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Monday news, part two:

Fortnite Sky Fire event will end Season 7's alien invasion
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-sky-fire-start-time/
The end of Fortnite Season 7 is upon us, and we're getting another big event to close things out. Fortnite's Operation: Sky Fire event will finish the alien invasion plot that's been literally looming over the battle royale island for months. Epic announced details Friday, sharing what to expect and when it starts. It looks like we're going to be joining Dr Sloane as she invades the alien mothership in the sky and takes the fight to them.

This Splinter Cell-inspired game aims to bring back spies vs mercs
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-splinter-cell-inspired-game-aims-to-bring-back-spies-vs-mercs/
It's been a long time since we last saw a Splinter Cell game—Blacklist was it, in 2013—but an in-the-works indie project called Spectre aims to bring back that kind of multiplayer experience.
Being developed by Symbiosis Games, Spectre sheds the Tom Clancy trappings—the spies are an agency of unknown origin known as Spectres, while the mercs are an infamous, big-budget private military corporation called Reapers—but the gameplay roots are almost impossible to overlook. (...)

Destiny 2 now has crossplay voice chat
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/destiny-2-crossplay-voice-chat/
A week after Destiny 2 received crossplay, you can now voice chat with friends on all supported platforms. Yup, including Stadia.
Destiny 2's 3.3.0.1 update officially enabled voice chat on Friday, though some functionality is still hit-or-miss for Xbox players, so let your console friends know. The biggest issue appears to be that Xbox players will still hear anyone even if their chat settings are set to just friends, and muting a player in Fireteam chat won't fix it.

There's bone-crunching combat and flying kicks in this side-scrolling Viking revenge saga
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/theres-bone-crunching-combat-and-flying-kicks-in-this-side-scrolling-viking-revenge-saga/
I know a lot of you Vikings are twiddling your thumbs until Valheim's Hearth and Home update arrives in two weeks. But you can put some of that impatient energy into another Viking-themed game, Song of Iron, a side-scrolling revenge saga with some pretty slick design and kinetic, bone-crunching combat.

An early build of Overwatch 2 will be used for Overwatch League's 2022 season
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/overwatch-2-owl/
Overwatch 2 was announced at BlizzCon 2019, and its release date has been uncertain since then. Here's a big development, though: Overwatch League's 2022 season, which begins in April, will compete on an "early build" of Overwatch 2, a Blizzard spokesperson told PC Gamer today.
>> That will help you check it out before deciding to jump in.

EA confirms The Sims 4 Spa Day is getting a big, free update
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ea-confirms-the-sims-4-spa-day-is-getting-a-big-free-update/
A leak yesterday indicated with a good degree of certainty that The Sims 4 Spa Day game pack, originally released in 2015, would soon be getting a "refresh"—a free update adding new features that "elevate the experience." Today Electronic Arts made it official, confirming that the big update will roll out on September 7.

Halo Infinite's getting the old radar back, and fixing most of our concerns from the preview
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinites-getting-the-old-radar-back-and-fixing-most-of-our-other-concerns-from-the-preview/
As has been made clear since Halo Infinite's modest multiplayer showing at Gamescom last week, 343 has decided to hunker down and get the dang game done. Good, because it's out in December and won't have campaign co-op at launch, so it's clearly coming down to the wire. On the multiplayer front, 343 published an extensive blog post today outlining how Halo Infinite will change based on feedback from July's technical test.

Terror of Hemasaurus looks like the Rampage successor the world needs
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/terror-of-hemasaurus-game/
Do you remember the halcyon days of sliding quarters into Rampage? For me, it was repeatedly renting Rampage: World Tour from my local Family Video and slotting it into my N64. (...)
That's why Terror of Hemasaurus looks appropriately smashing. It's exactly what you'd hope it is: a retro style smash-em-up where you and friends play giant kaiju monsters unleashed on a helpless city populace. Rather than a gorilla or wolfman, you play as the Reptar-like Hemasaurus, the similarly lizard-like Salamandrah, the time-bending "Clocksloth," and Autonomous Hemasaurus, an obvious nod to my favorite kaiju movie villain, Mecha Godzilla.

Satisfactory update 5 has a rampload of new cosmetics and structure parts
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/satisfactory-update-5-has-a-rampload-of-new-cosmetic-bits-to-build/
If you, like me, know that a well-organized and aesthetically pleasing factory is a beautiful factory, then I have a treat for you. As we've known for a few weeks now, Satisfactory update 5 is on the way, and in addition to some map reworks it'll hit with a bunch of wonderful new cosmetic, structural, and foundation pieces for factory-building.

The lo-fi open world of this occult RPG looks thrilling
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-lo-fi-open-world-of-this-occult-rpg-looks-thrilling/
An open-world, lofi first person RPG with a definitive aesthetic, a macabre style, and some gruesome enemy designs is just what I wanted to see today and I have found it. Dread Delusion is an in-development RPG that takes a set of distinctively otherworld, occult stylings and an early-2000s PSX graphics set to the extreme, making a world of sprawling, weird magic and bustling towns to explore.

Chivalry 2 developer condemns Tripwire over company president's support for abortion ban
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/partner-studio-ends-contracts-with-tripwire-over-company-presidents-support-for-abortion-ban/
On September 4, Tripwire Interactive president John Gibson tweeted that he was "Proud of #USSupremeCourt" for green-lighting a six-week abortion ban in Texas. (...)
Responses to Gibson's support for the ban have not been overwhelmingly positive, with Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski saying "you can unfollow me now, thanks" and God of War director Cory Barlog asking "how can anyone be proud of claiming dominion over a woman's personal freedoms?" Shipwright Studios, a co-development partner that has worked with Tripwire for over three years, wrote that, "We cannot in good conscience continue to work with Tripwire under the current leadership structure. We will begin the cancellation of our existing contracts effective immediately."
Torn Banner, the studio who developed Chivalry 2 for Tripwire, has also posted a statement. "We do not share the opinion expressed in a recent tweet by the president of Tripwire, publisher of Chivalry 2", it says. "This perspective is not shared by our team, nor is it reflected in the games we create. The statement stands in opposition to what we believe about women’s rights."

Unofficial Apex Legends servers have become incredibly cursed
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/unofficial-apex-legends-servers-have-become-incredibly-cursed/
Sometime over the last few months, a moddable fan-run Apex Legends client surfaced online—and since its discovery, players have been using it as a hotbed for increasingly outlandish "what if" scenarios.