELDENRING mural.
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• Hunt: Showdown -- Meridian Turncoat - DLC Trailer.
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• Rotund Rebound - Launch Trailer.
• Elite Montagne Trailer - Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
• Vampire The Masquarade: Swansong RPG Trailer.

• The Artful Escape director on making "the Guns N' Roses of video games" - GamesIndustry.biz.
• How Ubisoft Sherbrooke Is Building a Culture and Investing in Local Community.

• An inside look at the ping system in Overwatch 2.
• World of Warcraft News and Development Updates.

• A Memoir Blue Is Now Available For PC, Xbox One, And Xbox Series X-S (Game Pass).
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• Imp Of The Sun Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X-S.
• Godfall: Ultimate Edition coming to Xbox on April 7.
• Tunche is coming to PS4 on March 25.
• Xbox Becomes the Official Gaming Partner of the French Football Federation.
• Celebrating Nine Years of ID@Xbox.

• Netflix acquires game developer Boss Fight Entertainment.
• Apple could soon turn the iPhone into a recurring subscription service.
• Get Retro in Duty in Call of Duty: Mobile Season 3.

• FBI trolls Russian embassy with geotargeted ads for disgruntled spies.
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• New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022.
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• EU targets Big Tech with sweeping new antitrust legislation.
• GameStop refused to pay $30 million bill from consulting firm, lawsuit says. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Former TikTok moderators sue over emotional toll of 'extremely disturbing' videos.
• Russian spies indicted in worldwide hacks of energy industry, including Kansas nuclear plant.

• Celebrating Women in Ubisoft Games…
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The Far Cry 6 Free Weekend is available starting today at 11 A.M. PT until March 27 giving players access to the whole game, including the “Stranger Things” crossover mission, The Vanishing, and all free downloadable content published to date, all playable together in co-op. Additionally, The Vanishing is now available for Far Cry 6 players for free.

The Free Weekend is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Stadia, as well as Windows PC through the Epic Games Store and the Ubisoft Store. Players can also subscribe to Ubisoft+* on PC, Stadia and Amazon Luna. Players who want to continue exploring the island of Yara in Far Cry 6 will keep their game progression and enjoy discounts on the game and Season Pass.

Doe alleges she was often pressured to drink alcohol, to participate in “cube crawls” where women were subjected to sexual comments and groping, and to stay late after work to participate in a game called “Jackbox,” which Doe says she was told was to determine how well she’d fit in with the group. According to Doe, the game required each individual to suggest “creative answers” to various questions that were mostly sexual in nature.

The complaint alleges Doe started to dress “more conservatively” so she wouldn’t get sexually harassed, and that she tried to distance herself from offsite leadership dinners. She also complained about the excessive drinking and sexual advances made by her supervisors, but was told that “it was just her leadership being nice and trying to be friends with her,” the suit says.

FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 is designed to boost framerates in supported games; however, it is fair to say that as FSR 2.0 is an advanced temporal upscaling solution, it will be more demanding on graphics cards than a spatial upscaling solution like FSR 1.0.

That does mean that while FSR 2.0 will support a broad spectrum of hardware, from both AMD and select hardware from our competitors, there are some caveats that gamers need to be aware of when compared to FSR 1.0. To start, though, we do want to say that as an open-source cross-platform solution, we are not placing any constraints on FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 compatibility, and what we are talking about here are recommendations for an optimal experience using the technology.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system. Highrise City combines two genres in new and interesting ways: City Builders and traditional Economy & Resource Management Simulations. Highrise City offers you challenging gameplay and gives you all the possibilities and tools you need to create a living and breathing city. Take care of your city and make it grow and flourish into a giant Metropolis!

The winners of the 24th annual IGF Awards are:

• Best Student Game ($2,000)
  Live Adventure (Live Adventure Team)
• Excellence in Design ($2,000)
  Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
• Excellence in Visual Art ($2,000)
  Papetura (Petums)
• Excellence in Audio ($2,000)
  Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
• Nuovo Award ($2,000)
  Memory Card (Lily Zone)
• Excellence in Narrative ($2,000)
  Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
• Audience Award ($2,000)
  Mini Motorways (Dinosaur Polo Club)
• Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($10,000)
  Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)

AK-xolotl is a top-down roguelite, featuring the cutest amphibian. You're an axolotl with an AK (duh!) that goes on a rampage, shooting down their next meal!

Progress through the ecosystem and show who the real apex predator is! Advance through several maps that mix the best of both worlds: procedurally generated biomes, for a randomized experience, and carefully handcrafted room layouts, to achieve the perfect pond atmosphere.

Due to its focus on an 8-and-up age range, the game has hard rules on prohibited chat content, which its automatic moderation system catches. (Star Stable Online revolves entirely around text-based chat.) On top of that, the SSO administrative team also uses AI (the "anti-tox bot" Oterlu) to filter and check for potentially abusive language. Oterlu's founder Alexander Gee says the AI needs to be trained on game-specific verbiage in every supported language instead of crawling popular text repositories like Wikipedia.

Gee offers a sample sentence as if typed by a child player: "Whinfell today you suck, can see you are only 10." Any outsider to SSO or any bot trained on general language might look at that sentence and immediately assume this chat message is disparaging to someone named Whinfell who is 10 years old. But in this case, a horse in SSO is named Whinfell, and the number is its in-game level. In this context, the player is airing out her frustrations with their under-leveled horse.

Developed by Sunwolf Entertainment and published by Fireshine Games (formerly Sold Out Games), Imp of the Sun is a nonlinear 2D action-platformer set in a lovingly hand-drawn, Peruvian-inspired world. Discover the four corners of the empire as you set out on an adventure as Nin, an imp created from the final spark of the sun, on your quest to restore the sun’s power before the world is plunged into darkness.

From the bright peaks of the Andean mountains to the dense Amazonian jungles, explore the empire and refine your skills in streamlined gameplay built for fluid movement and fast, combo-based combat. Discover new abilities and become more powerful as you venture across the empire to defeat the Four Keepers in any order you choose, all set to a stunning Peruvian soundtrack and striking art style.

In Stars and Time tells the story of Siffrin and their adventurer friends—a found family bound together by fate in order to end the tyrannical reign of an evil king. But as victory is just within the party’s grasp, a tragedy occurs, the clock resets, and they have to do it all again.

As Siffrin’s the only one who notices this loop, each new start wears away at his cheerful veneer, yet he keeps going in hopes he can end this temporal tragedy once and for all.

In Stars and Time is a time-looping RPG adventure. With each loop, Siffrin gains a new perspective on the world around them, opening up new solutions to puzzles and allowing them to make better choices in conversation. Equip memories as armor, pray to the Change God to improve your team’s capabilities each loop, and challenge deadly foes to Rock, Papers, Scissors as Siffrin seeks the truth.

• Battlefield series begins up-hill battle, feature reversions coming to next title as -valuable lessons- learned from Battlefield 2042.

• 'Netflix of games' isn't likely, says analyst.

• Stand with Ukraine Bundle (pay what you want and help charity). Over $16M so far. Ending soon.

• Call of Duty: Warzone Sniper Rifle headshot damage hotfix.
• Microsoft Flight Simulator Release Notes (1.24.5.0) World Update VIII- Iberia Now Available.
• Viscerafest - Chapter 2 is now available. Here's an Official Trailer.
• World of Warcraft Hotfixes- March 23, 2022.

• Ballads of Hongye - Ancient China - City-building Game.
• B.I.O.T.A. - Pick Your Retro - Gameplay Trailer.
• Dead Man´s Diary Trailer.
• FixFox Story Trailer.
• The Technologies of FORSPOKEN.
• OAKEN - Early Access Release Date Trailer.
• Scathe Devlog #1 - Welcome to Bullet Hell.
• Silt Dev Commentary.
• Smart Factory Tycoon - Trailer.
• World's Worst Handyman Reveal Trailer.

• Steam Next Fest June 2022 Registration & New Eligibility Criteria.
• Hunt: Showdown -- Traitor's Moon is live NOW.
• Storm the Forts of the Forgotten in Sea of Thieves' Second Adventure, Live Until April 7.

• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Dev Plan 2022.
• Dying Light 2's First Story DLC Won't Take Place After the Game's Ending - IGN.
• Weird West Final Hands on Impressions and Preview - AGC (NSFW video).

• AMD's FSR 2.0 upscaling tech heads to Xbox.
• Free Play Days – Lost Judgment, Before We Leave, and Far Cry 6 - Xbox Wire.
• Nintendo Download: Kirby and the Forgotten Land Floats Onto Nintendo Switch.
• Lost Ark Dev Would Consider a Console Port if Fans Wanted It.
• Returnal's free Ascension update finally gives us a reason to go back.

• How to Remove Stickers From Your Laptop. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Nexon Releases Dungeon&Fighter Mobile in Korea.

• Threat looms of Russian attack on undersea cables to shut down West’s internet.
• How SiriusXM bought and bungled a beloved podcast network. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• AARP-backed social network looks to lure older users from Facebook.

• Inside ASML, the company advanced chipmakers use for EUV lithography.
• Nvidia in Talks to Use Intel as a Foundry to Manufacture Chips.
• GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards are bundled with 3x8-pin to PCIe Gen5 (16-pin) power adapters.
• John Deere software to be made available for farmers, repair shops.
• The Birth of Spy Tech: From the ‘Detectifone’ to a Bugged Martini (may require registration or subscription).
• Yes, You Can Make Your Tech Survive Obsolescence (may require registration or subscription).
• This Is the Best Screenshot Tool for Windows.
• Wall-Mount PC Build.

• The Web Foundation wants to kill malicious websites for good.
• Ransomware is scary, but another scam is costing victims much, much more, says FBI.
• A Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group.
• Malicious npm packages target Azure developers to steal personal data.
• Vidar spyware is now hidden in Microsoft help files.

• Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal.

• Ghostwire: Tokyo review — A ghastly formula - VentureBeat.
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands review – Borderlands gets a magic makeover - VG247.

• Headset: Beyerdynamic MMX 100 gaming headset review - PC Gamer.
• Headset: FiiO X Jade Audio JD3 Review — Headfonics. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Keyboard: Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard 2 Full Size (96%) Review - TechPowerUp.
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS Tachyon Motherboard Review - TweakTown.
• Motherboard: MSI Z690 EDGE WIFI (DDR5) review - Guru3D.
• Mouse: ROCCAT Kone XP Wired Gaming Mouse - Christ Centered Gamer.
• PSU: Cooler Master XG Plus 650 Platinum ARGB Power Supply - OCinside.
• RAM: Neo Forza Faye DDR4-3200 2x 32 GB Review - TechPowerUp.
• SSD: Crucial X8 Portable SSD 2022 review - Guru3D.
• SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB PS5 Bundle M.2 NVMe SSD - Nikk Tech.
• SSD: Sabrent 4TB Rocket 4 Plus SSD Review - Highest Capacity B47R Speedster - TweakTown.

• Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat…
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• The top movies ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture, ranked. Some issues here. And #2 should be #1.
• 10 most successful sci-fi movies at the Oscars.

Science
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• A private company just made a huge breakthrough in nuclear fusion.
• 'Odd radio circles' that baffled astronomers are likely explosions from distant galaxies. Thanks Acleacius.
• Mechanism for Long-Term Memory Storage Identified.

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• Khloé Kardashian Dresses Up Her Denim on Denim Outfit with Leather Gloves at Nobu. The Canadian Tuxedo arrives!

Media

• Scientists Translated a Spiderweb Into Music, And It's Utterly Captivating. Thanks Max.
• Eraser: Reborn - Trailer.

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• The original prototype of an Atari "Home Pong" video game system sold for $270,910.

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• Mars Astronauts Could Use Lettuce to Battle One of Space's Great Threats.