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Google’s latest system update for Android is small, but surprisingly useful (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-17 | get Android System Update Guide → | tags: google play services, android, wear os

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Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | tags: obra dinn, spherical mapping, dithering

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Nvidia Wants to Slop-ify Your PC Games With Its New AI Upscaler (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-16 | get Nvidia DLSS 3 → | tags: nvidia, dlss 5, ai upscaler

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This Android handheld puts a new twist on console design — literally (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-16 | get Android Handheld Gaming Console → | tags: anbernic, android handheld, gamepad

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New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community (arstechnica.com)

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 17, #1010 (cnet.com)

2026-03-16 | by See Full Bio | tags: nyt, connections, wordle

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Nvidia DLSS 5 first look: generative AI lighting radically transforms game visuals (techspot.com)

2026-03-16 | get Nvidia DLSS 5 Gaming Card → | tags: nvidia dlss 5, generative ai, game visuals

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Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's release date moves up a week (engadget.com)

2026-03-16 | get Lego Batman Set → | tags: lego batman, warner bros. games, playstation 5

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I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | by Niclas Stoffregen | get Board Game Strategy Guide → | tags: countryle, geoguessr, spatial reasoning

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This emerging PC emulator on Android now supports an iconic Steam feature (androidauthority.com)

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Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps (news.ycombinator.com)

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Android, Epic, and What's Really Behind Google's 'Existential' Threat to F-Droid (slashdot.org)

2026-03-16 | by Posted | get Android Open Source Project T-Shirt → | tags: android, epic games, google

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Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-15 | get Neural Cellular Automata Kit → | tags: neural cellular automata, language models, synthetic data

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Live-service games are a mess (theverge.com)

2026-03-15 | by Andrew Webster | get Game Server Management Kit → | tags: fortnite, epic games, live-service games

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How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo's Infamously Inferior Version Of 'Doom' (slashdot.org)

2026-03-14 | by Posted | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: raspberry pi, super nintendo, doom

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Rosamund Pike Thinks the ‘Doom’ Movie Is So Bad It Nearly Killed Her Career (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-14 | tags: rosamund pike, doom, video game movies

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Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ball x Pit on mobile, Piece by Piece x2 and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

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5 great indie games from GDC 2026 (theverge.com)

2026-03-14 | by Jay Peters | tags: fate’s end, thunder lotus, yacht club games

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Video Games and Viral Memes: How the Trump Administration Is Selling the Iran War (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-03-14 | tags: video games, viral memes, white house

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (news.ycombinator.com)

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Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-13 | tags: slay the spire, mega crit, early access

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Dive, Decorate and Nurture: Apple Arcade Adds Three New Games in April (cnet.com)

2026-03-13 | by See Full Bio | get Apple Arcade Subscription → | tags: apple arcade, dredge plus, black salt games

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Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-13 | by Sarah Perez | get Apple App Store Gift Card → | tags: apple, app store, china

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The best handheld game consoles of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed (zdnet.com)

2026-03-13 | by Taylor Clemons | get Nintendo Switch OLED → | tags: handheld game consoles, zelda, nintendo

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-03-13 | get Loot Box Prevention Kit → | tags: loot boxes, pegi, europe

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Google's Genie 3 AI can generate playable worlds, but they still fall apart after a minute (techspot.com)

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Google improves Project Genie world consistency, but developers still can't build games with it (techspot.com)

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Epic says its Fortnite V-bucks price hike is a ‘direct correlation’ to operating costs (theverge.com)

2026-03-13 | by Jay Peters | get Fortnite V-bucks Gift Card → | tags: epic games, fortnite, v-bucks

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Downloaded a malware-infected Steam game? The FBI wants to hear from you (techspot.com)

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