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Respawn co-founder and Apex director leaves, promises 'years worth of content in flight'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/respawn-co-founder-and-apex-director-leaves-promises-years-worth-of-content-in-flight/
Respawn co-founder and Apex Legends game director Chad Grenier has announced he is leaving the studio after eleven years. "After helping to co-found the studio, bring the Titanfall universe to life, and launch the incredible experiment that is Apex Legends—it’s been an unforgettable ride to say the least," writes Grenier. "But today, this crazy chapter comes to an end."

Halo's Magnum is coming to Destiny 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halos-magnum-is-coming-to-destiny-2/
In a few hours, Destiny 2's Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack will go live in game, bringing a new six-player activity, new dungeon and the return of a handful of Destiny 1 weapons—including iconic Exotic rocket launcher Gjallarhorn, bane of every year one player looking to join an LFG. The pack, however, also promised weapons drawn from Bungie's history, including the Claymore Sword from Myth and a Marathon-inspired shotgun.

Dozens of the world's biggest games are offline as AWS goes down
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dozens-of-the-worlds-biggest-games-are-offline-as-aws-goes-down/
Amazon Web Services is by some distance the biggest server or cloud computing company on the planet: As of April 2021, it accounts for 32% of the $42 billion cloud computing market. Today AWS has gone down and at the time of writing remains so—we'll update when that changes—and an absolute bundle of other platforms that depend on its service are also now unavailable.
UPDATE 13:30 ET / 18:30 GMT: The official AWS dashboard says: "We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates. We have identified the root cause and are actively working towards recovery."

Final Fantasy 14's pesky disconnection issues should be getting fixed this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-14s-pesky-disconnection-issues-should-be-getting-fixed-this-week/
Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker released in early access on December 3 and the launch weekend proved to be pretty damn popular. Like, 'six-hour queues and countless errors' popular. Despite Square Enix's best attempts to batten down the hatches in preparation for what has been the game's most successful weekend ever, logging into the servers has been a downright nightmare.

Activision-Blizzard QA walkout spreads to other studios in its second day
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-blizzard-qa-walkout-spreads-to-other-studios-in-its-second-day/
Members of the quality assurance team at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software staged a walkout on Monday to protest the layoffs of coworkers announced late last week. The walkout continues today, and has expanded to include other studios, who are "standing in solidarity" with the Raven QA team.

Ubisoft starts selling NFTs in the form of helmets with tiny numbers
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-starts-selling-nfts-in-the-form-of-helmets-with-tiny-numbers/
Well, those mad bastards did it. Ubisoft is not alone among the big publishers in having declared an interest in Non-Fungible Tokens, but now it is the first to launch its take on the most irritating digital trend of the moment. Ubisoft Quartz now has an announcement trailer, an official site, and my eternal scorn.
>> F*ck Ubisoft.

Ubisoft management happy with pace of reforms after workplace harassment reckoning, but employees aren't buying it
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-management-happy-with-pace-of-reforms-after-workplace-harassment-reckoning-but-employees-arent-buying-it/
In a recent interview with Axios, Ubisoft's chief people officer, Anika Grant, talked up the company's response to its workplace harassment scandal, although some Ubisoft employees remain dissatisfied with the pace of reform. An employee group called ABetterUbisoft (an intentional reference to the ABetterABK group that made demands of Activision Blizzard this summer) says that what they really want and aren't getting is a seat at the table.

Halo Infinite won't let you replay story missions at launch, but the feature is coming
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinite-has-ditched-the-ability-to-replay-story-missions/
Halo Infinite's campaign missions won't be replayable unless you start a new save file, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed.
Update: A 343 Industries spokesperson has told Stevivor that the ability to replay campaign missions in Halo Infinite will be added to the game after launch.

Turns out Fortnite Chapter 3 is the first Unreal Engine 5 game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-unreal-engine-5/
We've been eagerly awaiting whatever shiny new graphics Unreal Engine 5 has in store since the first demo debuted in May 2020. It turns out, the real Unreal Engine 5 was in front of us all along in the form of Fortnite Chapter 3.
Unreal Engine's official Twitter account confirmed the news Tuesday.

Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion delayed into next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-the-old-republic-expansion-delayed-into-next-year/
BioWare has delayed the imminent release of Star Wars: The Old Republic's new Legacy of the Sith expansion, moving it from December 14 to February 15, 2022. According to project director Keith Kanneg, the delay is due in part to feedback from a recent public test server showing.

Stardew Valley briefly broke itself after performance hotfix crashed the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/stardew-valley-briefly-broke-itself-after-performance-hotfix-crashed-the-game/
Stardew Valley managed to break itself this week after a hotfix intended to repair performance issues caused the game to repeatedly crash.
The patch introduced a memory leak problem which was making it perform progressively worse over longer play sessions. The hotfix went out on December 7, but players quickly began reporting that their game was crashing within minutes of booting up. Anything from entering a chicken coop to watering plants seemed to break things entirely, making it impossible to play.

No preload for Halo Infinite, but having multiplayer will decrease download time
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/no-preload-for-halo-infinite-but-having-multiplayer-will-decrease-download-time/
343 Industries has apologised for the fact that Halo Infinite's campaign doesn't have the option to preload, but has said the download will be quicker if you already have the multiplayer mode installed.

GTA Online update will debut new Dr. Dre music, bring back Franklin
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gta-online-update-will-debut-new-dr-dre-music-bring-back-franklin/
GTA Online is adding new story missions later this month, bringing back Grand Theft Auto 5 tritagonist Franklin and debuting new music from legendary rapper Dr. Dre.