Welcome to the Gaming Shelf, our new roundup of tabletop gaming news, releases, updates and interesting Kickstarter campaigns — focusing on sci-fi and fantasy games, with the occasional exception of course (Machi Koro is too cute to ignore!).

Seeing as we’re on the heels of GenCon, board game companies have been showing off some of their best and brightest stuff over the past few weeks. Even as we head into mid-August, there’s still a lot of great scoops and news. Here’s a few of the highlights we spotted for this week.

The makers of the officially licensed Dark Souls and Resident Evil 2 board games have announced that they're giving another beloved game the tabletop treatment: Horizon: Zero Dawn.

The PlayStation is having a winter sale: here's some of the best bargains.

Ilya Golitsyn is a senior concept artist at Guerilla, where he's most recently worked on Horizon Zero Dawn.

If you ever wanted to watch Street Fighter's Ryu shoryuken a dinosaur or run around with a wibbly, wobbly snake hat, Monster Hunter: World's bonus quests can make your dreams come true. But there's a catch. Random level requirements and lacklustre stats make the gear tricky to get and tougher to use.

For whatever reason, Amazon Australia has decided that games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and the latest Uncharted should be cheap. Like, under $25 cheap.

If I can draw a decent-looking circle for ScribbleTaku, that's a happy day. So I could only dream of doing what Joshuahaunted has done here, recreating a stunning shot of Aloy in pencil.

I'm blown away by Horizon Zero Dawn's breathtaking landscapes, dinosaur-mecha battles and emotionally powerful story.

This weekend, the New York Times reported on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which apparently found unidentifiable alien alloys. While we have no clue what the hell those alloys are, here are some video game alloys that might as well be real now.

A picture is worth 1,000 words and a good Simpsons picture is worth one quijibo. An intrepid Twitter user is turning still from The Simpsons into wonderful summaries of 2017's top video games.

Horizon Zero Dawn was a terrific game. Guess what? Its new expansion, The Frozen Wilds, is also good.

Horizon Zero Dawn, one of my favourite games this year, gets its first and reportedly only expansion today in the form of The Frozen Wilds. I've had my hands on it for a couple of days, and while I haven't completed the new storylines I've played enough to tell you what to expect from the new $29.95 DLC.

Earlier today we were talking internally about Horizon: Zero Dawn, how some of us have finished it, those who haven't, and those who are replaying it again. Some are going back to the game ahead of the expansion next week, which got me wondering how often we really replay a game.

For the last 15 years or so, we have witnessed the rise of a great evil: the video game mini-map. Recent events have given me hope that the dark era of the mini-map may finally be coming to an end.

If you haven't picked up Horizon Zero Dawn yet, or have been holding out on Uncharted 4 for some reason, both those games - and a whole lot more - are at least half price on PSN right now.

SunhiLegend is -- as the name suggests -- a legend. Like most people, I first came across SunhiLegend in NeoGAF where he regularly posts the most incredible GIFs.

But then I discovered his Twitter account.

And then I discovered his collection of Horizon: Zero Dawn GIFs.

Oh my...

Harrison Krix from Volpin Props went out and made a replica bow from Horizon: Zero Dawn that looks (and more importantly moves) as close to the game's actual model as you're ever going to get.

Just take a look at this gorgeous Horizon Zero dawn scene, made entirely from Lego.

Look at little Aloy with a watcher! Isn't it adorable?

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