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Tuesday news, part two:

Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says it is not making an NFT game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/blizzard-president-says-its-not-making-an-nft-game/
Following a weekend report of a survey indicating that Activision Blizzard is looking into developing NFT-based games, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra took to Twitter to say, unequivocally, that it's not happening.

This week's Battlefield 2042 update adds voice chat, hundreds of fixes and tweaks
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/battlefield-2042-voice-chat-update/
Battlefield 2042 is finally getting voice chat this week, as well as somewhere around 400 tweaks, bug fixes, and balance changes. The VOIP update will be downloadable at 8 am UTC on Tuesday, which is 1 am Pacific, 4 am Eastern, and 9 am in the UK. There is no server downtime planned.

Elden Ring PSA: If someone drops panties in your game, don't pick them up
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elden-ring-psa-if-someone-drops-panties-in-your-game-dont-pick-them-up/
Quick heads-up: If someone pops into your Elden Ring game, drops a pair of skimpy skivvies on the ground, and then dips, do not—repeat, do not—pick them up. Multiple people are reporting in the Elden Ring subreddit that they have been banned from regular online play after claiming the discarded tighty-whities as their own.
>> In short: don't be a perv and you'll be fine.

Halo Infinite players figure out how to see personal MMR
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/halo-infinite-players-figure-out-how-to-see-personal-mmr/
MMR—matchmaking rating—is essentially a measure of skill used to ensure fair matchups in multiplayer games: Putting together players with similar MMR helps avoid the vicious beatdowns that can occur as a result of randomized matchups through server browsers. It's not something that games typically display to players—actual MMR ratings are often invisible data points that exist behind the scenes—but a group of Halo fans recently figured out how to track individual player MMR in Halo Infinite, and discovered how playing the game in casual modes can actually wreak havoc on your ranked experience.

Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio to return in 'big-budget' reboots, report says
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/crazy-taxi-and-jet-set-radio-to-return-in-big-budget-reboots-report-says/
Garish colours, The Offspring, kerrr-razehhh voices, and the vibrant final years of coin-op arcades before they went Supernova and made way for the inky emo blackness of the early 2000s. Sega's cool and comicky driving and rollerblading games Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio were symbols of this innocent time, and now it looks like they're circling back round for new outings.
According to a report by Bloomberg, new entries in the Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio series will mark the start of Sega's 'Super Game' project, which will eventually entail around four games, one of which we know will be a first-person shooter. The Crazy Taxi game is already in development, and expected to come out in the next two to three years.
>> Ryuu96 (who else could it be?), has made a thread about this rumor.

Roblox game claiming to have Kim Kardashian's sex tape was discovered by her son
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/roblox-game-claiming-to-have-kim-kardashians-sex-tape-was-discovered-by-her-son/
Roblox has banned a developer following an episode of The Kardashians which showed Kim Kardashian's son discovering a game that claimed to contain a new sex tape featuring the reality star.

Spellcraft is a new 'hero collecting' strategy game from Blizzard and ArenaNet veterans
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/spellcraft-is-a-new-hero-collecting-strategy-game-from-blizzard-and-arenanet-veterans/
If you're going to pitch me a multiverse game in 2022, where heroes from different worlds are thrown together into some kind of battleground, one of those heroes better be a sentient car. This is my new line in the sand: I've had enough of wizards and commandos. Give me Benny the foul-mouthed cab from Roger Rabbit if you want me to pay attention.
This new philosophy worked for me with Spellcraft, a new strategy game from a small studio founded by longtime Blizzard programmer (and ArenaNet co-founder) Patrick Wyatt: 30 seconds into the teaser trailer I saw a car with giant wrenches for hands and immediately wanted to know more.