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Part two of the Monday news:

League of Legends just revealed its latest champ, Yone, with a killer 10-minute cinematic
https://www.pcgamer.com/league-of-legends-just-revealed-its-latest-champ-yone-with-a-killer-10-minute-cinematic/
After Lillia the fawn, the next hero to enter League of Legends is Yone, Yasuo's brother. This won't come as a surprise to many LoL fans, as Yone's addition to the roster has been teased as far back as last year and was speculated after images of the current seasonal event were leaked earlier this month.

Clown protest pays off: Red Dead Online is getting an update
https://www.pcgamer.com/clown-protest-pays-off-red-dead-online-is-getting-an-update/
Impatient for more to do in Red Dead Online (the Moonshiners update came out a long seven months ago) players began recently dressing up as clowns as a goofy form of protest.
Well, they can wipe off that greasy facepaint and hang up their red noses: new stuff is coming to Red Dead Online at last, including another Outlaw Pass and a new Frontier Pursuit. It won't be long to wait, either: Red Dead Online's next update is coming on July 28, which is just next week (and probably means the clown protest had nothing to do with it after all, but we can pretend).

GTA Online is getting new Heists in 'an entirely new location' later this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-online-is-getting-new-heists-in-an-entirely-new-location-later-this-year/
Rockstar Games has been busy—today it announced a new update for Red Dead Online, including another Outlaw Pass and a new Frontier Pursuit arriving on July 28. There's also a summer update for GTA Online "on the way" that will presumably arrive before summer actually ends.

Anthem 2.0 concept art reveals new pirate faction
https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-20-concept-art-reveals-new-pirate-faction/
Christian Dailey, studio director at Bioware Austin, recently revealed concept art of the Pirates of the Blood Wind, a new pirate faction coming to Anthem 2.0—an entirely reworked new version of the unsuccessful loot-shooter.

343 shoots down the rumor that Halo Infinite will launch without multiplayer
https://www.pcgamer.com/343-shoots-down-the-rumor-that-halo-infinite-will-launch-without-multiplayer/
Thursday's Halo Infinite reveal had a rough landing. Criticism of the graphics spawned a pile of new memes. Some fans called for a delay; others searched for an explanation, pinning their hopes on the idea that it was a six-month-old build. That upset and confusion made it a little easier to believe a rumor that popped up Friday claiming Infinite might not be launching with multiplayer alongside its singleplayer campaign.

Yesterday's Halo Infinite gameplay reveal was a 'work in progress,' Microsoft says
https://www.pcgamer.com/yesterdays-halo-infinite-gameplay-reveal-was-a-work-in-progress-microsoft-says/
Yesterday's big Halo Infinite reveal did not exactly blow us away. Not that it was bad, but as a centerpiece for a big, E3-style game show, it felt lacking—"toothless," as Steven put it. Aside from looking like a very safe, conventional Halo game (which, again, is not a bad thing if that's what you're after), it really just wasn't the visual firecracker we were expecting.

Be a coffee tycoon and private eye in the newest genre: business management noir
https://www.pcgamer.com/be-a-coffee-tycoon-and-private-eye-in-the-newest-genre-business-management-noir/
The screenshots for Coffee Noir feel like they're from three different games. One looks like a moment from a visual novel where you speak to a young woman working at a bakery. Another shows a hard-boiled detective in a trench coat at a rainy, darkened train station with a comic book narration box providing some exposition. A few more show the complicated control panel of a coffee manufacturer with dials and knobs labeled "Packaging Facility" and "Roaster" and "Forklifts," pictures of ledgers, and what looks like an entire book of business negotiation strategies.

Steampunk RTS Iron Harvest begins open beta testing next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/steampunk-rts-iron-harvest-begins-open-beta-testing-next-week/
I don't play a lot of RTS games, but I'm keeping my eye on Iron Harvest. It's set in the early 1920s of an alt-history world where, in the aftermath of the First World War, three nations—Polania, Rusviet, and Saxony, based on Poland, the Soviet Union, and Germany—decide that they want to go a few more rounds. What makes it stand out is that their armies are built around sometimes rickety-looking steampunk mechs, based on art by Polish artist Jakub Różalski, illustrator of the similarly-set board game Scythe.

Valve and Bungie team up to fix Destiny 2's Beaver errors
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-and-bungie-team-up-to-fix-destiny-2s-beaver-errors/
Good news for Destiny 2 players who've been struggling with Beavers recently: Bungie has finally brought the gnawing little beasties to heel, with some able help from Valve.

Fortnite's cars are delayed 'a few weeks'
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnites-cars-are-delayed-a-few-weeks/
Hopes that cars would arrive in Fortnite sooner rather than later have been dashed. Epic said on Twitter yesterday that it will be a few weeks yet before cars actually come to the game.

Cult indie RPG Earthlock is getting an action-RPG sequel
https://www.pcgamer.com/cult-indie-rpg-earthlock-is-getting-an-action-rpg-sequel/
Norwegian developers Snowcastle have announced they're returning to the world of Earthlock, their 2016 cult game inspired by the turn-based 3D RPGs of the 1990s, for a sequel. (Snowcastle has said since the first game that Earthlock was planned as a trilogy.) Earthlock 2 will take inspiration from action-RPGs, rather than turn-based ones, but will still be set on the world of Umbra. The short announce trailer shows a blasted landscape in the game's distinctive style, and a hogbunny with a sword, and a little magical mote-creature that heals some of the land and sprouts a new tree.

Flight Simulator teases a partnership with online flight network VATSIM
https://www.pcgamer.com/flight-simulator-teases-a-partnership-with-online-flying-network-vatsim/
Microsoft Flight Simulator has teased a partnership with the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network, or VATSIM, for the release of the upcoming new edition of the simulator on August 18. VATSIM is a long-standing institution in the flight simulation community, a nonprofit organization that provides a network where users either fly as pilots or direct air traffic as controllers to produce a simulation of real-world air traffic. VATSIM has confirmed that their network will be compatible with Flight Simulator at launch.

Fight with furniture in surreal puzzle-adventure Creaks
https://www.pcgamer.com/fight-with-furniture-in-surreal-puzzle-adventure-creaks/
Fine purveyors of very weird, often funny adventure games Amanita Design released side-scrolling platform puzzler Creaks this week. It's a beautifully illustrated, fantastically scored adventure about a man who crawls through a wall and into a surreal world of bird people and furniture monsters. What happens next is, predictably, rather strange.

Phantom Doctrine 2 will be real-time and third-person
https://www.pcgamer.com/phantom-doctrine-2-will-be-real-time-and-third-person/
Phantom Doctrine was a turn-based tactics game about espionage, with brainwashing, double agents, and a conspiracy corkboard. Its newly announced sequel, Phantom Doctrine 2: The Cabal, seems more like a third-person stealth-em-up in the vein of Hitman. It's such a big shift I had to double-check it's the work of the same developers, CreativeForge Games (it is, though with PlayWay publishing rather than Good Shepherd this time).
>> So it will be nothing like the first game.

Apex Legends crossplay will not match PC with Console by default
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-crossplay-will-not-match-pc-with-console-by-default/
Apex Legends is getting crossplay this fall across its Origin, Steam, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch versions, which dredges up the age-old crossplay problem of "people on PC with a mouse and keyboard and an ultrawide and a jacked-up FOV keep winning." OK, maybe only parts of that are age-old problems. (Apex legends is also coming to Steam.)

Space station sim Spacebase Startopia now has beta access for pre-orders
https://www.pcgamer.com/space-station-sim-spacebase-startopia-now-has-beta-access-for-pre-orders/
Kalypso has announced that upcoming sim Spacebase Startopia now includes closed beta access for anyone who pre-purchases on Steam. If you were holding off on this one because you wanted the Steam version, and you'd like to play the (unfinished) game now: Congratulations.

Hideo Kojima wants to work with manga artist Junji Ito on a horror game
https://www.pcgamer.com/hideo-kojima-wants-to-work-with-manga-artist-junji-ito-on-a-horror-game/
Ever since Konami killed off Kojima Productions' Silent Hill, leaving us with just the playable teaser, PT, people have been keeping their fingers crossed that Hideo Kojima will return to horror. These hopes have been stoked by the designer himself, but we still don't know what the studio's next game will be. According to manga artist Junji Ito, however, a horror game is on the cards.

Ooblets' latest update lets you release your surplus critters into the wild
https://www.pcgamer.com/ooblets-latest-update-lets-you-release-your-surplus-critters-into-the-wild/
Glumberland's cute life-sim Ooblets launched on the Epic Games Store this month, at least in early access, letting players start collecting huggable creatures in the world of Oob. Thanks to the latest update, you can now start getting rid of them, too, by releasing "excess" ooblets into the wild.