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Thursday news, part two:

Learn how to pilot a stolen alien vehicle in Nauticrawl
https://www.pcgamer.com/learn-how-to-pilot-a-stolen-alien-vehicle-in-nauticrawl/
Nauticrawl jams you inside a weird alien vehicle that you don't know how to pilot and just lets you get on with figuring it out, or not figuring it out, dying and then trying a different approach. It's part sim, part roguelike and learning how to control your new vehicle is one big puzzle.

Sea of Thieves' Dark Relics update finally sticks harpoon guns on rowboats
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-dark-relics-update-finally-sticks-harpoon-guns-on-rowboats/
Sea of Thieves' August update, Dark Relics, introduces new voyages for you to complete and chests for you to hunt down, but forget all of that, because the most important new addition is harpoon guns on rowboats.

Retail Row returns to Fortnite, and it brought some purple friends
https://www.pcgamer.com/retail-row-returns-to-fortnite-and-it-brought-some-purple-friends/
Fortnite's Retail Row, which was destroyed along with Tilted Towers in May, is back in the game—but it's not quite the same as it used to be.
The return of Retail Row is a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that prices have been drastically reduced—you won't find a better deal anywhere! The bad news is that the Rift Zone that reverted the Mega Mall to Retail Row also ushered in hordes of Fiends, and they're nastier than Wal-Mart shoppers on Black Friday.

Epic apologizes for selling a new Fortnite dog that was identical to an old Fortnite dog
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-apologizes-for-selling-a-new-fortnite-dog-that-was-identical-to-an-old-fortnite-dog/
Epic Games released a pet dog named Gunner to the Fortnite shop earlier today that players could purchase for 1000 V-bucks and then carry around with them on their backs. But now the doggo is gone, because it was a little too similar—which is to say, virtually identical—to a prior dog-in-a-backpack named Bonesy who was included in a previous Battle Pass.

Several days of Borderlands 3 gameplay streams are ahead
https://www.pcgamer.com/several-days-of-borderlands-3-gameplay-streams-are-ahead/
It seems like we can't go a week without new Borderlands 3 footage, and 2K has partnered with streamers to make sure that remains the case this week and next. Including today, six days of sponsored Borderlands 3 streams all featuring FL4K the Beastmaster are planned, with several different streamers to be featured.

Destiny 2 livestream shows off dramatic changes coming to armor customization
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-livestream-shows-off-dramatic-changes-coming-to-armor-customization/
Major changes are coming to Destiny 2 when the armor 2.0 system goes live as oart of the upcoming Shadowkeep expansion on 1 October. Bungie devs revealed how players will be able to take advantage of those changes to "build a better monster killing machine" in a livestream today that showcased the full process of creating and customizing loadouts.

Sea of Thieves updates: Latest patch notes
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-update/
Sea of Thieves is expanding its horizons. The jumbo-sized free Anniversary update added Tall Tales quests and brand new PvP. As of July 2019, Sea of Thieves now receives monthly content updates that give players new reasons to climb aboard their ships and set sail with a tankard full of grog. The centerpieces of monthly updates are Voyages, a new repeatable (limited time) quest type themed around the latest event.

Spelunky 2 probably won't be out this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/spelunky-2-probably-wont-be-out-this-year/
Spelunky 2 was announced in 2017 and showed off its first gameplay trailer in 2018, which is also when it revealed a release target of 2019. Alas, it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

Bloodlines 2 dev explains how it connects to the tabletop RPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/bloodlines-2-dev-explains-how-it-connects-to-the-tabletop-rpg/
In the latest dev diary for Bloodlines 2, lead UI/UX designer Rachel Leiker explains how they drew on those newer rules for the videogame version, and some of the places they differed. For instance, in Vampire fifth edition, blood has four emotional 'resonances', each of which can affect different abilities when drunk. Bloodlines 2 bumped that number up to five, and changed how the bonuses work.

King's Bounty 2 takes the tactical RPG in a new direction
https://www.pcgamer.com/kings-bounty-2-takes-the-tactical-rpg-in-a-new-direction/
1C Entertainment has announced that Kings Bounty 2 is in development and expected out next year. It's a departure from the previously isometric, cartoon fantasy series and is now a third-person, "highly cinematic experience" and, judging from the trailer posted by IGN, a bit on the serious side. Give it a watch above.

No Man's Sky inventory slot capacity gets a slight bump from 250 to, uh... 10,000
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-inventory-slot-capacity-gets-a-slight-bump-from-250-to-uh-10000/
We got our first look at the No Man's Sky Beyond patch notes this morning, and to be perfectly honest, we're still looking at them. To put it in scientific terms, the patch notes are "Like, super-big."

No Man's Sky Beyond's first update tackles stability issues
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-beyonds-first-update-tackles-stability-issues/
No Man's Sky Beyond launched yesterday, and while some astronauts have been socialising in space and playing in VR for the first time, others have been getting booted out before they get to the good stuff. A new update, released today, aims to tackle some of these stability issues. It was tested on the experimental branch last night, but it's now live for everyone on PC.

Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break is coming to flatten your castle next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/rock-of-ages-3-make-and-break-is-coming-to-flatten-your-castle-next-year/
Time-travelling 'competitive tower defense' game Rock of Ages is receiving another sequel early 2020. We will once more have the opportunity to roll boulders at peasant homes, but this time there's level creation that lets you create and share settlements with friends.

Superhot Team is now funding games but says it's 'totally not a publisher'
https://www.pcgamer.com/superhot-team-is-now-funding-games-but-says-its-totally-not-a-publisher/
Superhot Team is getting into the publishing game, kind of. Superhot Presents, announced today, is a funding initiative designed to help indies who don't want or need a traditional publisher. The Frog Detective adventure game series and Knuckle Sandwich, a retro RPG, are the first to take advantage of the fund.