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Tuesday news, part two:

Satisfactory dev says Epic Games Store hate comes from 'a loud minority'
https://www.pcgamer.com/satisfactory-dev-says-epic-games-store-hate-comes-from-a-loud-minority/
If you spend any time on the games-focused areas of Reddit, it's easy to come away with the idea that everyone and their mother despises the Epic Games Store thanks to "shady business practices," "anti-consumer bias," and possibly worse. But at least one developer says the anti-Epic backlash is more sound than fury.

Battlefield 5's Pacific War chapter will be revealed on Wednesday
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-5s-pacific-war-chapter-will-be-revealed-on-wednesday/
Back in June, Electronic Arts teased a trip to the Pacific—the Pacific theater of war, that is—in Awakening the Giant, the fifth chapter in Battlefield 5's Tides of War post-launch updates. Today it announced that the next chapter will be fully revealed just two days from today.
>> Well... one day from today.

Pathologic 2 DLC is out next week, free for owners of the base game
https://www.pcgamer.com/pathologic-2-dlc-is-out-next-week-free-for-owners-of-the-base-game/
Pathologic is kind of an oddball cult favorite around here (with some of us, at least) and so it was disappointing to hear that sales of Pathologic 2 were poor enough to throw the future of the game, including planned second and third chapters, into doubt. In August, developer Ice-Pick Lodge committed to free-with-an-asterisk DLC instead, a "polished and optimized version of what was once Pathologic 2's demo" called The Marble Nest while it continued to try to work things out for the remainder of the full game.

Agent 47 puts a pumpkin on his head to tease Hitman 2's Halloween horrors
https://www.pcgamer.com/agent-47-puts-a-pumpkin-on-his-head-to-tease-hitman-2s-halloween-horrors/
Hitman 2's Halloween Escalation Contract is set to go live tomorrow, and developer IO Interactive still hasn't said what exactly it's all about. But today it dropped a new trailer that leans very heavily into classic horror movie themes, with Agent 47 taking the role of the implacable, inhuman masked killer who's come seeking revenge! For... something.

Children's commissioner report calls for loot boxes to be classified as gambling
https://www.pcgamer.com/childrens-commissioner-report-calls-for-loot-boxes-to-be-classified-as-gambling/
The children's commissioner for England has published a report that recommends greater regulation of online games, classifying loot boxes as gambling and proposes a daily spending limit for children across all games that feature microtransactions.

Assassin's Creed's creator is sorry about all those towers
https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creeds-creator-is-sorry-about-all-those-towers/
Patrice Désilets, game director of the original Assassin's Creed and, more recently, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, is very sorry for being responsible for all those towers you've had to climb over the last decade.