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Friday news, part two:

BlizzCon 2019 tickets go on sale soon
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzcon-2019-tickets-go-on-sale-soon/
BlizzCon 2019 won't be kicking off until November, but Blizzard will start selling tickets to its annual fan celebration next week. Tickets will go on sale on May 4, but if you miss out, a second wave will be sold on May 9.
>> The cheapest one is $229!

Apex Legends sticks to seasonal updates: 'we don't want to overwork the team'
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-sticks-to-seasonal-updates-we-dont-want-to-overwork-the-team/
Respawn CEO Vince Zampella discussed Apex Legends' cadence of updates at the GamesBeat Summit this week, noting that the studio's schedule is designed to give the team a strong quality of life. While he didn't mention the competition, this is in contrast to Fortnite, which has more frequent updates but is also facing accusations of brutal crunch.

Apex Legends Season 2 details: new gun, character, and map changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-season-2-details-new-gun-character-and-map-changes/
Respawn's latest Apex Legends update teases big changes and new content coming when the second season arrives, including a new weapon, a new character, and likely changes to the map.

New Titanfall plans are being pushed back so Respawn can focus on Apex Legends
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-titanfall-plans-are-being-pushed-back-so-respawn-can-focus-on-apex-legends/
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"Additionally, in order to fully support Apex Legends, we are pushing out plans for future Titanfall games. No resources from the Apex Legends team are being shifted to other titles in development here at the studio, nor are we pulling resources from the team working on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order."

This new narrative noir adventure stars a 1950s private dick who is also a housecat
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-new-narrative-noir-adventure-stars-a-1950s-private-dick-who-is-also-a-housecat/
Blacksad is an Eisner-winning comic series created by Spanish authors Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido about John Blacksad, a hardboiled 1950s private dick in New York City. He is also a cat—a big, burly Felis catus—who lives in a world populated by other anthropomorphic animals. And in September, he'll be the lead character in a new "investigative narrative game" called Blacksad: Under the Skin.

Report bugs and earn stuff in Rainbow Six Siege’s ‘Bug Hunter’ program
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-bug-hunter/
For those who’ve made extra room on their hard drive for Rainbow Six Siege’s 60GB test server, Ubisoft has launched a new Bug Hunter program aimed at rewarding players that proactively report new Siege bugs in need of squashing.

Fallout 76 is getting backpacks and a new faction soon
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-is-getting-backpacks-and-a-new-faction-soon/
If you're tired of cramming every bullet, tool and piece of junk you find in Fallout 76 into your impressively spacious pockets, you might be in the market for a backpack. Unfortunately, the only ones you'll find are attached to specific outfits and they're purely decorative. Like glasses with no lenses. But that's changing in May.

Mortal Kombat 11 is getting two patches to help with the grind
https://www.pcgamer.com/mortal-kombat-11-is-getting-two-patches-to-help-with-the-grind/
Unlocking all of Mortal Kombat 11, from fatalities to cosmetics, necessitates a great deal of grinding or a lot of cash. There are four different currencies, a whole mode dedicated to opening loot boxes and progression-halting difficulty. NetherRealm recently acknowledged some of the issues, however, and has announced some changes coming in the next couple of days.

Monkey Ball meets Metal Gear in this free stealth game
https://www.pcgamer.com/monkey-ball-meets-metal-gear-in-this-free-stealth-game/
Beep reminds me of a few things, notably those two games in the headline, but the main thing that came to me was that episode of Futurama where Fry and Leela pretend to be robots on a robot planet. You know, to fit in. And to not be killed. Small, slightly rough-around-the-edges stealth game Beep is a lot like that episode. But rather than a human pretending to be mechanical, you're a ball pretending to be cuboid, on a planet filled with evil cuboid grunts.

Battle a dastardly animator in free, painterly shoot-'em-up Zoe
https://www.pcgamer.com/battle-a-dastardly-animator-in-free-painterly-shoot-em-up-zoe/
The animator is your enemy in painterly shoot-'em-up Zoe, as the brush-wielding maniac is intent on creating enemies and bullets to destroy you (you being a gun-toting triangle-thing). As a floating paintbrush peppers the screen with splodgy bullets, you have to run and jump and fly around the screen, taking out as many as you can, to score as many points as possible before the persistent painter finally does you in.

A Plague Tale: Innocence shows off 8 minutes of screaming rats
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-plague-tale-innocence-shows-off-8-minutes-of-screaming-rats/
The terrible cacophony produced by the rats in the A Plague Tale: Innocence footage above is enough to put me off animals and videogames forever. They make an unearthly, ear-piercing racket, presumably screaming for their dinner. They're so hungry they'll happily devour a human in seconds.

Time now to check the deals GOG and Steam have for us this weekend:

+GOG

• First comes the weekly sale, with up to 90% discounts on indie games: https://www.gog.com/promo/indie_week
• Next comes the Midweek sale, with up to 75% deals on strategy games: https://www.gog.com/promo/20190424_midweek_sale
• The Mafia franchise is on sale, up to 80% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20190422_weekly_sale_mafia
• And last there's the weekend sale, with discounts that all the way to 80%: https://www.gog.com/promo/20190426_weekend_sale

+Steam

• I'd start with the two daily deals, but since they'll last for 3 days, they can be seen as weekend deals. The first one is a Microids sale, with up to 80% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33126618
• The other one is Sword Art Online: Lost Song, also 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/840720/Sword_Art_Online_Lost_Song/
• The first of the properly weekend deals is the Early Access titles SCUM, 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/513710/SCUM/
• JUMP FORCE gets a 40% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/816020/JUMP_FORCE/
• The Crew 2 is free to try this weekend, and also 70% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646910/The_Crew_2/
• Capcom is the star of the weekend publisher sale: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/capcom
• And, of course, the hundreds of weeklong deals.

That's all folks. Have a happy and gaming weekend.