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Monday news, part two:

Thymesia heard you like Souls games dawg, so it copied all of them
https://www.pcgamer.com/thymesia-heard-you-like-souls-games-dawg-so-it-copied-all-of-them/
Developer OverBorder Studio and publisher Team 17 has announced Thymesia, which is not so much a Soulslike as a Souls-very-like. Now up for https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343240/Thymesia/" target="_blank">wishlisting on Steam with a slated release date of December 31, 2021, Thymesia is an action-RPG with... look, it's various bits from the Souls games and Bloodborne. Hell, the lead character seems based on Eileen the Crow, and their fancy weapon is Priscilla's Lifehunt scythe.

Devolver’s new game is about a crow with a sword who harvests the souls of the dead
https://www.pcgamer.com/devolvers-new-game-is-about-a-crow-with-a-sword-who-harvests-the-souls-of-the-dead/
Death's Door, announced today by Devolver Digital, is a game about a crow—specifically, a crow with a sword. The crow has a sword, you see, because crows are responsible for harvesting the souls of the dead. Which is actually a much more mundane job than it sounds like, despite the sword. It gets more interesting when your assigned soul is swiped by someone else, though, because then you have to go get it.

Anthem director leaves BioWare
https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-director-leaves-bioware/
In February, Electronic Arts finally pulled the plug on BioWare's big-bust third-person shooter Anthem, declaring that "not everything we had planned as a studio before COVID-19 can be accomplished without putting undue stress on our teams." With its fate sealed, game director Jonathan Warner announced today that after nearly a decade at the studio, he's moving on to other things.

Activision orders Call of Duty stats site SBMM Warzone to shut down
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-orders-call-of-duty-stats-site-sbmm-warzone-to-shut-down/
A popular Call of Duty: Warzone stats-tracking website has been issued an order by lawyers representing Activision telling the Belgium-based site to shut down by this coming Monday, March 29th. The website's creators have announced the impending closure in a Tweet desperately asking Activision to reach out for a solution.
>> It has closed.

Battlefield 6 rumors are rife, but DICE has spaghetti on its mind
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-6-rumors-are-rife-but-dice-has-spaghetti-on-its-mind/
What if we told you that Battlefield 6 will have "large-scale and close quarters battles," "next level destruction" and "stunning visual effects" among other things? Would you be surprised? Battlefield 6 rumors are coming thick and fast ahead of the game's expected reveal some time this season, with a recent tweet listing some of its features eliciting a response from the official Battlefield Twitter account.

Sega is Metacritic's top-ranked publisher of 2020
https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-is-metacritics-top-ranked-publisher-of-2020/
Every year review aggregator and argument-starter Metacritic publishes a list ranking videogame publishers based on the review scores of their releases over the previous 12 months. This time, Sega has been declared the winner thanks to games like the PC version of Persona 4 Golden (87), Football Manager 2021 (85), Yakuza: Like a Dragon (83), and various Total War DLCs that all averaged scores of 80. Re-releases of old games certainly helped, like the Xbox One port of Yakuza 0, which scored a 90.
>> Second comes Annapurna Interactive, followed by Capcom and Sony.

This anime rhythm adventure looks Unbeatable
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-anime-rhythm-adventure-looks-unbeatable/
There might only be 20 seconds of footage in Unbeatable's debut trailer, but developer D-Cell Games' debut rhythm-fighter is already one of the hottest things I've seen this year.

EA is making a new PGA Tour game
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-is-making-a-new-pga-tour-game/
Electronic Arts has announced a welcome return to one of the sporting franchises that helped make the company's name: PGA Tour. The new "next-gen golf video game" is being developed by EA's Tiburon studio, which has recently been working on the Madden and NBA Live series, but was also the lead studio on EA's last generation of PGA games (the final entry, Rory McIlroy's PGA Tour, released in 2016).

The Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha is now live
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-elite-dangerous-odyssey-alpha-is-now-live/
Alpha testing for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey begins today. With the galactic spaceship sim's next expansion centred on letting you wander around planets on-foot, Frontier is keeping testers locked out of their ships for the first few weeks.