Fiasco proves how fun it is to role play without a DM

Leading a role-playing game as game master or narrator can be a lot of work. Coming up with scenes, characters, and storylines for the rest of the players is a taxing job, but there’s a way to role play without anyone taken on that burden: collaborative role-playing games. This dungeon-masterless tabletop genre is all about […]

The Supplant Company Welcomes Ayesha Curry and Chris Paul as Early Stage Investors

Curry and Paul, along with health advocate Ryan Shadrick Wilson, join Series A investors Manta Ray, Khosla Ventures, Felicis, EQT, Coatue and Y Combinator to pioneer a human and planet-friendly new food category: sugars from fiber LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 12, 2021– Today, The Supplant Company announced it has welcomed Ayesha Curry and Chris Paul as early […]

League of Legends’ next patch won’t let you chat with the enemy team

League of Legends is losing cross-team chat, at least temporarily. Riot is removing the popular all chat feature (also called /all chat) in League’s next patch in hopes of combatting toxicity, the developer announced on Tuesday. The feature will remain disabled for a few patches while Riot tests player responses to its removal. The League […]

How to watch the Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct

Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets a Nintendo Direct live stream on Friday all to itself, during which fans can expect to see new characters and new content teased during September’s Nintendo Direct. The broadcast gets started at 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT. Fans can tune in via Nintendo’s YouTube channel (embedded above) or Twitch stream. […]

Coffee Talk Episode 2 Brews Another Cup In 2022

Coffee Talk is a cool little game that dropped last January about brewing hot cups of bean juice while chatting up your colorful patrons and vibing to a relaxing soundtrack. Baristas looking to open up shop once more should be happy to learn that a follow-up, dubbed Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, is coming next […]

Enterprise AI platform Leena AI raises $30M to be a ‘Siri for employees’

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Leena AI, an AI-powered conversational platform used by major enterprises such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and P&G, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded out of New York in 2018, Leena […]

Hearthstone Mercenaries is a quick and clever take on a card game RPG

Hearthstone has slowly been branching out over the years, moving away from just supporting the standard competitive format of the card game. Sometimes that’s something as elaborate as single-player adventures or experimental like the eight player auto chess mode Battlegrounds. The game’s newest mode, Mercenaries, moves even further away from the game’s core formula in […]

Can Intel’s XPU vision guide the industry into an era of heterogeneous computing?

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. As data sprawls out from the network core to the intelligent edge, increasingly diverse compute resources follow, balancing power, performance, and response time. Historically, graphics processors (GPUs) were the offload target of choice for data processing. Today field programmable gate […]