⚡️ March on Steam was packed, the TOP new-release roundup includes Marathon and Esoteric Ebb, alongside big hitters like Crimson Desert and Life is Strange: Reunion.

Steam sorted March launches by revenue: the first 12 received «Gold», the next 12 «Silver», the rest «Bronze». The list also features Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Monster Hunter Stories 3, remasters, DLCs and plenty of indie surprises, see the full list on Steam.

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Media: Physint is reportedly casting passengers and a villain for a hijacked‑bus scene 🚍

Job ads hide the project under the codename Shimmer; the casting director is Mari Ueda (she worked on Death Stranding 2). Motion capture is set to begin in June 2026. Roles listed: a mother with a newborn, five teens, two men and an antagonist with a "German accent", described as a Mads Mikkelsen‑style menace from Hannibal: lean, silent...

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🎮 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach received patch 1.3 and is now officially verified for Steam Deck, FINALLY some of the quality-of-life issues are being fixed.

The title kept a gold ProtonDB rating, yet players reported tiny text, UI scaling problems, performance hitches and stability issues, all called out in the notes.

Steam's patch notes list XeSS, FSR 3, the Pico upscaler, frame generation, plus input/UI tweaks, performance an...

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Hideo Kojima rewrote a key role in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach after meeting actress Shioli Kutsuna 🤝

The character was originally conceived much younger, roughly the same age as the part played by Elle Fanning, with leftover beats like «innocent rain dances». But Kojima says Kutsuna's emotional maturity pushed him to reshape the role into something more MATURE and nuanced: a kind of older-sister figure caught between youth a...

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Ooof, bad layover location.

“It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so frustrating,” said Forrest Harrington, a US citizen stuck in Dubai. He was only meant to have a layover there on Saturday and was returning to the US from a work trip in India.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/americans-stranded-middle-east

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