Teardown Goes Multiplayer: Indie Hit Smashes Into Co-op Territory
Teardown, the acclaimed voxel destruction game from Malmö-based Tuxedo Labs, is set to launch multiplayer on March 12, adding co-op, competitive, and sandbox modes.
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A 30-Year-Old Star Wars Game Gets a Stunning Fan Overhaul
The beloved fan-made TIE Fighter: Total Conversion mod has released its biggest update yet, rebuilding the classic 1994 space combat game for modern PCs.
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Blizzard's WoW Composers Hold the Line Against Generative AI
Lead composer Leo Kaliski says Blizzard feels 'lucky and happy' to be keeping generative AI out of WoW: Midnight's score, as debate over AI in game development intensifies.
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Cowboys' Las Vegas nightmare deepens as Burns banned for two matches
The Cowboys' rough start to 2026 grows worse: Braidon Burns faces a two-match ban after a sin-binning for a high shot on Kalyn Ponga in Las Vegas.
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Sonos 'Play' Portable Speaker Leaks Ahead of Likely March Launch
An unannounced Sonos speaker called 'Play' briefly appeared on the Canadian Best Buy website, pointing to a compact, carry-loop design priced at CAD $399.99.
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Opera, Identity and the Weight of the Stolen Generations
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon was taken from her mother at three weeks old. Six of nine siblings shared the same fate. Now she leads Australia's First Nations opera scene.
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Khamenei Killed: America's Firepower Delivers, But Iran's Future Remains Unwritten
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, killed in a joint US-Israeli strike on Tehran. Australia has backed the operation and urged citizens to flee the region as Iran strikes back.
Sophia Vargas Honor's Magic V6 Rewrites the Rules for Foldable Phones at MWC 2026
Honor has unveiled the Magic V6 at MWC 2026, claiming world-first IP69 water resistance, a 6,660mAh battery, and an 8.75mm folded profile that undercuts Samsung's best.
Sophia Vargas Meta's Smart Glasses Plan to ID Strangers on the Street
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, with internal documents showing the company chose its launch window deliberately to avoid scrutiny.
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Thousands of Australians Stranded as US-Israel Strikes Kill Iran's Supreme Leader
The joint US-Israeli assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei has left thousands of Australians stranded across the Middle East as airports close and over 1,800 flights are cancelled.
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Parramatta's CBD Dilemma: Offices vs Apartments in Sydney's Second City
Parramatta has grown into Sydney's second CBD, but a fierce planning debate is now underway over whether its skyline should be shaped by offices or apartments.
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French Games Publisher Nacon Files for Insolvency After Parent Company's Loan Default
French AA publisher Nacon has filed for insolvency after parent company Bigben Interactive defaulted on a €43 million bond repayment, putting 16 studios and more than 1,000 jobs at risk.
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McDonald's CEO Goes Viral for All the Wrong Reasons Over Big Arch Bite
McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski filmed himself eating the new Big Arch Burger, and the clip's slow spread from Instagram to TikTok has given the world a rare look behind the corporate curtain.
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Stardew Valley Turns 10: Fans Thrilled by Sandy, Horrified by Clint
Stardew Valley's 10th birthday brought two new marriage candidates for update 1.7 — and the internet has very strong feelings about one of them.
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Netflix's March Slate Is Its Most Ambitious Yet, Led by Peaky Blinders and One Piece
The Peaky Blinders film and One Piece Season 2 headline a packed March for Netflix, alongside a Spielberg dinosaur doco and the entire Saw franchise.
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World's Fastest Consumer RAM Launches Into a Market on Fire
Klevv's new Cras V RGB DDR5-9600 kit is a technical marvel, but arrives amid a global memory shortage that has sent RAM prices soaring by hundreds of per cent.
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Tech Workers Draw a Line: AI Industry Rallies Against Pentagon's Demands
Hundreds of Big Tech employees sign an open letter backing Anthropic as the Pentagon's AI standoff ends with Trump banning the company from government systems.
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Inside the Black Box: How China's AI Tools Quietly Reshape What Users Know
New peer-reviewed research finds Chinese AI models far more likely than Western counterparts to refuse political questions or return false answers, raising urgent questions for global users.
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The App That Reads Your Inbox and Turns It Into a Podcast
A new AI app called Huxe reads your email and calendar, then delivers a personalised daily audio summary. The productivity promise is real, but so are the privacy trade-offs.
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How the Ellisons Are Building a Media Empire Bigger Than Murdoch's Ever Was
David and Larry Ellison have sealed a $110bn deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a media colossus that could reshape what Australians watch and how they watch it.
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