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The news, part two:

Awesome Games Done Quick raises a record $3.5 million for charity
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/awesome-games-done-quick-raises-a-record-dollar35-million-for-charity/
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The Games Done Quick Twitter account has announced that the 2022 instalment of AGDQ raised a whopping $3,431,680 for Prevent Cancer, an organisation dedicated to prevention and early detection of the disease. This makes it by some distance the most money one of these events has raised so far (further donations have been made subsequent to the below tweet's total figure).

Activision Blizzard denies report that CEO Bobby Kotick blocked release of internal discipline report
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nearly-40-activision-blizzard-employees-have-been-removed-since-july-over-misconduct-claims/
A new Wall Street Journal report says Activision Blizzard has fire or pushed out 37 employees since July 2021 as part of the company's investigation into complaints of sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct, while 44 more have faced other forms of discipline. The report also shows that the company has collected roughly 700 reports of possible workplace misconduct—some of them separate reports about the same incidents—over the same period.
>> The "other" Activision-Blizzard news is down below.

Logistics players in MMO wargame Foxhole 'go on strike'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/logistics-players-in-mmo-wargame-foxhole-go-on-strike/
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As reported by NME, 1800 Foxhole players have signed an open letter from the "Logistics Organization for General Improvement,'' or LOGI, outlining eleven issues with the role they would like Siege Camp to address. The developer did not respond to LOGI by their deadline of January 10, so it's organizers have requested that signees stop playing the logistics role, going "on strike" as it were and potentially starving players in other roles of ammunition, weapons, and the like.

Blaseball is being made into a two-player competitive card game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/blaseball-is-being-made-into-a-two-player-competitive-card-game/
Blaseball is not quite baseball. As we explained in 2020, It's "a simulated baseball league with the occasional Hellmouth" which wrapped up its ninth season with a goddamn JRPG boss fight. In 2021 Blaseball evolved into a "massively co-operative tactical strategy game" that somehow saw a team sucked into the nether realm by a black hole. Something like that, anyway.
Soon all of that strangeness will come to the corporeal realm as Blaseball: The Card Game, a competitive game for two players, each of whom will lead a Blaseball team through the top and bottom of the ninth inning. It's being developed by board game company Wayfinder Games in partnership with Blaseball developer The Game Band, but will be completely separate from and have no interactions with the Blaseball website.

Fortnite teases the return of Tilted Towers on Twitter
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-teases-the-return-of-tilted-towers-on-twitter/
Tilted Towers was an infamous landmark from Fortnite's earlier days: a dense, multilevel area with high spawn rates for gear but also plenty of places for enemies to hide, leaving it a high-risk, high-reward drop zone and a natural setting for tense, memorable firefights. It's seen some variations and throwbacks in various updates over the years, but has been MIA for some time.

DICE is working on a fix for Battlefront 2's invincibility glitch
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dice-is-working-on-a-fix-for-battlefront-2s-invincibility-glitch/
In October of last year Star Wars: Battlefront 2's blasters-and-lightsabers power fantasy started degenerating into something out of a bad dream. All of the players in a match would sometimes find themselves unable to die. Dealing damage sees them stuck at 1hp indefinitely, like they've engaged Buddha mode, and even the game's out-of-bounds triggers would fail to kill players, leading to immortal lightsaber dance parties under the world geometry.
As reported by IGN, the problem is exclusive to PC, and may be occurring more frequently as time goes on. Thankfully, DICE is aware of the issue and seems to be taking steps to address it. Community manager Kevin Johnson, responding to a thread on Battlefield 2042's (another DICE title) subreddit, claimed that "progress was made towards getting a fix in place." We still don't have word of when this fix may come, however.
>> Took them a while to do something. But, of course, they've been busy with 2042.

God of War hotfix takes aim at 'out of memory' errors
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/god-of-war-hotfix-takes-aim-at-out-of-memory-errors/
God of War finally launched on PC last week, and it is very good. (...)
Of course, there's no such thing as a completely flawless launch, and some users have been reporting out of memory errors, even on high-end rigs. After digging into the complaints, Sony found that most of the reports were coming from people with new 12th-Gen Intel CPUs with integrated graphics. Disabling those integrated graphics was an effective (but obviously not ideal) workaround, but now a hotfix is available in an "experimental" branch on Steam that will hopefully provide a more user-friendly solution.
>> Maybe this hotfix will solve your problems, zero.

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/microsoft-will-acquire-activision-blizzard/
Microsoft has announced it will buy troubled developer and publisher Activision Blizzard.
The landmark acquisition is valued at around $68.7 billion, being bought out at $95 a share. It's Microsoft's biggest acquisition to date, and once the transaction closes it'll make the company the world's third-largest in gaming by revenue.
>> BOOM! The (probably) biggest news of the year. Let's hope MSoft doesn't try to make their own store again because, with Bethesda and now Acti-Blizz, they would succeed this time around. Too bad they aren't firing Kotick. Anyway, here's the thread about this surprise, made by SKMBlake.