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Team Brad Jacobs is in great shape at the Winter Olympics. The Canadian men’s rink downed reigning world champion Team Bruce Mouat of Great Britain 9-5 on Tuesday to improve to 6-1, clinching a semifinal spot at Milano Cortina 2026. Jacobs is second in the round-robin, behind Switzerland’s Team Yannick Schwaller (7-0), with two games left. The top four teams advance to the semifinals. Mouat (4-4), the 2022 Olympic silver medallist, is in a tight battle for the final two playoff spots with Norway (4-3), Italy (4-3) and the U.S. (4-4). “Make no mistake, that’s a huge win,” Jacobs told…

Visionary Sega hardware designer Hideki Sato has passed away at age 77. According to his biography on Mobygames, he started his career at Sega in the early 70s, worked on arcade titles and hardware, and came to lead the R&D department in the early 1990s. Sato had a major role in shaping nearly all of Sega’s home consoles, and he served as company president in the early 2000s, before his eventual departure in 2008. He even earned the nickname “the Father of Sega Hardware.”Sega’s X account posted a tribute to Sato yesterday:”We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing…

Cybercriminals send physical letters with QR codes, tricking Trezor and Ledger users into revealing recovery phrases and losing cryptocurrency. Source link #Crypto #theft #postal #scammers #printed #mail #steal #crypto #funds

Logan Paul has sold his ultra-rare Pikachu Illustrator card for a record-breaking $16.59 million at auction. WWE wrestler and YouTuber Paul bought the card for $5.275 million in 2021, which broke the standing record at the time. He also wore the card with a custom holder and chain for his 2022 Wrestlemania debut.Paul asked for $1.3 million when the card was put on auction in January. He stated he will hand-deliver the card to the auction winner. The online auction house Goldin facilitated the bidding. Bids quickly rose to $4.5 million during the first week, but leveled out to $5.1…

Image: Push SquareWe currently know next to nothing about God of War Trilogy Remake. It’s in development and it’s seemingly years away from release — and that’s pretty much it. But while people can’t stop banging on about the potential return of sex minigames, we’re sitting here with a much more important question on our minds: just how much of a remake is this thing going to be? And by that, we mean… is Trilogy Remake going to simply recreate the first three God of War games with lovely new assets and visuals — or is it going to reinvent…

We are all familiar with rushing toward PvP objectives such as keeps or flags, but what if an MMO turned you into the objective? That’s the thought behind faction battle standards, a new feature coming to Albion Online with next week’s Realm Divided Part II update. “These banners introduce capture-the-flag-style gameplay to the Royal Continent, creating moving points of tension that pull players into fights wherever they go,” Sandbox Interactive said. The studio explains that faction standards are big ol’ flags that you can find and carry for as long as you dare, leveling it up through a variety of…

Alcaraz starts Doha with win over Rinderknech Carlos Alcaraz opened his run at the Qatar Open with a straight sets victory over Arthur Rinderknech, winning 6–4, 7–6. The match was Alcaraz’s first since completing the Career Grand Slam at the Australian Open, and the Spaniard maintained his perfect start to the 2026 season. He is now 8–0 for the year and has beaten Rinderknech in all five of their meetings. Alcaraz edged the opening set before being pushed into a tight second set tiebreak, where he stayed composed to close out the contest. The win sends him into the round…

It’s been a tumultuous road for Highguard and its developer Wildlight Entertainment, and a couple of abnormalities online have observers believe the online first-person shooter is not long for this world. Less than a week after layoffs at Wildlight, the official Highguard website went offline, eliciting speculation that it’s the end of the road for the game.The Highguard website currently displays a “Site Unavailable” message and a support email address to Code32, a hosting service specifically for video game websites. The error page also contains links to the game’s official X account and an invite to the game’s Discord server.…

Western Digital say its HDD supply for 2026 is fully booked as enterprise AI demand drives scarcity and potential price increases. Source link #Hyperscalers #snap #Western #Digital #HDD #capacity

Alex Eala defeats Jasmine Paolini in Dubai Alex Eala defeated Jasmine Paolini 6-1, 7-6(5) at the Dubai Tennis Championships to reach the round of 16 for the first time. Eala won the opening set comfortably before facing resistance in the second. She held three match points at 5-3 but was taken into a tiebreak, which she won 7-5 to close the match in straight sets. The result is Eala’s first top10 win of the 2026 season and the third of her career. It also marks her first appearance in the last 16 in Dubai. Speaking after the match, Eala said…