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Othercide looks like a spooky XCOM and is coming in July
https://www.pcgamer.com/othercide-looks-like-a-spooky-xcom-and-is-coming-in-july/
Horror XCOM-alike Othercide will be available via Steam on July 28. After scrapping plans for an Early Access version earlier this year and running a closed beta instead, developer Lightbulb Games has opened pre-orders and released a new trailer.

A new NPC for Hollow Knight: Silksong was revealed via a riddle
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-npc-for-hollow-knight-silksong-was-revealed-via-a-riddle/
Since Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to PC Gamer's 2107 GOTY Hollow Knight, was announced early last year, there's not been a whole lot of news on the project. A post E3 roundup of the same year detailed some new systems, but since then,Team Cherry has stayed mum. A good year on, fans have uncovered the game's very first NPC, a towering bug likely called the Huntress.
>> The typo with the year is not mine.

Warzone players can't agree on what this shadow is: submarine, ghost, bug?
https://www.pcgamer.com/warzone-submarine-shadow-bug/
Call of Duty: Warzone players are investigating a gigantic, slow-moving shadow that appears to be below the frozen dam water in the top of Verdansk. No one is sure what the shadow is, but there are a lot of theories.

Fortnite Season 3 patch notes: the glorious hunting rifle returns, charge shotgun debuts
https://www.pcgamer.com/Fortnite-season-3-patch-notes-update/
Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 is here and with it a ton of updates, big (the hunting rifle is back!) and small (headshot damage has been nerfed a touch). Unfortunately, Epic doesn't put out patch notes anymore, so we're left to pick through all the changes ourselves. Lucky for you, I speak Fortnite, so most of the eye-catching stuff stands out immediately and Reddit is on the case sifting through the remainder. Here's a look at the unofficial Fortnite Season 3 patch notes. We'll update with anything else we unearth in the coming days.

The Fortnite Season 3 battle pass lets you build your own umbrella, meet Aquaman
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-season-3-battle-pass/
Fortnite Season 3 just hit, and as assuredly as the earth spins and I bleed, there's a new battle pass just brimming with nonsensical cosmetics to earn. Check out the battle pass trailer above for the rundown, but we'll highlight the goodest of the good-good below.

Valve continues its battle against Team Fortress 2 spam bots with another update
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-continues-its-battle-against-team-fortress-2-spam-bots-with-another-update/
In April, Team Fortress 2 casual matchmaking fell victim to a "lag bot" invasion that forced a sudden, ugly spike in disconnections and server crashes. Shortly after it came to light, Valve released an update that seemed to fix the issue, and that was that—for awhile.
As Kotaku reported last week, a new type of bot, inflicting a new type of headache, had arrived on the TF2 scene: Spam bots, which were flooding the in-game chat with everything from generic trolling to all-out racism. The situation was serious enough to prompt some players to start a "TF2hackerpolice" subreddit to track and report bot activity.

Minecraft's Nether update finally has a release date
https://www.pcgamer.com/minecrafts-nether-update-finally-has-a-release-date/
Minecraft's long-promised Nether update is finally upon us: it'll roll out on June 23 for both the Windows 10 and Java versions of the game. It's going to be a big one: the famously drab underground is set to look a whole lot more pretty and menacing, with new biomes like Soulsand Valley and Netherwart Forest, and some new friends (or foes) in the form of Piglins.

Blizzard has banned over 74,000 World of Warcraft Classic accounts
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-has-banned-over-74000-world-of-warcraft-classic-accounts/
Blizzard has just banned over 74,000 World of Warcraft Classic accounts, with the "majority" of those accounts guilty of botting. In other words, the accounts were found to be using automation tools to gather resources and kill enemies without an actual player being present.

Today's Hearthstone patch nerfs Twin Slice, and pushes that pesky Battlegrounds parrot into Tier 3
https://www.pcgamer.com/todays-hearthstone-patch-nerfs-twin-slice-and-pushes-that-pesky-battlegrounds-parrot-into-tier-3/
Blizzard's 17.4.1 Hearthstone patch arrives today, introducing several balance changes to Hearthstone's Battlegrounds mode. This time around we'll see adjustments to a few hero powers, and tweaks to three beastly minions. Demon Hunter also undergoes yet another nerf, as Twin Slice's cost and attack have each been increased by one.

Monstrum 2, the 4v1 horror hide 'em up, has entered closed beta
https://www.pcgamer.com/monstrum-2-the-4v1-horror-hide-em-up-has-entered-closed-beta/
Monstrum 2 has a nightmarish premise: you're stuck on a labyrinthine, rundown sea fortress with three other prisoners. But wait, it gets worse. There's also a monster on the sea fortress, and in order escape this menace, you'll need to collaborate with your fellow prisoners to outsmart the beast.

This War Of Mine will be added to Polish high school reading lists
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-war-of-mine-will-be-added-to-polish-high-school-reading-lists/
Developer 11 bit announced today that its gritty survival game This War of Mine will be recommended as study material in Polish high schools for a number of subjects, including ethics, philosophy, and history. According to the developer, this is the first time a game has made its way onto school reading lists.