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Cute, cuddly otters are coming to Ark: Survival Evolved
http://www.pcgamer.com/cute-cuddly-otters-are-coming-to-ark-survival-evolved/
Ark: Survival Evolved is famous for its ferocious bestiary. This is a game that literally has dinosaurs with frickin' lasers attached to their heads, after all. The latest creature to be added to the game is quite a bit different from all of that, however, because instead of being huge and fierce (or even just kind of big, but still fierce), this new creature is a straight-up cuddler. It's an otter.

 

Spelunky creator Derek Yu reveals his next project, and the secret of UFO50
http://www.pcgamer.com/spelunky-creator-derek-yu-reveals-his-next-project-and-the-secret-of-ufo50/
Spelunky creator Derek Yu hinted at something new a couple of weeks ago when he tweeted a screenshot of what appeared to be a new game, accompanied by the hashtag #UFO50. Right around the same time, two other indie developers, Jon Perry and Eirik Suhrke, tweeted different images using the same hashtag. What, we wondered, could it be? Today, the secret was revealed.

 

Destiny 2 will offer XP boosts and in-game loot as part of Rockstar Energy and Pop-Tarts promotions
http://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-will-offer-xp-boosts-and-in-game-loot-as-part-of-rockstar-energy-and-pop-tarts-promotions/
The Destiny expansion The Taken King featured a corporate partnership with Red Bull that offered players consumable XP boosts and timed-exclusive access to a minor but time-exclusive quest line, in exchange for drinking (or, at the very least, buying and then pouring out) its foul-tasting concoction. For Destiny 2, Activision and Bungie is doubling down on that strategy with two new, equally-irrelevant sponsorship deals.

>>*Facepalm*

 

AM2R creator is now working on Ori and the Will of the Wisps
http://www.pcgamer.com/am2r-creator-is-now-working-on-ori-and-the-will-of-the-wisps/
AM2R leading creator Milton ‘DoctorM64’ Guasti said in a recent blog post that "everyone involved in AM2R moved on," and so has he, to "a new, original Metroidvania game" done in Unity. "It's really early in development right now, but I'll make sure to have something cool to show whenever I decide to make it public," he wrote.
As excellent as that sounds, it may be awhile before any of it happens, as just a day later he made an even bigger announcement: He's now working with Moon Studios as a level designer on the upcoming Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

 

Rainbow Six Siege PC patch is huge but will 'reset foundation future patches are built upon'
http://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-pc-patch-is-huge-but-will-reset-foundation-future-patches-are-built-upon/
Rainbow Six Siege has surpassed 20 million registered players and is now "here to stay", so reckons Ubisoft. To this end, as part of its long-term update strategy, the developer has announced a "data cleanup" of sorts that requires a pretty hefty patch on PC. How hefty? Up to 42GB.
Pretty substantial, then, but necessary as the Y2S3.0 (Year two, season three) patch will reset the "foundation that future patches are built upon", and will help establish a new "baseline" the developer will update the game client from hereon.

 

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice deletes your save file for dying too often
http://www.pcgamer.com/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice-deletes-your-save-file-for-dying-too-often/
In his warm review, Leif praised Ninja Theory's Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice as a "powerful portrait of the strength of will over personal demons." He did reckon it could benefit from more in the way of exploration and enemy variety, however one feature that appears to have ruffled a number of people's feathers is the game's approach to permadeath. Dying too many times in Hellblade results in having your save file wiped entirely.

 

Don't Knock Twice portrays a 'psychologically terrifying' urban legend this September
http://www.pcgamer.com/dont-knock-twice-portrays-a-psychologically-terrifying-urban-legend-this-september/
Don't Knock Twice is the latest game from Wales Interactive—the studio behind the likes of Master Reboot and Soul Axiom. It's due September 5 and will launch alongside a short film of the same name (which incidentally stars Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame).

 

Everything's exploding in Killing Floor 2
http://www.pcgamer.com/everythings-exploding-in-killing-floor-2/
This week you'll probably want to keep some extra distance between you and the mobs of flesh that chase you around in Killing Floor 2. In KF2's final Weekly Outbreak event, "Boom," zeds explode when they die, hurting anyone or anything around them. Larger zeds explode like a miniature nuke, dealing even more splash damage.

 

No Man's Sky teases portals and spacecrafts ahead of update 1.3
http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-teases-portals-and-spacecrafts-ahead-of-update-13/
At the beginning of June, Hello Games launched Waking Titan—a hype-stirring ARG for its open-world space roamer No Man's Sky. Complete with strange cassette tapes, snippets of vague information and an expected deluge of Reddit back-and-forthing, the alternate reality game was said to offer clues tied to NMS' incoming update 1.3.
New images suggest this will involve portals of some sort, as well as a new ship.

 

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is inspired by fake news
http://www.pcgamer.com/orwell-ignorance-is-strength-is-inspired-by-fake-news/
Orwell was one of the surprise hits of 2016, a surveillance-themed adventure sim which our reviewer described as "a novel perspective on totalitarian surveillance". That serialised adventure is getting a follow-up this year, in the form of Orwell: Ignorance is Strength.