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Monday news, part two:

This FPS is basically Bejeweled with guns (and it has a story)
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-fps-is-basically-bejeweled-with-guns-and-it-has-a-story/
Alien invasion! First-person combat! Wallrunning! Drama! Match-3 gameplay! One of these things, as Sesame Street taught us, is not like the others, but they all come together in a single, kind of weird-looking package called Matcho, a "match-3 FPS" coming to Steam later this year.

State of Decay studio Undead Labs faces allegations of sexism and bullying
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/state-of-decay-studio-undead-labs-faces-allegations-of-sexism-and-bullying/
The open-world zombie survival game State of Decay 3 was announced in July 2020, yet according to a Kotaku report yesterday the game remains stuck in pre-production as the studio has struggled with mismanagement, burnout, and workplace toxicity following its 2018 acquisition by Microsoft.

Silent Hill-like horror game Abandoned is not cancelled, developer says
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/silent-hill-like-horror-game-abandoned-is-not-cancelled-developer-says/
Blue Box Studios says reports that its Silent Hill-like horror game Abandoned has been cancelled are false, and that it has simply had to push back its plans to fully reveal the game and release a prologue chapter.
Concern about a possible cancellation surfaced earlier this week, when fans noticed that Blue Box had deleted most of its tweets detailing plans for Abandoned, including that a playable demo would soon be released. That led to speculation that the project was really a scam of some sort, and that the game didn't actually exist.

Graphical Dwarf Fortress keeps looking better with new character sheets
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/graphical-dwarf-fortress-keeps-looking-better-with-new-character-sheets/
Ever since we first got a look at the upcoming version of Dwarf Fortress which, for the first time ever, will have pixel graphics rather than indecipherable ASCII, I've been hankering to see how they'll give a proper UI to characters. The new version coming to Steam has been powering along for a few years now and we've got a proper look at what makes a Dwarf a Dwarf.

Activision Blizzard ends, then quickly reinstates employee vaccination requirement
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-blizzard-ends-then-quickly-reinstates-employee-vaccination-requirement/
Activision Blizzard has reversed its decision to no longer require proof of vaccination from employees as part of its return-to-office plan. The company had announced its initial plan to employees on Thursday according to tweets from employees and reporting from Jason Schreier for Bloomberg.

Patrick's Parabox is your new indie puzzle darling
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/patricks-parabox-is-your-new-indie-puzzle-darling/
So many indie puzzlers start with a pretty simple premise, like "what if you could put boxes inside of other boxes," and end with absolute mind-bending madness like "I have seven layers of boxes and they seem to have started infinitely recurring."

Building is back in Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/building-is-back-in-fortnite/
Two weeks after it was removed—or to put it another way, a fortnight after it was removed—building is back in Fortnite: Battle Royale. Play any of the regular modes and you'll once again be susceptible to someone who has mastered the editing tools instantly putting you in a box then deleting a wall just long enough to shotgun your face off.

Nightmare Reaper is a pretty dang cool roguelite looter-shooter retro FPS
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nightmare-reaper-is-a-pretty-dang-cool-roguelite-looter-shooter-retro-fps/
Sitting somewhere between a modern roguelite and a retro FPS, Nightmare Reaper is a recent release from indie studio Blazing Bit Games that combines familiar elements into a formula that feels quite fresh. Putting you up against hordes of monsters that explode into fountains of gore, Nightmare Reaper takes open-ended levels both procedural and handmade and lets you tackle them however you please—as long as however you please involves using 80-some weapons with all kinds of weird random modifiers to blow everything up.

World of Warcraft's next expansion may be dragon-focused according to a leak
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/world-of-warcrafts-next-expansion-may-be-dragon-focused-according-to-a-leak/
The name of World of Warcraft's next expansion may have leaked through the source code of the game's official website. According to Wowhead, the site contains product IDs for something called "Dragonflight" in "base," "epic," and "heroic" forms, matching the product tiers used in previous expansions.

Bandai Namco may collaborate with another American fantasy novelist after George R. R. Martin
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bandai-namco-may-collaborate-with-another-american-fantasy-novelist-after-george-r-r-martin/
Brandon Sanderson, author of the popular Mistborn series, the continuation and conclusion of the Wheel of Time, and many other fantasy novels, may be pursuing a future project with Elden Ring publisher, Bandai Namco.

Court documents may explain the disappearance of Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/court-documents-may-explain-the-disappearance-of-paranoia-happiness-is-mandatory/
Two years ago, Orwellian sci-fi RPG Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory was removed from sale within weeks of its release. The reason for its delisting has remained a mystery, but a set of court documents unearthed by Gamekult shed light on the situation.

Here's when Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga unlocks in your time zone
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-unlock-times/
The wait to play Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is almost over and console players who have pre-ordered it should be able to pre-load it now. In The Skywalker Saga, you'll be able to play as various characters from all nine films, including the best one: The Phantom Menace. No, I will not be taking any questions at this time.