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Available for Xbox Insiders: More Groups on Home, Custom User Colors, Quick Resume Settings, and More

Category: Xbox Insider March 18, 2026 Available for Xbox Insiders: More Groups on Home, Custom User Colors, Quick Resume Settings, and More Alex ChartersSenior Product Manager At Xbox, your feedback helps shape how we build and improve the player experience. Starting today, select Xbox Insiders can begin testing several highly requested updates coming soon to Xbox consoles. These features will…

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“I Could Not Give Less Of A S**t If Anyone Else Plays Them” – Developers Behind ‘Pointless’ Homebrew Ports Defend Their Work

“This is all the validation I need”. In recent times, we’ve seen a flood of games being ported to consoles that they were never on back in the day. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, GTA3, Virtua Fighter 4, and many more have been shown running on platforms which, once upon…

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As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I’m excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer

I’m rather excited for Starfinder: Afterlight, mostly because it’s the closest—beyond charming indie projects like Dawnsbury Days—I’m going to get to a fully-realised Pathfinder 2e videogame in the near future. It uses Starfinder 2e, but the base rules chassis is very much the same. I was also rather taken by its visual presentation. It’s clear…

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You know it’s bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don’t

I’ve used dummy RAM kits before. Usually, a pair of DIMMs that contain no memory chips is simply acting as a shell to match other functioning DIMMs in the remaining slots, often with RGB lighting to match. They’re hella satisfying, I must admit, but, ultimately, needless. That’s what I thought this V-color announcement was all…

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‘Sims don’t plan anything’ says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: ‘it’s always shot down, rightfully so’

At their core, sims are hedonistic little squirrels constantly meeting their needs one moment at a time without any ability to think through a sequence of actions. That’s by design, one Sims 4 developer says, but he always wanted sims to have a more thoughtful approach to their own lives when left to their own…

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Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game

Category: Games March 18, 2026 Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The last time I played Pragmata, I came away delighted by how it was inserting a truly new idea into a very familiar genre, building a hacking minigame into the fabric of third-person shooter combat. Almost a year later,…

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