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Monday news, part two:

Cozy Grove's Spanish localisation chose to spare players the horrors of US healthcare
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cozy-groves-spanish-localisation-chose-to-spare-players-the-horrors-of-us-healthcare/
Localising a game doesn't just mean translation—it often means changing content that makes sense in one culture so it'll fit another. So, when tasked with adapting cutesy Animal Crossing-like Cozy Grove for a Spanish audience, the localisers at Native Prime decided to spare players the stress of thinking about how messed up American healthcare has become.

EA removes Ultima Underworld and Syndicate from GOG
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ea-removes-ultima-underworld-and-syndicate-from-gog/
Ultima Underworld and Syndicate are foundational games in their respective genres: Underworld is one of the finest dungeon crawlers ever made, and Syndicate was a groundbreaking (and extremely cool) real-time tactics game. They're also very old, released in 1992 and 1993 respectively, which means they can be difficult to get running on modern hardware.
The versions currently available on GOG make that process easier, but they won't be around for much longer. GOG announced yesterday that, at the "publisher's request," Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, Syndicate Plus, and Syndicate Wars will be delisted on June 28.
>> Sadly, it's already June 28 and the game have already been removed.

Konami mashes up anime, Among Us, and Sherlock Holmes in a new multiplayer murder mystery
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/konami-mashes-up-anime-among-us-and-sherlock-holmes-in-a-new-multiplayer-murder-mystery/
There are few fictional rivalries more famous than that of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his equally brilliant nemesis Moriarty. CrimeSight, a new social deduction game in development at Konami, will resurrect their long-running tale, with an unusual sci-fi twist.

Activision smacks down pro wrestler Booker T. in Call of Duty copyright lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-beats-pro-wrestler-booker-t-in-call-of-duty-copyright-lawsuit/
In February 2019, pro wrestler Booker T. Huffman sued Activision, claiming that the Call of Duty character David "Prophet" Wilkes is based upon a character he appeared as in the early days of his wrestling career named GI Bro. The similarities are certainly there—both are large, muscular men with dreadlocks, bandanas, and grim scowls—but a jury has decided that they are not enough to constitute an infringement.

The murder door in Call of Duty: Warzone is no longer doing murder
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-certain-door-in-call-of-duty-warzone-is-murdering-players/
A Call of Duty: Warzone player on Reddit has found a bug where a certain door in the salt mining facility instantly kills you when you touch it. Other players have also experienced the wrath of the murder door.
Update: There is no longer a murder-door in Call of Duty: Warzone. It was indeed a bug, which has now been patched out. Players are free to run into that Salt Mine door headfirst and survive the encounter. For now, doors have gone back to tormenting developers only—the rest of us have been spared.

River, the dog best known as Fallout 4's Dogmeat, has died
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/river-the-dog-best-known-as-fallout-4s-dogmeat-has-died/
River, the dog which served as both model and inspiration for Fallout 4's Dogmeat, has died. Developer Joel Burgess, who was River's owner, announced the death on Twitter and went over River's impact on Fallout 4's development as a constant presence for the development team to understand a dog companion. River was also filmed, recorded, and had her behavior watched as a reference for Dogmeat.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be a 'brand new story with new characters'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-will-be-a-brand-new-story-with-new-characters/
The game-of-the-movie for James Cameron's Avatar was one of the more unexpected announcements at this year's E3. The 2009 film was one of the highest grossing of all time, but the general public feeling about it now is to remember the spectacle of it, but not necessarily the details of the plot. The CGI was spectacular, seeing it in 3D was novel, and the main character’s name was... Jake, I think?
The upcoming game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora sidesteps this issue entirely. In an interview with VentureBeat, Luigi Priore, vice president of Disney and Pixar Games, explains their approach.

Orcs, ant-people, Barbarians, and all 14 wizards return in Master of Magic remake
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/orcs-ant-people-barbarians-and-all-14-wizards-return-in-master-of-magic-remake/
Master of Magic is a really, really rad 4X—at least if you, like me, are part of its cult following. The d evelopers of the new Master of Magic remake, Polish indie studio MuHa Games, have posted the first developer diary going into what they're keeping, and what they're changing, from the original. Master of Magic was acquired by publisher Slitherine in 2019, then re-released on Steam alongside its impressive fan-made expansion in early 2020.

Marvel's Avengers July update will let players be the same hero
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/marvels-avengers-july-update-will-let-players-be-the-same-hero/
After testing the feature in a time-limited event called Tachyon Anomaly, Marvel's Avengers will let multiple players in the same team play the same hero permanently as of its next update.

Minecraft archivists have found their holy grail
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/minecraft-archivists-have-found-their-holy-grail/
Back in September 2010, a woman named Luna downloaded the latest version of an indie game, an alpha called Minecraft to her laptop. She was excited, so she tweeted about it: "oooooohhhhhhh MineCraft update! " . Who knows if she played it. All we know now is that she downloaded it and didn't purge her download folder later.
A decade later, Luna made a group of archivists very happy due to one thing: She backed up the user profiles and saved them before she later wiped the laptop. The members of Omniarchive, an internet archivist collective, have been after the short-lived Minecraft Alpha 1.1.1 for a long while now. Alpha 1.1.1 didn't last long because it had a game-breaking graphics bug. That's not what matters to the archivists, though: They want everything. Finding Alpha 1.1.1 was a long-running joke inside this Omniarchive community because it was only available for download for a scant three and a half hours. It seemed unlikely that, after years of searching, it would ever turn up.

Cancelled 1990s FMV game American Hero returns for some reason
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cancelled-1990s-fmv-game-american-hero-returns-for-some-reason/
In the 1990s Atari dabbled in FMV for PC and the Atari Jaguar, with a format called GameFilm promising interactive movies with seamless scene transitions and choices that didn't result in immediate dead-ends, but instead branched the story and affected a final score. The first GameFilm, Caves of Fear, was completed yet never released, while American Hero was filmed but never adapted into a game. The whole line was cancelled, a victim of the Jaguar's commercial failure.
Retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive and developer Empty Clip Studios have revived American Hero, restoring it and bringing back lead actor Timothy Bottoms for additional voice-acting.