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Beginning Feb. 18, Minecraft players can get the new World Warrior skin pack from the Minecraft Marketplace. “This incredible new pack from 57Digital and Capcom brings 35 of your favorite fighting characters like Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li from the arcade to the Overworld and celebrates a tale of fierce feuds and formidable foes,” writes Sophie Austin in a post on Minecraft.net. “These familiar faces have been on our screens even longer than Steve and Alex, and now you can play as one of them (or all 35!) in Minecraft.” As part of celebrating Capcom’s classic fighters, one free Character Creator item will be available for you to claim plus 12 paid character creator items so you can customize your character to your heart’s content. Head over...

Kicking off a new series of time-limited, narrative-focused events, “Shrouded Islands” is now available for Sea of Thieves fans to play until March 3. “As part of our push to make the Sea of Thieves a more dynamic place to explore, these Adventures won’t be replacing our Season-based method of delivering free, regular content updates but will run alongside them, offering a new Adventure roughly every month, each lasting for a minimum of two weeks,” writes Mike Chapman, creative director for Rare, in a post on Xbox Wire. “There’ll be secrets to discover, battles to fight, rewards to earn and a unique cinematic trailer to introduce each Adventure, laying out the stakes and preparing you for the events ahead.” The update is available for...

Total War: Warhammer III – now available to play with PC Game Pass — introduces you to the game’s fantastical world and how to build a massive army. In it you’ll also learn how effective diplomacy can be for gaining allies and even setting rival factions at war with each other. “Yes, this is the third title in this trilogy, but there is no better time to start marshalling your forces and building empires in the world of Warhammer Fantasy,” writes Andy Hall, principal writer for Creative Assembly, in a post on Xbox Wire. “The game starts with a brand-new experience, a bespoke narrative campaign designed to bring you up to speed and refresh lapsed generals in both the basics and advanced techniques of warmongering. This Prologue Campaign...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR Windows Insiders will notice that the name of the branch we are releasing builds from has changed to NI_RELEASE. The branch in which we release builds from to Insiders in the Dev Channel is irrelevant to the features and improvements included within them. Going forward we will no longer be noting when these branch changes occur. For more on our approach to how we release things to the Dev Channel, please read this blog post here. This build will not be offered to ARM64 PCs. We hope to be able to offer a new build for Insiders on ARM64 PCs soon. This build includes a handful of new features for Insiders to try including...

Any sufficiently large web application will probably reach the point where it uses more memory than expected. At that point, a developer might start recording memory heap snapshots in DevTools to investigate what objects are contained in memory. For any object listed in the snapshot, DevTools shows, in the Retainers pane, what other objects cause it to remain in memory. Any object with no retainers can be discarded by the browser’s garbage collector, which reduces memory usage. However, the Retainers pane is only useful if it works correctly. Over the past several months, we have received several excellent bug reports from Microsoft Teams engineers describing cases where DevTools showed retainers that simply made no sense, and there was...