Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer, director, and the mind behind 5e’s Curse of Strahd, retires after 28 years at Wizards of the Coast

Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer (and, recently, creative director) has retired from Wizards of the Coast after 28 years at the company—as announced on his Bluesky profile late last week: “Today I retire from Wizards after 28 years,” Perkins writes. “With D&D’s 50th anniversary wrapping up and the revised rulebooks doing gangbusters, this is…

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The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren’t more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?

When Sony’s masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on the humble PC two years ago, I hoped it would become a watershed moment in the history of console ports. Well, it was, but for all the wrong reasons—buggy and unstable, it hogged your CPU and GPU like nothing else, and most controversially of…

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