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Thursday news, part two:

Open-world RPG Tainted Grail is heading to Early Access on June 25
https://www.pcgamer.com/open-world-rpg-tainted-grail-is-heading-to-early-access-on-june-25/
Following its Kickstarted board game in 2018—which raised nearly $5 million—Awaken Realms is turning Tainted Grail, its gloomy Arthurian co-op adventure, into an open-world RPG. It's hitting Steam Early Access and GOG on June 25, with a snippet of the campaign and a new roguelike mode with randomly-generated maps.

Rainbow Six Siege players are terrifying their teammates with this image
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-players-are-terrifying-their-teammates-with-this-image/
Rainbow Six Siege is as much a horror game as an FPS, in my eyes. In my 50-or-so hours with the game over the past few years, I could never play it too close to bedtime. Rounds just get so tense even on Casual—I haven't yet dared try my luck in Ranked—that I need to read a book, drink something warm/alcoholic, or just stare at a blank wall for a while afterwards to calm down. Some players, evidently, are aware of the scaredy-cats like me out there and get a kick out of giving us sensitive souls even more debilitating heebie-jeebies. Snowball-XD is one of those people, as you can see from his Reddit post above. In it we can see them using his drone to zoom in on a real-life picture of what is presumably one of the developer's children smiling in a park.

Unreal Engine games no longer owe royalties on their first $1M in revenue
https://www.pcgamer.com/unreal-engine-games-no-longer-owe-royalties-on-their-first-dollar1m-in-revenue/
On top of unveiling Unreal Engine 5 today, Epic Games announced that developers who build games with the Unreal Engine will no longer pay royalties on their first $1 million in revenue.
The Unreal Engine has been free for anyone to use for a while, but until this change, 5 percent royalties were due on commercial Unreal Engine games once they made $3,000 in a quarter. This new $1 million threshold in is measured in lifetime revenue.

Play Fallout 76 for free this weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/play-fallout-76-for-free-this-weekend/
There have been a lot of big changes to Fallout 76 lately, from the major expansion of Wastelanders to its arrival on Steam. And Bethesda is encouraging you to check out all of what's new for free this weekend.
From Thursday, May 14 (starting at 12 pm EDT) to Monday, May 18 (ending at 12 pm EDT), you can download and play Fallout 76 without spending a penny. Meet the new human NPC factions, build yourself a nice base (or a crappy one), and maybe scarf down a few dozen pepperoni rolls while you're at it.

Robocop's Mortal Kombat 11 fatality pays tribute to a great shot from the film
https://www.pcgamer.com/robocops-mortal-kombat-11-fatality-pays-tribute-to-a-great-shot-from-the-film/
Remember that scene in Robocop where the future of law enforcement deals with a pair of would-be rapists by shooting one of them in the junk? It was a memorable moment, disturbing on a few levels, and soon you'll be able to recreate it in Mortal Kombat 11.

You can watch a new Hearthstone card back get created from scratch next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-watch-a-new-hearthstone-card-back-get-created-from-scratch-next-week/
No Hearthstone card collection is complete without an enormous collection of swanky card backs, those snazzy special designs that Blizzard occasionally hands out for completing specific tasks, or just showing up and playing five games each month. There are an awful lot of them out there (143, at last count), and while they all share the same basic design characteristics—a bordered rectangular field with the Hearthstone symbol in the center—there's real variety to the mix: This one has rainbows and clouds, for instance, while this one is feathered, and this one is a pizza. (One was even infectious.)
If you've ever been curious about what goes into the making of those card backs, next week is your chance to find out. Blizzard will be holding a series of "card back creation livestreams" on Twitch, beginning on May 18, in which senior concept artist Luke Mancini will run through the entire process of creating the monthly card back for September.

Super Mega Baseball 3 launches with a free demo
https://www.pcgamer.com/super-mega-baseball-3-launches-with-a-free-demo/
While its original release window slipped a few weeks from April to May, it was absolutely worth the extra wait: Super Mega Baseball 3 is great. And now it's here! Super Mega Baseball 3 launched today on Steam, bringing a fantastic new franchise mode and other new features to the lively and cartoony—yet surprisingly deep—baseball series from Canadian developer Metalhead Software.

Phil Spencer says next year's games are more likely to be hit by coronavirus delays than this year's
https://www.pcgamer.com/phil-spencer-says-next-years-games-are-more-likely-to-be-hit-by-coronavirus-delays-than-this-years/
More people are turning to gaming to help pass the time spent in quarantine, and while we've seen a few delays, games are still releasing and getting updates even while developers are working from home. But speaking with Business Insider, head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that the coronavirus pandemic's effect on game development schedules won't be felt in full until early 2021.

EVO 2020 has become an online event
https://www.pcgamer.com/evo-2020-has-become-an-online-event/
Brawlers won't be meeting in person for this year's EVO, but the massive fighting game tournament will still be carrying on as an online event. The new format was introduced in an announcement trailer, which you can watch above.
Competitors will duke it out across five weekends, accompanied by special exhibitions, four open tournaments and more from the physical show's original lineup. Seven games will be featured, which is one down from what was previously announced.
>> shikamaru has made a thread about this.

Blightbound is a three-player co-op dungeon crawler from the makers of Awesomenauts
https://www.pcgamer.com/blightbound-is-a-three-player-co-op-dungeon-crawler-from-the-makers-of-awesomenauts/
Well over a year after the release of Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon for the PC (it originally came out for the Wii U in 2015), and nearly a decade since the excellent Awesomenauts, developer Ronimo Games has revealed what's coming next: Blightbound, a three-player dungeon crawler set in a fantasy realm where the death of a legendary beast that was plaguing the land just made things worse.