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Thursday news, part two:

Twitter's most talked about game of year was a mobile RPG from 2015
https://www.pcgamer.com/twitters-most-talked-about-game-of-year-was-a-mobile-rpg-from-2015/
Twitter has shared some of the data it's been rifling through recently, revealing what games we've been chatting about throughout 2019. Apparently, Twitter was inundated with game tweets, 1.2 billion of them, but one game dominated the conversation more than any other. A Japanese mobile game from 2015.

Wargroove: Double Trouble is a free expansion coming in February
https://www.pcgamer.com/wargroove-double-trouble-is-a-free-expansion-coming-in-february/
Cute turn-based tactics romp Wargroove is due a rather chunky expansion next month, letting players embark on a new co-op story campaign—also playable solo—and several other new additions, all for free. Give the launch trailer a watch above.

Death Stranding, Control, and Outer Wilds lead the 2020 Game Developers Choice Award nominations
https://www.pcgamer.com/death-stranding-control-and-outer-wilds-lead-the-2020-game-developers-choice-award-nominations/
Yesterday, the finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival awards were announced, led by indie hits including Mutazione, Untitled Goose Games, and A Short Hike. Now it's time to take a look at the shortlist for this year's Game Developers Choice Awards.

Speaking Simulator is a game about an android with anxiety who's trying to pass as human
https://www.pcgamer.com/speaking-simulator-is-a-game-about-an-android-with-anxiety-whos-trying-to-pass-as-human/
Speaking Simulator, on the surface at least, is very clearly a gag game in the vein of, say, Goat Simulator. The premise—you're an android trying to infiltrate human society through the power of casual conversations, a process that involves using WASD keys to manipulate your tongue while simultaneously maneuvering your jaw with your mouse—is is inherently silly. But it's also apparently quite good: Jody said in 2018 that it "turned out to be one of the best upcoming games I saw at PAX Australia" that year.

Blizzard details Hearthstone nerfs and Battlegrounds buffs coming later this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-details-hearthstone-nerfs-and-battlegrounds-buffs-coming-later-this-week/
(...)Hearthstone designer Dean Ayala said on Twitter last week that another balance patch was in the works because some of the Galakrond decks "are just a touch more powerful than they need to be." That patch isn't expected to go live until later this week, but the changes have now been detailed on the Hearthstone forums.

The Surge 2 'Kraken' expansion visits a strange dystopian suburbia
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-surge-2-kraken-expansion-visits-a-strange-outer-space-suburbia/
The Surge 2 is getting an expansion next week in the form of Kraken, which transports the player to a giant decommissioned aircraft carrier which has been converted into a garish kind of suburbia. In other words, you'll be carving limbs off robots in a setting that's fairly unusual for the series, which is always fun. There's an official trailer below.

Exit the Gungeon will release for PC 'early this year'
https://www.pcgamer.com/exit-the-gungeon-will-release-for-pc-early-this-year/
Released exclusively for Apple Arcade last year, Exit the Gungeon is a spin-off of the beloved Enter the Gungeon. Basically, rather than delving downwards through increasingly dangerous dungeons, in the spin-off you're climbing upwards (usually via a hurtling elevator) in order to escape. The biggest difference is that the spin-off is viewed from a side-on perspective, rather than the original game's top-down perspective.

Hitman 2 is winding down, but Sean Bean is coming back
https://www.pcgamer.com/hitman-2-is-winding-down-but-sean-bean-is-coming-back/
Hitman 2's final mission launched back in September, so Agent 47's latest outing is now winding down. Thanks to the holidays and its anniversary, it was busy at the end of the year, but things are going to be a bit quieter now that we're in 2020. At least you'll be able to hunt down Sean Bean again.

Watch the Planeswalker classes in action in the new gameplay trailer for Magic: Legends
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-the-planeswalker-classes-in-action-in-the-new-gameplay-trailer-for-magic-legends/
The first gameplay footage of Magic: Legends has been released and displays how the card game adaptation will work as an action MMO. You can view the trailer embedded above, via Game Informer.