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D&D continues to shed talent to other TTRPGs, as its former VP of franchise and product joins Vampire: The Masquerade creator White Wolf

Dungeons & Dragons just can’t seem to catch a break. First Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford, now this—Jess Lanzillo, previously the vice president of franchise and product for D&D, has also moved on to another TTRPG after leaving the company mid-June. While not as senior as the two big names I just mentioned, Lanzillo nonetheless…

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Drop Duchy is an unholy fusion of city builder, roguelike deckbuilder, and Tetris, and you can try it for free right now

Roguelike deckbuilders rampage across Steam. They grow and replicate without impediment, swallowing up every other genre they encounter to spawn new hybrid mutants. We are doomed and all is lost. Or to put it another way: Duchy Drop is a roguelike deckbuilder-meets-city builder-meets-Tetris. Each run consists of a series of battles against… rival duchies, I…

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Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there’s gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: ‘We just didn’t have a choice, really’

Add together all the minutes of my life I’ve spent in loading screens and you could, well, send me into quite a grim depressive spiral, probably. And since I’m someone with several hundred hours invested across various Bethesda games, how many of those minutes were spent twiddling Daedric artifacts in Skyrim’s load screens or looking…

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The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China

Three Chinese businessmen have been charged by the US government for allegedly diverting “high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated US artificial intelligence technology to China.” The three are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, co-founder of Supermicro; Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan; and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a contractor of…

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