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Thursday news, part two:

Cute crab game gets a trailer and coins the term 'Shellslike'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cute-crab-game-gets-a-trailer-and-coins-the-term-shellslike/
Aggro Crab is a studio that's quickly built up an image of not being one to take itself too seriously. After its fluorescent satirical dungeon-crawler Going Under, where you battled the demons of failed tech startups, the studio published the equally bizarre 'escape from a weirdo on a train' game Subway Midnight. But the off-kilter themes shouldn't belie the artistic merits of these games: they're filled with striking visuals and great ideas.

Card Shark, the game about cheating, social mobility, and getting stabbed by peasants, arrives on June 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/card-shark-the-game-about-cheating-social-mobility-and-getting-stabbed-by-peasants-arrives-on-june-2/
Devolver Digital announced today that Card Shark, the game of cheating at cards, climbing the ranks of society, and trying not to be murdered like a dog, will finally arrive on June 2.

Ubisoft CEO on buyout rumors: "We have everything we need to remain independent"
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-ceo-on-buyout-rumors-we-have-everything-we-need-to-remain-independent/
Addressing rumors that private equity firms may be looking to acquire French publisher Ubisoft, CEO Yves Guillemot said during today's year-end investors call that the company has "everything we need to remain independent."

Gunbrella seamlessly combines exactly the two items you'd think
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gunbrella-seamlessly-combines-exactly-the-two-items-youd-think/
Gunbrella combines a gun and an umbrella, and makes one wonder why no-one's done it before. A seriously slick-looking 2D platformer for developer Doinksoft, with Devolver Digital on publishing duties, the game is built around rapid switches between blasting enemies and using the umbrella's defensive and movement capabilities.

The Final Boss is a free, Papers, Please-style tale about the drudgery of running an evil empire
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-final-boss-is-a-free-papers-please-style-tale-about-the-drudgery-of-running-an-evil-empire/
What does the evil overlord do when they're not stomping adventurers into the last save? A whole lot of paperwork, according to free little pencil-pusher The Final Boss.

The new Need for Speed is coming from a racing development dream team
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-new-need-for-speed-is-coming-from-a-racing-development-dream-team/
The Need for Speed series has a long history and, within it, there are amazing highs alongside the lows. For me the greatest era for the games was when EA put Criterion on it, then best-known for the Burnout series, who produced several standout entires including Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit—a top-notch action racer, and arguably the best in the series.
However good the games were, Need for Speed has always shifted units, although in recent years it really felt like they've just been spinning their wheels. The last instalment, 2019's Need for Speed Heat, was completely fine but didn't feel like anything special and, in a world where Playground's now raced through five Forza Horizons, just didn't have that excitement factor. Clearly publisher EA thinks something needs changing, too, because now it has moved the series from previous developer Ghost Games over to two of its internal studios that, for racing fans, can only be called a dream team: Codemasters and Criterion.

Epic is going to release the Unreal Editor for Fortnite in an attempt to out-Roblox Roblox
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/epic-is-going-to-release-the-unreal-editor-for-fortnite-in-an-attempt-to-out-roblox-roblox/
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has revealed that Epic will, later this year, release the Unreal Editor for Fortnite. "The full capabilities that you’ve seen [in Unreal Engine] opened up so that anybody can build very high-quality game content and code and deploy it into Fortnite without having to do a deal with us," Sweeney says in a new interview with FastCompany. "It’s open to everybody."