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Monday news, part two:

Pillars of Eternity 2 expansion Beast of Winter is coming in August
https://www.pcgamer.com/pillars-of-eternity-2-expansion-beast-of-winter-is-coming-in-august/
Obsidian has announced that the Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire expansion Beast of Winter will be out on August 2. The DLC, according to PCGamesN, will send players off to an island populated by worshippers of Rymrgand, the titular "Beast of Winter" and "god of collapse." Death, famine, plague, bad luck—basically, if it all goes to pieces, you can thank this guy.

 

Nothing can stop Dauntless' bugged laser beam
https://www.pcgamer.com/nothing-can-stop-dauntless-bugged-laser-beam/
Dauntless is a free-to-play co-op action RPG about hunting big-ol' monsters called Behemoths. It's a game explicitly about boss fights where positioning and timing are of the utmost importance and preparation is half the battle. So you can imagine how jarring it is to see players casually melt Behemoths with a rainbow laser beam from sniper range.
Update: Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs offered an update on the Godhand laser bug, promising a proper fix in an upcoming update.

 

Rainbow Six Siege players who use slurs are now getting instantly banned
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-toxicity-ban/
Dropping hate speech in Rainbow Six Siege now comes with automatic consequences. Since yesterday, dozens of players have been saying that they received an automatic instant ban after using a racist or homophobic slur in text chat. Ubisoft has confirmed to PC Gamer via email that a new banning system is live in Siege.

 

Riot releases Dark Star Cho'gath League of Legends skin to raise funds for charity
https://www.pcgamer.com/riot-releases-dark-star-chogath-league-of-legends-skin-to-raise-funds-for-charity/
Riot Games connected with the Make-A-Wish Foundation last year to grant a wish to a teenager suffering from osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, who wanted to visit Riot headquarters and create a skin for Cho'Gath, his favorite League of Legends character. From that collaboration, Dark Star Cho'Gath was born, and now Riot is selling skins, icons, emotes, and bundles featuring the champion, with 100 percent of proceeds going to charity.

 

Enter the Gungeon: Advanced Gungeons & Draguns expansion will finally arrive next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/enter-the-gungeon-advanced-gungeons-and-draguns-expansion-will-finally-arrive-next-week/
The free Enter the Gungeon expansion Advanced Gungeons & Draguns was announced in August 2017 and was expected to be out in the fall of that year. That was a little optimistic, as it turns out, but today developer Dodge Roll announced that it will be out on all platforms on July 19.

 

Episode 3 of The Council arrives later this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/episode-3-of-the-council-arrives-later-this-month/
The third episode of neoclassical narrative adventure The Council will arrive on July 24, Focus Home Interactive has announced.
Titled “Ripples”, the third episode will continue the story of Louis de Richet, who belongs to an 18th Century secret society whose members include George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte. Its heavy emphasis on dialogue and player-choice is similar to DontNod’s Life is Strange, only with less teenage angst and more powdered wigs.

 

Amplitude Studios teases new Endless Legend expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/amplitude-studios-teases-new-endless-legend-expansion/
Amplitude Entertainment has teased a new Endless Legend project, probably an expansion, named Endless Legend: Inferno.
Posting on the studio’s creation platform Games2Gether, the tease came as community manager François Hardy announced Amplitude was departing for its 10-day summer break.

 

The Culling 2 gets hit with very negative reviews on Steam and low player numbers
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-culling-2-gets-hit-with-very-negative-reviews-on-steam/
The Culling 2 released on Tuesday, with Xaviant having halted development of the original Culling to produce the sequel. This decision hasn’t gone down well with its player base. The Culling 2 currently sports a rarely glimpsed “Very Negative rating on Steam, having received a slew of scathing reviews (13% positive at time of writing). “This is NOT the Culling”, says user Kaffe “It is more a bad rip-off of PUBG and H1Z1”. Steam user Fairlight was even less complimentary, stating “I stubbed my toe on the way to install this game. It was the most enjoyable part of the experience.”

 

Former Visceral creative director reveals plans for Dead Space 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-visceral-creative-director-reveals-plans-for-dead-space-4/
New information has emerged detailing Visceral Games’ aborted plans for what would have been Dead Space 4.
Speaking to Eurogamer, former Dead Space creative director Ben Wanat revealed Dead Space 4 would have placed greater emphasis on exploration and scavenging resources for survival, blending the previous games’ tightly scripted action with larger, more open areas that the player could explore freely.

 

Cooperative alien-blaster Earthfall lands with a launch trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/cooperative-alien-blaster-earthfall-lands-with-a-launch-trailer/
You wait ten years for a Left4Dead successor to come along, and then four swarm you from all sides within the space of a few months. (...)
Right now though, there’s Earthfall, a high-intensity co-op shooter which switches out shambling zombies for scuttling aliens. The game is set in the verdant forests of the Pacific Northwest, and sees players working together across ten missions of extraterrestrial-splattering action.

 

New We Happy Few Trailer offers a confusing lesson in happiness
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-we-happy-few-trailer-offers-a-confusing-lesson-in-happiness/
In anticipation of its launch next month, Compulsion Games has released a lengthy new trailer for We Happy Few, which provides more details on its newly designed structure.

 

MoonQuest hits Early Access after seven years in development
https://www.pcgamer.com/moonquest-hits-early-access-after-seven-years-in-development/
Procedurally generated Terraria-like MoonQuest has launched in Steam Early Access, after a whopping seven years in development.
The game looks like familiar survival and crafting fare set in a bizarre alien world. Players mine the game’s environment for both resources and adventures, building structures and crafting new equipment to sustain themselves in a world populated by hopping spiders and weird long-necked horse-things (NOT giraffes, I know what they look like). You can also wield environmental hazards like fire and lava to your advantage.

 

Seed, Klang's ambitious EVE-like MMO, teases scale of interconnected world
https://www.pcgamer.com/seed-klangs-ambitious-eve-like-mmo-teases-scale-of-interconnected-world/
Seed is a hugely ambitious in-development MMO that echoes EVE Online, Rimworld and The Sims. Developed by Klang Games and powered by Improbable's SpatialOS tech, its persistent simulation is inspired by Facebook and its construction and management systems pull from the likes of Dwarf Fortress. Its hugely ambitious, and its latest trailer teases the scale of its interconnected world.

 

Sekiro resurrection mechanic allows for deadlier combat than Dark Souls, says Miyazaki
https://www.pcgamer.com/sekiro-resurrection-mechanic-allows-for-deadlier-combat-than-dark-souls-says-miyazaki/
Sekiro, From Software's next game, subverts nearly everything we've come to expect from Dark Souls, said Steven after a hands-off demo at E3. One major change is its resurrection mechanic, which lets players revive themselves immediately without returning to a checkpoint. And despite how it might sound, game director Hidetaka Miyazaki says this can make Sekiro harder than Souls, not easier.