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Ark's next expansion will contain underground biomes and chest-bursting critters
http://www.pcgamer.com/arks-next-expansion-will-contain-underground-biomes-and-chest-bursting-critters/
Ark: Survival Evolved, in addition to launching from Early Access this week, announced a $45 season pass, which includes the Scorched Earth DLC as well as two unannounced expansions. We've now learned a bit about one of those expansions, called Aberration, which is set to arrive in October of this year.

 

High Hell is a game about kicking in doors and burning down drug labs
http://www.pcgamer.com/high-hell-is-a-game-about-kicking-in-doors-and-burning-down-drug-labs/
High Hell is a game about making entrances—the kind of entrances that begin with a large boot applied forcefully to a fragile door, followed shortly thereafter by gunfire, flying bodies, and burning drug labs. Developed by Terri Vellmann, the creator of the strange yet oddly compelling FPS Heavy Bullets, and Adam "Doseone" Drucker, whose music and audio work has previously appeared in Enter the Gungeon, Gang Beasts, and Nuclear Throne, it looks a bit like a first-person Hotline Miami, and it's set to come out later this year.

 

Shadow of War DLC character will raise funds for family of producer who died of cancer
http://www.pcgamer.com/shadow-of-war-dlc-character-will-raise-funds-for-family-of-producer-who-died-of-cancer/
Forthog Orcslayer is not a character that fans of Tolkien's Middle-earth lore are likely to be familiar with. That's because he's actually a new addition to the universe, created by Monolith for the upcoming Middle-earth: Shadow of War to pay tribute to executive producer Mike Forgey, who died of cancer in 2016.

>>Nice gesture for their part.

 

Stardew Valley publisher teases its 'magic school' RPG with a new image
http://www.pcgamer.com/stardew-valley-publisher-teases-its-magic-school-rpg-with-a-new-image/
Chucklefish, the developer behind Starbound and publisher of Stardew Valley, is taking some inspiration from the latter for one of its next games. Aside from the Advance Wars-inspired game it's working on, the publisher-studio told us in January that it's creating "an RPG/Sim set in a magic school, something like Stardew Valley meets Harry Potter."

 

Cultist Simulator, from the co-creator of Sunless Sea, is now on Kickstarter
http://www.pcgamer.com/cultist-simulator-from-the-co-creator-of-sunless-sea-is-now-on-kickstarter/
As promised, the Kickstarter for Cultist Simulator, the new game from Fallen London and Sunless Sea co-creator Alexis Kennedy, got underway today. And oh, look at that, it's already funded.

 

A surprise update restores Star Wars: Empire at War's multiplayer
http://www.pcgamer.com/a-surprise-update-restores-star-wars-empire-at-wars-multiplayer/
Petroglyph and Disney released an update that re-enables multiplayer support through Steam, in both the core game and the Forces of Corruption expansion. The patch also adds mod support via Steamworks and fixes a number of graphical and stability issues, "so you won’t get interrupted by errors and glitches as you fight for control of the galaxy."

 

Action RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr blasts into early access
http://www.pcgamer.com/action-rpg-warhammer-40000-inquisitor-martyr-blasts-into-early-access/
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr is an open-world, isometric action-RPG with more star forts, mutants and daemons than you can shake a Staff of Light at. It's just entered Early Access and developer Neocore Games says it's around 60-70% complete: the story campaign won't be added until launch but you can get to grips with two Inquisitor classes in PvE missions and one PvP mode.

 

Enforce child labour and feed citizens sawdust in grim Frostpunk trailer
http://www.pcgamer.com/enforce-child-labour-and-feed-citizens-sawdust-in-grim-frostpunk-trailer/
Frostpunk is a city builder, but as its first gameplay trailer shows it's more about making tough moral decisions than planning a pretty road network. When a child is injured at work, do you outlaw child labour or give them some kind words and send them back to the factory? When your citizens are starving, do you bulk up their meals with sawdust and risk them falling ill or let them go hungry?

 

PUBG producer: AFK farming is something 'we will definitely be addressing'
http://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-producer-afk-farming-is-something-we-will-definitely-be-addressing/
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sprouted an idler problem—that is, players who join matches but don't actually play, letting their characters die while they accrue in-game currency just by being there. This allows the idlers to buy items to sell on the marketplace without putting in the hours of actual playtime everyone else does, and hampers the experience of genuine players.

 

Swery's new mystery game The Good Life is looking for $1.5 million in crowdfunding
http://www.pcgamer.com/swerys-the-good-life-is-looking-for-15-million-on-fig/
Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die creator Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro announced his newest game, The Good Life, in August, describing it as a "mystery RPG" set in a small town in England where everyone turns into cats at night. The debut trailer, released a week later, didn't do a whole lot to clarify that undeniably bizarre setup, but it did have clips of cats, and that makes it a net positive as far as I'm concerned.
Today Swery and his team at White Owls took the next step by launching a crowdfunding campaign on Fig. The studio is seeking a whopping $1.5 million "to achieve Swery-level greatness," and backers can opt for conventional reward tiers or actual investments in the project.

 

Rising Storm 2 ANZAC Update will add new guns, new maps, and a new chopper
http://www.pcgamer.com/rising-storm-2-anzac-update-will-add-new-guns-new-maps-and-a-new-chopper/
The next big Rising Storm 2: Vietnam update was announced at Tripwire's PAX West panel today, and we have exclusive screenshots and a video for you. The working title is 'ANZAC Update,' and it's a big one.

 

Act 1 of Homestuck adventure game Hiveswap coming out this month
http://www.pcgamer.com/act-1-of-homestuck-adventure-game-hiveswap-coming-out-this-month/
It's been a long road to release for Hiveswap, the point-and-click adventure set in the universe of webcomic Homestuck. It received nearly $2.5m of backing on Kickstarter back in 2012 before multiple planned release dates—first in 2015, then this January—came and went. Well now it's finally upon us, with the first episode coming September 14.

 

Rainbow Six Siege to overhaul casual matchmaking and add Theme Park map to ranked play
http://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-overhauls-casual-matchmaking-and-adds-theme-park-map-to-ranked-play/
Ubisoft has overhauled Rainbow Six Siege's Casual matchmaking system ahead of the game's new season. For the last four months the game grouped players for Casual games based on their Ranked matchmaking rating (MMR) but Season 3 will introduce a separate MMR for Casual play. Ubisoft says it will provide "better quality matchmaking".

 

Blizzard will reveal a nerf to Hearthstone's Druid class this week
http://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-will-reveal-a-nerf-to-hearthstones-druid-class-this-week/
If you've been watching Hearthstone's HCT Europe Summer Playoffs this weekend, you'll have noticed a distinct lack of Druid. Not because the class isn't popular—quite the opposite, everyone of the 77 players participating brought a Druid deck—but because it's so good they've all been banning it. We wrote about the Druid problem earlier this week, predicting that multiple nerfs were on the way. And it sounds like that's about to happen, judging by this tweet today from game director Ben Brode.

 

American McGee is working on an Alice 3 proposal
http://www.pcgamer.com/american-mcgee-is-working-on-an-alice-3-proposal/
Just over a month ago, American McGee asked fans to stop pestering him about his surreal platformer, Alice. He has no control over the series, so go bug EA, was the gist. Now he’d like them to bug EA even more because he’s working on an Alice 3 proposal.

 

Developers share their hidden mechanics on Twitter
http://www.pcgamer.com/developers-share-their-hidden-mechanics-on-twitter/
I spent most of last weekend holed up in my bedroom, wondering if I had the flu or if my years of good living had finally caught with me, which also meant I had a lot of free time to aimlessly browse Twitter. Thankfully, this was also the weekend where developers started tweeting about hidden game mechanics, and it was fascinating.
Earthlight game design lead Jennifer Scheurle got the ball rolling on Friday, and was soon inundated with examples of the sneaky and sometimes brilliant tricks developers use.

 

Cliff Bleszinski teases a LawBreakers roadmap
http://www.pcgamer.com/cliff-bleszinski-teases-a-lawbreaker-roadmap/
Despite positive reviews, LawBreakers has been struggling to find an audience. Evan had plenty of nice things to say about it, but it’s not been enough to seduce people away from their go-to multiplayer mainstays. In the last 24-hours, according to Steam Charts, its concurrent players have amounted to a measly 362.
Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions are looking forwards, however, and have outlined the future of the multiplayer shooter in a roadmap that covers the rest of 2017.

 

90% of Gearbox are busy on what is almost certainly Borderlands 3
http://www.pcgamer.com/90-of-gearbox-are-busy-on-what-is-almost-certainly-borderlands-3/
Most of Gearbox, around 90%, are working on a new title, Randy Pitchford told the audience at a PAX panel on the weekend. According to the bossman, it’s the thing “most of you guys want us to be working on”. Borderlands 3, then.