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Thursday news, part two:

PUBG confirms new Halloween-themed 'Survival Squad of Horrors' skins
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-confirms-new-halloween-themed-survival-squad-of-horrors-skins/
Last week, PUBG prepared for Halloween by teasing Silent Hill-style nurses and Pennywise-like clowns. It's now rolled out a host of scary skins, billed as the 'Survival Squad of Horrors'.

Battlefield 5's battle royale mode won't be live until spring 2019
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-5s-battle-royale-mode-wont-be-live-until-spring-2019/
Electronic Arts said today that Battlefield 5's "Firestorm" battle royale mode won't be available until the spring of 2019, several months after the game is released.
EA revealed the wait in an update that lays out Battlefield 5's "live service journey through the Second World War," which will begin in December with Overture. The first chapter in the game's Tides of War updates will feature a new tank-focused map called Panzerstorm, The Last Tiger single-player mission, and the addition of a practice range.

Rockstar boss 'thankful' not to be releasing GTA 6 during Trump's presidency
https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-boss-thankful-not-to-be-releasing-gta-6-during-trumps-presidency/
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is glad the studio's next game is Red Dead Redemption 2, because he wouldn't want to release a new Grand Theft Auto game in the era of Donald Trump. In an interview with GQ, Houser said the current political environment in the US has made it "really unclear what we would even do with it, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did."
>>jason1637 has made a thread about it.

Clash and Maestro nerfed in latest Rainbow Six Siege update
https://www.pcgamer.com/clash-and-maestro-nerfed-in-new-rainbow-six-siege-mid-season-patch/
A new entry in Ubisoft’s Designer Notes series gives Rainbow Six Siege players an update on operator balance as we continue through Operation Grim Sky. There are only a few immediate changes to balance coming in the next patch, including key nerfs to Clash as well as adjustments to SMGs and Maestro.

Arma 4 isn't in development, but Arma 3 won't be the end of the series
https://www.pcgamer.com/arma-4-release-date/
Arma 3 won't be the last we'll play of the milsim series, but it's too early to tell what form a hypothetical Arma 4 would take, says developer Bohemia Interactive.
Speaking to PC Gamer via email, brand and PR manager Korneel van 't Land said that the studio's goal right now is "to keep Arma 3 fresh and exciting for at least several more years" as it balances development on several other projects. Bohemia says it would like to continue the series beyond Arma 3, but doesn't have any plans to share about a sequel right now.

Super Meat Boy is getting a new multiplayer race mode this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/super-meat-boy-is-getting-a-new-multiplayer-race-mode-this-week/
Super Meat Boy is getting a new multiplayer "Race Mode" later this week, allowing players to, you guessed it, race through the game's levels. Previously exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, the mode has two sub-modes: 'Normal' lets players choose where they'll race and whether they want to include Dark levels, while 'Random', as the name suggests, throws up levels at random.

PUBG's 'One Gun Warrior' event mode removes weapon spawns from Erangel
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubgs-one-gun-warrior-event-mode-removes-weapon-spawns-from-erangel/
My valiant attempt at fists-only victory in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds went up in smoke. Perhaps I'll fare better in this week's limited-time event mode, which also asks players to commit to one method of attack. The catch? It removes weapon spawns from the map entirely.

Black Ops 4 Blackout player creates neat interactive battle royale map
https://www.pcgamer.com/black-ops-4-blackout-player-creates-neat-interactive-battle-royale-map/
An innovative Call of Duty Black Ops 4 player has created an interactive map for its battle royale offshoot, Blackout. Posted to Reddit (via VG24/7), Game_Maps' project can be accessed without launching the full game.

Former Torchlight devs have teamed up for a new co-op game
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-torchlight-devs-have-teamed-up-for-a-new-co-op-game/
Former developers from Torchlight and Hob creator Runic Games, which was shut down by its publisher Perfect World last year, have founded a new studio to build a “PC-first” co-op combat game.
Monster Squad Games was founded by former Runic head Marsh Lefler, as well as Patrick Blank, Allen Fong, and John Dunbar, who also held senior positions at the developer. It is currently eight-strong, with most of the staff made up of former developers at either Runic or Borderlands developer Gearbox, including art director Wes Parker, who was a senior character artist on Borderlands 2.

Stellaris reveals 'economy-focused' MegaCorp expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/stellaris-reveals-economy-focused-megacorp-expansion/
You've befriended the stratosphere's gentle giants, and have made peace with your space angry neighbours—what's left to conquer on your Stellaris journey? The financial market, reckons Paradox.
Stellaris has unveiled its "economy-focused" MegaCorp expansion, a "revolutionary new way to conduct business on a galactic scale by seamlessly synergizing new markets and city planets with state-of-the-art citizen solutions and more marketable human capital."