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Assassin's Creed Odyssey introduces Testiklos the Nut, a new mercenary
https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-odyssey-introduces-testiklos-the-nut-a-new-mercenary/
Oh, Ubisoft. If you're going to go there, you might as well go the whole hog.
The latest mercenary to appear in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is Testiklos the Nut. As well as his unfortunate name, he's laden with a tragic past. OK, it's not a tear jerker, but I guess it's a bit sad. He misses his brother, you see. Testikles (who you might've met previously in the game). They were separated when they were young, and Testiklos hasn't been the same since.

Valve teases 'flagship' VR game coming this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-vr-game/
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Instead of announcing one of the three "big" VR games we know Valve is working on, it highlighted some other, non-Valve games, and merely teased a "flagship VR game" coming later this year for SteamVR-compatible headsets (The Index and the HTC Vive, mainly).

Ghost Recon Wildlands' new character looks like an awful lot like The Punisher
https://www.pcgamer.com/ghost-recon-wildlands-new-character-looks-like-an-awful-lot-like-the-punisher/
If you haven't played Ghost Recon Wildlands yet, I have to ask: Why? It's an excellent open-world shooter, big, varied, reactive, filled with vehicles to drive and guys to shoot, and perfectly willing to let you do whatever dumb, self-destructive stuff seems like a good idea at the time. But if you're somehow still not convinced, you can find out for yourself in the upcoming free-to-play weekend, which will also see the kickoff of Operation Oracle, a two-mission job "that will challenge your perception of the truth."

Mordhau's breakout success has its servers under siege
https://www.pcgamer.com/mordaus-breakout-success-has-its-servers-under-siege/
Mordhau, a first-person medieval combat game where you can decapitate one another with polearms, is a very fun game. It's also very laggy. Since it launched yesterday and has crawled up to become Steam's global top seller, Mordhau's servers are buckling under the weight of all those would-be knights trying to stab one another. It's really spoiling the fun of its extremely deep combat.

Blizzard isn't going to Gamescom this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-isnt-going-to-gamescom-this-year/
Gamescom is the biggest videogame trade show in the world: It drew 370,000 visitors in 2018, compared to just over 69,000 for E3. It's open to the public while E3 is, technically at least, mainly an industry-only event, which is obviously a big factor in that difference, but even so there's no denying that it's major international event. Despite that, Blizzard has decided to skip it this year.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will have a progression system inspired by Reach
https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-the-master-chief-collection-will-have-a-progression-system-inspired-by-reach/
Halo: The Master Chief Collection's public testing phase has been pushed back, but in the meantime 343 Industries and Splash Damage have revealed a great deal about what they're working on and their aims for the PC version. While the "core gameplay" is being left alone, there's still going to be plenty that's new, including an overhauled UI, lots of control options and a progression system inspired by Halo: Reach.

Run a robo-kitchen in Automachef
https://www.pcgamer.com/run-a-robo-kitchen-in-automachef/
Automachef approaches the art of cooking like an engineer. It's a cooking puzzle game, though quite a bit different from its fellow Team17-published culinary experiment, Overcooked. To make all these salads and burgers, you'll need to build a manufacturing behemoth evocative of Factorio and Big Pharma, programming machines to do all the dirty work.