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Thursday news, part two:

How many game developers does it take to make a banana explode good? About six
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/destructible-gaming-fruit-analysis/
When you shoot a watermelon in a videogame, with how much detail should that watermelon explode?
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Some recent Twitter disagreement did orbit around this peculiar question. Tweets over the last week comparing games' environmental interactivity—ranging from casual observations to trolling indictments of production practices—levied criticism at recent pre-release versions of Back 4 Blood and Halo Infinite while praising The Last of Us 2's apples. "We're at the point in the console war when fanboys are comparing fruit physics as some sort of measurement of a game's craftsmanship," summarized IGN's Destin Legarie.

Axiom Verge 2 is out today
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/axiom-verge-2-is-out-today/
Axiom Verge 2, the sequel to one of the first big indies of the metroidvania renaissance, releases today. After a delay earlier this year that followed a delay in 2020, developer Tom Happ announced the surprise release this morning.

Chucklefish's charming adventure RPG Eastward comes in September
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/chucklefishs-charming-adventure-rpg-eastward-comes-in-september/
After about two years in development, publisher Chucklefish and developer Pixpil will release Eastward on September 16, 2021. It's a game that wants to take a trip back to the golden age of the Japanese RPG, but it's also pulling in culture and architecture from other parts of Asia, including Hong Kong and Shanghai, South Korea and India. There's obviously some Zelda, Earthbound and Studio Ghibli inspiration at play, too.

Here's a co-op farming game with mechs
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-a-co-op-farming-game-with-mechs/
There are a lot of farming games. However, to this point, to my knowledge, none of those farming games had mechs. Soon Lightyear Frontier will remedy this grave oversight by delivering an open world farming, building, and exploration game set on a far-away science fictional world. It's currently in development, with not much more than a Steam page and reveal trailer to its name, and will release into Early Access at a date that's still to be announced.

Diablo 4 director, lead level designer, and WoW designer depart Blizzard
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/diablo-4-director-lead-level-designer-and-wow-designer-all-fired-from-blizzard/
Diablo 4 game director Louis Barriga, lead level designer Jesse McCree, and World of Warcraft designer Jonathan LeCraft are all out at Blizzard Entertainment. The news was first reported by Kotaku and then confirmed by Activision Blizzard.
>> What is going on at Blizzard?!

Life is Strange remaster delayed to 2022
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/life-is-strange-remaster-delayed-to-2022/
The original Life is Strange and its prequel, Before the Storm, are getting a subtle but still kind of nice makeover in the form of the Life is Strange Remastered Collection, which was scheduled to come out on September 30. That's now been pushed back to early next year, an update from the team has explained.

Apex Legends lead game designer fired for remarks made in 2007
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/apex-legends-lead-game-designer-fired-for-remarks-made-in-2007/
Lead game designer on Apex Legends, Daniel Z Klein, has left Respawn Entertainment following the discovery of offensive blog posts published in 2007. Images from the DeviantArt blog were circulated on Twitter late last month, and feature comments derogatory to women and African people.

Dead By Daylight's latest patch improves Pyramid Head's 'flat rear'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dead-by-daylights-latest-patch-buffs-pyramid-heads-flat-rear/
Behaviour Interactive released patch 5.1.1 for Dead By Daylight earlier this week, complete with all your bog-standard bug fixes and gameplay tweaks. But to the excitement of fans, the Pyramid Head booty saga continues with a cheeky butt buff nestled in the patch notes.

Here's a fresh look at American Truck Simulator's next state, Wyoming
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-a-fresh-look-at-american-truck-simulators-next-state-wyoming/
Wyoming is the next state being added to American Truck Simulator—joining Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Utah. It's impressive how much the game's atmospheric take on the United States has grown since it was released back in 2016.

Nine Inch Nails guitarist and Spec Ops: The Line director team up to make a 'cosmic horror game'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/eyes-out-announcement/
"Auuhghheeahhhaeahhhaeahh," is the only audible speech in the video above, but what I think artist Morgan Sorne is trying to say with that impression of an approaching TIE-Fighter is that Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck has opened a new game studio with Spec Ops: The Line director Cory Davis, and together they're working on a singleplayer "cosmic horror game." The game hasn't been titled, but the studio is called Eyes Out.