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Guide the citizens of the future as a powerful AI running a cyberpunk city
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/guide-the-citizens-of-the-future-as-a-powerful-ai-running-a-cyberpunk-city/
Reigns is a super-simple medieval management sim in which you, the monarch, make binary decisions based on a wide variety of scenarios that will either cement your place in history or, more likely, lead to your untimely and ugly demise. (...)
NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy looks a very similar sort of experience, but one that takes place in a cyberpunk world. You play as an experimental AI owned by a megacorp (of course) who's been put in charge of running the city in all matters large and small, ranging from municipal approvals to aiding criminal investigations and (again, of course) harvesting data for advertisers.

Dead by Daylight's new survivor is a teenage witch, but not that one
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dead-by-daylight-mikaela-reid/
After Dead by Daylight's Hellraiser update added good ol' Pinhead, players are finally getting a new survivor character to balance things out, and she's appropriately dressed for the spooky season.
The Hour of the Witch update adds Mikaela Reid, a young witch who wouldn't look out of place in something like Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She'll be added sometime in October.

New World queues reach as high as 20,000 for popular servers
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/new-world-server-queue/
Nearly 700,000 people were simultaneously running New World earlier today, but less than half of them were actually playing Amazon's new MMO. The rest were sitting in queues waiting to get into one of the 2,000-player islands. Projected wait times for certain New World servers continue to be measured in tens of hours.
>> You can't name your character "Bezos" or "Amazon".

New World won't let you swim, but you can walk underwater
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/new-world-wont-let-you-swim-but-you-can-walk-underwater/
New World begins with you surviving a shipwreck, so it's a wee bit surprising that you don't know the first thing about swimming. Nobody in Aeternum does. It's surrounded by water and full of rivers and lakes, but you'll never get to go for a paddle.

Vaporize hordes of rebels with a sky laser in Diplomacy is Not an Option
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/diplomacy-is-not-an-option-preview/
Diplomacy is Not an Option definitely lives up to its name. Within 10 minutes of playing the demo's wave survival mode, I was raining arrows and thrusting spears into a small horde of rebel bandit scum. At no point did I need any reinforcements to protect my mighty wooden gate, but I had the magic points to instantly call down an army of hulking dark knights from the heavens, so I figured why not?

Netflix buys Oxenfree developer Night School Studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/netflix-buys-oxenfree-developer-night-school-studio/
In one of Netflix's first big moves as it expands into game devleopment, the streaming company https://about.netflix.com/en/news/expanding-our-games-team-with-the-acquisition-of-night-school-studio">announced on Tuesday that it's acquired indie developer Night School Studio. Night School's first game Oxenfree was highly praised when it came out in 2016, and we also quite liked Afterparty, an adventure game about drinking your way out of hell. The studio is currently developing a sequel to Oxenfree, which will continue under Netflix's ownership.
>> I wish them better luck than the studios bought by Amazon.

Diablo 2: Resurrected players who can't boot the game will have to wait a few more days for a fix
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/diablo-2-resurrected-players-who-cant-boot-the-game-will-have-to-wait-a-few-more-days-for-a-fix/
Diablo 2: Resurrected is quite good, as you'd expect—it's a redo of one of the greatest action-RPGs of all time, after all. But its launch hasn't been entirely smooth, as players have struggled with disappearing characters, being locked out of their games, or a simple refusal of the game to start at all.

Halo Infinite is inviting everyone, Insider or not, to this weekend's technical test
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinite-is-inviting-everyone-insider-or-not-to-this-weekends-technical-test/
Last week, Halo Infinite kicked off the first of two back-to-back technical test weekends, inviting everyone registered as a Halo Insider to give the game a shot. But evidently, 343 needs even more players for this weekend's run, with the developer now opening the floodgates—with a catch.
Given the upcoming Halo Infinite test is introducing us to 12v12 Big Team Battles, 343 is removing the trial's Insider requirement. On Xbox, this means flatly enabling everyone access to the technical test. But on PC, the process isn't quite so simple.

Genshin Impact is being review bombed after months of player frustration
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/genshin-impact-is-being-review-bombed-after-months-of-player-frustration/
Genshin Impact is being review bombed following growing frustrations from the community over the game's treatment.
It's been a rough few months for the gacha game, with increasing criticisms coming from fans regarding updates and events. The release of 5-star character Yoimiya was poorly received, with complaints of broken abilities and a feeling that minimal thought had been put into her overall gameplay design. Similar problems then arose with the game's next 5-star character, Baal.

Apex Legends is adding 'bite-sized' story quests to public games
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/apex-legends-is-adding-bite-sized-story-quests-to-public-games/
Apex Legends has been disappointingly light on story this season. But that's all set to change later today with Old Ways, New Dawn, the first of a new character-driven series of story events Respawn is calling Apex Chronicles.

Co-op dino shooter Second Extinction is getting full crossplay and a horde mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/co-op-dino-shooter-second-extinction-is-getting-full-crossplay-and-a-horde-mode/
We said last year that Second Extinction's "janky co-op dino shooting shows potential," but that it could probably stand a little more time in Early Access. Almost a year down the road, it's come a long way, and today developer Systemic Reaction unveiled the details of its biggest update yet.