Jim Ward, a longtime game designer for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, passed away on March 18 at 72 years old.

Born May 23, 1951, Ward began his game career in 1976 with his and Rob Kuntz's Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes rulebook for TSR. That same year, he created Metamorphosis Alpha, TSR's fourth role-playing game ever and its first science-fantasy RPG.

At TSR, Ward worked on various modules and supplements. This was at the same time D&D was in its first popularity boom, and the Ruins of Adventure supplement he co-made with David Cook, Steve Winter, and Mike Breault was adapted into the 1988 Pool o…

Nintendo has revealed new additions to the Splatoon Amiibo roster. Four new Amiibo figures based on characters in the Splatoon franchise are set to release on September 5. Nintendo is bundling these Amiibo into two-packs for $30 each: Pearl and Marina in one, and Callie and Marie in the other. Preorders for both two packs are live now at Best Buy and GameStop, but keep in mind Amiibo preo…

Before WWE signed over the broadcasting rights for Raw to Netflix, the streamer was working on an authorized biographical documentary about the former owner of the company, Vince McMahon. However, following the sexual misconduct accusations leveled at McMahon, he resigned from the company’s current owner, TKO, earlier this year. Now, Netflix has formally announced Mr. McMahon, a six-part miniseries that will fully chronicle his rise and fall in the wrestling business.

Prior to McMahon taking over the WWE–which was then known as the World Wrestling Federation or WWF–McMahon’s father, Vince McMahon Sr. ran the company as a regional wrestling territory. Once the younger McMahon assumed control, he ignored the previous agreements between the wrestling territories and swooped up the …

Cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone has been an ongoing issue, and Activision has now rolled out another anti-cheating PSA to discourage bad behavior. A video posted to the Call of Duty account shows off what is claimed to be the real reaction of a player who received a hardware and profile ban, which locked him out of the game on all available platforms for cheating. Come from malaysia online casino

The video is meant to demonstrate that Activision has no tolerance for cheating in Warzone and will move swiftly and emphatically to ban players, as it continues to do–just recently, the company banned another 100,000 accounts.

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The Shadow of the Erdtree minimum and recommended specs have been announced, so you can see what kind of hardware you’ll need to play the Elden Ring expansion. The good news is that if your PC can handle Elden Ring, then you’re ready for Shadow of the Erdtree as the requirements are roughly the same. Here’s what you’ll need for the expansion when it goes live on June 21:

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree minimum system requirements

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
• Memory: – 12GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, AMD Radeon RX 580 4 GB, or Intel Arc A380 6 GB
• DirectX: Version 12 (Feature level: 12)<…
  

By S Ramadorai

Twenty years ago, on August 25, 2004, I stood beside Mr. Ratan Tata, the then Chairman of the Tata Group, as we clicked a mouse to officially list Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on the National Stock Exchange. On the same day, TCS was also listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. This momentous event culminated years of preparation and marked the beginning of a new era—not just for TCS, but for India’s entire technology sector. What a team and collaborative effort it was!
As the CEO & MD steering TCS through this transformative moment, I felt a mix of pride, excitement, and, admittedly, trepidation. We were taking a company that had long been the “best-kept secret” of Indian IT and exposing it to global market scrutiny. The stakes…