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Daily Deals: Big Sales on Mario Games as Mar10 Day Approaches

Triple jump your way to great savings over at Amazon, as Mario Day sales have begun early this year. While it’s possible more games and items will be discounted later, there’s already some great sales on several Mario related Nintendo Switch games. If that’s not what you’re looking for today, we’ve also got some handy deals on household items, other games, some Dell PCs and more!

Daily Deals for March 7th 2021

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New Price Drops on Dell RTX 30 Series Gaming PCs

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New Price Drops on Dell and Alienware Gaming Monitors

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Ex-Activision Pioneers Form Audacity Games, Will Develop New Atari 2600 Titles

The Atari 2600 is decades old, but a few industry pioneers aren’t giving up on the system yet. Alongside ex-Activision game designers Garry and Dan Kitchen, Activision co-founder David Crane has formed Audacity Games to develop entirely new games on the console–and that’s just the beginning.

Audacity Games is a new publisher “focused on designing and publishing boxed game products for a variety of retro game systems,” the company said in a press release. That means creating new experiences and publishing them for the extremely retro hardware. Because it’s 2021, however, those who buy the games will also get a download code that can run on Stella and Retron, if you can’t manage to track down an Atari 2600.

“For years our fans have been asking us to create new games. We heard you, and have decided to do just that,” said David Crane. “I have always said that I have as much fun making games as others do playing them, and the retro game systems are my favorites.”

The catalog of games the three developers have created is impressive, for sure. Crane played a role in games like Pitfall and Dragster, while Garry Kitchen’s biggest game may have been Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. Dan Kitchen helped develop the 2600 versions of both Ghostbusters and Kung-Fu Master. For now, only a teaser page is available for the company, but more information will likely be revealed soon and you can sign up for a mailing list.

Xbox Series X/S Is Getting an Upgraded Browser That Can Play Google Stadia

Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles will soon be getting a new upgraded Microsoft Edge Chromium-powered browser that is capable of playing Google Stadia.

As reported The Verge, testers in Xbox’s Alpha Skip-Ahead group can now access this new version of Edge, and while it still doesn’t have full mouse and keyboard support and is a bit buggy, it appears much better than the current solution.

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One benefit of a Chromium browser on Xbox is allowing it to work with browser-based streaming services like Google Stadia and Amazon Luna. Additionally, even though Xbox consoles have native access to Xbox Game Pass, this could theoretically also allow for Xbox’s Cloud Gaming through a browser once Microsoft adds support for it in Spring 2021.

Furthermore, this should allow for improved compatibility with browser-based games and services like Skype and Discord through the web.

This early version also includes the same or a similar sync engine used on Edge, which allows for extensions, vertical tabs, Collections, and most other featured found on Edge’s desktop version.

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While Google may have shut down Stadia’s internal studios, the streaming service is still running and is set to get “more than 100 games” in 2021.

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Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy Spotted For Xbox

Players who haven’t yet experienced the rebooted Tomb Raider trilogy will apparently be getting a new option very soon. Listed before being taken offline, the Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy will bundle all three games together in one package.

According to the Microsoft Store listing, which now gives you an error message, the bundle will be out on March 18. It contains Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All three games are also already available on PS4 and PC, though Rise of the Tomb Raider was initially not released on PlayStation, with Microsoft publishing the game and holding console exclusivity for nearly a year.

The new Tomb Raider games essentially gave the series a clean slate, reimagining Lara Croft as a young archaeologist who gradually turns into a hardened survivalist–and killer–after an accident leaves her crew stranded on a remote island.

These themes continue in the next two games, and it’s unclear if this continuity will lead to a fourth game, but there is an anime-style series in the works. A film that essentially retells the story of the 2013 game was also produced with Alicia Vikander in the lead role, and a sequel to that is in the works. If you’ve played the game, you’ll even recognize one scene as an almost shot-for-shot recreation.

More recently, developer Crystal Dynamics has been busy with Marvel’s Avengers, a game that has struggled to gain traction after launching last year. It was actually already working on the game by the time Shadow of the Tomb Raider came out, as it handed off the development of that game to Eidos Montreal.

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