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Tuesday news, part two:

 

Play Fallout 4 for free this weekend
http://www.pcgamer.com/play-fallout-4-for-free-this-weekend/
If you've been waiting for just the right moment to finally dive into Fallout 4, then hop onto that springboard and get ready to jump. Fallout 4 will be free to play on PC beginning on Thursday, February 1 through Sunday, February 4. During that time, the base game will also be 33% off.

 

Fortnite Battle Royale's latest limited mode is all about sniper rifles
http://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-battle-royales-latest-limited-mode-is-all-about-sniper-rifles/
Fortnite Battle Royale's latest limited mode is live, Epic Games announced this morning. Named Sniper Shootout, the mode is what it describes, limiting players to sniper rifles... and revolvers. (Sniping players in the next room was too clumsy to be fun, I'm guessing.) Grenades are out of the picture, though the rest of the consumables are sticking around. Get yourself a bush, pronto.

 

Hearthstone is finally nerfing Patches the Pirate as part of a major balance update
http://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstone-is-finally-nerfing-patches-the-pirate-as-part-of-a-major-balance-update/
Some will no doubt says that it's been too long coming, but Blizzard announced today that four of the most obnoxious Hearthstone cards are set to be nerfed in the upcoming Update 10.2, which will go live next month. Leading the pack is the highly contentious Patches the Pirate, which after the update will no longer hit with Charge.

 

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition could come to Steam eventually
http://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-definitive-edition-could-come-to-steam-eventually/
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is set to arrive on February 20 on the Windows Store but not on Steam, an absence that was widely reported as somehow the fault of Valve. "Steam's rules do not allow it," a bold-faced subheader in the Google translation of German gaming site GameStar.de. But the auto-translation from German to English is, to put it generously, a little iffy—"The platform is where people play, and people play in the social spaces of Xbox Live, which means that if Xbox Live exists somewhere, we can get a game out there" is one clear-as-mud bit—and exactly what "rules" would be broken isn't actually specified.

>>Yesterday it was a no, now it's a maybe. As I said, I give them three months before announcing the Steam launch.

 

The latest Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus DLC is out now
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-latest-wolfenstein-2-the-new-colossus-dlc-is-out-now/
The second DLC episode for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus released earlier today, in the form of 'The Diaries of Agent Silent Death'. As the name implies, it traces the adventures of protagonist Agent Silent Death (her real name being the comparatively benign Jessica Valiant).

 

PUBG update aims to improve its desert map after players delete game files to skip the map entirely
http://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-update-aims-to-make-its-desert-map-more-fun-after-players-delete-game-files-to-skip-the-map-entirely/
Some PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds players are so bored by its desert map, Miramar, that they're deleting game files so that they automatically leave any round that randomly selects the map from the current pool of two. One user has even created a programme that changes the extensions of the Miramar files so that the game cannot load the map, booting you back out to the menu instead.
Perhaps developer Bluehole has noticed, because the latest update for the game aims to make Miramar more interesting.

 

Hyper Light Drifter designer Teddy Dief leaves Square Enix Montreal after studio cancels his next game
http://www.pcgamer.com/hyper-light-drifter-designer-teddy-dief-leaves-square-enix-after-studio-cancels-his-next-game/
Hyper Light Drifter designer Teddy Dief was snapped up by Square Enix Montreal soon after the indie RPG released in 2016. As a creative director at the Hitman Go developer he was leading a team designing a new game, but that project has now been canned by the studio, and as a result Dief has decided to leave the company.

 

First-person roguelike Delver emerges from four years of Early Access this week
http://www.pcgamer.com/first-person-roguelike-delver-emerges-from-four-years-of-early-access-this-week/
First-person pixely dungeon crawler Delver is emerging from a mammoth four-and-a-half year stint in Early Access on Thursday (February 1), developer Priority Interrupt has announced. I think 'slow and steady' would fairly characterise its development since 2013, with updates arriving every six months on average. Still, I remember playing it on my phone five or so years ago and it's clearly come a long way since then.