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Monday news, part two:

Paradox abandons multiple unannounced projects to focus on 'proven game niches'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/paradox-abandons-multiple-unannounced-projects-to-focus-on-proven-game-niches/
One month after the surprise departure of former CEO Ebba Ljungerud, Paradox Interactive has announced the cancellation of work on several unannounced projects. Paradox said it decided to pull the plug on the games so that it can instead focus on "proven game niches and projects that better meet the company’s requirements on returns and risk."

Rumor: Konami working on new Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill games
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/konami-metal-gear-castlevania-silent-hill-games/
Konami is getting back into the business of making Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill games, a report from VideoGamesChronicle indicates.
>> lightbleeder already made a thread about this last Friday.

The director of the best Final Fantasys is putting out his first new game in 15 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-director-of-the-best-final-fantasys-is-putting-out-his-first-new-game-in-15-years/
The game in this trailer does not look like a big deal. Really, it looks like the furthest thing away from a big deal: just a tiny, experimental game somehow being published by Square Enix. But to me it's a bigger deal than anything else Square Enix has made in years—bigger than the Final Fantasy 7 Remake or Final Fantasy 16 or Guardians of the Galaxy. That's because of one name: Hiroyuki Ito.

Here's a game about a gruesome spider-legged train named Charles
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-a-survival-horror-game-about-a-gruesome-spider-legged-train-named-charles/
Indie studio Two Star Games is working on a new kind of horror: Trains. Choo-Choo Charles is a game where you, a human, navigate an island on a train and avoid an evil, sentient trail that wants to eat you. Over time you upgrade your train to fight Charles, hopefully overcoming the creature which is in fact a steam locomotive with a set of horrific spider legs and a toothy maw.

Elder Scrolls Online's infernal Deadlands expansion hits in November
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elder-scrolls-onlines-infernal-deadlands-expansion-hits-in-november/
Elder Scrolls Online players are getting ready to venture into Oblivion, specifically into Mehrunes Dagon's Deadlands, the fiery realm of destruction. An event called Bounties of Blackwood will run until October 12, and that ties directly into the prologue, An Apocalyptic Situation, a quest available through the Crown Store.
The Deadlands DLC expansion is set to launch on November 1. It can be bought through the

Full New World servers will no longer allow character creation
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/full-new-world-servers-will-no-longer-allow-character-creation/
As MMO players flock to Amazon Game Studios' New World player numbers blow up, Amazon has taken the measure of stopping new character creation on full servers. They've also launched a Server Status page for New World, which will tell you if it's full, up, down, or undergoing maintenance. Amazon Game Studios announced the change via Twitter.

Build castles to survive the Mongols in a free wave defense RTS
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/build-castles-to-survive-the-mongols-in-a-free-wave-defense-rts/
Vedelem: The Golden Horde is a wave survival real-time strategy game set during the time of the Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe. As the Golden Horde bears down on you, your job is to build economic buildings in order to expand your territory, gather resources, and pump out more troops for large-scale engagements with the enemy's ever-growing numbers. All the while, you want to fortify and upgrade your lands, giving you manned walls and buildings between your central keep and the enemy army.
>> You can find it at Steam.

Friday the 13th developer IllFonic is working on a Ghostbusters game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/friday-the-13th-developer-illfonic-is-working-on-a-ghostbusters-game/
As spotted by PCGamesN, an interview with singer/songwriter/record producer Raphael Saadiq in a recent episode of the Questlove Supreme podcast is the unlikely source of a leak about an upcoming Ghostbusters videogame.

Grand Theft Auto modders that tried to get around a DMCA claim get walloped with Take-Two lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/grand-theft-auto-modders-that-tried-to-get-around-a-dmca-claim-get-walloped-with-take-two-lawsuit/
The existence of the GTA Trilogy remaster was more-or-less confirmed by the Korean ratings board last week, but the rumours have been gathering pace for a while: not least because Rockstar parent company Take-Two has been getting very heavy-handed with modders of the original games on PC. (...)
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It's perhaps worth picking the bones out of this. The modders thought they could be cute by using the mechanisms of DMCAs to reinstate their project, perhaps not realising that Take-Two were prepared to bring out the big guns. Take-Two clearly could have responded to the modders' counterclaim if it had so wished: instead it allowed the mods to reappear on Github. So yes, the modders could have perhaps been wiser. But it really feels like Take-Two saw this as an opportunity to set an example.

Valheim patch tweaks weapons and food, adds festive Jack-o'-turnip
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/valheim-patch-tweaks-weapons-and-food-adds-festive-jack-o-turnip/
Valheim's developers continue to tweak the balance of last month's Hearth and Home update, trying to find a happy medium between the way the game used to work and how it works now. Once again, the game has been nudged to make things a bit easier on players with a patch that buffs the stats of a number of foods and lowers the stamina costs of using most melee weapons.