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Monday news, part two:

Here's a new turn-based Warhammer game set in the Age of Sigmar
https://www.pcgamer.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-storm-ground-announced/
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground was announced during Gamescom's Opening Night Live, finally making the number of Warhammer games greater than Earth's entire population. It's their planet now.

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne players will face Fatalis in the final update
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-hunter-world-iceborne-players-will-face-fatalis-in-the-final-update/
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's final major update is coming in October, and that means there's one more intimidating monster to take down. As a final challenge, hunters will have to slay Fatalis, a legendary black dragon who first appeared in the original game as a special online boss.

Sea of Thieves is adding dogs in its next update
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-is-adding-dogs-in-its-next-update/
First it was monkeys and parrots, then it was cats, and soon it will be dogs: Rare revealed at Gamescom today that everybody's favorite furry four-legged friends will be added to Sea of Thieves in the next content update.

Get a close look at Smalland, a survival game where you're tiny enough to ride a mouse
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-a-close-look-at-smalland-a-wilderness-survival-game-where-youre-tiny-enough-to-ride-a-mouse/
You're thinking it, I'm thinking it, we're all thinking it, so let's get it out of the way. Yes, Smalland, a survival game where you're the size of an ant, does look a lot like Grounded, a survival game where you're the size of an ant. There's crafting, there's building, and you encounter bugs and spiders and birds that are extremely large because you are very small.

Streets of Rage 4 will be getting 'more content'
https://www.pcgamer.com/streets-of-rage-4-will-be-getting-more-content/
Members of Dotemu, Guard Crush, and Lizardcube, the three groups behind Streets of Rage 4, recently did an AMA on Reddit. In between all the questions about when they would add missing character Eddie "Skate" Hunter or give everyone a dash move, they were asked: Will Streets of Rage 4 be getting DLC?

Sacred Fire is a "psychological" RPG where manipulation and emotions are key
https://www.pcgamer.com/sacred-fire-is-a-psychological-rpg-where-manipulation-and-emotions-are-key/
Sacred Fire is an upcoming RPG set in ancient Scotland that uses a system based around psychological decisions and emotional development in gameplay. Players will manipulate their allies and enemies' motivations to succeed you're encouraged to "control your emotions and outsmart your opponents to turn the odds into your favor."

Eiyuden Chronicle, spiritual successor to Suikoden, raises over $4.5 million on Kickstarter
https://www.pcgamer.com/eiyuden-chronicle-spiritual-successor-to-suikoden-raises-over-dollar45-million-on-kickstarter/
Given that Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes raised $1.5 million the very first day it was on Kickstarter, triple its humble $500,000 goal, we knew it was going to finish with an impressive total. It certainly has, completing its crowdfunding campaign with $4.571 million. That puts it just behind Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, which raised $4.7 million on Fig.

Cheat seller ceases Call of Duty hacks following Activision lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/cheat-seller-ceases-call-of-duty-hack-sales-following-activision-lawsuit/
Activision has filed suit against a cheat and hack program developer, forcing the company in question to disable their hacks for Call of Duty related products. The cheats in question were used in both Warzone and Modern Warfare. Hack maker CxCheats posted a statement to their Discord server, later taken down along with the whole server, regarding the lawsuit.

Star Dynasties looks like Crusader Kings in space, which rules
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-dynasties-looks-like-crusader-kings-in-space/
Sci-fi strategy game Star Dynasties has a new trailer out of Gamescom, showing off a boatload of neat features and some inside insight from developer Pawley Games. Star Dynasties is an empire management grand strategy game that focuses on the drama between powerful families of space nobility.

Hack things, go mad, in cyberpunk cosmic horror adventure Transient
https://www.pcgamer.com/hack-things-go-mad-in-cyberpunk-cosmic-horror-adventure-transient/
Announced at Gamescom 2020, lovecraftian horror meets cyberpunk tropes in upcoming adventure game Transient from Stormling Studios and Iceberg Interactive. Transient takes place in an enclosed, domed city called Providence—the last place human beings can survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The player is a hacker, Randolph Carter, who in the pursuit of a puzzling mystery does the usual cosmic horror protagonist thing and "stumbles across the terrifying truth, a truth that might tear apart his own sanity and lead him to question his very existence."

League of Legends' next champion has moves like a Capcom spectacle fighter
https://www.pcgamer.com/league-of-legends-next-champion-has-moves-like-a-capcom-spectacle-fighter/
A new League of Legends champion has been revealed out of the blue. Her name's Samira, aka the Desert Rose, and she's apparently "a gifted, ruthless marksman who charges up her style meter as she hunts for the flashiest kill."

Madden NFL 21 has one of the lowest user scores on Metacritic
https://www.pcgamer.com/madden-nfl-21-has-one-of-the-lowest-user-scores-on-metacritic/
EA's latest iteration of the Madden NFL series was released on August 28, with the PC version available on Steam as well as Origin as part of EA's new partnership with Valve. User reviews on Steam are currently sitting on a rating of 'Mixed' and on Metacritic they're even worse. The PC version has a user score of 1.2 at the time of writing, with PS4 enjoying a score of 0.4. That's even lower than Warcraft 3: Reforged's record low of 0.5.
>> shikamaru317 made a thread about it yesterday.

New Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning trailer is about silent murder
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning-trailer-is-about-silent-murder/
Finesse was a skill tree in the original Kingdoms of Amalur, so the fact that it exists in the forthcoming re-release is no surprise. The trailer above is all about proving to newcomers that if you don't want to go face-to-face in combat, you don't (always) have to. For the rest of us, it's an opportunity to see how this spit-and-polished 2020 version looks.

Ubisoft's Gods & Monsters likely has its new name
https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisofts-gods-and-monsters-likely-has-its-new-name/
The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has rated a game called "Immortals: Fenyx Rising" by Ubisoft for PC and consoles.
It's highly likely this is the new title for the delayed Gods & Monsters, which was originally supposed to release in February this year. Back when an old demo of the game briefly leaked on Stadia, Ubisoft called it "the game formerly known as Gods & Monsters" in a statement to Kotaku, and planned to reveal more info towards the "end of summer".
>> shikamaru317, once again, has made a thread about this.

Ghostrunner gets a new teaser, beta registration now open
https://www.pcgamer.com/ghostrunner-gets-a-new-teaser-for-gamescom-2020/
As part of Gamescom's Awesome Indies showcase, Ghostrunner got a new teaser this weekend. It briefly shows off its neon-soaked city and some of the first-person wall-running and people-slicing gameplay to some good good beats. This is the first look at the game since back June, when we got both the demo and extensive looks at the game in action at the Future Games Show and IGN's Summer of Gaming event.

12 Minutes is a top-down timeloop thriller featuring a Hollywood all-star cast
https://www.pcgamer.com/12-minutes-is-a-top-down-timeloop-thriller-featuring-a-hollywood-all-star-cast/
First revealed back during E3 in June, Annapurna Interactive released some more info on narrative point and click thriller 12 Minutes as part of Gamescom. From the short new trailer we already know the small cast of people doomed to meet each other over and over again consists of none other than James McAvoy (X-Men, His Dark Materials), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars, Muder on the Orient Express) and Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse, Spider-Man).

The Crusader Kings 3 AI kept trying to seduce female player characters and had to be nerfed
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-crusader-kings-3-ai-kept-trying-to-seduce-female-player-characters-and-had-to-be-nerfed/
Seduction is a well-known, expansive diplomacy mechanic in Crusader Kings, which allows you to grow your dynasty by producing and legitimising bastard children, making your way into other courts or simply to help your future spouse have a better opinion of you. You can seduce a number of characters, including a rose bush, and start a lot of court drama this way. Men seducing female rulers can also gain prestige, and yes, the sound you can hear if you open your window anywhere in the world right now is that of me sighing.