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Monday news, part two:

Frogwares has rescued Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
https://www.pcgamer.com/frogwares-has-rescued-sherlock-holmes-crimes-and-punishments/
Last month, Frogwares announced that, due to the end of a publishing agreement with Focus Home Interactive, several of its games had been delisted from Steam and other digital shops against its wishes. Fortunately, it's managed to rescue arguably its best game, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint servers are back (Updated)
https://www.pcgamer.com/ghost-recon-breakpoint-is-out-today-but-the-servers-are-down/
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is out today, but unfortunately you may not be able to play it right now. Users trying to connect to the game are experiencing a few different errors, including SILENT-50001 and SILENT-10000B, neither of which are terribly informative in terms of what's actually gone wrong but both of which end up in the same place: The servers are not available at this time.
Update: Ubisoft now says that the issues have been corrected, and players should have access to the game. We'll update again if further problems arise.

Disc Creatures looks like a cute throwback to classic Pokémon
https://www.pcgamer.com/disc-creatures-looks-like-a-cute-throwback-to-classic-pokemon/
Disc Creatures has come hurtling through time from the halcyon days of collecting wee monsters on your Game Boy. It's a monster catching RPG where you, a newly minted Disc Ranger, must saunter around the world, taming monsters and solving problems for feckless NPCs.

These are the 23 Wild Hearthstone cards returning to standard in next week's Halloween event
https://www.pcgamer.com/these-are-the-23-wild-hearthstone-cards-returning-to-standard-in-next-weeks-halloween-event/
Halloween is coming to Hearthstone in a three-week Hallow's End event featuring unique Tavern Brawls, the return of 23 powerful cards from Wild to Standard, a Dual-Class Arena dress-up party, new Legendary quests, a couple of new card bundles to throw your money at, and special rewards just for showing up.

Mr. X is your friend in the Monster Hunter: World - Resident Evil crossover
https://www.pcgamer.com/mr-x-is-your-friend-in-the-monster-hunter-world-resident-evil-crossover/
Capcom has a long and rich history of plopping characters into games that they really have no business being in. There's a Chocobo mount in Assassin's Creed: Origins for some reason, and Geralt has done a turn in Monster Hunter: World, and it gets pretty weird sometimes because there's generally no effort made to blend them in. I suppose it's a bit like Agent 47 in a flamingo suit—the incongruity is part of the fun.
That weirdness is going to kick up again in November, when Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield from the Resident Evil series turn up in a Monster Hunter: World Iceborne crossover. And they've brought a friend who is traditionally not a friend.

Check out Ms. Marvel's massive mitts in a new Marvel's Avengers trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/check-out-ms-marvels-massive-mitts-in-a-new-marvels-avengers-trailer/
Crystal Dynamics revealed today that Kamala Khan, better known in the superhero world as Ms. Marvel, will be the sixth playable character in the upcoming Marvel's Avengers. She'll also play a pivotal role in the game, as the catalyst that brings about the reassembly of the Avengers five years after the disastrous events of an A-Day celebration that causes the team to break up.

ArenaNet president leaves studio, was reportedly working on new Guild Wars game
https://www.pcgamer.com/arenanet-president-leaves-studio-was-reportedly-working-on-new-guild-wars-game/
Mike O’Brien, the co-founder and president of Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet, is leaving the company after 19 years, and is forming his own studio to "go back to the beginning and make small games again".

Rainbow Six Siege devs have discussed a dual-wielding operator and a K-9 unit
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-devs-have-considered-both-dual-wielding-operator-and-k-9-unit/
Ubisoft doesn't seem to be running low on concepts for new Rainbow Six Siege operators: of the latest two added in Operation Ember Rise, one carries a deployable shield hiding an explosive charge and the other slings a grappling hook. But the dev team have far more left-field ideas including both a canine unit and a dual-wielding operator that requires an "entirely new way to play the game", according to Ubisoft Montreal presentation director Alexander Karpazis.

Ultima Online's lead designer is making a sandbox MMO at a new studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/ultima-onlines-lead-designer-is-making-a-sandbox-mmo-at-a-new-studio/
Raph Koster, the lead designer of PC classic Ultima Online and creative director of ambitious 2003 MMO Star Wars Galaxies, has founded his own studio, and is working on a sandbox MMO that combines crafting, building and exploring.

It Lurks Below, the RPG from Diablo's David Brevik, adds new area and class for free next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/it-lurks-below-the-rpg-from-diablos-david-brevik-adds-a-new-area-and-class-for-free-next-week/
It Lurks Below, the side-scrolling RPG from Diablo co-creator David Brevik, is adding a new zone to explore, a new melee-focused class and a multi-class system in a free update on Thursday, October 10.

Co-founder of Serious Sam studio Croteam joins Google Stadia
https://www.pcgamer.com/co-founder-of-serious-sam-studio-croteam-joins-google-stadia/
One of the co-founders of Croteam, the Crotian studio behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, is joining the Google Stadia team.
Alen Ladavac, who has worked at Croteam for 25 years, including the last 14 as chief technology officer, said that Google's Stadia project was a "landmark undertaking".

Destiny 2 PC clan becomes first to finish Shadowkeep raid
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-pc-clan-becomes-first-to-finish-shadowkeep-raid/
Destiny 2 speedrun clan Ascend have become the first players to finish Garden of Salvation, the raid from the shooter's new Shadowkeep expansion.

Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare is part FPS, part Mount & Blade, and out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/freeman-guerrilla-warfare-is-part-fps-part-mount-and-blade-and-out-now/
Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare was "extremely Mount & Bladey" when Chris tried it out in 2018, and it doesn't sound like that's changed during its stint in Early Access. It came out for good yesterday, and it remains a blend of first-person shooting and overhead strategy, with a healthy pinch of faction management mixed in.

Bully 2 was started but never finished, according to source
https://www.pcgamer.com/bully-2-was-started-but-never-finished-according-to-source/
Easter eggs and references to Bully found in Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 have fans of Rockstar's open-school game Bully convinced there's a sequel secretly in the works. According to sources quoted by VGC, a sequel was being worked on several years ago, and a playable slice of it existed, though production ultimately went nowhere.

Death awaits in free horror game Welcome to Quiet Haven
https://www.pcgamer.com/death-awaits-in-free-horror-game-welcome-to-quiet-haven/
Retro horror game Faith meets (I guess retro now?) B-Game Deadly Premonition in Welcome to Quiet Haven, an enjoyably infuriating top-down horror where death waits around every corner, probably in a massive 4x4.

Epic addresses Fortnite matchmaking concerns, warns that smurfing will get you banned
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-addresses-fortnite-matchmaking-concerns-warns-that-smurfing-will-get-you-banned/
Epic announced a couple of weeks ago that changes were being made to Fortnite's matchmaking system. Beginning in the 10.40 patch, the change was aimed at matching up players of similar skills, regardless of platform, and meant that players "will be more likely to match with players of similar skill." Some people, such as in this Reddit thread, expressed fears that the changes could actually result in more unfair matchups, though, especially since Epic didn't say anything about how the system would actually work.

Fortnite is compared to cocaine in a potential class action lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-is-compared-to-cocaine-in-a-potential-class-action-lawsuit/
Fortnite continues to be catnip for lawyers, this time finding itself targeted by a Montreal legal firm that's requested authorisation for a class action lawsuit on behalf of parents of two children who are allegedly addicted to the battle royale.

Everspace 2 developer commits to no Epic exclusives
https://www.pcgamer.com/everspace-2-developer-commits-to-no-epic-exclusives/
Everspace 2 developer Rockfish Games is emphatically not a big fan of Epic Games Store exclusivity, taking the opportunity to drag developers and publishers over "broken promises" in a Kickstarter update. Not surprisingly, Everspace 2 won't be an Epic exclusive—it's launching on Steam first.

Surviving Mars is getting a post-apocalyptic sequel
https://www.pcgamer.com/surviving-mars-is-getting-a-post-apocalyptic-sequel/
Surviving Mars, Paradox and Haemimont Games' martian colony builder, has spawned a series, and its first follow-up will be appearing next year. We've only got a name so far, Surviving the Aftermath, along with the brief teaser above, but a post-apocalyptic management game seems like a pretty safe bet.