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Wednesday news, part two:

The Hugo Awards are getting a videogame category—but only for 2021
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-hugo-awards-are-getting-a-videogame-category-but-only-for-2021/
The Hugo Awards, the prestigious annual literary award for science fiction and fantasy works, is going to have a videogame category in 2021. Like the Oscars, the Hugos are awarded for achievements made in the prior year. As such, the World Science Fiction Committee has decided that due to the heightened influence of videogames during the pandemic, the medium deserved to be recognised—for that year only.

Red Dead Online launches as a $5 standalone game on December 1
https://www.pcgamer.com/red-dead-online-launches-as-a-dollar5-standalone-on-december-1/
Red Dead Online will launch as a standalone title on Steam and the Epic Games Store December 1, and until February 15, 2021 will be priced at $4.99. The game will require "up to" 123GB of disk space and will include the option to purchase Red Dead Redemption 2: Story Mode separately.

Total War Saga: Troy's multiplayer is finally here for you to declare war on all your friends
https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-troys-multiplayer-is-finally-here-for-you-to-declare-war-on-all-your-friends/
Without wanting to start a discussion about Total War AI, multiplayer tends to make each game in the series just a little bit better. Creative Assembly's depiction of the Trojan War lacked multiplayer support when it released back in August, as the team wanted to focus on the campaign, but it was always a fixed point on Total War Saga: Troy's 2020 roadmap. The multiplayer for up to eight players launches in beta on November 26. The update will also include support for community maps, a whole new co-op campaign and more.

The 'happy little trees' of Bob Ross are coming to Magic: The Gathering
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-happy-little-trees-of-bob-ross-are-coming-to-magic-the-gathering/
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Now Wizards of the Coast is looking to bring a bit of the Bob Ross magic to Magic: The Gathering. As reported by Vice, it's partnered with the Ross estate for a limited edition set of Magic cards called Happy Little Gathering. Each of Magic's five basic land types—plains, swamps, forests, islands, and mountains—will be represented by two of Ross' landscapes, and there will also be one for the Evolving Wilds card, which can transform into any other land type.

Fallout 76: Steel Dawn expansion gets a surprise early launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-steel-dawn-expansion-gets-a-surprise-early-launch/
The Brotherhood of Steel have arrived inFallout 76, and even earlier than we expected. That's right, the Fallout 76: Steel Dawn expansion that was due on December 1 has been released a week early.

Star Citizen is adding another development studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-is-adding-another-development-studio/
Star Citizen, the MMO that never ends, is adding a new studio to its development pipeline. Canadian company Turbulent, which Cloud Imperium Games acquired a minority stake in last year, is launching a new operation based out of Montreal dedicated to creating new features, locations, and entire star systems that will be added to the game "on an ongoing basis."

The next Baldur's Gate 3 patch is going to break your saves
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-baldurs-gate-3-patch-is-going-to-break-your-saves/
The launch of Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam Early Access was legitimately exciting, but at this point we've pretty well settled into the long slog of actual game development. That, unfortunately, means it's at the stage where necessary major updates—including patch 3, which Larian said today "is just around the corner"—are going to start having compatibility issues with existing saves.

Fortnite has horrible corn and pie bodies now
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-has-horrible-corn-and-pie-bodies-now/
Fun fact about mince pie: People used to think it caused nightmares, and in some cases, even insanity. Given that, the Nightmare Before Christmas grin on Mincemeat, one of two new and terrible Fortnite skins, is appropriate.

Movie crossover brings Milla Jovovich to Monster Hunter: World Iceborne as a playable character
https://www.pcgamer.com/movie-crossover-brings-milla-jovovich-to-monster-hunter-world-iceborne-as-a-playable-character/
The Monster Hunter movie directed by Paul W. S. Anderson is coming out in December, and so here's the inevitable marketing crossover. A singleplayer side story is being added to Monster Hunter: World Iceborne in which you play as Milla Jovovich's character from the movie, Artemis.

Microsoft Flight Simulator's USA update makes America seem like somewhere you might want to go
https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-flight-simulators-usa-update-makes-america-seem-like-somewhere-you-might-want-to-go/
The second world update for Microsoft Flight Simulator is live now, and it brings a variety of visual improvements to an obscure foreign country called the United States of America. The USA will benefit from hand-crafted versions of four new airports (Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Friday Harbor, and New York Stewart), a Discovery Flight pilots can take across its eastern seaboard, a Bush Trip over the Alaskan wilderness, and "an improved digital elevation model with resolution up to one meter, along with new aerial textures for significantly better appearance in several states across the country."

EA Sports dismisses Ibrahimovic and Bale criticisms about FIFA 21's right to use player likenesses
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-sports-dismisses-ibrahimovic-and-bale-criticisms-about-fifa-21s-right-to-use-player-likenesses/
We reported yesterday on an emerging brouhaha involving how much money David Beckham was going to earn from the FIFA series over the next few years. The figure reported by the UK's Daily Mirror was £40 million over three years but, a few hours after publication, EA Sports provided us with the following statement.

Square Enix will let employees work from home permanently
https://www.pcgamer.com/square-enix-will-let-employees-work-from-home-permanently/
By and large, the games industry's been having a tough ol' time adjusting to life under the Covid-19 pandemic. But shifting to remote work hasn't come without its upsides. Now, Japanese publisher Square Enix has announced that it plans to let employees work from home as a permanent option.