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The second part of the news:

 

Call of Duty: WWII beta confirmed for PC
http://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-wwii-beta-confirmed-for-pc/
Call of Duty: WWII is coming in November, and before it does there will beta tests: August 25-28 on the PlayStation 4, and then September 1-4 on the PS4 and Xbox One. Of a beta test on the PC, however, there's been no word.

 

EA's Patrick Soderlund thinks Mass Effect: Andromeda criticism was a little unfair
http://www.pcgamer.com/eas-patrick-soderlund-thinks-mass-effect-andromeda-criticism-was-a-little-unfair/
Electronic Arts finally confirmed earlier this week that Mass Effect: Andromedawill not be getting any single-player DLC or new story content. Following the May decision to put the franchise on ice, and the more recent elimination of Andromeda developer BioWare Montreal, it appeared to mark a sad end to a series that not so long ago was one of the biggest and most successful that EA had ever produced.
But gone is not forgotten, and EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund told Gamereactor UK that he expects it to come back—and that he doesn't think Andromeda really deserved all the criticism it got.

 

PES 2018 demo is coming at the end of August
http://www.pcgamer.com/pes-2018-demo-is-coming-at-the-end-of-august/
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 "is finally a football sim worthy of the PC," we said in our June hands-on preview. "[It] easily matches its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts, and may yet surpass them once the modding community sets to work." That's awfully high praise, but come August 30 you won't have to take our word for it—you'll be able to just play the demo instead.

 

Watch KFC's weird VR training game about frying chicken
http://www.pcgamer.com/watch-kfcs-weird-vr-training-game-about-frying-chicken/
Remember when VR was cool, back when it was fiction about cyberspace? Well, now it's here, and the corporate world is doing everything it can to make it suck. Case in point: Earlier today, Eater published a report stating that KFC is making employees play an Oculus Rift initiation game which teaches them how to make fried chicken.

 

Team up with allies old and new in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
http://www.pcgamer.com/team-up-with-allies-old-and-new-in-wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus/
BJ will be getting a lot of help on his mission to cut a bloody swathe through the American Nazi regime in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. The hard man with soulful eyes will be joined not just by revolutionaries he meets along the way, but returning allies as well.

 

Ark: Survival Evolved is killing hundreds of official servers on August 29
http://www.pcgamer.com/ark-survival-evolved-is-killing-hundreds-of-official-servers-on-august-29/
Ark: Survival Evolved is inching ever closer to leaving Early Access, and in preparation of its launch, hundreds of official servers are going extinct. These low-population servers, which make up about 33% of all existing servers, are being wiped on August 29, so if you've got pet dinos or other belongings you don't want to lose, it's time to pack them up and stuff them (and your character) into an Obelisk or Tek Transmitter so you can retrieve them from a different server later.

 

Overwatch players could face demotion in Season 6
http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-players-could-face-demotion-in-season-6/
Earlier in the week, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan broke down some of the changes coming in Overwatch’s next season of competitive play, including reducing the length of the season down to two weeks and stopping placement matches deliberately placing you lower. Now additional changes have been announced, tweaking skill ratings and tiers.

 

Rocket League's most requested feature is coming soon: transparent goalposts
http://www.pcgamer.com/rocket-leagues-most-requested-feature-is-coming-soon-transparent-goalposts/
According to developer Psyonix, the Rocket League community’s most requested feature is transparent goalposts. To an occasional player like myself, it seems faintly ridiculous, but to more invested or experienced players, it could make a significant difference. Come the next update, they’ll be added to the game.

 

GTA Online's big Smuggler's Run update adds new customisable aircraft and more next week
http://www.pcgamer.com/gta-onlines-big-smugglers-run-update-adds-customisable-planes-and-more-next-week/
GTA Online's next huge update is Smuggler's Run, and it's coming to the game on 29 August. The title is a nod to Rockstar's classic series (well, I say classic. I never played it and was always more of a Bully man, but I hear it's good), and is air-focused, adding new ways to make money by taking cargo across the skies of Los Santos.