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What happened to Kingdoms of Amalur? The rise and fall of 38 Studios

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The new Lego Yoda bust is equal parts cool and terrifying

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The official Super Mario Galaxy bath bomb is traumatizing kids

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Exclusive: Riftbound Unleashed's Jhin Virtuoso full-art card variant revealed

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

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Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

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Crimson Desert's Steam player count is big, but not the biggest this year

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5 burning Project Hail Mary questions answered by Andy Weir's book

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Minecraft Dungeons 2 announced, plus a Minecraft theme park in the UK

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London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms (Reuters)

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Sources: EA is selling a $15B debt package to fund its $55B take-private deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings (Bloomberg)

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Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

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AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure (Nino Paoli/Bloomberg)

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Allegro Non Troppo is a raunchy Fantasia parody — and a an excellent animated film on its own merits

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Every bulb on Govee’s new outdoor string lights can display multicolor effects

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Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)

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Luke Gygax is bringing more Greyhawk to D&D with official collaboration

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