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Tuesday news, part two:

Failbetter's next games are 'likely to play very differently' from Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies
https://www.pcgamer.com/failbetters-next-games-are-likely-to-play-very-differently-from-sunless-sea-and-sunless-skies/
Fallen London, the browser-based progenitor of Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, is celebrating a decade of weirdness and wonderful prose. It's a big achievement given the declining popularity of browser games, and the trickiness in making them profitable. As well as concluding the long-running Ambition storylines, the Failbetter team hosted an AMA that hinted at the series' future.

GTA 4 was removed from Steam because of Games for Windows Live
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-4-is-no-longer-being-sold-on-steam/
Update: Rockstar has released a statement confirming our speculation that Games for Windows Live is to blame for the removal of Grand Theft Auto 4 from Steam.
"Grand Theft Auto 4 was originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform. With Microsoft no longer supporting Games For Windows Live, it is no longer possible to generate the additional keys needed to continue selling the current version of the game," a Rockstar rep said. "We are looking at other options for distributing GTA4 for PC and will share more information as soon as we can."

Control and Death Stranding get 8 nominations each for the 2020 DICE Awards
https://www.pcgamer.com/control-and-death-stranding-get-eight-nominations-each-for-the-2020-dice-awards/
Control and Death Stranding lead the nominations for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' 23rd annual DICE Awards, which will be handed out at a ceremony that will cap off the week-long DICE Summit in February.

Fallout 76 Wastelanders testing begins this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-wastelanders-testing-begins-this-week/
The Fallout 76 Wastelanders update promises to do big things for Bethesda's multiplayer survival sim through the addition of NPCs and companions, a new story quest, dialog options, and other options that will hopefully make it, you know, more Fallout-like. (...)
A "small number" of Fallout 76 players will soon have an opportunity to see what the big update will deliver, by way of a https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/6Q8uNfDvJ9ywNGKgzOH9gC/fallout-76-wastelanders-private-test-server-coming-this-month" target="_blank">Private Test Server that's set to go live later this week. The test will be PC only, and sounds pretty restrictive: Players invited to take part will be required to sign an NDA, and will not be allowed to stream, record, or even discuss the test sessions. Testing will take place on a Wastelanders-specific development build of the game, "and you should expect to encounter issues during gameplay," Bethesda warned.

Ubisoft is making a 100-player autobattler
https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-is-making-a-100-player-autobattler/
Two of the biggest things to happen in the videogame industry over the last couple of years are battle royale and Auto Chess, known more generically as "autobattlers." If you've ever wondered what might happen if someone were to mash them together in some sort of "autobattler royale," January 30 will be your lucky day, because that's when Ubisoft will officially launch Might and Magic: Chess Royale, the first 100 player autobattler.

Build a thriving hive in free bee management game Hive Time
https://www.pcgamer.com/build-a-thriving-hive-in-free-bee-management-game-hive-time/
Do you think a beehive just happens? No, in the world of PC games at least, it takes planning, and building, and researching, and gathering, all of which you've been surely learnt after playing countless management and strategy games. Hive Time is a bee colony management game where you have to expand your hive, manage it, and defend it from nature's biggest jerk, the wasp.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Kickstarter launches in early February
https://www.pcgamer.com/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-kickstarter-launches-early-february/
Owlcat Games has announced that it is launching a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the next game in the CRPG Pathfinder series, Wrath of the Righteous. In a news post on Owlcat's official website, the team explains that the Kickstarter will launch on February 4th.

Last Oasis trailer shows off what you'll be doing in the ambitious MMO
https://www.pcgamer.com/last-oasis-trailer-shows-off-what-youll-be-doing-in-the-ambitious-mmo/
I've got a terrible craving for an MMO at the moment, and Last Oasis continues to look like it will scratch that itch. Thankfully, after a delay, it's approaching its Early Access launch, due in the first part of 2020. In the meantime, a new trailer gives us a better idea of what we'll be getting up to when it appears. Give it a watch above.

Epic's weekly free games will continue through 2020
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-confirms-that-weekly-free-games-will-continue-through-2020/
2019 came to an end a couple of weeks ago, but the Epic Games Store's weekly giveaways did not. In fact, it finished the year with a flurry and then started 2020 with a three-fer, before settling back into what appeared to be a familiar one-a-week pattern. Today, Epic finally made it official: Weekly free games are here to stay for 2020.