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The Thursday news, part two:

Cliff Bleszinski says LawBreakers failed because he was too 'political'
https://www.pcgamer.com/cliff-bleszinski-says-lawbreakers-failed-because-he-was-too-political/
It's a sad reality of the videogame business that sometimes, for a variety of reasons, good games fail. Games like, say, Lawbreakers. Evan liked it an awful lot, calling it "a complex, physical, and deep competitive shooter" in his 84/100 review, but it nonetheless tanked badly. Its emergency-pivot battle royale followup, Radical Heights, held early promise, but it was a rush job and it showed.
The games failed for a number of different reasons, two of the most obvious being Overwatch and PUBG. (Fortnite actually showed up a little late to really take part in the beatdown.) But in an Instagram post that will surely prove unfortunate in short order, Boss Key Studios co-founder Cliff Bleszinski shared some other thoughts on where it all went wrong.
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Ooblets developers tease a 2020 release and 'Sea Dangling'
https://www.pcgamer.com/ooblets-developers-tease-a-2020-release-and-sea-dangling/
"I don’t want to get you excited, but ¡GET EXCITED! because 2020 is the YEAR OF THE OOB," Glumberland wrote in its January development blog. "It’s been foretold in the prophecies/milestone calendar. That’s really all I can say about that right now so feel free to draw all sorts of wild conclusions."

Final Fantasy 7 Remake's timed exclusivity now ends in April 2021
https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-7-remakes-timed-exclusivity-now-ends-in-april-2021/
Final Fantasy 7 Remake's timed exclusivity to the Playstation has a new deadline of April of 2021, according to updated box art published on the Square Enix website. That makes a certain amount of sense, though, considering Square Enix recently announced it needed more time to work on the game and wouldn't be hitting its original March 3, 2020 release date. The new date is now April 10, 2020—exactly one year before the timed exclusivity now ends.

Gears of War studio head is leaving to work on Diablo
https://www.pcgamer.com/gears-of-war-studio-head-is-leaving-to-work-on-diablo/
Gears of War veteran Rod Fergusson has announced he will leave his role as studio head at The Coalition in March. Come that time, he'll be in charge of overseeing the Diablo series at Blizzard, presumably with a focus on Diablo 4.
Fergusson made the announcement today on Twitter. It's a big move: Fergusson has worked on Gears of War since its inception in 2005, with the exception of a brief stint at Irrational Games during 2012 and 2013. When Microsoft announced it had purchased the Gears series from Epic Games in 2014, Fergusson returned to the series. Despite his short stint at Irrational, Fergusson has credits on every shipped Gears of War game.

Minecraft's 1.16 snapshot includes new biomes, blocks and 'ancient debris'
https://www.pcgamer.com/minecrafts-116-snapshot-includes-new-biomes-blocks-and-ancient-debris/
Mojang has rolled out a snapshot for Minecraft's forthcoming 1.16 Nether Update, and it provides a substantial taste of what's to come in the sizeable patch. Snapshots are basically test versions of forthcoming updates – to access them you'll need to enable snapshots in the Minecraft launcher menu.

Make a village in your browser in free building game Habitat
https://www.pcgamer.com/make-a-village-in-your-browser-in-free-building-game-habitat/
Building a village is the easy part. Keeping it alive is considerably harder, as you'll discover out when you play Habitat. It's a deceptively cute village building game where your entire village fits on one screen, with each of the little houses, the trees and crops, represented as tiles on a tiny grid. To chop down trees, you merely click on them. To plant crops, you merely click on them. To hunt those boars roaming around the place, you merely...well, you get the idea, I'm sure.

Northgard developer's new co-op survival game, Darksburg, is launching on Early Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/northgard-developers-new-co-op-survival-game-darksburg-is-launching-on-early-access/
Northgard developer Shiro Games is swapping vikings for zombies in its latest game, Darksburg, which you'll be able to drag out of its grave and play with soon. It's getting an Early Access launch on February 12, and in the meantime you can watch the new trailer.

Soldat is getting a sequel, and both are coming to Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/soldat-is-getting-a-sequel-and-both-are-coming-to-steam/
Classic multiplayer shooter Soldat is making an unexpected return, leaping out of the early 2000s and onto Steam, accompanied by and even bigger surprise: a proper sequel. Both are due out this year.

Play sneaky tactics game Alder's Blood's free prologue
https://www.pcgamer.com/play-sneaky-tactics-game-alders-bloods-free-prologue/
Things are looking a bit grim for the desperate humans of Alder's Blood. They killed god and now monsters are taking over. That's where the Hunters come in, with their snazzy hats and their penchant for stabbing werewolves and ghouls in turn-based battles. It's coming soon, but first you can play a brief prologue.