Gaijin Entertainment announced a Battlefield competitor: with the upcoming update War Thunder will feature ground troops support.

The trailer contains a lot of references to long lasting community memes and the game is known for making time-limited events on April 1. But I hope this one is real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZA0GkLNDeQ
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Finally, enough VRAM for Unreal Engine!

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Blender is going to cost $99/month from now on. You can watch the full announcement and check the upcoming premium features in the official video!

Ubisoft shared hundreds of artworks from AC Shadows: concept arts, 3D models, materials and shaders, hair, clothing — like a free artbook that may help you to boost your game's visuals.

https://magazine.artstation.com/2025/03/ubisoft-assassins-creed-shadows-art-blast/

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Can I pet that dog? 🐶

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1626620/Koira/

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Good one 😅

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Hardware Unboxed also decided to participate in April 1st!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlcftggK3To
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What an interesting name

😎 Off topic time:

The amazing Michael Sheen just bought £1M worth of debt that ordinary people in Wales owed to banks and cleared it. To make it he only needed £100K, since debts are often cheaper to buy than their full value. Since these credits were toxic anyway, it will not damage the economy, but will actually heal it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCUnYqFht4

Oh, and there's Nintendo Direct:

They just reinvented local multiplayer: before you could play on one screen only with several controllers, but now it works on up to 4 screens with one copy of the game. Not all games will be supported, but it's amazing anyway.

Joycons are now able to act as the most advanced mouse: thanks to gyroscope it can also detect rotation.

The sound system is heavily improved: microphone with noise cancellation, better audio quality, spatial sounds, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1e1BcyuvPg
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The what? This whole virtual thing isn't Nintendo way and people are getting furious.

Off topic

About a century ago president Hoover signed a similar act, imposed tariffs on 20000+ goods from other countries. It worsened the great depression, lowered imports by 63% and exports by 61%. GDP collapsed, the international trade slowed down and the world war became inevitable.

It's hard to imagine a dumber idea to fix the economy of the US, than using failed tactics from literally the worst president in American history.

There are several possible outcomes and they are all bad.

As you may have guessed, the Minecraft Movie is sitting on quite literally two funny jokes and the rest looks worse than fan-made YouTube films. The majority of reviews are trying to sweeten the pill, but it's nearly impossible to spot a bright side.

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Meanwhile, Ubisoft censored the topless priestesses in Far Cry 4 with the new patch. The patch is generally good and fixes a lot of bugs, but ladies were lore-accurate, since it was a part of their beliefs.

Oh, and they broke fan-mods installer + added at least 10 new bugs that people noticed in the first couple of hours.

UPD: The changes were rolled back and appeared to be a mistake — the censored version was for Japan only.

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Brazilian Sonic looks fascinating!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiiOdgDdO8
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Thanks, chat!

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Epic Games is trying to end copyright violation madness on its community platform UEFN and marketplace FAB. Unlike Roblox, that often requires manual DMCA strikes, Epic is going to use mass-research, similar to YouTube algorithm.

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