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The Wednesday news, part two:

Apex Legends cranks the mayhem up to 11 in its Season 8 gameplay trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-heavy-metal-season-8-gameplay-trailer-cranks-the-mayhem-up-to-11/
Leather jackets? Aussie outlaws? Thick, bristling moustaches? We should've seen it coming. After introducing us to new hero Fuse with a punk-rock montage, Apex Legends has gone all '80s on us with a new gameplay trailer for Season 8: Mayhem.

Sea of Thieves' first season goes live this week, Plunder Pass details revealed
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-first-season-goes-live-this-week-plunder-pass-details-revealed/
Rare announced in early December 2020 that its multiplayer pirate sim Sea of Thieves would be moving from monthly content updates to seasons, and of course the obligatory seasonal battle pass. With the first season about to get underway, the studio has now shared an in-depth look at how it will all work.

Fall Guys mid-season update will bring a new level, costumes, and another ridiculous name
https://www.pcgamer.com/fall-guys-mid-season-update-will-bring-a-new-level-costumes-and-another-ridiculous-name/
Fall Guys season 3 is well underway, and as happened with the first two seasons, a mid-season update is on the way. It will add a brand-new level to the game, more than 40 variations of existing levels, new costumes, and more, and as tradition demands it has a ridiculous subtitle—although it might not be quite what you expect.

Blackwood, the next chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online, will be out in June
https://www.pcgamer.com/blackwood-the-next-chapter-of-the-elder-scrolls-online-will-be-out-in-june/
During the latest reveal event for The Elder Scrolls Online, which was delayed to avoid clashing with the US presidential inauguration, Bethesda and Zenimax announced various details of the MMO's year-long adventure for 2021, the Gates of Oblivion.
It kicks off in a DLC pack called Flames of Ambition, due on March 8, which contains two PvE dungeons, and will involve attacking a shrine to Mehrunes Dagon, the daedric prince of destruction and the villain behind this year's storyline. (...)
The chapter, which is what ESO's fuller expansions are known as, will be available on June 1. It's called Blackwood and the zone it adds includes Niben Forest, the Blackwood Bog, and the city of Leyawiin as seen in Oblivion. (...)

Psyonix promise fixes after Rocket League's new arena gave some people seizures
https://www.pcgamer.com/psyonix-promise-fixes-after-rocket-leagues-new-arena-gave-some-people-seizures/
Rocket League's latest arena is getting an option to toggle off its lighting effects, after some players reported experiencing seizures playing on the pitch.
Introduced last month, Neon Fields is an aggressively cyberpunk map. It's that 80s text generator turned into a football pitch, Tron's neon-lit light-bike arenas repurposed as car-soccer arenas lit by every vaporwave sunset. Unfortunately, The Loadout reported that the bright strobe lights were giving some players epileptic seizures—and with no way to reliably avoid individual maps, this suddenly made the game unplayable for these people.

Behold this stunning ray-traced Minecraft recreation of The Lord Of The Rings' Minas Tirith
https://www.pcgamer.com/behold-this-stunning-ray-traced-minecraft-recreation-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-minas-tirith/
Have you looked upon the White Tree of Gondor, Ringbearer, and seen it rendered with the power of Nvidia's proprietary ray-tracing technology? In collaboration with the fellowship of builders over at Minecraft Middle-Earth, the GPU-maker's latest RTX showcase takes us on a tour of The Lord Of The Rings' monolithic city, Minas Tirith.