Crosspad Weekly Brief: what you missed in Christian gaming (Jun 29-5, 2026)
Jun 29-5, 2026
This is the weekly Crosspad catch-up: one calm place for the gaming stories you missed while life was busy. It is preference-aware, so readers who choose coverage lanes only see those lanes; readers with no preferences get the full brief.
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Video Games
Slay the Spire 2 Multiplayer Expansion
Slay the Spire 2 received a major update expanding its multiplayer capabilities. The patch introduces 15 new cards designed for co-op play across all five character classes. The content is available in beta with a full official update scheduled soon.
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D&D Beyond's Steinhardt Subclasses Bring Soulslike Pressure to the Table
D&D Beyond has added Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt player material, and this is not the softest corner of fantasy roleplaying. Wargamer describes the new subclasses as grim, gnarly, and clearly aimed at tables that want a darker edge than standard heroic D&D.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Is Becoming a Big Historical Board Game
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is moving from historical video game to tabletop adventure. Wargamer reports that the official board game is coming with Czech Games Edition and Warhorse attached, while Czech Games Edition's own store page describes a quest-driven game set in 15th-century...
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MTG Arena July Codes Are Worth Claiming, But Watch the Reward Loop
MTG Arena codes are an easy win if your family already plays the digital card game. Wargamer's July 2026 list collects working promo codes, and Wizards of the Coast's official MTG Arena page confirms the game ecosystem those rewards feed into.
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Warhammer Painting Hack for Hot Weather
Summer heatwaves bring more than uncomfortable temperatures. They create real problems for painters working on Warhammer miniatures. Paint dries too fast. Brushes clog. The kind of steady hand needed for detail work becomes harder to maintain when your workspace feels like an oven.
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The Christian Parent's Starter Guide to Safer Gaming
A calm, practical framework for choosing games, setting boundaries, and keeping play connected to family life.
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The goal here is not more inbox noise. It is a single weekly source for the stories worth catching up on, filtered around the parts of gaming each reader actually follows.
What I would watch next
- Which stories turn into sustained community interest instead of one-day noise.
- Whether tabletop, family, and wargames coverage keeps giving readers practical entry points.
- Where Christian and family-aware readers need more context than normal gaming coverage gives them.
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