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Thursday news, part two:

Big Among Us update adds four new roles, an XP system, and multiple currencies
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/big-among-us-update-adds-four-new-roles-an-xp-system-and-multiple-currencies/
Among Us has received a huge new update that features new character roles, a progression system, and a new store. The Role & Cosmicube update adds four new crewmates: Scientist, Engineer, Guardian Angel, and the Imposter role of Shapeshifter.

Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker will reset your mid-level progress, so level up before it launches
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-14-endwalker-will-reset-your-mid-level-progress-so-level-up-before-it-launches/
Final Fantasy 14 hosted its 67th Letter from the Producer over the weekend—a livestream from the likes of producer Naoki Yoshida and other team members to provide updates on the game.
Among news like upcoming expansion Endwalker being delayed by two weeks, there was a ton of info about what we can expect when Patch 6.0 does finally land on December 3. Tucked between all the fun nuggets of content was a PSA I very nearly missed—make sure your characters aren't on the brink of levelling up before Endwalker releases.

Star Citizen adds big bombs, hospitals to recover from getting big bombs dropped on you
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-citizen-adds-big-bombs-hospitals-to-recover-from-getting-big-bombs-dropped-on-you/
Star Citizen patch 3.15 goes live today, and contains new ways to heal injuries and one big new way to cause them. And, as always, the patch includes some new ships and some other odds and ends.

Elden Ring fans are spending hundreds of dollars for Network Test codes on eBay
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elden-ring-fans-are-spending-hundreds-of-dollars-for-network-test-codes-on-ebay/
For as much as $450, you can buy access to the upcoming Elden Ring Network Test on Ebay, where sellers are putting codes up for sale and people are buying them up like they're 30-series graphics cards.

Play a corrupt businessman elected to the highest office in This is the President
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/play-a-corrupt-businessman-elected-to-the-highest-office-in-this-is-the-president/
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Unlike many political simulations, which focus on the process of getting elected, This is the President is about what happens after: The game begins in the year 2020, shortly after your election, and rather than worrying about the affairs of the nation, your only concern is dodging responsibility for all the crimes you committed in your pre-president days as a "shady multi-millionaire businessman."

Celebrate Thanksgiving by cooking mutant rats in the post-apocalypse
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/celebrate-thanksgiving-by-cooking-mutant-rats-in-the-post-apocalypse/
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Cooking Simulator's next DLC pack will have you occasionally putting down your spatula and picking up a gun to hunt rats and mutants for food. It takes place after some very big bombs have dropped and the planet has become a radioactive wasteland. And it's got a release date, too: Cooking Simulator: Shelter is planned for November 18, just in time for the holiday.

Geoff Keighley promises no 'NFT stuff' at this year's Game Awards
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/geoff-keighley-promises-no-nft-stuff-at-this-years-game-awards/
The Game Awards will return as an in-person event for 2021, with an invite-only audience at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and many more watching digitally on more than 40 different streaming platforms worldwide. And it's going to be a big one: Host Geoff Keighley told Epic Games that this year's event will feature 40-50 games "some way or another," including new game announcements in the double digits.

GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition radio stations are missing over 40 songs according to Rockstar tracklist
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gta-trilogy-definitive-edition-radio-stations-are-missing-over-40-songs/
A question that's been on our minds since the announcement of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition is whether the radio stations will have all the same songs as the original versions did. Grand Theft Auto 4 already lost some of its songs due to music licences expiring, so how will the older games fare?

The next SteamWorld game is 3D, co-op, and called Headhunter
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-next-steamworld-game-is-3d-co-op-and-called-headhunter/
Back in May, a financial report revealed there were "several new SteamWorld games" in development, and now here's a first look at one of them. Called SteamWorld Headhunter, it's apparently "a stylised and colourful, third-person co-op action adventure with a head-popping twist." The head-popping seems to be literal, according to the teaser trailer, which shows a wild west shootout between two robots.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Live delayed to next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/pokemon-trading-card-game-live-delayed-to-next-year/
Pokémon Trading Card Game Live is the long-awaited successor to the existing Pokémon TCG Online, and was announced earlier this year as entering open beta on PC in late 2021 (the game will also be available on mobile). Now the game's official account has announced that the 'global open beta' for desktop has been delayed until 2022.

Skyrim Anniversary Edition 'modpocalypse' partially averted by a key modder getting early access
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/skyrim-anniversary-edition-modpocalypse-partially-averted-by-a-key-modder-getting-early-access/
The latest named version of The Elder Scrolls V is now out in the wild as Skyrim Anniversary Edition. Which means that everyone can now get on with piecing back together their custom version of the game complete with all their favorite Skyrim mods installed. Mostly, anyhow. Skyrim Script Extender, one of the cornerstone mods required by many, many other Skyrim mods, was preparing for a full-on "modpocalypse." Fortunately, Bethesda gave early access to the Skyrim Anniversary Edition to the developers of SKSE, who say that the outlook for the Skyrim Special Edition modding scene is now "better than expected."

Fortnite just accidentally gave away its rarest item to hundreds of players
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-just-accidentally-gave-away-its-rarest-item-to-hundreds-of-players/
Oops! Fortnite just somehow managed to accidentally give a bunch of its players the rarest item in the game, before quietly snatching them back a short while later.