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Friday news, part two:

Gears 5 welcomes all players with 19 LGBT Pride flags
https://www.pcgamer.com/gears-5-welcomes-all-players-with-almost-20-lgbt-pride-flags/
The Coalition clearly wants to make all Gears players feel welcome, as it’s shown with the inclusion of a number of LGBT in-game flags. Something highlighted by Twitter user ‘akki!’

The Light Keeps Us Safe launches out of early access
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-light-keeps-us-safe-comes-out-of-early-access-with-v10-update/
Big Robot’s procedurally-driven horror/survival hybrid has finally snuck out of Early Access. The new v1.0 update marks a major milestone for The Light Keeps Us Safe, which first launched on Steam last October.

Roguelike farming sim Atomicrops enters early access on the Epic Store
https://www.pcgamer.com/roguelike-farming-sim-atomicrops-enters-early-access-on-the-epic-store/
The good news is you've inherited a farm. The bad news is a moment later a bunch of nukes fall from the sky. But no farmer worth their salt ever let something as paltry as a nuclear holocaust stop them from growing crops. And neither will you.

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp made me drink my pee to survive
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-prom-2-monster-camp-made-me-drink-my-pee-to-survive/
As with any good camping adventure in recent years, Monster Camp makes sure to throw in a long gag about drinking your own pee. This is just one of the strange conversations between datable high school monsters that I watched in the demo last week at PAX West. A very normal dating scenario.

2v2 RTS A Year of Rain is now taking signups for a closed beta
https://www.pcgamer.com/2v2-rts-a-year-of-rain-is-now-taking-signups-for-a-closed-beta/
Daedalic Entertainment is best known for point-and-click adventures, but earlier this year it announced that it's going to take a shot at the RTS genre with A Year of Rain. The game will feature a fairly standard-sounding setup of three distinct factions building bases, recruiting armies, and fighting over resources, but puts a focus on hero units and team-based competitive play with a 2v2 skirmish mode, leaderboards, replays, and a league system all planned for launch.

Valve's 'unfair' comment about Metro Exodus on the Epic Store wasn't meant to incite gamers
https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-unfair-comment-about-metro-exodus-on-the-epic-store-wasnt-meant-to-incite-gamers/
The process of making Metro Exodus an Epic Games Store exclusive did not go especially smoothly. The big issue is that the game had been up for pre-purchase on Steam for quite awhile up to that point, and the move to the Epic Games Store seemed to leave those who had put their money down on it—and those who wanted to—out in the cold.

EVE Online to implement grief counselling when new players lose their first ship
https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-online-to-implement-grief-counselling-when-new-players-lose-their-first-ship/
EVE Online is a notoriously tough game to get into. It's so tough, in fact, that of the 600,000 new players that tried to play it last year, only around 10 percent of them played it for longer than seven days.

You can finally customize staircases in The Sims 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-finally-customize-staircases-in-the-sims-4/
Maxis announced in a live stream on Tuesday that The Sims 4 is getting a build feature that fans have wanted for over a decade—and that feature is live as of today.
Configurable stairs, people. They're finally here. Going into the build mode, you can place stairs like usual, but there is now a tool that lets you swing the stairs on a center axis to split them in the middle and have them go in different directions. L-shaped, U-shaped, T-shaped, switchback—it's all there.

Hi-Rez announces a new cross-platform shooter called Rogue Company
https://www.pcgamer.com/hi-rez-announces-a-new-cross-platform-shooter-called-rogue-company/
Paladins and Realm Royale developer Hi-Rez Studios announced a new team-based PvP shooter today called Rogue Company that's headed to the Epic Games Store in 2020. Developed by First Watch Games, the shooter will feature a roster of elite mercenaries, equipped with an array of weapons and gadgets, dropping in and doing battle in multiple game modes on "iconic" locations.

Cloudpunk trailer teases a taxi driver's first night in the big city
https://www.pcgamer.com/cloudpunk-trailer-teases-a-taxi-drivers-first-night-in-the-big-city/
I got my first look at Cloudpunk late last year and I loved it. I couldn't say what it was about, really, beyond a vague description about a driver for a grey-market courier company in a towering city of the future. But the mix of Blade Runner and pixel art looked, and sounded, so good that I was immediately transfixed.

Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games has opened an Australian branch
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-studio-sledgehammer-games-has-opened-an-australian-branch/
Sledgehammer Games is opening a studio in Australia, according to the company's "first official hire". Melbourne developer Alayna Cole announced the news on Twitter yesterday, confirming she will start work this coming Monday in her role as a producer.

The next free DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2 adds a very big lizardman
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-free-dlc-for-total-war-warhammer-2-adds-a-very-big-lizardman/
Creative Assembly is maintaining its tradition of releasing free DLC alongside the paid variety for the Total War: Warhammer games. Now the studio has announced that the forthcoming The Hunter & The Beast DLC will be accompanied by the free addition of a new Legendary Lord for the Lizardman faction. Gor-Rok, whose name is heavy metal AF even by Warhammer standards, is also known as the Great White Lizard—an albino saurus of unusual size who happens to be an unstoppable combat machine.

Celeste will finally get its Chapter 9 DLC next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/celeste-will-finally-get-its-chapter-9-dlc-next-week/
Celeste will get its long-awaited Chapter 9 DLC next week—on September 9, to be precise. The announcement was made in a new blogpost by Matt Thorson, where they also announced that their studio Matt Makes Games is rebranding as Extremely OK Games LTD.

You can play as Grey Hulk in Marvel's Avengers
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-play-as-grey-hulk-in-marvels-avengers/
Square Enix have begun showing off the alternate costumes that will be available in Marvel's Avengers, and while Captain America's is a boring take on his Secret Empire outfit, the Hulk's is much cooler. It's Joe Fixit, aka the Grey Hulk.

Disintegration, like Halo, is a shooter that was almost an RTS
https://www.pcgamer.com/disintegration-like-halo-is-a-shooter-that-was-almost-an-rts/
Marcus Lehto, president and game director of V1 Interactive, was recently at Gamescom to talk about V1's new game Disintegration. It's a first-person shooter that sits you on a gravcycle—basically a lightweight sky tank—and gives you a squad of ground troops to control. There's some influence in there from the game Lehto is most famous for, Halo, but that's not all. "It has a lot to do with the first game I started making with Bungie before Halo," he told us, "and that was Myth: The Fallen Lords, which was an RTS game. It was straight RTS."

The latest Fortnite hotfix ditches one of the game's best shotguns
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latest-fortnite-hotfix-ditches-one-of-the-games-best-shotguns/
Always. Be. Patching. Apologies for butchering a quote from Alec Baldwin’s character in Glengarry Glen Ross, but Epic just can’t leave Fortnite alone. Even for a game that’s tweaked once per week, the last seven days have been a humdinger for the battle royale phenomenon, with three popular guns dropped.

Bungie encourages Destiny 2 players to migrate their accounts over to Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-encourages-destiny-2-players-to-migrate-their-accounts-over-to-steam/
The tectonic plates of Destiny 2 will soon shift, as the loot-shooter moves away from Battle.net to Steam as part of its transition to a free-to-play title. Ahead of the momentous, Hive-blitzing event, Bungie is reminding players to migrate their accounts between platforms to ensure they don’t lose Silver.

Smart City Plan is the street-building game of your inner civil servant’s dreams
https://www.pcgamer.com/smart-city-plan-is-the-street-building-game-of-your-inner-civil-servants-dreams/
If you’re a virtual city architect it’s time to rejoice. Ambiera’s new SimCity-esque builder is seemingly obsessed with urban micromanagement. Smart City Plan is a town builder that aims to zero in on the small details of big city bureaucracy.

Let's check now the available deals at GOG and Steam for this weekend:

+GOG

+Steam

That's all folks! Have a happy and gaming weekend.



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