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Trackmania dev analyses 15 years' worth of records to root out the cheaters
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/trackmania-dev-analyses-15-years-worth-of-records-to-root-out-the-cheaters/
In late May this year, cheating allegations began to catch up with some of the fastest names in Trackmania.(...)
The evidence here is damning, and developer Nadeo has now taken action. Studio head Florent Castelnérac has today announced that, having found a fix, the team has also analysed the past 15 years of Trackmania records to find the cheaters' records. The majority of the cheated records came from just 10 accounts.

Company of Heroes 3 is coming next year, but you can play a demo right now
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/company-of-heroes-3-is-coming-next-year-but-you-can-play-a-demo-right-now/
Company of Heroes 3 was announced today after many years in development, and you can sign up to play what developer Relic Entertainment calls a pre-Alpha preview build of the game here.

Fans have been playing Company of Heroes 3 for years
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fans-have-been-playing-company-of-heroes-3-for-years/
Company of Heroes 3 is coming next year, Relic announced today, but the studio's latest World War 2 RTS has already been played by some members of the community, who first got their hands on it years ago.

Work on Apex Legends cross-progression slowed down by recent hacks
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/work-on-apex-legends-cross-progression-slowed-down-by-recent-hacks/
Since Apex Legends season 9 kicked off a few months ago, the free-to-play battle royale has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. But as with any popular competitive game, more general attention has also attracted more prospective cheaters. The recent influx of nefarious players and DDoS attacks have become so disruptive in Apex that it's affecting development on a pretty big planned feature: cross-progression.

id Software's Mario PC port found in a stack of discs submitted to a museum
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/id-softwares-mario-pc-port-found-in-a-stack-of-discs-submitted-to-a-museum/
It's well known that id Software's Commander Keen tech was originally designed to accommodate a PC port for Super Mario Bros. 3, and in 2015, John Romero revealed footage of the proof of concept. Nintendo didn't go for it, but it was a breakthrough in terms of bringing smooth screen-scrolling to PC games.
A copy of that Mario demo has turned up in a submission to the Strong National Museum of Play, seemingly at random. The museum's games curator Andrew Borman tells Ars Technica that the disc was among a larger submission from an unnamed game developer. This developer didn't work on the demo, though received it "during their work."

The Amazing American Circus delayed to September
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-amazing-american-circus-delayed-to-september/
The Amazing American Circus is a deckbuilder that lets you run a travelling sideshow, trekking across 19th century USA, adding to your troupe and wowing the rubes at each stop. It looks a bit like Slay the Spire only instead of throwing poisoned knives at cultists you impress audience members by playing cards like Wild Clown Chase, Dangerous Act, or Smokey Kiss. There are also rivals to defeat, drunk mime artists to deal with, and it seems like werewolves and Bigfoot are involved too? Honestly, I stopped paying attention when the clowns showed up. No, thank you.

An 'undetectable' and 'unstoppable' cheat was taken down at Activision's request
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/an-undetectable-and-unstoppable-cheat-was-taken-down-at-activisions-request/
User Vision Pro was an aim-assist and auto-fire cheat that gained some attention recently thanks to YouTube demonstrations showing what it could achieve in Call of Duty: Warzone. Those videos have now been taken offline, but you can see what was being shown off thanks to Twitter's Anti-Cheat Police Department. The video claimed User Vision Pro would work on "any game" and on consoles as well as PC, be "undetectable" and "unstoppable" and also "extreamly [sic] fast".

Unique action-strategy game Highfleet is coming to Steam this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/unique-action-strategy-game-highfleet-is-coming-to-early-access-this-month/
Konstantin Koshutin's stratospherically gorgeous action-strategy HighFleet begins its campaign later this month on Steam.
A wonderfully tactile war sim, I've had my eyes on HighFleet's burning skies for some time. You're in command of a massive, airborne imperial war machine, recruiting and refuelling across the country and staving off attacks from nippy rebel forces. Battles play out as pseudo-strategy affairs, directly attacking with your flagship as you deploy smaller craft to fight for you.

Fall Guys announced its next season with a jigsaw puzzle
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fall-guys-announced-its-next-season-with-a-jigsaw-puzzle/
Fall Guys fans have puzzled out the bean-stumbling battle royale's next season, after Mediatonic teased the theme by way of a jpeg jigsaw.
Yesterday, the Fall Guys Twitter account gave fans a rather cryptic hint at Season 5's theme by letting them download a folder of 1,200 square images that, when pieced together, would assemble next season's key art.

Final Fantasy 10 director says chances of 10-3 are 'not zero'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-10-director-says-chances-of-10-3-are-not-zero/
There's a rough outline of what Final Fantasy 10-3 could look like and apparently, the chances of it getting made are "not zero."
The comments were made by character designer Tetsuya Nomura, writer Kazushige Nojima and Final Fantasy 10 director Motomu Toriyama, and spotted by the ever-vigilant Nibel on Twitter. Nomura told Famitsu in a column earlier this month that Nojima has written a synopsis for the sequel, and that while the game isn't in any form of development, "there is a concept" there.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War brings its secret nukes to the rest of multiplayer
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-brings-its-secret-nukes-to-the-rest-of-multiplayer/
A hidden nuke scorestreak in Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War has been extended to the rest of multiplayer as part of today's midseason update.
Back in Season 3, Treyarch added a secret nuclear detonation scorestreak to Cold War. Long a staple of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare games, getting 30 kills without dying would enable you to slam a nuke button to immediately kill everyone in the match.