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Valve’s Erik Johnson has posted a letter to Steam to let users know about third-party ‘gambling’ sites that are dealing in in-game items and trading for real world cash. We’ll post the letter in its entirety.

Dave Reid and the MetaArcade team will be on hand during this year’s Gen Con to show off a prototype version of Tunnels & Trolls digital. All who check out the demo and registers for early access will get a printed copy of Tunnels & Trolls Solo, Grimtina’s Guard, written by Ken St. Andre.

Nomad Games, best known for Talisman: Digital Edition, will be bringing Smash Up to mobile devices later this year. Smash Up lets players take Zombie-Ninjas up against Pirate-Dinosaurs by using faction decks to create a killer team.

Dungeon Punks is an arcade-style brawler with RPG elements and it’s ready to ‘hit’ the ground running on July 26th for both PlayStation 4 and XBox One. Shortly after the console release, Dungeon Punks will be available on Steam.

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire, a turn based RPG, is headed for release on August 31, 2016. Tahira will be available on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux.

Oasis Games has announced that it is bringing turn-based Naruto Online to browsers in the West. Naruto Online is the only officially licensed game from Bandai Namco Entertainment. According to information released by Oasis, Naruto Online follows the established story that introduces five brand new characters representing the elements.

It probably comes as no surprise that the phenomenon that is Pokemon Go is about to overtake Twitter in numbers of daily users on Android and this is from a game that isn’t even out yet in many countries.

As is customary with this column, most of my topics come about from talking to friends. This week’s is no exception and as a small group of us chatted about classes in MMO’s, most of us agreed that they were often restrictive and unnecessary. I suspect that such a view isn’t as popular amongst the majority as it is my group of friends, but it certainly started a lengthy debate.

The Battlegrounds site has been updated with a post that announces that interested parties are invited to sign up for testing. Battlegrounds is being developed by Playerunknown and Bluehole and is based on the Battle Royale game mode from H1Z1 and Arma 3.

Nightdive Studios has announced that the initial fundraising goal of $900k via Kickstarter has been achieved to remake System Shock. The announcement was made via Nightdive’s Twitter and the System Shock Kickstarter’s page. With 18 days yet to go, it is likely that several stretch goals will be funded before the initiative ends.