Amazon's Big Spring Sale is underway, and there are numerous offers available on all manner of products. One nice deal you can grab right now is for PowerA's Mario-themed Switch controllers.

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The PowerA wireless Switch controller featuring a Mario design and red color is discounted now from $50 to $30, for a savings of 40%. Prime members can get free shipping within two days.

This is an officially licensed gamepad that works with the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, though it does not have the C button that launches video and voice chat with GameChat. These features are going to be put behind a paywall starting April 1.

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California jurors have found YouTube and Meta--the latter of which owns social apps like Instagram and Threads--liable in a civil court for getting a young adult woman addicted to social media and impairing her mental health.

According to a March 25 CNN report, the jurors have decided that, after a seven-week trial and more than eight days of deliberations, Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design of their platforms, knew their design was dangerous, failed to warn users of those risks, and caused substantial harm to the plaintiff.

Brought to the Los Angeles Superior Court in February 2026, the civil lawsuit accused the social media giants of intentionally hooking the plaintiff as a child onto their apps, which caused her to develop anxiety, body dysmorphia, and suicidal thoughts. The trial has now come to a close with a hefty price tag. The companies must pay a total of $3 million in compensatory damages, while additional punitive damages could also be awarded to Kaley, the now 20-year-old plaintiff, and her mother. Meta bears 70% of the responsibility for the harm caused, with YouTube fronting the other 30% of the bill.

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Nintendo has announced that starting in May, digital versions of games it releases exclusively for the Switch 2 will have a different price tag than the physical version.

The company shared the news on its official website on March 25. Beginning with preorders for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, a side-scrolling platformer that launches on May 21, digital Nintendo Switch 2 games "will have a [Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price] that is different from physical versions." This means that, from May onward, any Nintendo game that's exclusive to the Switch 2 will have two difference prices between the digital and physical versions.

"Nintendo games offer the same experiences whether in packaged or digital format, and this change simply reflects the different costs associated with producing and distributing each format and offers players more choice in how they can buy and play Nintendo games," the company said in the news release. "As always, retail partners set their own prices for physical and digital games, and pricing for each title may vary."

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Cinephiles on a budget, this is your lucky week. Amazon has kicked off its Spring Sale and is hosting a massive Buy Two, Get One Free promotion on movies, books, and more. If you want fresh Blu-rays, now is the time to get some of the best Hollywood movies for cheap. To take advantage of this sale, pick three eligible items from the list. The lowest-priced item will be deducted from your basket, giving you that item for free at checkout. You can mix and match Blu-rays, books, and more, as long as they have the B2G1 Free label on their store pages. To help you out, we've made two lists below for 4K and standard Blu-rays, but there are hundreds of movies to choose from overall. DVDs are also included in the promotion, so you're spoiled for choice. Even better, several of these releases are also included in the other Amazon sale happening right now, the Spring Sale 2026, which lasts until March 31. Any discounts from that promotion apply to the B2G1 price, too, meaning you stand to save quite a bit on Blu-rays this week.

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Keep in mind that there is no guarantee how long these movies will remain part of the promotion. At the time of writing, all the films below are B2G1 Free, but Amazon can change each movie's eligibility at any time. If you see something you like, don't hesitate to grab it.

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers launched last July, and was part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate catalog from day one across console and PC. GameSir eventually released its own Xbox and PC wireless controller based on the Soulslike, and it's now available at a discount as part of Amazon's Big Spring Sale. Typically, the GameSir G7 Pro Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition controller costs $120 on Amazon, but it's currently 17% off at Amazon, dropping the price to just $100 (was $120). That's more expensive than a standard Xbox controller, but it's also much prettier, and a great accessory if you're playing Wuchang on Xbox.

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The Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Edition of the GameSir G7 Pro wireless controller is both the first controller GameSir has made for Xbox and part of an official collaboration with developer Leenzee and publisher 505 Games. Its light blue and gold color scheme is based on the Skyborn Might combat skill players can use and the Dragon Scale Armor players can discover in the game. The handles on each side of the controller feature layered UV-resin textures to give it a more tactile feel, while Wuchang's silhouette appears on the controller's main body.

It also features all of the features you'd expect from a basic G7 Pro controller, like GameSir's mag-res TMR sticks, gyroscope capabilities, Hall Effect analog triggers, and four extra buttons on the back of the controller. This controller stands out by working wirelessly with Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. You can even wake the consoles from sleep mode with it, which not all third-party controllers can.

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Wes Anderson is one of the most iconic filmmakers of the modern era, creating films with a distinct visual aesthetic that only he can pull off. If you consider yourself a movie buff, you'll want to be familiar with Wes Anderson's body of work. The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years from The Criterion Collection is one of the best ways to buy a large portion of his filmography at once, but it normally costs $500. Luckily, during the Amazon Spring Sale, it has been discounted by 43% to just $286.27.

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The Wes Anderson Archive film collection features 4K restorations of his first ten films:

1. Bottle Rocket
2. Rushmore
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Isle of Dogs
10. The French Dispatch

For the older films from the 1990s and 2000s, these physical Blu-Rays included within this collection are by far the best way to experience them, as they have 4K image quality and support Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround sound. If you need English subtitles to better understand the spoken word in these visually stunning films, this collection has that too.

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Amazon's Big Spring Sale is going on now, and one of the best deals we've found is for a popular Lego Lord of the Rings item. It's a fitting day for a discount, too, as March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day.

Amazon is currently selling the Lego Icons The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook Kit for a nice discount. It's marked down from $130 to only $109, which represents a savings of 16%.

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Playground Games' open-world racing sim Forza Horizon 6 is speedily making the hairpin turns towards its May 19 release, and months ahead of launch, the game's PC requirements have finally been revealed. You'll have quite a few options for CPUs and GPUs, so check below to see how your machine stacks up.

There are four specifications for the upcoming timed console exclusive: minimum, recommended, extreme, and extreme with ray tracing. Forza Horizon 6 will run on graphics cards as old as 2019 with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650. The processor is even better, with it running on the Intel Core i5 8400 that released in 2017. These are just the minimum requirements, though. You'll need some better hardware if you want to flex the graphical fidelity Playground Games has been cooking up.

For example, if you wanted to play Forza Horizon 6 on extreme settings at 4K resolution, you'll want either 2022's AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT or 2023's Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPUs. And to reach extreme settings with ray tracing on at an upscaled 4K resolution, you should have either 2025's Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards.

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Three years after the Resident Evil 4 remake first dropped players back into its eerie European village, someone did some serious number-crunching with the Merchant's receipts. The gravel-voiced retail legend appears to be in serious financial trouble. And not just a little--we're talking trillions.

To mark the anniversary, Capcom (via IGN) shared an interesting set of global player stats, revealing just how much business has flowed through the Merchant's shadowy operation. Over the past three years, players have collectively bought a staggering 39.9 trillion pesetas' worth of weapons, upgrades, and gear. That's an economy powered by shotgun shells, sniper rifles, and the occasional rocket launcher. But here's the thing: Players didn’t just spend--they sold even more. Treasures like ornate crowns, eerie masks, and glittering butterfly lamps flooded back into the Merchant's inventory, totaling a jaw-dropping 43.2 trillion pesetas.

It's the 3rd anniversary of the Resident Evil 4 remake!
The Merchant’s debt has ballooned way past 3 trillion by now...
Total Losses
-3,337,279,919,290 ptas
(That's a lot of rocket launchers!)#REBHFun pic.twitter.com/wdzrNvxvT6

— 【公式】バイオハザード / RESIDENT EVIL PORTAL Official (@REBHPortal) March 24, 2026

So, with that math applied, it's hard not to think of the Merchant deep in the red, sitting with a roughly 3.34 trillion peseta deficit. That's what happens when you offer generous trade-in deals to millions of opportunistic players armed with pockets full of loot. The remake, much like the original Resident Evil 4, encouraged players to hoard valuables, cashing them in for devastating upgrades--like the forementioned rocket launcher, which can obliterate most bosses in a single shot for a hefty 160,000 pesetas. Turns out, those deals add up… just not in the Merchant's favor.

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Crimson Desert features tons of creatures for you to tame, pet, and ride. Alongside dragons and wolves, cats and dogs roam the world of Pywell, too, and thanks to the many systems developer Pearl Abyss has included, you can get the best companion ever: a fat, lazy feline.

The latest open-world high-fantasy action-adventure game from the South Korean studio lets you acquire companions. From the two playable characters to the various recruits, the game lets you build trust with creatures and people alike by talking to and giving them gifts. Once trust reaches maximum, these companions will give you discounts, increase their wares, or join you on the battlefield more. Cats function much the same way: Pet them enough, and they'll accompany you.

One such Redditor discovered this on March 24. In a popular post on the game's subreddit, user Ter-Lee-Comedy showed off their black-coated, yellow-eyed chunker of a kitty that "doesn't loot or anything, let alone walk on his own." In the approximately 40-second video, Ter-Lee-Comedy's masked Kliff can be seen walking Hernand with the nameless cat loaf on his right shoulder. It's adorably cute, but because Pywell's fat cats are prone to escaping, there's a method to taming them.

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One advantage PC gamers have over console owners is that many games on that platform support ultrawide resolution. The shift from 16:9 to 21:9 feels magical, but ultrawide displays can be expensive. Fortunately, you can get a 42% discount on a 4K Samsung monitor during Amazon's Spring Sale, as this 40-inch display has dropped from $1,200 to $700. Even better, it comes with a free download code for one of this year's hottest games, Resident Evil Requiem, and your purchase can earn you more discounts.

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The ultrawide monitor on sale is a 40-inch 1000R curved display with 21:9 4K resolution, a 180Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, and HDR support. It also supports AMD FreeSync to reduce choppiness in game visuals, and you can play split-screen games since it has screen space to spare. For productivity, picture-in-picture lets you display two different inputs at once.

While there are ultrawide displays that offer better visual quality and even OLED panels, you won't find them at this price. For $700, you're getting a capable monitor that will make recent games like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach look even more cinematic when you switch to an ultrawide resolution.

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The developer of the popular game Crimson Desert has seen its stock price surge on the Korea Exchange, recovering the losses that came after reviews for the game came out.

Crimson Desert has now exceeded 3 million copies sold, and it appears investors are happy about that, as developer Pearl Abyss is trading up more than 26% today. The stock crashed by 30% last week when reviews came out, but those losses have now been largely erased.

Pearl Abyss stock is now up 26% year-to-date and up 56% over the past year. Over the past five years, however, Pearl Abyss is trading down about 18%. Stock-price fluctuation is a normal thing, and ongoing geopolitical events are adding to volatility on the Korea Exchange and others globally.

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Next month, Pokemon Champions will bring the turn-based action of Pokemon battles to Nintendo Switch 2--and later this year, to mobile devices. Champions will be making some impactful changes to the core battling mechanics of the Pokemon franchise, including the removal of one of the game's most long-lasting statistics: Individual Values, or IVs.

IVs are stat modifiers that every individual Pokemon is assigned at random once caught by the player, and they impact how that Pokemon's attack, defense, and HP grow as it levels up and evolves. Pokemon Champions will remove this randomization from the equation, though the reason for the change has not been fully explained.

Speaking with a roundtable of journalists over Zoom, development director and game producer Masaaki Hoshino says the decision to remove IVs was not taken lightly. In his words, it took a "heated discussion with [Shigeki] Morimoto," one of Pokemon's original designers, to get the change made, in the hopes of making the game's barrier of entry lower for new players.

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Pokemon Champions will soon bring the heat of Pokemon battles to Nintendo Switch 2 and mobile devices. If you've been planning your perfect team of Pokemon for the occasion, there's a wrinkle you may not have considered, as development director and game producer Masaaki Hoshino has confirmed that Champions will only feature fully evolved forms of Pokemon with evolutionary lines at launch.

Speaking to a roundtable of journalists over Zoom, Hoshino confirmed the approach, though he did not dive into the specific reasons for the choice. "Yes, only final evolutions will be introduced at launch," Hoshino said, "[...but] at some point they might consider earlier evolutions."

The choice will have an impact on the competitive circuit, as Champions will become the featured game of the VGC (Video Game Championship) division as soon as it launches, replacing Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. This means the pool of Pokemon will feature fewer viable options, and competitive players will have to shift their strategies.

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Pokemon Champions' development director wants to keep Pokemon battles around "forever."

This may seem like a weird thing to say given nearly every mainline game since 1996 has featured turn-based Pokemon battles. However, if last year's Pokemon Legends: Z-A is any indication, developer Game Freak isn't afraid to experiment with Pokemon's combat. In a surprising twist, Legends: Z-A ditched turn-based battles in favor of real-time combat. For many, this change breathed new life into Pokemon's combat, but it did leave others curious about the future of Pokemon battling. If Pokemon Champions is a success, then that future should be clear: Pokemon Champions will be the de facto way to compete in traditional Pokemon battles.

After nearly an hour of hands-on time with Pokemon Champions, development director and game producer Masaaki Hoshino sat down with a room of journalists over Zoom to talk about Game Freak's upcoming battle simulator. Set to release in April on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 in addition to mobile devices at a later date, Pokemon Champions aims to bring the depth of turn-based Pokemon battles to a free-to-play, live service model. As Hoshino puts it: "Regardless of what battle [mechanics] are introduced in the future[…] we wanted to make turn-based battles [always] available."

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Epic Games recently conducted mass layoffs affecting 1,000 people at the Fortnite studio, and the cuts included the character artist who created Jonesy, one of the most recognizable characters in the game.

Vitaliy Naymushin said on LinkedIn that they were part of the cuts. The developer had worked at Epic Games for more than 11 years. "It's been a wild ride. Lots of ups and downs," the artists wrote. "Seeing Fortnite from pre-launch to today and being a part of making that happen was the experience of a lifetime."

Naymushin created not just Jonesy, but also Ramirez, Penny, and the majority of the game's original cast of characters, he said. He rose up to become the director of character art for Fortnite, and in that role, he hired and onboarded new artists and leads on Fortnite and also personally directed the art for 15 seasons of Fortnite.

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With the 2026 World Cup coming up very soon, FIFA has announced a brand-new soccer/football game, and it's unlike any other FIFA game that's come before it.

The fast-paced, arcade-style FIFA Heroes is a 5v5 game featuring both real-world players and playable mascots and even people from mythology like Thor and Sun Wukong. Some of the real-world players in the game include people living and dead, including Diego Maradona, Harry Kane, Jordan Pickford, Eduardo Camavinga, Jack Grealish, Emiliano Martinez, and Lautaro Martinez.

FIFA Heroes releases on April 26 for mobile, and it will come pre-downloaded on new Motorola devices. The free game is developed by Enver, a studio behind games aimed at the Gen Z and Alpha crowd.

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I like donuts and I bet you do as well, so it's exciting news today to learn that there are officially licensed donuts based on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming to Krispy Kreme soon.

The collab launches April 8 in Japan and runs through May 26. As part of the campaign, Krispy Kreme will sell donuts based on Mario, Yoshi, and Luma. There is also Question Block donut. The Mario donut has strawberry icing and red and blue sprinkles. The Yoshi donut includes a white chocolate coating and custard cream inside. The Luma donut is themed around space and has silver toppings and a blueberry glaze.

As reported by Dexerto, people can buy these donuts individually or in a six-pack that also comes with classic Krispy Kreme flavors, packaged inside a themed box for the movie.

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is set for release on April 16, but thanks to a free demo in the Nintendo eShop, you can play it right now. Even better--any progress you make in the demo will carry over to the full version of the game at launch.

Living the Dream is the third game in the Tomodachi series, and sees you create a bunch of customizable Mii characters who will work together to improve to island's happiness levels. The life sim will also allow players to customize the island and its inhabitants, as well as featuring a drawing tool to create imaginative objects that the Mii characters can interactive with.

It's important to note that there will be "certain" restrictions on image sharing though, in order to maintain a "fun and safe" environment for everyone. Having said that, some players are already finding that the game's filter leaves a lot to be desired. One user on Bluesky has discovered that naming certain characters questionable names will not prevent NPCs from bringing them up in conversation, leading to some pretty chaotic interactions.

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World of Warcraft has been around for 22 years, and a new music video in collaboration with singer Aurora will have players reliving every memory.

The song, titled A Place to Call Home, is accompanied by an animated music video crafted by Paris-based animation studio Brunch in partnership with Blizzard. It starts by showing a journey that will be familiar to longtime night elf players--the trek of a lone night elf from Teldrassil to the Eastern Kingdoms, requiring players to travel through the dangerous Wetlands before reaching the dwarven capital of Ironforge.

From there the trailer picks up the pace, as the night elf adventurer is rescued by a dwarf hunter and later teams up with a human paladin for a trek into WoW's iconic Deadmines dungeon. After defeating the Defias Brotherhood, the music video goes full montage, as the adventuring party travels through WoW's various expansions--through the Dark Portal into Outland to face Illidan, across the sea to Northrend to vanquish the Lich King, a showdown with Deathwing from Cataclysm, and more.

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