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Friday news, part two:

Hokko Life is entering Early Access next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/hokko-life-is-entering-early-access-next-month/
Wonderscape's Hokko Life, PC's answer to Animal Crossing, is entering Early Access next month.
The game had a moment in the spotlight right before Animal Crossing New Horizons' release last year, despite only having a trailer and the promise of an Early Access release sometime within the next year. It's got all the makings of Nintendo's own cosy social sim—a quaint town, your own home to decorate, and quirky animal residents for you to run errands for.

Valheim visual update turns the Bonemass trophy into a gloopy nightmare
https://www.pcgamer.com/valheim-visual-update-turns-the-bonemass-trophy-into-a-gloopy-nightmare/
A patch for Valheim has been released, bringing a few fixes, localization updates, and visual tweaks.
It also turns the Bonemass trophy from something that looks like a couple bones stuck in a clump of mud into an absolute waking nightmare.

Hearthstone's next patch is coming today, so here are the patch notes
https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstones-next-patch-is-coming-today-so-here-are-the-patch-notes/
These days, Hearthstone patches arrive with the frequency of particularly aggressive buses. Look, here's another, and it'll actually be live today, with bug fixes and balance updates for both Standard and Battlegrounds. The patch notes are live now, which means we can find out what's going to happen before it happens. Exciting, no?
>> This article is from a couple days ago so yeah, the patch already launched.

Remedy teases a 'new, exciting early-phase project' in its latest business update
https://www.pcgamer.com/remedy-teases-a-new-exciting-early-phase-project-in-its-latest-business-update/
Control studio Remedy Entertainment has previously revealed that it is working on two new projects in partnership with Epic Games, one a "AAA multiplatform game" and the other a smaller-scale effort, along with a live service game codenamed Vanguard. In a quarterly business review released today, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said work on all three, plus the singleplayer campaigns the studio is working on for CrossfireX and Crossfire HD, are coming along well.

Sega wants Atlus games to release ‘on multiple platforms’ going forward
https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-wants-atlus-games-to-release-on-multiple-platforms-going-forward/
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In an interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu (translated by Persona Central), Sega’s Chief Strategy Officer Shuji Utsumi singled out Atlus as a studio that could expand in this direction. Answering a question regarding the future of Persona rollouts, he said "a simultaneous release on multiple platforms would be favorable for our titles.”
>> shikamaru317 made a thread that includes this topic.

EA’s dodgeball shooter Knockout City will be free for 10 days at launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/eas-dodgeball-shooter-knockout-city-will-be-free-for-10-days-at-launch/
Knockout City is a 3v3 multiplayer shooter, except instead of shooting guns you’re lobbing balls at your enemies. It sounds pretty fun—Tyler has some more detailed impressions here—but launching a new multiplayer-focused title in 2021 feels like a roll of the dice in terms of whether anyone will care (remember Rocket Arena?). As a means to make people care, Knockout City will be free-to-play for the first 10 days when it launches on May 21.

Stay out of Apex Legends 'ghost rocks' or be banned, warns Respawn
https://www.pcgamer.com/stay-out-of-apex-legends-ghost-rocks-or-be-banned-warns-respawn/
Respawn is taking a hardline stance against Apex Legends players exploiting a Season 9 bug that lets you clip inside a rock and block all incoming damage. The 'ghost rock' in question can be found on the Phase Runner map, one of four launch maps in Apex Legends' new Arenas mode. A fix to the rock clipping bug was supposed to come in yesterday's patch that nerfed the new Bocek bow and Spitfire, but Respawn said in a followup tweet that it was delayed for "quality-control reasons."

And here are the deals we'll find at GOG and Steam this weekend:

+GOG

• Let's start with the regular Weekly Sale, with up to 90% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210510_weekly_sale
• Then comes a Night Dive Studios Publisher Sale, putting its games up to 60% off until Monday: https://www.gog.com/promo/night_dive_studios
• The Square Enix Publisher Sale will also last until Monday and comes with up to 89% discounts. All the games are from their western studios: https://www.gog.com/promo/square_enix
• The Midweek Sale features up to 90% discounts during the next 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210512_midweek_sale
• The Weekend Sale brings games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210514_weekend_sale
• The Bloodrayne games are on sale, up to 40% off during the next 6 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/bloodrayne_sale
• And there are also two new releases:
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion launches with a 20% discount until the 21st of May: https://www.gog.com/game/turnip_boy_commits_tax_evasion
• The other one is Lumberjack's Dynasty, that launches with a 20% discount until May 28, (and Farmer's Dynasty is 40% off until the same day): https://www.gog.com/game/lumberjacks_dynasty

+Steam

• The new daily deal is Sam & Max Save the World, 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1440440/Sam__Max_Save_the_World/
• Terraria features a 50% discount during the weekend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/Terraria/
• Publisher Humble Games offers its games up to 75% off until Monday, 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/HumbleGames
• The Total War Historic games are up to 75% off until the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TotalWarHistoricSale
• And publisher Team17 Digital has put its games up to 90% off until May 17 (although some will last a bit more): https://store.steampowered.com/sale/team17publishersale
• And there's also the weeklong deals.

That's all folks! Until next time, have a happy and gaming weekend.