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Lovers of wanton consequence-free violence rejoice!

Welcome back to serene Ternion City, where things are heating up in the case of the missing-then-returned-but-boneless Zbarro renovators.

It feels a little weird to lay off a thousand people and then continue to give away games for free, but the Epic Games Store is apparently immune to cognitive dissonance so they're giving away Havendock and Hyper Echelon for free this week.

Welcome back to beautiful Ternion City, where the agents of the Triangle Agency are looking out not just for your best interests, but all of reality.

Break out the wire strippers and voltimeter, Electrician Simulator is free this week on the Epic Games Store.

World of Warcraft introduced Player Housing to the community as part of the lead-up to the Midnight expansion, and Blizzard is taking that commitment seriously.

While there's a ton coming to WoW in patch 12.0.5, one of the smaller features, Abyss Anglers, caught our eye, because it seems similar to an indie game a lot of us around the office adore: Dave the Diver.

On this episode of the Tavern Watch Podcast, the team gets a win -- a win in naming things, it turns out, as Wizards of the Coast (in addition to finally announcing some products for 2026) also has started referring to the 2024 revision of D&D as "D&D 5.5e." Considering it ended up being more a balance update than the massive revolution in tabletop gaming that we were originally sold, we're all of the opinion this is for the better (and is easier to say, to boot).

After years of silence and speculation, former Overwatch lead developer Jeff Kaplan has returned to the gamemaking spotlight with a newly announced game after appearing on the Lex Friedman Podcast.

I feel like I've said this every week for a month, but no really, this week's two free games from the Epic Games Store could not be more different in every way.