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Friday news, part two:

BioWare has no plans to end Star Wars: The Old Republic anytime soon
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bioware-has-no-plans-to-end-star-wars-the-old-republic-anytime-soon/
I was an optimistic 20-something when I rolled my first Bounty Hunter, with his bad scars and bad attitude, in Star Wars: The Old Republic. A decade later, I'm dour and approaching middle-age, but I'm still gleefully rolling alts and chewing through some of my favourite MMO stories. I'm ravenous for them. And, lucky me, it looks like BioWare doesn't have any plans to call off the galactic wars and Sith intrigue.

League of Legends, Valorant, and Riot's other games have all come to the Epic Store
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/league-of-legends-epic-game-store/
Riot Games is branching out. Alongside the launch of its new Netflix series Arcane, Riot has partnered up with Epic to add a Jinx skin to Fortnite and bring its whole PC library to the Epic Games Store.
>> You can read more about Jinx coming to Fortnite here.

Devolver Digital has gone public with Sony acquiring a minority stake
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/devolver-digital-has-gone-public-with-sony-acquiring-a-minority-stake/
Indie publisher Devolver Digital has gone public today, with Sony already acquiring a minority stake.
It's the largest US-based company to ever go live on the London Stock Exchange, floating at around $950 million (thanks, gamesindustry.biz). Sony has already made a 5% investment in the publisher, with Chinese videogame behemoth NetEase purchasing an 8% stake. Devolver says its staff are still the majority owners though, with its founders and all current employees owning a stake in the company.

Take-Two boss says 'digital collectible goods' don't have value just because they're NFTs
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/take-two-boss-says-digital-collectible-goods-dont-have-value-just-because-theyre-nfts/
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has held a few contrarian opinions over the years. In 2019 he declared that Fortnite "never affected the [videogame] industry," and a year later he said he was "highly skeptical" that subscription services like Xbox Game Pass would become a primary distribution method for games. He was even more forceful in his thoughts on the future of VR, saying that he was thankful Take-Two "didn't waste any money on it."
On the non-fungible front, though, he's definitely rolling with the crowd. Following closely behind Ubisoft and Electronic Arts, Zelnick told GamesIndustry that he's a "big believer" in NFTs—although not necessarily as they exist right now.

Push a button to make it rain missiles in the new Rust update
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/push-a-button-to-make-it-rain-missiles-in-the-new-rust-update/
Rust's November update will give players a new reason to watch the skies, because after today those skies might be filled with up to a dozen rockets screaming toward your base and/or face. The November update adds military bases to the map, and each base has a missile-launching vehicle that can be used to rain death and destruction onto a specifically targeted area.

Lost Ark, the Korean MMO coming West next year, is now in closed beta
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/lost-ark-the-korean-mmo-coming-west-next-year-is-now-in-closed-beta/
Our first glimpse of Lost Ark came in 2014, when we described it as "an exceptionally good looking ARPG." It finally launched four years later, but only in Korea—it wasn't until earlier this year that a Western release was confirmed, with localization being handled by Amazon Games.
Lost Ark is currently expected to be out in early 2022, and with the new year rapidly approaching Amazon and original publisher Smilegate have kicked off a week-long closed beta test. Set to run until November 11, the beta test will feature the new Martial Artist Striker subclass, dungeons and raids, islands to sail to and explore, and other updates to the live game in Korea.

Arm the hot tubs: EVE Fanfest returns next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/arm-the-hot-tubs-eve-fanfest-returns-next-year/
The last time EVE Fanfest took place as an in-person event, our intrepid senior reporter Steven Messner got drunk, got naked, got in a hot tub, and discussed the potentialities of machine sentience with the developers—pretty much par for the course at these events, as I understand it. The annual EVE Online convention was cancelled in 2020 and '21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but CCP announced today that it's returning for 2022.

Amy Hennig's Marvel game has its first confirmed writer
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amy-hennigs-marvel-game-has-its-first-confirmed-writer/
During the latest FatMan Beyond podcast hosted by Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin, the latter confirmed he is working on Amy Hennig's forthcoming Marvel-themed videogame. News of that project emerged last week: it'll be a "narrative-driven, blockbuster action-adventure game" helmed by Skydance New Media, a new arm of film company Skydance Media.
>> And it may (or not) be about Ant-Man or Fantastic Four,

Early Call of Duty: Vanguard reviews point to good multiplayer but a lacklustre campaign
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/early-call-of-duty-vanguard-reviews-point-to-good-multiplayer-but-a-lacklustre-campaign/
Call of Duty: Vanguard reviews are in, though we don't have our own just yet: We haven't played it, so expect to see our verdict some time next week once we've played through the campaign and spent some meaningful time with the new multiplayer and Zombie modes. It's the 18th game in the long-running shooter series (19th if you count Warzone), marks another return to World War 2, and early signs point to another singleplayer campaign that plays a heck of a lot like previous instalments, just maybe not as well.

Here are the games that don't work on Intel Alder Lake, but there is a workaround
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/intel-alder-lake-drm-game-list-workaround/
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Today, there's a complete list of games that are currently incompatible with Intel Alder Lake (nice spot, Andreas Schilling), but which ones work and which don't will depend on whether you have Windows 11 or Windows 10 installed on your PC.

And now, the GOG and Steam weekend deals:

+GOG

• The Midweek Sale comes with up to 90% discounts during another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211103_midweek_sale
• The Special Sale featuring Team17 brings up to 80% off during the next 5 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/team17_sale
• The first of the three Weekend Sales revolves around the Metro franchise, up to 75% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/metro_franchise_weekend
• The second Weekend Sale comes with games from NIS America, up to 75% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/nis_america
• And the third one involves Visual Novels and JRPGs with up to 80% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211105_weekend_sale
• Oh, and Ziggurat have added another two games to its classics catalog and are 33% off until November 12. Learn more here: https://www.gog.com/news/welcome_a_duo_of_true_classics_from_ziggurat_interactive

+Steam

• The first daily deal is T-Minus 30, 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371750/TMinus_30/
• The second daily deal is State of Mind, 90% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/437630/State_of_Mind/
• The first weekend deal is Risk of Rain 2, 40% off until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/632360/Risk_of_Rain_2/
• Hitman 2 is 80% off until the 8th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/
• THQ Nordic puts its racing games on sale, up to 80% off until Monday 8: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/2021THQNordicRacingGames
• Publisher Hypetrain offers its games with up to 90% discounts until November 8: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hypetrain
• Deep Rock Galactic will be 50% off until November 15: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

That's all folks! Until next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.