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GTA Online gets a new electric sports car and assassination mode with double $GTA and experience
http://www.pcgamer.com/gta-online-gets-a-new-electric-sports-car-and-a-target-assassination-mode-with-double-gta-and-experience/
Not long after the release of GTA Online's Air Quota mode comes another addition to its extensive list of adversary modes this week: Hardest Target, where 4-16 players across two teams have to kill the other's target while guarding their own. That's live in the game now, and you can get double experience and $GTA when playing it until 5 February—which is pretty standard with the debut of new competitive modes.

 

Chilean war chief Lautaro will lead the Mapuche into battle in Civilization 6: Rise and Fall
http://www.pcgamer.com/chilean-warchief-lautaro-will-lead-the-mapuche-into-battle-in-civilisation-6-rise-and-fall/
The latest in the long line of new groups arriving in the Civilization 6: Rise and Fall expansion is the Mapuche, who fought back against Spanish colonists in Chile in a war spanning three centuries. They will be led by Lautaro, a revered warchief who escaped Spanish capture before leading a fightback from the native people.

 

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is getting another small-but-spicy expansion
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-elder-scrolls-legends-is-getting-another-small-but-spicy-expansion/
Due on 1 February—that's next Thursday!—the new set is called the Forgotten Hero Collection, and it's one of those smaller affairs, much like the Madhouse Collection. That means you get 12 new cards to collect, three of which will be unique legendaries. Forgotten Heroes will cost $10 or 1,500 in-game gold, for which you get full playsets of all the cards, with no need to buy packs.

 

Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Chimera's new operators bring drones and nanobots to the fight
http://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-operation-chimeras-new-operators-bring-drones-and-nanobots-to-the-fight/
Ubisoft has shared a sneak peek into the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege Year 3 Season 1 expansion Operation Chimera, which will add a pair of new operators to the game and the co-op Outbreak mode, set on a new map based in a small town in New Mexico that's struggling with some unusual problems.

 

Overwatch patch nerfing Mercy and Junkrat is now live
http://www.pcgamer.com/mercy-valkyrie-nerf/
As of the latest patch, now live, Mercy's Valkyrie now only lasts 15 seconds (down from 20). It also no longer grants an extra charge of Resurrect or remove its cast time. The speed boost that Valkyrie grants to Guardian Angel has also been decreased by 50 percent.

 

You're glued to the floor in 2D platformer Dandara
http://www.pcgamer.com/youre-glued-to-the-floor-in-2d-platformer-dandara/
The titular protagonist of 2D Metroidvania platformer Dandara is glued to the floor. Admittedly, I don't know if it's actually glue, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look like it. That might sound like a pretty big problem for the protagonist of a platformer, but two-man Brazil-based developer Long Hat House has worked out a clever solution: bouncing.

 

Hollow Knight's third free expansion will add new boss fights and an extra game mode
http://www.pcgamer.com/hollow-knights-third-free-expansion-will-add-new-boss-fights-and-a-new-game-mode/
Hollow Knight, the best platformer of 2017, is getting a third free expansion pack called Gods & Glory, which will add new characters, boss fights and an extra game mode. It'll arrive at some point in the next few months. Sadly, it sounds like this might be the last expansion for the game: developer Team Cherry says it's the "final chapter of the Knight’s journey".

 

Epic giving away Fortnite freebies to make up for downtime
http://www.pcgamer.com/epic-giving-away-fortnite-freebies-to-make-up-for-downtime/
Fortnite has had its fair share of problems over the past week, what with a 14-hour downtime followed by multiple issues for people trying to play with friends. The game seems to be over the worst of it for now, but Epic is keen to make it up to players, and to that end it's giving away some freebies.

 

Titanfall developer Respawn's Star Wars game likely to release by March 2020
http://www.pcgamer.com/titanfall-developer-respawns-star-wars-likely-to-release-by-march-2020/
It's been nearly two years since we found out that Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment was working on a third-person action game set in the Star Wars universe, and we still know very little about the project. But we do at least now have a rough release window: it's likely to arrive at some time between April 2019 and April 2020.

 

Murderous Pursuits is a Victorian-era multiplayer assassination game in the style of The Ship
http://www.pcgamer.com/murderous-pursuits-is-a-victorian-era-multiplayer-assassination-game-in-the-style-of-the-ship/
Remember 2006's The Ship? It was a rather good assassination game about identifying your target (another player) among a sea of NPCs milling about a cruise liner and taking them out without anybody noticing, all the while making sure you didn't end up with a knife in your back. Blazing Griffin bought the game in 2011 and took to Kickstarter to fund a follow-up called The Ship: Full Steam Ahead, but fell short of its goal. However, now the developer is back with Murderous Pursuits, which looks impressive and is a sequel to The Ship in all but name.