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Friday news, part two:

Sea of Thieves outlines its summer events, ahead of September's content update
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-outlines-its-summer-events-ahead-of-septembers-content-update/
Due to working from home, the Sea of Thieves team struggled to meet their content goals for the August update, according to the latest blog post by executive producer Joe Neate. "Since we started working from home, we've definitely had to be a bit more flexible with our plans for each month, and as such we've decided to move our key planned features back to our September release," he writes. Instead of the usual monthly content update, the game's August patch brought some bug fixes and performance upgrades, as well as a number of limited-time summer events.

Australia is coming to Planet Zoo, mate
https://www.pcgamer.com/australia-is-coming-to-planet-zoo-mate/
Planet Zoo is going down under next with an Australia Pack that will introduce new animals like kangaroos, koalas, dingoes, cassowaries, and the eastern blue-tongued lizard. The Australia Pack for Planet Zoo will arrive on August 25—peep the brief trailer above.

Final Fantasy 14 will get more housing to deal with its rising player population
https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-14-will-get-more-housing-to-deal-with-its-rising-player-population/
Following the release of patch 5.3, game director Naoki Yoshida posted a blog outlining what's next on the agenda for Final Fantasy 14. With version 5.3, the game's free trial has been substantially expanded to include all of Heavensward. As a result of this, as well as players staying at home and playing more throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, space on Hydaelyn is getting tight, prompting the need for more in-game housing.

Fall Guys patch notes: No more back-to-back team games
https://www.pcgamer.com/fall-guys-patch-notes/
A new Fall Guys patch was released today, and while the patch notes list is extremely short it still makes a couple of considerable changes to Mediatonic's popular party royale game.
>> And here's a bit of the origin story behind the game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War art is surprisingly bright and colorful
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-art-is-surprisingly-bright-and-colorful/
Activision finally confirmed yesterday that the next game in the Call of Duty series is, as we've long known, Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War. That's all it confirmed at the time, unfortunately, as the full reveal won't happen until next week. But the teasing isn't finished just yet.

Sci-fi flying sim Exo One gets a free prologue on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/sci-fi-flying-sim-exo-one-gets-a-free-prologue-on-steam/
A few months ago, Exo One, Kickstarted back in 2017, resurfaced with a gameplay trailer and a demo at the Steam Summer Games Festival. If you've missed the demo or simply feel like having a relaxing time flying a disc-shaped spaceship around, you can now do so with the free prologue, available on Steam from today.

And these are the weekend deals at GOG and Steam:

+GOG

+Steam

And just like that, another week of news has come to an end. Until next time, have a happy and gaming weekend.



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