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Monday news, part two:

Hearthstone's Demon Hunter prologue campaign is live
https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstones-demon-hunter-prologue-campaign-is-live/
Hearthstone's Demon Hunter prologue campaign, a set of four story-driven missions revealing how Illidan Stormrage became a Demon Hunter, is now live and free for all players.
Completing the prologue campaign will unlock the class and the Illidan Stormrage hero, and award 30 free cards: Ten Demon Hunter Basic cards, a 20-card Demon Hunter Initiate set, and a prebuilt Demon Hunter deck list. New and returning players (those who haven't logged in for at least four months prior to March 17, 2020) will also be given a free deck from the class of their choice for hopping back on—hit here for a full rundown of the available decks.

Fortnite item shop gets a very Deadpool makeover
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-item-shop-update-deadpool/
Epic teased Fortnite's Deadpool event all the way back at the start of Season 2. At the time, we were just thrilled to be getting a wholly unique theme for the new season after the dreadfully long introduction to Chapter 2. Then suddenly, there he was, the red-suited merc with a mouth, in our Fortnite. Two classic tastes that go great together. After seven weeks of Deadpool challenges, we've finally got some proper cosmetics to buy, and in true Deadpool fashion, he's butting his way into the Fortnite item shop.

Sci-fi exploration game In Other Waters is out today
https://www.pcgamer.com/sci-fi-exploration-game-in-other-waters-is-out-today-on-steam/
When I first heard about In Other Waters, I was immediately apprehensive. Subnautica was a beautiful but often incredibly stressful game, and making matters worse I'd just gotten around to playing Soma, Frictional's game of horrific monsters and worse at the bottom of the ocean. In Other Waters isn't like that, though: It's a (mostly) tranquil tale of exploration told through a computer interface, maps, and a "warm synth soundtrack."

The next EVE Online update makes murder into an Easter egg hunt, because EVE Online
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-eve-online-update-makes-murder-into-an-easter-egg-hunt-because-eve-online/
EVE Online's next seasonal update (called a Quadrant) heralds the next chapter in EVE Online's ongoing alien invasion storyline. Called Eclipse, this Quadrant kicks off on April 6 and will introduce a string of smaller updates taking place over the next few months like all-new features, ships, and sweeping balance changes. It will also continue the ongoing Triglavian alien invasion storyline which as been taking place in EVE (not to be confused with EVE's other dramatic alien invasion last year), which is the primary focus of the new trailer embedded above.

EVE Online reactivates Plex for Good charity campaign to support COVID-19 relief
https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-online-reactivates-plex-for-good-charity-campaign-to-support-covid-19-relief/
Plex for Good is a charitable program run by CCP Games that enables EVE Online players to donate Plex, EVE's premium in-game currency, to support a particular cause. Players donate their Plex over the course of a particular campaign, at the end of which CCP tallies it all up, converts it to real-world money, and then hands it over to the charity in question.

Legends of Runeterra leaves open beta on April 30, adding 120 new cards and mobile crossplay
https://www.pcgamer.com/legends-of-runeterra-leaves-open-beta-on-april-30-adding-120-new-cards-and-mobile-crossplay/
Legends of Runeterra, the surprisingly great League of Legends spin-off card game, is launching on April 30, Riot Games announced today. In addition to adding support for iOS and Android devices—including crossplay between mobile and PC—the launch will also see the release of Runeterra's first new set of cards and a new Region, complete with its own playstyle and mechanics.

Mount and Blade 2 is getting auto-blocking after all
https://www.pcgamer.com/mount-and-blade-2-is-getting-auto-blocking-after-all/
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s revamped combat system is a big improvement over the first game, but some fans have been feeling there’s one big exception: Automatic blocking. The game’s third-person melee combat is a lot of fun, but requires you develop pretty fast reflexes if you want to parry enemy attacks or use a two-handed weapon effectively. Not for too much longer, as a customer service representative has let a poster on the TaleWorlds forum know that the feature will make a return. The previous games in the Mount & Blade series included automatic blocking, where absent input from the player a character would always attempt to block incoming strikes. “We disabled the feature but there are many requests,” said the message from the TaleWorlds support team, “So we are planning to add it back. We will announce it on our forums.”

Rocksmith won't be getting any more DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/rocksmith-wont-be-getting-any-more-dlc/
Ubisoft San Francisco announced it is moving on to a new project, and will no longer produce DLC for Rocksmith—the rhythm game that uses a real guitar as a controller (connected via guitar-to-USB Rocksmith Real Tone Cable), and teaches songs as you play along with them.

Mackerelmedia Fish is an odd, fun, retroweb adventure
https://www.pcgamer.com/mackerelmedia-fish-is-an-odd-retroweb-adventure/
Bet you didn't expect to be reading about a game named after deprecated multimedia platform Macromedia Flash in 2020.
Mackerelmedia Fish is the latest creation of indie designer Nathalie Lawhead, in which you play an internet archaeologist exploring a crumbledown website as it falls to bits around you. There are minigames tucked away within it, and a big fish to find, as well as a rat who eat bits of old webcode and some inventive Error 404 dead ends. It's a bit like Frog Fractions and a bit like Hypnospace Outlaw, and Lawhead calls it "something between an ARG, graphic novel, and text adventure."

A new GTFO update keeps the hardcore co-op horror flowing
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-gtfo-update-keeps-the-hardcore-co-op-horror-flowing/
Hardcore co-op horror shooter GTFO (that’s a mouthful) has a new update out as of this week, a hellishly cool new series of missions called Rundown 002 / Infection. When we last checked in on, again, hardcore co-op horror shooter GTFO (still a lot of words) it’s an experience we said “certainly doesn’t feel like an Early Access game,” and that’s still true as of Rundown 002. In fact, it feels more true than it did before. Truthier, if you will. Indie developers 10 Chambers Collective have a bright future if this keeps up.

This is the chunky space sandbox I didn’t know I wanted
https://www.pcgamer.com/avorion-this-is-the-chunky-space-sandbox-i-didnt-know-i-wanted/
I’ve never been one for the spate of voxel games that have come out over the last decade. I have, however, always been one for a good space sandbox. Space sandbox Avorion has been a long-running Early Access game that just released into 1.0 last month to pretty positive user reviews. After putting aside my general distaste for games that ask me to spend hours in finicky ship customization I found Avorion to be a lovely experience. There was a bit of a learning curve at first, but building your own chunky, blocky spaceships is both pretty easy and surprisingly fun. It has all the usual space sim stuff: You can mine asteroids, trade space goods, watch procedurally generated space empires fight each other and/or join in the fight. The really impressive draw here is that I got to choose my own ships. If I like spheres, I can do spheres really easily. If I like sleek long ships, I can do that too. (I like spheres.)

A Streets of Rogue sequel is now in development
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-streets-of-rogue-sequel-is-now-in-development/
Streets of Rogue is a great, quite popular game where you can be an investment banker and get drunk, then hire some thugs to solve problems for you. Or you can be a gorilla and murder everyone you meet. Or you can be a shapeshifting doppelganger and do shapeshifting doppelganger stuff. So, naturally, Streets of Rogue is getting a sequel. With the release of Friday’s big bug fix update, developer Matt Dabrowski has let the community know he’s started working on a sequel. The first game was in development for over six years, and Dabrowski says that it has “become more and more difficult to add new features to the game that are impactful, but won’t break the existing game or fundamentally change the gameplay.” The existing game will continue to get updates, including at least one more with new game content, as well as continual bug fixes.

Bannerlord has been patched every day since it launched
https://www.pcgamer.com/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-launch-week-patches/
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord released last week after years of development to significant acclaim from its fan base. Since, Bannerlord has received a patch or hotfix every day to smooth over broken systems and copious crashes. If you include the launch-day patch, that means developers TaleWorlds have released seven updates in seven days. Despite releasing into Early Access after a sometimes arduous wait, Bannerlord has sparked a fire in series enthusiasts and currently has an 85% “Very Positive” user rating on Steam. That excitement has helped Mount & Blade 2 become Steam’s biggest release this year—larger than big-budget AAA titles like Doom Eternal.

Fantasy turn-based tactics game Fort Triumph is leaving Early Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/fantasy-turn-based-tactics-game-fort-triumph-is-leaving-early-access/
Fort Triumph is part XCOM, part Heroes of Might & Magic, a turn-based tactics game where you march a party of heroes across a map, pausing to fight goblins and skeletons and collect treasure. It's got a unique focus on moving objects and even NPCs in battle, so you can yoink someone out of cover or topple a pillar on top of them, just for a couple of examples.

Apex Legends devs consider crossplay 'important'
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-devs-consider-crossplay-important/
It's been over a year since Respawn teased plans for crossplay in Apex Legends. And while it's still not confirmed, Respawn has reiterated that the ability to play across all platforms is considered an "important" feature for the battle royale.

Dirt Rally 2.0 and other PC games are now featuring in-game coronavirus safety advice
https://www.pcgamer.com/dirt-rally-20-and-other-pc-games-are-now-featuring-in-game-coronavirus-safety-advice/
If you're in the UK and you play Dirt Rally 2.0 today, you'll notice many of the roadside advertising now features images echoing the Government's advice of staying home to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last Oasis is back online and seems to be finally stable
https://www.pcgamer.com/last-oasis-is-back-online-and-seems-to-be-finally-stable/
Last Oasis did not have the most auspicious start when launched in Early Access in March. The ambitious MMO's servers started showing signs of strain pretty quickly, with many players unable to spend more than a few minutes in the game before they were booted out or the server popped its clogs. Without a simple fix in sight, developer Donkey Crew decided to temporarily take it offline and issue refunds.
Over the weekend, the servers were brought back online for a public stress test. Everything from the launch was wiped, so those players who were lucky enough to play a lot still had to start fresh. The test has been going well, according to an update posted on Sunday, and the servers were left running overnight. It might be safe to start consider returning.