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Conan Chop Chop has been delayed again
https://www.pcgamer.com/conan-chop-chop-has-been-delayed-again/
Conan Chop Chop, the co-op roguelite that originally masqueraded as an April Fools' gag, won't be hitting its February 25 release date. It's been delayed before, but apparently Mighty Kingdom still needs to get that "final chop in place," according to CEO Philip Mayes.

Classic indie RPG Geneforge is being remastered
https://www.pcgamer.com/classic-indie-rpg-geneforge-is-being-remastered/
Spiderweb Software has returned to Kickstarter to fund its next RPG. The indie joint, founded by Jeff Vogel in 1994, has been consistently putting out complex, liberating RPGs that, you'll quickly notice, aren't exactly easy on the eyes. They're great, though, and the next one will revisit one of the most unusual outings: Geneforge.

Destiny 2's inventory-deleting bug was caused by a remarkable run of bad luck
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2s-inventory-deleting-bug-was-caused-by-a-remarkable-run-of-bad-luck/
A couple of weeks ago, Bungie was forced to take Destiny 2 offline for the bulk of a day to fix a bug in an update that caused widespread loss of glimmer and rare enhancement materials. Yesterday, it happened again—it didn't take quite as long to fix (because developers knew what was going on this time) but it was still several hours of downtime for a major online game.
You might wonder how this kind of thing happens in a well-established game being run by a large, experienced game studio. If so, that large, experienced game studio is here to explain: With the game back online, Bungie posted an unusually https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/48723" target="_blank">deep and detailed explanation of what went wrong, and what it's doing to avoid that kind of gong show in the future.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney condemns loot boxes, says game companies should 'divorce themselves from politics'
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-condemns-loot-boxes-says-game-companies-should-divorce-themselves-from-politics/
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney offered some stinging criticism of loot boxes and "pay-to-win" games during his keynote speech at this year's DICE Summit. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Sweeney said that said that the industry needs to move away from a "customer adversarial model" if it wants to maintain the trust of its audience.

79% of League of Legends players say they were harassed after a match ended, according to a community survey
https://www.pcgamer.com/79-of-league-of-legends-players-say-they-were-harassed-after-a-match-ended-according-to-a-community-survey/
League of Legends' reputation for making people lose their cool during a game is well documented, but a surprising 79 percent of the 3,784 respondents to a recent community survey said that harassment continued after the match was over. Getting cussed out, being sent friend requests repeatedly, and, almost exclusively in the case of League's female players, being sexually harassed, were the most common forms of post-match toxicity.

Watch 12 minutes of Doom Eternal's 'Battlemode' multiplayer combat
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-12-minutes-of-doom-eternals-battlemode-multiplayer-combat/
Doom Eternal's new Battlemode multiplayer mode was revealed last year as a 2v1 throwdown between one player as the Doomslayer, and two others working together as demons. Today we got a closer look at that asymmetric mode in action courtesy of a 12-minute IGN video featuring one of their guys against two of id's.

Sea of Thieves is getting a new cursed chest that will set your ship on fire
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-is-getting-a-new-cursed-chest-that-will-set-your-ship-on-fire/
The Sea of Thieves content update for February won't arrive until next week, but developer Rare shared a look at what's coming today in the first of what is apparently going to be an ongoing Sea of Thieves news series called—wait for it—Sea of Thieves News.

PUBG is getting an 8v8 team deathmatch mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-is-getting-an-8v8-team-deathmatch-mode/
PUBG is getting a team deathmatch mode with its imminent 6.2 title update, as part of a new Arcade branch of the game focused on new game types. Unlike the game's shortlived stab at TDM in 2018, this one eschews the sprawl of battle royale for tight, 8v8 matches across seven small maps set in existing PUBG environments.

New Resident Evil Resistance additions include maps and Masterminds
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-resident-evil-resistance-additions-include-maps-and-masterminds/
Resident Evil Resistance, the assymetrical multiplayer outing that'll come bundled with the Resident Evil 3 remake, just had two new playable villains and maps announced. The game operates similarly to Dead by Daylight: four survivors need to ward off the attacks of a powerful antagonist, and in Resistance these antagonists are "Masterminds," each with varying abilities and approaches.

Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn says he left BioWare because it became too 'corporate'
https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-writer-drew-karpyshyn-says-he-left-bioware-because-it-became-too-corporate/
Longtime BioWare designer James Ohlen left the studio in July 2018, after 22 years and credits on games ranging from Baldur's Gate to Anthem. His departure came shortly after that of writer Drew Karpyshyn, who'd been with BioWare for nearly as long—his first credit is as a writer and editor on the Baldur's Gate 2 manual—and who left, for the second time, a few months earlier. Now they're back together again at Ohlen's new studio, Archetype Entertainment.

Disney wants developers to 'come and play' with its properties
https://www.pcgamer.com/disney-wants-developers-to-come-and-play-with-its-properties/
Disney has always been stingy with its properties, but that may be set to change as it lays out its new plan for gaming.
At the 2020 DICE Summit, and shared by The Hollywood Reporter, Disney's Senior VP for Games and Interactive Experiences, Sean Shoptaw, said he wants to "empower [developers] to do really unique things" with Disney's huge list of properties. He encouraged the developers at his DICE talk to "come and play" with its franchises.

Former Starbreeze executive convicted of insider trading
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-starbreeze-executive-convicted-of-insider-trading/
An unnamed executive at Payday publisher Starbreeze has been convicted of insider trading.
Starbreeze suffered major financial difficulties in late 2018, following the disastrous launch of Overkill's The Walking Dead. (...) Shortly following the launch of The Walking Dead, Starbreeze's CEO Bo Andersson stepped down.
Following this, Starbreeze announced it would be undergoing a corporate restructure and refocusing its efforts on its most popular series, Payday. Before the restructuring was announced, two executives, including Andersson, were alleged to have sold their shares in the company, leading to a raid by the Swedish police and an investigation into insider trading.

Black Mesa wants players to test its full 1.0 launch build
https://www.pcgamer.com/black-mesa-wants-players-to-test-its-full-10-launch-build/
Black Mesa, the extensive remake of Half-Life 1, is very close to completion. So close, in fact, that developer Crowbar Collective wants players to test the release candidate build.
In a Steam announcement, Crowbar Collective announced it has pushed a complete build to a public beta branch, with the intention of this build then becoming the same one released when the game comes out of early access. In effect, unless there are any major, unexpected issues that need fixing at the last second, this is the release build of Black Mesa.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous will have both real-time and turn-based combat modes
https://www.pcgamer.com/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-will-have-both-real-time-and-turn-based-combat-modes/
Owlcat Games has announced that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous will be getting a much-requested turn-based combat mode.
In its latest Kickstarter update, Owlcat confirmed that, while the game, like its predecessor, is still being developed and balanced with real-time-with-pause combat in mind, it will also introduce an option that lets players play in a more traditional turn-based fashion as well.