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The Wednesday news, part two:

A game where you're the ship that blocked the Suez Canal
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-game-where-youre-the-ship-that-blocked-the-suez-canal/
In late March this year a giant container ship got wedged in the Suez Canal, and blocked one of the world's biggest trade routes entirely for six days. This obviously happened at a time when most of us were still sitting at home with our shirts off, so the world became obsessed with the story for a few days, and the ship and efforts to un-stick it became a meme. Good times.
Thing is, as experts were at pains to point out while we all had a good laugh, piloting something of this size through the Suez Canal is actually really difficult. An indie developer by the name of Napas Torteeka certainly noticed, and Whatever is a not-entirely-serious attempt to present the challenges of a container ship's captain in game form (thanks, 80.lv).

A Diablo character in Hearthstone was the least confusing part of Mercenaries mode reveal
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hearthstone-mercenaries/
Blizzard revealed Hearthstone's new Mercenaries mode today. It's launching on October 12, and combines "RPG and roguelike elements" with a new take on card combat—one that left a number of livestream viewers baffled, because Blizzard's presenters focused on showing off characters and their abilities (Diablo's Lord of Terror is a card, which is cool) rather than explaining how the game works. That job was left to the blog posts published after the presentation.

Surviving Mars will soon let you drill underground, accidentally abandon colonists on asteroids
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/surviving-mars-below-and-beyond/
If Hollywood and Doom games have taught me anything, it's that nothing good lies beneath the surface of Mars. Surviving Mars' latest expansion, Below & Beyond, it's first premium expansion since mid-2019, says otherwise.

Say goodbye to Apex Legends' best movement exploit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/apex-legends-tap-strafing-removed/
A future Apex Legends patch will remove a popular movement exploit that has seen wide use in recent months. Known as "tap-strafing," the tactic allows players to quickly change their midair trajectory while maintaining momentum. Basically, you become a speedy midair bullet that's very hard to shoot at.

VVVVVV gets its first update in seven years, and it's a big one
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/vvvvvv-gets-its-first-update-in-seven-years-and-its-a-big-one/
In early 2020, the gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV celebrated the tenth anniversary of its release by going open source. That meant the source code was posted to Github, where anyone with an interest could download and mess around with it in just about any way they saw fit. And as a direct result of that, VVVVVV's first update in seven years is now live.

Call of Duty: Warzone cheater stars in official anti-cheat ad, keeps on cheating anyway
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-warzone-cheater-stars-in-official-anti-cheat-ad-keeps-on-cheating-anyway/
Last week, Tiktok user rushman360 announced to the world, with a certain degree of incredulity, that he had been hardware banned from Call of Duty: Warzone. (...)
It wasn't clear exactly what happened, but it certainly seemed like an escalation in Activision's ability to detect and clobber cheaters. And now Activision is using rushman360's Tiktok tale of woe as a warning to others as it prepares to launch a new anti-cheat tool this fall: "We are coming for you."
(...)
The real twist, though, is the fact that rushman360, who guaranteed that "there's no more cheating in Warzone" last week, appears to be cheating in Warzone again.

Will Smith is in Fortnite, soon everything will be in Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/will-smith-is-in-fortnite-soon-everything-will-be-in-fortnite/
If something or someone exists there's no reason why it can't be in Fortnite. In terms of likelihood, I'd rate Will Smith's new appearance in Fortnite on the "likely" end of the scale, because it's not as weird as, say, Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech airing in the whimsical promotional vehicle-slash-videogame about murdering other players. Plus: a dataminer unearthed the skin last month.

Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene leaves PUBG owner Krafton to form new studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/brendan-playerunknown-greene-leaves-pubg-owner-krafton-to-form-new-studio/
The creator of PUBG and, by extension, the battle royale genre, has left Krafton to form his own studio. Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene will form a new Amsterdam-based studio called PlayerUnknown Productions, with Krafton confirmed to hold a minority stake in the new entity.

What the hell is going on with these new Halo 3 armours?
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-these-new-halo-3-armours/
I have a lot of fondness for Halo 3's art style, especially when it comes to multiplayer armour designs. The game manages to instill your faceless space marine with personality using relatively simple shapes and themes, painted in bold bright colours with strong silhouettes.
I say this only after spotting that the next season of The Master Chief Collection will let you fight as an armoured Skeletor, as revealed in a Halo Waypoint blog post last night.

No Man's Sky: Frontiers is out now and makes you the space mayor
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/no-mans-sky-frontiers-is-out-now/
What a journey No Man's Sky has been on, to the extent that where players once frothed at the mouth about Hello Games they now rent billboards saying 'thanks' and mod Sean Murray's head into the game in mock-protest at the wait for the next big thing. Well, time to say goodbye to all those locales festooned with an Irishman's head, and hello to the next major update: No Man's Sky Frontiers is now live, and is a 6.6GB download.