Yep. John Oliver has a story about it. I think it's just titled "Rocks"

Geoff Keighly has been trying to replace E3 with his Summer Games Fest. That's where a lot of announcements come out. Iirc, Keighly said that this Gamescom wouldn't be reveals for new games, but updates on ones we know are coming.

I'd say neither are really replacements for E3, since E3 had showcases from PS/Xbox/Nintendo. Nowadays all the major publishers and console makers have their own reveals.

That's me with Beware of Chicken and Forge of Destiny 😭

I've not changed phone OS's before. Is it possible to switch back after you've changed? Or is my best bet to run an emulator with it somewhere to see if I like it?

Martha Wells's Books of the Raksura would fit this niche pretty well!

Bastion by Phil Tucker has a bit of shapeshiftiness going on later on in the book, and is a continued theme.

I think the same studio is putting out a Quidditch game. Wonder if they purposefully kept it out of the first game because the separate one wouldn't be worth it if it was in the original.

I enjoyed Beware of Chicken a hell of a lot more than I thought I would! Fun series with the first two volumes on Kindle and the rest on Royal Road. I didn't think much of it given the title but it really snuck up on me.