Saved you a click: The latest Windows 11 24H2 Insider preview build offers internet speed check right from the taskbar

Bath is a beautiful city in the UK. Unfortunately, as a hardware writer renting creaky, drafty, listed buildings dating from the Georgian period, that beauty does not really translate into decent internet speeds. At the very least, the latest Windows 11 preview build offers one small feature that might make my life slightly easier. Rolling…

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Critical Role’s new DM wants you to know he’s absolutely fine running a D&D game for 13 people and 3 groups: ‘This is my favorite thing in the world’

Critical Role’s next campaign is almost here—and it’s a huge shake-up for the long-standing D&D actual-play titan. Brennan Lee Mulligan will be taking over the DM seat from Matthew Mercer, while also continuing to run Dimension 20 campaigns and recording sessions of Worlds Beyond Number. But that’s not all. Campaign 4 will also be a…

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EA CEO says company values will ‘remain unchanged’ under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s investment firm

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson says the company’s acquisition by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm, and private equity firm Silver Lake represents “a new era of opportunity,” and that “our values and our commitment to players and fans around the world remain unchanged.” Wilson…

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Writer Andrew Dice, whose work helped popularize Japanese indies like Recettear in the West, has died

Writer Andrew Dice, one half of videogame localization team Carpe Fulgur, has died. The news was shared to Twitter on September 25 by Dice’s friend and collaborator at Carpe Fulgur, Robin Light-Williams. Carpe Fulgur focused on localizing obscure or otherwise overlooked Japanese games, and was among the first companies to bring Japanese indies to Steam….

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