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Review: Dragon Age: Origins – Bioware

Forced by circumstances to leave your old life behind, you join the Grey Wardens, an ancient order sworn to protect the world against the murderous Darkspawn. You’re the people’s only hope to stop their imminent advance. Shall you succeed?

Review: Fantasy High – Dimension 20

In this D&D web series, we follow a group of kids during their first year at Agueforth Adventuring Academy, a high school where kids learn to be classic D&D adventurers. The so called “bad kids” meet each other in detention, and form an adventuring party that faces monsters and, occasionally, classmates.

Review: Mass Effect – Bioware

Review: part 1 of the Mass Effect trilogy. In this Science Fiction role playing game, you are commander Shepard, and an ancient force is threatening the galaxy. As you fight your way from planet to planet, you make some true friendships, and are forced to make choices that will shape the future of the galaxy.

Review: Kodama – ActionPhase Games

Kodama is a card game where you take care of a tree by placing cards to grow its branches. By choosing cards with the right symbols, you collect points over three growing seasons. At the end of each season, one of the Kodama (tree spirits) will award you extra points based on how well you have chosen your cards to suit its needs.

Review: Dune: Part One – Denis Villeneuve

In Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, Paul, heir of House Atreides, and his family receive orders to take control of the planet Arrakis, the rich desert world that produces the spice that allows for interstellar traffic, and take control of the fief from their arch-enemies, the Harkonnens.

Review: Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

The House in which Piranesi resides consists of innumerable halls whose walls are lined with thousands of statues. The tides sweep through these halls in a pattern only Piranesi can decipher. While he has forgotten many things, he knows this: the Beauty of the House is immeasurable, it’s Kindness infinite.

Howl's Moving Castle

Review: Howl’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki

Young hatmaker Sophie is cursed by an evil witch, and, being unable to speak of her curse because of the magic, finds work in the home of a mysterious wizard in the hope that he will someday be able to lift the spell.