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Forged Battalion is an RTS game for PC, currently in early access. It is overall generic, except for the faction design, which allows you to create your own units, as well as upgrade structures, and the deep, persistent tech tree. Overall, I found it conceptually interesting, and graphics are nice, but it did not work for me as it is. Maybe later in development.

I just read The Hobbit - by J.R.R Tolkien. It is very obviously a classic, but I never got around to reading it. There were some recent celebrations of Tolkien, so I after some recommendations of what was the best one to start with, I got an illustrated version (by Alan Lee). It was quite pleasant. Of course, I had already seen the movies, so the story itself wasn't new to me, but I quite enjoyed reading it with the extra details. One notable thing is how the dragon part and the battle of the five armies are comparatively underwhelming in the book version... The illustrations were quite nice and really added a little extra flavor for the story.

Written in Fire, by Marcus Sakey, the is the finale of the Brilliance trilogy. Now the war is prepped to start, and meanwhile John Smith has a superweapon getting ready... Overall, pretty good, and a reasonable conclusion.