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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.

World of Warcraft Midnight is the Light versus Void face-off we've been waiting for, but today we're thinking smaller -- much smaller -- because cuteness doesn't need to exist on a cosmic scale to warm our hearts.

The team of adventurers-turned-detectives in our playthrough of Starfinder's Murder in Metal City has the body of Tier-99-Professor on their hands and the assumed murderer hot in their trail for getting too close -- but does anyone think they're really going to stop before they get answers about what happened?

Turnip Boy isn't just a felon and a menace, he's also the star of this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.

With a lead in their hot little hands freshly pried from the storage of a hijacked murder-drone, our crew of Starfinder adventurers -- brought together first to meet their friend Tier-99-Professor, then by happenstance to investigate his murder -- dive into the back alleys and data storage centers of Striving to see if they can pin down any clues as to why someone would want the good Professor dead.

We have another pair of very different games from the Epic Games Store for free this week.

February may be getting ready to end but Winter sure keeps on coming.

A group of strangers gather in a dimly lit bar in the mechanical megalopolis of Striving at the behest of one Tier-99-Professor, who promised them some incredible news.