Microsoft Corp. executive Dee Templeton has joined OpenAI's board as a nonvoting observer, according to a person familiar with the matter, as part of a broader boardroom overhaul following the brief ouster of the startup's chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman. Templeton has worked at Microsoft for more than 25 years and is the company's vice president for technology and research partnerships and operations, according to her LinkedIn profile. She has already begun attending board meetings, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private matters. OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.
Flesh and Blood’s newest hero wants you to bet your life in the Death Match Arena
20.12.2023 - 16:59 / polygon.com
In Flesh and Blood’s latest expansion, Heavy Hitters, the trading card game introduces a brand-new hero named Betsy. Set against the backdrop of a fight club known as Rathe’s Death Match Arena, few competitors elicit the kind of fear and respect that she does. While other fighters have come and gone over the years, Betsy was born to this life — raised in the arena’s shadows. She embodies the determination, hedonism, and excitement that make its gladiatorial spectacle the only place where combatants can be guaranteed to win big or lose it all. Those odds are an excellent match for her signature mechanic, called wager, which invites players to bet against their opponents for increasingly complex and rewarding combat encounters.
“We wanted a hero that personified the theme of the set, all of the bombast and spectacle, the gambling, the drinking, the boozing, the partying, the absolute debauchery,” explained Bryan Gottlieb, senior game designer at Legend Story Studios, Flesh and Blood’s New Zealand-based publisher, during an exclusive conversation with Polygon. “We wanted Betsy to be the hero that just lived all of these ideals. She’s all about gambling, drinking, partying. And she is beloved within this environment for just how she embraces all the excess.”
Betsy’s hero cards will be printed with Flesh and Blood ’s Marvel treatment. Some boosters can contain these double-sided cards. “On the front side is the normal card face in Cold Foil,” said Legend Story Studios’ Alex Norvill, “and on the back instead of the regular Flesh and Blood card back is the full Hero Art without text, also foiled. They are tournament legal.”
Wager, a brand-new gambling-inspired mechanic in Heavy Hitters, features prominently on Betsy’s hero cards by encouraging and rewarding players for using attacks that leverage the wager mechanic, effectively making her attacks stronger whenever a wager is made.
The mechanic will work as a high-risk, high-reward minigame that players may choose to use with certain cards — especially in Betsy decks — but other heroes will have access to wager cards too. The way it functions, as Gottlieb puts it, “you play an attack, you get to decide whether you want to wager or not. If the attack hits, you get the benefit of the wager. If it does not, your opponent gets the benefit of the wager.”
One of the new cards to feature wager is the new Bet Big attack, which lets the attacking player put additional tokens on the line with the outcome of an attack’s resolution.
“Basically, you’re just betting on yourself. You’re saying, ‘I’m good enough to get this attack through.’ There’s a lot of mind games that come with when you present this wager and you say, ‘Yep, I’m going to hit you,’” according to
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