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Monday news, part two:

Fallout 76 players find human NPC and unreleased items in secret 'dev room'
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-players-find-human-npc-and-unreleased-items-in-secret-dev-room/
Fallout 4 has a secret room accessible to players by using a console command. The room is filled with footlockers, and those footlockers contain every single item in the game. Skyrim has a room like this, too. And, apparently, Fallout 76 has a similar 'developer room' as well, containing all of the game's weapons, armor, items, plans, and recipes—even some items that haven't been officially released yet. There is also, oddly enough, a human NPC standing in there. Weird.

The next Elder Scrolls: Legends expansion is all about madness and sweetrolls
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-elder-scrolls-legends-expansion-is-all-about-madness-and-sweetrolls/
Isle of Madness, the next story expansion to Bethesda's fantasy CCG The Elder Scrolls: Legends, will take players on a journey to the twisted realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness.

One of Dead Space's scariest sounds is San Francisco's public transportation
https://www.pcgamer.com/one-of-dead-spaces-scariest-sounds-is-san-franciscos-public-transportation/
For all the terrifying scares in Dead Space—necromorph babies, giant tentacles, and ghostly whispers—one of my favorite moments is one that has no monsters at all. A few hours into the game, you navigate a zero-gravity section of the Ishimura on your way to the engine room. During this entire sequence, there's barely any sound—everything is muted by the vacuum of space to the point where even your shotgun sounds like a distant thud. Then, after re-compressing at an airlock, you open the door to one of the most horrifying sounds known to humankind: the ungodly wail of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.

Klaus is a platformer about an existential crisis at the office
https://www.pcgamer.com/klaus-is-a-platformer-about-an-existential-crisis-at-the-office/
Klaus is a puzzle-platformer about an office worker who wakes up in a strange basement with no idea who he is, how he got there, or why the word "Klaus" is tattooed on his arm. Despite that, he's determined to be the hero—but he needs a little help. It was originally released for the PlayStation 4 in 2016, and on January 24 it will finally make its way to PC.

Resort Boss: Golf is a twee little management game coming in February
https://www.pcgamer.com/resort-boss-golf-is-a-twee-little-management-game-coming-in-february/
There’s a nice looking new trailer for Resort Boss: Golf that’s just come out, giving us a look at the upcoming tycoon game’s sure to-be-best feature: Playing golf.

Kill burglars as a robotic vacuum in Roombo: First Blood
https://www.pcgamer.com/kill-burglars-as-a-robotic-vacuum-in-roombo-first-blood/
You’re a robotic vacuum, Roombo. The family is out and burglars are breaking in. What do you do? You leverage the full power of your hard plastic shell and access to the home’s smart controls to kill: Every. Single. One. Then you clean up the house before the family gets home, none the wiser to the carnage you inflicted. This is the concept behind stealth action game Roombo: First Blood, a beautifully named game from developer Samurai Punk, the team behind other zany games such as Screencheat and American Dream. It looks a lot like... Hitman if Agent 47 were a robot? Kind of? Hotline Miami with fewer animal masks and more vacuums?

JRPG classic Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition is out now on PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/jrpg-classic-tales-of-vesperia-definitive-edition-is-out-now-on-pc/
After an announcement last summer, Tales of Vesperia is finally available on PC in its newly remastered form. Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition released yesterday on Steam, just over ten years since the original released on PS3. The definitive edition includes all the PS3 content, but is updated with HD graphics, new music, new mini-games, new bosses, unreleased DLC for the original games, and two more playable characters. Tales of Vesperia is a fantastical story about the struggle over a powerful resource created by an ancient race to benefit humanity that's now threatening to destroy it.
>> You probably guessed as much after reading the Special K mod for the game.

All-devouring Tyranid swarms arrive in Warhammer 40k: Gladius this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/all-devouring-tyranid-swarms-arrive-in-warhammer-40k-gladius-this-week/
Every Warhammer fan’s favorite army of biological horrors is coming to Warhammer 40,000: Gladius—Relics of War this week, releasing on January 15th. Tyranids are a swarm of devouring monsters, and play like them, with unique mechanics catered to that theme. Tyranids will apparently build up and expand by stripping biomass from their enemies, their own units, and the environment itself. Tyranid cities will strip their surroundings bare of resources. It sounds like an interesting, mobile play style focused on sprawling and adapting to the situation rather than digging in and building up defenses. They also don’t use the same resources as others, using a flexible biomass pool to build up rather than food and ore.

A Dota 2 custom mode may be 2019’s most popular new game
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-dota-2-custom-mode-may-be-2019s-most-popular-new-game/
A Dota 2 custom game mode designed by China-based Drodo Studio is taking the Dota 2 world by storm, reaching 100,000 concurrent players earlier today and racking up over 670,000 subscribed users. Dota Auto Chess is a strategic, tactically complex mix of board game and Dota custom map. Play is based around drafting hands of heroes, combining them to upgrade them, and then deploying them correctly to win victories over eight other players in a series of one-on-one matches. The game has become wildly popular, with more concurrent players today than, say, Grand Theft Auto 5 or Football Manager 2019. Like Dota 2, Dota Auto Chess is completely free.

More details on Celeste’s free DLC, but no release date yet
https://www.pcgamer.com/more-details-on-celestes-free-dlc-but-no-release-date-yet/
Celeste was one of last year’s standout games, and we’re all surely pretty excited about the fact that it’s getting a free farewell DLC with some ultra hard levels soon, right? Well, not too soon, because according to developer Matt Thorson it won’t be ready for the game’s anniversary on January 25th, as he’d hoped. In a post on Twitter, Thorson did confirm that the coming levels are are a continuous chapter harder than the current hardest levels in the game. The new levels won’t have strawberries, the hard-to-find collectibles that players must hunt down throughout the game in order to change the ending. The DLC levels will, however, have new items and mechanics—and again, they’re free to everyone with the game on every platform.

Resident Evil 2 Remake's demo teases Hunk and Tofu
https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-2-remakes-demo-teases-hunk-and-tofu/
A Resident Evil 2 Remake trailer that plays at the end of the one-shot demo confirms the return of masked mercenary Hunk and a healthy, knife-wielding snack. Watch it above to see Hunk and Tofu in action, briefly, or take the demo for a spin.

Amazon's New World MMO is doing a Choose Your Own Adventure on Twitter
https://www.pcgamer.com/amazons-new-world-mmo-is-doing-a-choose-your-own-adventure-on-twitter/
New World, Amazon’s upcoming MMO, started the year with a Choose Your Own Adventure on Twitter. Someone on the social media team watched Bandersnatch over the holidays. And like Netflix’s recent experiment with interactive fiction, the adventure has taken a grim turn. Twitter has already killed off one character.