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This week we bring to you: The Adventures of Zelda, more Castlevania than you can shake a stick at, Akira Toriyama RPG action, and X-Com meets steampunk robots!

If you're interested in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but it's been a few years since you've played the rest of the series (or you've never played at all), you're in luck.

The Harrison Ford Fugitive film from the early 90s was one of my favorite films at the time.

While it may not be spooky season just yet, this week I bring to you monsters based on vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein's Monster. Oh, and a Prince, a Squire, and a bunch of retro games!

The Tokyo Game Show is this week and it's the final big gaming showcase event of the year (while the Game Awards are still scheduled for December -- hopefully with some fixes -- we typically only get a few announcements and seldom gameplay).

You've completed your quest to make it to another Friday, Watchers!

In case Sony didn't actually dispatch cyborg ninjas to inform you personally, we'd like to mention that the new PlayStation 5 Pro is going to be available as of September 26 -- well, at least you'll be able to pre-order them online via direct.playstation.com.

Daggerheart has had a fairly extensive public playtest process -- one which we participated in by playing our own game!

It's no secret that sometimes when trying to convince people to give a tabletop RPG other than Dungeons & Dragons a try, one of the protests that often crops up is, "it's too hard to learn new games!" To those of us already acquainted with other games, this seems ridiculous, but it's worth examining: after all, if you've only learned the rules to one game, and that game is wildly complex from the get-go, what evidence do you have that every game isn't like that?

Guild Wars 2 latest expansion Janthir Wilds introduced an exciting new player housing feature known as Homesteads.