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Part two of the news:

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2's big Chaos campaign is coming soon
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefleet-gothic-armada-2s-big-chaos-campaign-is-coming-soon/
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 will let you spread lots of jolly mayhem and destruction across the galaxy in the upcoming Chaos campaign. It's due later this month, letting you play as the tattoo and tentacle-loving minions of Chaos, wiping out the other factions sector by sector. Check out the teaser above.

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep expansion datamined
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-shadowkeep-expansion-datamined/
Destiny 2 is going back to the Moon, according to datamined details found in the PC files. It follows on from Destiny 2: Forsaken, and the official announcement is expected on Thursday June 6.

Destiny 2 Season of Opulence patch notes confirm those nasty nerfs
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-opulence-patch-notes/
A few weeks ago Bungie announced big changes to many of Destiny 2's most popular pinnacle and exotic weapon and armour pieces. The community was not happy, but maybe the addition of a new raid (in a few hours) and the new Menagerie activity can distract from the sandbox update.

Starbreeze lays off 25% of its workforce
https://www.pcgamer.com/starbreeze-lays-off-25-of-its-workforce/
Starbreeze, the struggling publisher of games including Payday 2 and Overkill's The Walking Dead, has announced that it will lay off approximately 60 employees—roughly 25 percent of its total workforce—in an effort to reduce costs and establish long-term profitability. The company said the layoffs are expected to be "fully implemented" in November 2019.

Gearbox names Borderlands 3 weapon after fan who has terminal cancer
https://www.pcgamer.com/gearbox-names-borderlands-3-weapon-after-fan-who-has-terminal-cancer/
Last month, 26-year-old Trevor Eastman posted a message in the Borderlands subreddit describing the "bad hand" he'd been dealt: He had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal, stomach, and liver cancer in June 2018, and given one year to live.

Smelter is a strange but cool hybrid of RTS and Mega Man X
https://www.pcgamer.com/smelter-is-a-strange-but-cool-hybrid-of-rts-and-mega-man-x/
Mega Man X with melee attacks instead of a blaster—that's the platforming of Smelter at its most basic level, which I learned from a demo at Bitsummit last weekend. Japanese-based developer XPlus was showing off the game for the first time at the Kyoto indie festival, and there were a couple things that differentiated it from the many other 2D pixel art platformers I saw and played over the weekend.

Justin Roiland's Trover Saves the Universe launches with the day's most disturbing trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/justin-roilands-trover-saves-the-universe-launches-with-the-days-most-disturbing-trailer/
Trover Saves the Universe, the new release from Squanch Games—that's the studio co-founded in 2016 by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and former Gears of War executive producer Tanya Watson—is now available on Steam and the Epic Games Store. And it brings to us one of the weirdest, most pointless, disturbing, and longest-feeling launch trailers in memory, featuring Rich Fulcher as a deranged man in his underwear with large globs of sentient Play-Doh jammed into his eyes.

Part 2 of the Endless Space dating sim is free on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/part-2-of-the-endless-space-dating-sim-is-free-on-steam/
Love Thyself—A Horatio Story, an April Fools' joke turned into a real game, has received a new chapter, concluding the story of clones and romance. It's available now as an update to Part 1, and both are free.
>> Check it out on Steam.

Barotrauma, the 16-player submarine sim, hits Early Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/barotrauma-the-16-player-submarine-sim-hits-early-access/
Disaster-prone submarine sim Barotrauma has launched on Steam Early Access, letting crews pilot a floating coffin through a nightmarish alien ocean. Up to 16 players can work together in a submarine, taking on the role of captain or engineer or whatever else needs filling. There will be fires, tentacles and respectful discussions that will definitely not devolve into friendship-ruining arguments.

Destiny 2 might get cross-saving, according to a datamine
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-cross-save/
Bungie will announce the next chapter of Destiny 2 tomorrow, which a datamine suggests will see us returning to the Moon, and it looks like the Shadowkeep expansion will also be accompanied by the addition of cross-saving.