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Friday news, the last part:

Borderlands 3 gets partial crossplay, but refuses to play by Sony's rules
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/borderlands-3-gets-partial-crossplay-but-refuses-to-play-by-sonys-rules/
Randy Pitchford, the president and CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Software, has announced an upcoming patch will introduce crossplay support "across all platforms." Except, well, it won't be across all platforms.

Creative Assembly is working on a new Romance of the Three Kingdoms project
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/total-war-three-kingdoms-gets-final-update-new-three-kingdoms-game-in-development/
Creative Assembly has wrapped up content releases for Total War: Three Kingdoms, with the team moving onto another project within the Romance of the Three Kingdoms universe.

Hearthstone's 'The Wailing Caverns' mini-set announced, arrives next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hearthstones-the-wailing-caverns-mini-set-announced-arrives-next-week/
Initial concerns that adding mini-sets between Hearthstone's thrice-annual big card expansions would further inflate the game's already substantial cost to keep up with have so far proved unfounded. That's because Blizzard surprised players by allowing them to buy all the cards for in-game gold or a fixed price, with no random pack opening required.
So I would expect plenty of interest around the second iteration of the mini-set format, which has just been revealed by Blizzard. The Wailing Caverns is a 66-card set coming next Thursday that will include four Legendary cards, one Epic (x2), 14 Rares (x2), and 16 common cards.

Anything is possible: Fortnite teases a Mistborn crossover
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-mistborn-crossover/
Marvel cinematic universe? Nah. Hip-hop icon? Get out of here. A series of fantasy books I used to sell at Barnes & Noble? I guess so? Burn your bingo cards, because the latest Fortnite crossover appears to be based on the Mistborn novels by Brandon Sanderson.

The free Chivalry 2 open beta has started
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/chivalry-2-open-beta/
I'll get to the point: There's a Chivalry 2 open beta, it's free, and it's live now. You can download it from the Epic Games Store: Just find the Chivalry 2 page in the client, scroll down a bit, and then add the beta to your library. You'll have to "check out" as if you're buying a game, but it's free.

Here's 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West, which is probably coming to PC someday
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-14-minutes-of-horizon-forbidden-west-which-is-probably-coming-to-pc-someday/
Sony debuted 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West gameplay in its State of Play presentation today, which you can watch above.
Forbidden West has not been announced for PC, but we have good reason to believe it'll eventually land on our favorite platform. Horizon: Zero Dawn was a former PlayStation exclusive that hit PC three years after its console debut, and performed admirably.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cyberpunk-2077-has-a-new-game-director/
Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director, according to a GamesIndustry report, which says that Gabriel Amatangelo, who joined the studio in January 2020 as a creative director, has now assumed the role.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's narrative and design directors leave Infinity Ward
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-modern-warfares-narrative-and-design-directors-leave-infinity-ward/
Infinity Ward studio design director Taylor Kurosaki has left the studio alongside narrative director Jacob Minkoff, the pair announced on their respective Twitter feeds earlier this week.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals during this weekend:

+GOG

• First things first: the game Samorost 1 is free: https://www.gog.com/game/samorost_1
• The Weekly Sale features post-apocalyptic games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210524_weekly_sale
• The Midweek Sale with its up to 80% discounts will last another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210526_midweek_sale
• The Ubisoft Sale, with up to 80% discounts, will last another 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210524_ubisoft_sale
• The Good Shepherd Sale, with up to 90% discounts, will also last another 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/good_shepherd_sale
• The Special GOG Zombie GOGalypse Sale is packed with zombie themed games up to 90% off during the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/zombie_gogalypse_2021
• The Weekend Sale features games with giant robots up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210528_weekend_sale
• The Electronic Arts Weekend Sale brings up to 75% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20210528_ea_weekend
• And there are a couple of new releases:
  • Solasta: Crown of the Magister launches with a 20% discount until June 2: https://www.gog.com/game/solasta_crown_of_the_magister
  • And Dying Light: Platinum Edition will be 75% off until the 10th of June (the base game also has the same discount): https://www.gog.com/game/dying_light_platinum_edition

+Steam

• Zen Studios puts its games and DLCs on Sale, up to 70% off during the next 3 days: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ZenStudios/
• Perfect World Entertainment puts its games between 30 and 80% off until the 31st: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/perfectspringsale
• The Save & Sound Sale comes with up to 80% discounts and will last until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40246264/sale/savesound
• The Open World Sale features up to 90% discounts until Monday 31: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/open_world
• Conan Exiles, that is part of the Open World Sale with a 70% discount, is also free to try during the next 6 days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/440900/Conan_Exiles/
• Solasta: Crown of the Magister launches with a 20% discount until June 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096530/Solasta_Crown_of_the_Magister/
• OUTRIDERS will be 25% off until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/680420/OUTRIDERS/
• The Curve Digital Sale offers up to 88% discounts until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CurvePublisherSale2021
• The Company of Heroes Sale features up to 91% discounts until June 3: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CompanyOfHeroesSale
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

Nothing else to add. Have a happy and gaming weekend.