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Friday news, part two:

 

Road trip simulator Jalopy reaches full release next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/road-trip-simulator-jalopy-reaches-full-release-next-week/
Jalopy is a lovely road trip simulator that wheels players around the territories of the former Eastern Bloc. It's been in Early Access since April 2016, and has now set March 28, this Wednesday, for full release.

 

What Remains of Edith Finch studio's next game is about 'the enchanting beauty of animal locomotion'
https://www.pcgamer.com/what-remains-of-edith-finch-studios-next-game-is-about-the-enchanting-beauty-of-animal-locomotion/
During a GDC panel about how the team at Giant Sparrow used 13 different game prototypes to provide the foundation for What Remains of Edith Finch's story (our favorite of 2017), Creative Director Ian Dallas revealed what their next game will be about.

 

What should Ubisoft do with Tachanka, Rainbow Six Siege's worst character?
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-tachanka/
If you're Ubisoft, what do you do with a character like Tachanka in a competitive shooter? Game director Leroy Athanassoff addressed that question in the Q&A portion of a panel at the Game Developers Conference yesterday in San Francisco.

 

Two more Hearthstone: The Witchwood cards have been revealed
https://www.pcgamer.com/two-more-hearthstone-the-witchwood-cards-have-been-revealed/
Yesterday Blizzard said that Hearthstone: The Witchwood card reveals would kick off next week. Today, senior designer Peter Whalen blew that nice, neat schedule out of the water by revealing a pair of new cards in the expansion as part of a dive into the process of creating the new Echo keyword.

 

We have two cards from The Elder Scrolls: Legends – Houses of Morrowind to reveal
https://www.pcgamer.com/we-have-two-cards-from-the-elder-scrolls-legends-houses-of-morrowind-to-reveal/
The next expansion to Bethesda's CCG The Elder Scrolls: Legends will be called Houses of Morrowind, and as the title suggests it will feature the sights, sounds, and strangeness of the ancestral homeland of the Dunmer. Ahead of its release at the end of the month, we've got a couple of new cards to reveal for you, one of which really emphasizes the "strangeness" of the game world it's based on.

 

Oxygen Not Included update adds 'critter ranching'
https://www.pcgamer.com/oxygen-not-included-update-adds-critter-ranching/
Oxygen Not Included is a sci-fi management sim about clones building an underground base inside in asteroid, currently in Early Access. Since it's from Klei, the makers of Don't Starve, you know it involves very bad things happening to those clones, or Duplicants as they call them, but the latest update seems to add something nice for those poor Dupes: pets.

 

Major game companies are teaming up to combat toxicity in gaming
https://www.pcgamer.com/major-game-companies-are-teaming-up-to-combat-toxicity-in-gaming/
(...)more than 30 major gaming companies, including Blizzard, Riot, CCP, Twitch, Discord and Epic are teaming up to tackle the problem collectively through an organization called the Fair Play Alliance. The hope is that by sharing research, lessons learned, and best practices, the companies will be able to develop a better understanding of why toxicity happens, how to deal with toxic players, and most of all, how to stop toxicity from happening in the first place.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 will have character classes, multiplayer still uncertain
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-will-have-character-classes-multiplayer-still-uncertain/
During a recent 2017 financial results debrief, CD Projekt president Adam Kiciński revealed a few telling details about Cyberpunk 2077. And while the company isn't prepared to spill the whole beans just yet, we now know that the futuristic RPG will have character classes, rather than a single protagonist, ala The WItcher's Geralt of Rivia, aka the bath haver.

 

Afterparty, the game about outdrinking Satan, gets a debut trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/afterparty-the-game-about-outdrinking-satan-gets-a-debut-trailer/
How much does Satan drink? And if Satan does drink, does that mean that we're allowed a quiet beer in hell? Neither are questions we can know for sure, but in Afterparty, the new game by Oxenfree studio Night School, it's your goal to drink more than Satan in order to get out of hell. Sounds like a win-win situation?

 

China plays over twice as much PUBG per week than the USA, according to SteamSpy
https://www.pcgamer.com/china-plays-over-twice-as-much-pubg-per-week-than-the-usa-according-to-steamspy/
During a panel at GDC all about the interesting metrics SteamSpy spits out, creator and owner Sergey Galyonkin (also Head of Publishing for Eastern Europe at Epic Games) shared all sorts of data scraped from the public-facing user profiles of Steam.

 

Classic board game Catan gets reimagined in VR
https://www.pcgamer.com/classic-board-game-catan-gets-reimagined-in-vr/
The Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game that was first launched in 1995. It's since received a number of expansions, tie-ins, and videogame offshoots—not least a mobile version for Nokia's N-Gage in 2005, and a handheld variation for the Nintendo DS in 2009.
(...) In 2018, however, Catan VR marks the game's first venture into virtual reality and invites players to build, trade, and acquire resources on the eponymous island itself.

 

Nightdive talks System Shock remake's change in direction, expects release 'probably Q1 of 2020'
https://www.pcgamer.com/nightdive-talks-system-shock-remakes-change-in-direction-expects-release-probably-q1-of-2020/
System Shock is still coming. In February, we reported that Nightdive Studios' remake of System Shock was on hiatus as the developers reassessed the project, deciding it had diverged too far from the original vision: a direct modernization of the 1994 game. At GDC on Thursday, I met with Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick and business development director Larry Kuperman, who spoke candidly about where the project went wrong and where it stands now.

 

 

Ok now, time to check GOG and Steam:

+GOG

Besides the sale mentioned in the first post of today's news, there are 3 more deals for us:

• The daily sale features Rune Classic, 80% off: https://www.gog.com/game/rune_classic
• The weekly sale, with games like Transistor, FEZ, Stealth Inc 2, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, etc. up to 85% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180319_weekly_sale
• And the Close Combat sale to celebrate the arrival of new titles to the store: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180320_close_combat_tiein

+Steam

• The Elder Scrolls Online is free to try this weekend, and the game plus Morrowind is 33% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/306130/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online/
• To mark the start of the F1 season, F1 2017 is also free to try this weekend and 70% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/515220/F1_2017/
• The SEGA Sports Bundle is on sale with three (or maybe only one) games that can interest you: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/251443/
• Ubisoft is the star of the publisher weekend sale. Lots and lots of games go on sale: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/ubisoft_weekend/
• And of course, the weekly sale, featuring I don't know how many games. Check them out here... if the link works for you.

 

 

And just like the Looney Toons say, "That's all folks!". Have a happy and gaming weekend.