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Thursday news, part two:

Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu will be in the new Super Monkey Ball game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/yakuzas-kazuma-kiryu-will-be-in-the-new-super-monkey-ball-game/
In a sentence that I did not expect to be writing today, Yakuza protagonist and karaoke extraordinaire Kazuma Kiryu will be a playable character in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania.

Call of Duty: Warzone hackers are running out of cracked accounts to sell
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-warzone-hackers-are-running-out-of-cracked-accounts-to-sell/
Call of Duty: Warzone account sellers are reportedly running out of stock thanks to new account security protections, Motherboard reports.
Like many online games, an underground market has circulated around acquiring and reselling valuable Warzone accounts. It's not uncommon for accounts with desirable cosmetics to sell for up to $300—with Motherboard suggesting that accounts with the extremely rare Damascus weapon skin can go for $2,000.
>> Imagine the "Oh, no... Anyway" meme here.

What working on Amazon's Lumberyard engine was like
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/what-working-on-amazons-lumberyard-engine-was-like/
PC Gamer recently sat down with the co-founders of The Machinery, a new contender among game engine companies. Tricia Gray was the head of marketing for Amazon Game Services in 2015-2016 and worked on the company's seemingly ill-fated Lumberyard engine project: an engine that began as an original project before being reworked into a conversion of sorts of CryEngine. In a surprising move, Lumberyard has recently been made open source by Amazon, so I asked about Gray's time at the company and what she thinks of Lumberyard's prospects.

This Sesame Street survival horror game turns Elmo's World into hell
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/my-friendly-neighborhood-sesame-street-horror-game/
We live in a golden age of indie horror games. All it takes is a bit of MadLibs to come up with something that's truly disturbing, even if the internet will complain about clones of more successful games. I truly don't know how else you end up with something ridiculous like My Friendly Neighborhood, a new survival horror game set in a television studio inspired by Sesame Street. I guess we all have different responses to Mister Rogers.

Skyrim's 'treasure fox' myth has been explained
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/skyrims-treasure-fox-explained/
Recently, ex-Bethesda artist Nate Purkeypile took to Twitter to tell the story of how during development the cart in Skyrim's intro was defeated by a single bee. Joel Burgess, another former Bethesda employee who worked on Skyrim as a level designer, chimed in with some more detail on that particular bug (are bees bugs? Never mind), and has now returned with another behind-the-scenes story from Skyrim development—the tale of the treasure fox.
If you play Skyrim long enough you might have heard that if you follow a wild fox, it'll lead you to a location with loot. Arguments about whether this is true go back at least a decade. As Burgess explains, there is actually some truth in it, though foxes weren't designed this way deliberately.

Splitgate will stay in open beta indefinitely
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/splitgate-will-stay-in-open-beta-indefinitely/
The sudden success of Splitgate has seen studio 1047 Games scramble to cope. The Portal-meets-Halo arena shooter was originally scheduled to launch into 1.0 on July 27, but thanks to a huge surge in player interest—prompted by an open beta available on consoles—that was moved back in order for the studio to boost its server capacity. The 1.0 release was moved to an unspecified date in August, but now that release has been delayed indefinitely.

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron gets firm Steam release date
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/el-shaddai-ascension-of-the-metatron-gets-firm-steam-release-date/
Following a low-key announcement late last year, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron now has a PC release date. It's soon: the stylish anime slasher hits Steam on September 2.

A new Ace Combat game is in development
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-new-ace-combat-game-is-in-development/
Bandai Namco and developer Project Aces hosted a livestream to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Ace Combat series, during which it announced various incoming DLC, some sales figures, and a whole new game in the works. The event was mainly a celebratory retrospective, and understandably so—2019's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was the first mainline entry for 12 years, and there was a time when it seemed like this series was finished.

Quake remake rated by the ESRB, more information expected today
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/quake-remake-rated-by-the-esrb-more-information-expected-today/
Quakecon 2021 is about to begin, and one of the things we already knew from a scheduling slip-up is that something called Quake revitalized would feature. Don't get too excited: it seems to be a remake with new content rather than a full reboot a la Doom. The now-deleted scheduling blurb mentioned Machine Games as the developer, and referenced "the additional content Machine Games have contributed to this revitalized edition."