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A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)

Brent Crane / Bloomberg:
A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high  —  The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.

One Last Fight TTRPG drops players straight into a final boss battle

The terrific GM-less boxed one-shot TTRPG One Last Fight is built around the grand finale of a Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy campaign.

A lost fantasy book might finally get an animated movie adaptation

The new animation company Underneath the Umbrella plans to adapt Walter Wangerin’s Book of the Dun Cow, once heralded as equal to Lord of the Rings.

Slay the Spire 2 dev avoids putting dates on first roadmap

Mega Crit shared the first roadmap for Slay the Spire 2, but it intentionally doesn't feature release dates for features like Steam Workshop support

Pragmata’s hero dad is the antithesis of God of War’s Kratos

Underneath Pragmata's sci-fi action is a sincere game about parenting that rejects gaming's usual tough love wisdom.