Tuesday news, part two:
Rainbow Six Siege creative director departs for 'other opportunities' at Ubisoft
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/rainbow-six-siege-creative-director-departs-for-other-opportunities-at-ubisoft/
For the third time in its six year run, Rainbow Six Siege has a new creative director. Leroy Athanassoff, who took the creative director title after Xavier Marquis left the game in 2020, is moving on after two years. In his place comes art director Alex Karpazis, who started on the Siege team in 2017.
Phil Spencer on dealing with harassment and bad actors: 'We’re not a free speech platform'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/phil-spencer-on-dealing-with-harassment-and-bad-actors-were-not-a-free-speech-platform/
Xbox boss Phil Spencer recently spoke to the New York Times about the state of the industry and Microsoft's current strategy across various hot button issues. A topic that reared its ugly head was community and specifically harassment across gaming social networks: interviewer Kara Swisher drew a link between anonymity and the Gamergate saga, asking what lessons the big platform-holders had taken from it.
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Elden Ring overtakes Dying Light 2 as Steam's most wishlisted game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elden-ring-overtakes-dying-light-2-as-steams-most-wishlisted-game/
Astoundingly, we're only one month out from the release of Elden Ring—and to the surprise of no-one, it's quickly become the most wishlisted game on Steam.
Analytics site SteamDB reports that over 278,000 steam users have slammed that "add to wishlist" button under From Software's latest gloomy action-RPG, which launches on February 25th. It takes the spot of Steam's most wanted game from Dying Light 2 which, despite plans to release in late 2021, was delayed into an absolutely packed February 2022.
When will Monster Hunter Rise on PC unlock in your time zone?
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/monster-hunter-rise-pc-release-time-unlock/
The Monster Hunter Rise PC unlock time is fast approaching, and we're counting down the hours until we can set out from Kamura Village to face down giant roary creatures once again. You'll have already been doing so for the last 10 months if you own the game on the Nintendo Switch, but if you've been waiting for the PC version, your patience will be rewarded soon.
Halo Infinite's busted Big Team Battles getting a hotfix 'soon'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinites-busted-big-team-battles-getting-a-hotfix-soon/
343 Industries has provided an update on the state of Halo Infinite's Big Team Battle mode, which has been pretty busted for around a month now.
In a post on the official Halo forum, community director Brian Jarrard said a "strike force" has been working on a hotfix while the development team were out for the holidays. The 12v12 mode has been plagued with matchmaking and disconnection issues since December, made even worse when you're trying to queue into it with buddies which is half the fun of BTB in the first place. A "few attempts at solving and mitigating before the holiday break" were made, but the issue has gone largely unfixed.
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