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All-women speedrunning event Frost Fatales raises $132,000 for charity
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/all-women-speedrunning-event-frost-fatales-raises-dollar132000-for-charity/
The all-woman speedrunning event Frost Fatales wrapped up this weekend with more than $132,000 raised for the Malala Fund, a non-profit founded in 2013 by Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai that works to support safe, quality education for girls around the world.

Take-Two and Ubisoft suspend sales in Russia over Ukrainian invasion
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/take-two-and-ubisoft-suspend-sales-in-russia-over-ukrainian-invasion/
Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft have announced that they are halting sales of their games and services in Russia as a result of its invasion of Ukraine.

World of Warcraft's next expansion will be revealed in April
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/world-of-warcrafts-next-expansion-will-be-revealed-in-april/
Blizzard hasn't revealed the next World of Warcraft expansion yet, but it has revealed when it will be revealed, as well as the reveal timing for the next Hearthstone expansion and, with somewhat less specificity, the upcoming Warcraft mobile game.
>> The announcement of an announcement...

Another peek at the Dead Space remake is just around the corner, gurgling
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/another-peek-at-the-dead-space-remake-is-just-around-the-corner-gurgling/
On Friday, developer Motive will livestream a new progress report on its upcoming remake of EA horror classic Dead Space. The studio teased the stream on Twitter, implying that the topic of this behind-the-scenes tour will be all the noisy gurgling, clanking, and distorted whispering that you have to have in a game about dismembering alien-human hybrids on a ghost spaceship.

Nintendo 64 platformer Glover is getting a PC reissue next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nintendo-64-platformer-glover-is-getting-a-pc-reissue-next-month/
Released back in 1998 for Nintendo 64 and PC, Glover was a 3D platformer starring a glove and its ball. It's very much a product of its time, though it has an interesting twist: the sentient glove protagonist needs to guide a ball to the end of each level, so it plays a little like Mario 64 blended with a marble run game.
Piko Interactive, a studio which, in its own words, buys "old intellectual property to make cool stuff", is re-releasing Glover for PC next month. Using the original Nintendo 64 source code (there was a hugely inferior PlayStation version), Piko Interactive has "completely redone" the game so that it'll play nice with modern PCs.
>> There's a trailer, in case you want to check it out.

Take-Two is facing a lawsuit over NBA 2K loot boxes and microtransactions
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/take-two-is-facing-a-lawsuit-over-nba-2k-loot-boxes-and-microtransactions/
Take-Two Interactive is facing a lawsuit over the presence of loot boxes in its NBA 2K games and the VC—virtual currency—that players use to purchase them. The suit doesn't reference the newest game in the series, NBA 2K22, specifically, but notes that games in the series are offered at standard purchase prices but then encourage players to spend even more on other in-game content.

Bethesda re-ups trademark for unannounced project called Spyteam
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bethesda-re-ups-trademark-for-unannounced-project-called-spyteam/
Zenimax Media has renewed a trademark for a product called Spyteam, a long-rumoured title that has previously surfaced in the same way. Spyteam does sound a tiny bit like the kind of show my five year-old would watch, though it also suggests a multiplayer focus—and of course it's always quite amusing when something related to espionage is found out.

Bethesda is working on a 'five-year roadmap' for Fallout 76
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bethesda-is-working-on-a-five-year-roadmap-for-fallout-76/
UFOs filled with alien invaders have just arrived in West Virginia. Don't panic, I'm just talking about Fallout 76, which has entered Season 8 and is now filled with extraterrestrial encounters. Fallout 76's new 2022 roadmap also promises arena fights against robots this summer, expeditions to revisit The Pitt this fall (last seen in a Fallout 3 add-on), and a new region boss arriving in the winter.
That's a pretty packed schedule for the year, but according to Bethesda it's just the tip of the irradiated iceberg. Speaking recently to AusGamers, Fallout 76 design director Mark Tucker said they are working on a roadmap that will cover the next five years of the post-nuclear MMO.

Final Fantasy 14 is currently broken for the majority of Steam users
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-14-is-currently-broken-for-the-majority-of-steam-users/
A huge portion of Steam Final Fantasy 14 players are finding themselves unable to log into the game after new security measures have perhaps made the game too secure.

Future Spring Showcase brings a raft of new announcements in late March
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/future-spring-showcase-brings-a-raft-of-new-announcements-in-late-march/
The Future Games Show: Spring Showcase, presented by GamesRadar+, returns on March 24 with an exclusive look at some of the most exciting games coming this year. The show will feature more than 40 games, including eight new reveals from publishers such as Frontier Foundry, Nacon, and a showcase from Team17.

Ex-Amazon developer claims 'it was pretty apparent' Crucible would fail
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ex-amazon-developer-claims-it-was-pretty-apparent-crucible-would-fail/
A former senior developer at Amazon Games has claimed that it was "pretty apparent" the incredibly short-lived sci-fi shooter Crucible was doomed to fail.
Stephen Dewhurst spent seven years at the developer and publisher as a senior systems designer, spending the majority of his time there working on Crucible. Dewhurst cited fundamental issues with how Amazon Games operated, calling its workplace policies "draconian."