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Astrobot is 59.99 on the PSN store though from a quick scan?

Apologies - I meant the character, rather than the game Astro Bot; Astro's Playroom was the free tech-demo pack-in on PS5.

I skimmed the video, but for some reason I've never really clicked with Nintendo, and this didn't sway me.

Mario Kart looks like Mario Kart. The 12fps video chat takes up a third of the screen. I'm not seeing the same DK Bananza everyone else seems to be. The Switch 2 Welcome Tour has all the charm of a corporate PowerPoint presentation - and they're charging money for it!? Astro Bot wants a word.

I'm getting a bunch of it, but definitely skipping the minis. I like the flippable motion tracker ping/character tokens, and I have a bunch of wooden circular tokens that I've used to make my own in the past.

I'm also using this as an excuse to pick up the Colonists and Marines books at a slightly reduced rate, since I don't have those.

Free League are currently Kickstarting the Second Evolved Edition of their excellent ALIEN RPG. The changes advertised are more of the "streamlined and refined" variety (plus a much cleaner and more readable layout), but that hasn't stopped me backing it at a probably over-generous level.

It's due to fulfil in September, too, which seems like a remarkably quick turnaround if they can stick to it.

Ah. The alpha already had pretty major DDB integration (you can't create a character in the app, just build a mini and assign a DDB character to it). I honsetly didn't realise they were looking at it as anything other than an extension of DDB…