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Riot Games promises a 'zero tolerance policy' for sexism and discrimination
https://www.pcgamer.com/riot-games-promises-a-zero-tolerance-policy-for-sexism-and-discrimination/
League of Legends developer Riot Games has issued a statement saying that it has "a zero tolerance policy on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, and general toxicity," while at the same time acknowledging that it hasn't "lived up to our own values" in some areas. The statement comes in response to an in-depth Kotaku report on the pervasive "bro culture" at the studio, in which multiple current and former employees "painted a picture of Riot as a place where women are treated unfairly."

 

Asmodee Digital updates digital board game release dates: Pandemic, Munchkin, Gloom, and more
https://www.pcgamer.com/asmodee-digital-updates-digital-board-game-release-dates-pandemic-munchkin-gloom-and-more/
Asmodee Digital has updated their Steam release schedule for the coming months, giving updated times on delayed digital board game releases and announcing some new ones.
Among the new is Gloomhaven, which we’d previous covered, and a dungeon crawler inspired by long-lived, love it or leave it card game Munchkin. Coming in Q3 are The Lord of The Rings: Living Card Game, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic, and Bang!. In Q4 comes Five Tribes, while an adaptation of Gloom releases on Halloween. In 2019, expect to see Mansions of Madness: Mother’s Embrace, Munchkin, and Gloomhaven. Only a handful of the games have a precise release date.

 

Deathgarden coming to Steam Early Access on August 14, free for the first week
https://www.pcgamer.com/deathgarden-coming-to-steam-early-access-on-august-14-free-for-the-first-week/
Deathgarden is a digital game show about a big, armored goon with a gun, who's out to murder five smaller, quicker, gunless people trapped inside a procedurally generated virtual garden—the Deathgarden! Developer Behaviour Interactive announced today that it will be turned loose on Steam Early Access on August 14, and for the first week of release it will be free for everyone.

 

60 Parsecs! is a space-age survival game from the maker of 60 Seconds!
https://www.pcgamer.com/60-parsecs-is-a-space-age-survival-game-from-the-maker-of-60-seconds/
60 Seconds! studio Robot Gentleman announced today that its upcoming space-age survival adventure 60 Parsecs! will released on Steam on September 18. Similar to its predecessor, 60 Parsecs! will give intrepid, Cold War-era astronauts just 60 seconds to collect supplies from a doomed space station, which they'll have to rely on to survive a journey to a new, less apocalyptically-pancaked world.

 

Fearing legal action, emulation hub EmuParadise is removing all of its ROMs
https://www.pcgamer.com/fearing-legal-action-emulation-hub-emuparadise-is-removing-all-its-roms/
Last month, Nintendo filed lawsuits against two emulator sites, LoveRETRO and LoveROMs, citing their "substantial ill-gotten gains" and pursuing $150,000 for each Nintendo game hosted on the sites as well as up to $2 million for trademark infringement, not to mention the domain names and sources of their Nintendo ROMs. Today, EmuParadise, a longstanding emulation hub around since 2000, announced that it will no longer host ROMs on its site because it is not worth risking the "potentially disastrous consequences."

>>Sad news for the emulator fans.

 

PUBG announces Dodgebomb event mode with frags, Molotovs, frying pans
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-announces-dodgebomb-event-mode-with-frags-molotovs-frying-pans/
PUBG's latest War Mode limited-time event asks players to whip out the frying pan and head into the fire. Dodgebomb kicks off today at 7pm PST / early tomorrow at 3am BST, and runs till the same time on August 12/13.

 

Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season has a PC demo
https://www.pcgamer.com/telltales-the-walking-dead-the-final-season-has-a-pc-demo/
After appearing on consoles last week, Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season has a PC demo. Download it now from Steam.
I must admit: the pre-E3 release date-revealing teaser trailer that slipped out in June caught me off guard. Not only was it emotional and sobering and eerie, it also looked great. At the time, Telltale told us to expect a new over-the-shoulder camera system and "scenes with unscripted combat", complimented by "all-new Graphic Black art style" that supports 4K resolution.

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider lets you independently tweak puzzle, combat, traversal difficulty
https://www.pcgamer.com/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-lets-you-independently-tweak-puzzle-combat-traversal-difficulty/
Yesterday, we caught a glimpse of Shadow of the Tomb Raider's brutal stealth kills, deadly tombs and cave-swinging. Now, publisher Square Enix has revealed the difficulty of these puzzles, set-tos and traversal set pieces can be independently adjusted to suit individual playstyles.

 

Torchlight Frontiers brings a shared world to the series' existing universe, due 2019
https://www.pcgamer.com/torchlight-frontiers-brings-a-shared-persistent-world-to-its-existing-universe/
When Torchlight and Hob developer Runic Games was shut down last year, the developer said: "For those that love the Torchlight series, there will be some news coming." Today, Perfect World Entertainment and Echtra Games have announced Torchlight Frontiers—a new shared world action RPG and the "next evolution" of the Torchlight series.