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Thursday news, part two:

Here's when Tiny Tina's Wonderlands unlocks in your time zone
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/tiny-tinas-wonderlands-release-time-unlock-pre-load/
The Tiny Tina's Wonderlands release time is different depending on whether you're playing on PC or console, so I've listed them both in this guide. But regardless of your choice of platform you're in for a treat if you're a Borderlands fan: Jody in his Tiny Tina's Wonderlands review puts it above Borderlands 3, although it doesn't quite hit the heights of 2.

Gnome-lovers rejoice: they'll be playable in Baldur's Gate 3
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gnome-lovers-rejoice-theyll-be-playable-in-baldurs-gate-3/
In D&D, gnomes are objectively the best. They're like halflings with more personality and less disgusting feet. Thank goodness, then, that they are definitely going to be playable in Baldur's Gate 3, eventually.

Co-op castle escape puzzler We Were Here Forever launches in May
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/co-op-castle-escape-puzzler-we-were-here-forever-launches-in-may/
What I adamantly believe is one of the best co-op games on PC is getting a fourth game in its friendship-testing crash course on effective communication. We Were Here Forever (which I'll forgive for not being named 4ever) is arriving in May as the next in the series of co-op escape room puzzlers.

John Romero recalls the time Sierra almost bought id Software: 'I was dumbfounded'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/john-romero-recalls-the-time-sierra-almost-bought-id-software-i-was-dumbfounded/
They say hindsight is 20/20, but I'd like to think if I were a successful videogame executive in the early '90s, I would have been pretty jazzed to see an early build of id Software's Wolfenstein 3D. According to John Romero, the revolutionary first-person shooter didn't set off any sparks for Sierra On-line co-founder Ken Williams in a meeting that nearly ended with Sierra buying id.

'Netflix of games' isn't likely, says analyst
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/netflix-of-games-isnt-likely-says-analyst/
With Microsoft amassing studios for its Game Pass kingdom and many of the industry's big players chasing cloud streaming, will a "Netflix of games" ultimately come along and squash a la carte game purchasing, tying us all to subscriptions forever? Industry analyst Piers Harding-Rolls is skeptical.

Souls dataminer shows why Elden Ring's asset re-use is actually awesome
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/souls-dataminer-shows-why-elden-rings-asset-re-use-is-actually-awesome/
Elden Ring: in case you haven't heard, it's the bee's knees. One of the great and unexpected pleasures I've found in the game is seeing the echoes, large and small, of the Soulsborne games that led up to this point. When Elden Ring was first revealed its re-use of assets even became a silly controversy, with some sorts rather put-out that FromSoftware might, god forbid, re-use a perfectly functional sword swing animation rather than making a whole new one.

Halo Infinite is introducing ranked requirements to combat cheaters
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinite-is-introducing-ranked-requirements-to-combat-cheaters/
Halo Infinite will soon require you get your feet wet in casual play before diving into ranked playlists as part of its ongoing anti-cheat efforts, developer 343 Industries revealed in an anti-cheat blog post early this week.

FIFA 22 benches Maradona thanks to intractable rights dispute over his likeness
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fifa-22-benches-maradona-thanks-to-intractable-rights-dispute-over-his-likeness/
Football: the beautiful game and also, sadly, one of the grubbiest. So much money sloshes around at the top that corruption and scandal are as much a part of football's history as Italia 90. So to the news that the likeness of the late Diego Maradona, one of the all-time greats, has now been removed from EA's FIFA 22. The reason? An intractable licensing dispute over who has the rights to profit from him.