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Here's when Sniper Elite 5 unlocks in your time zone
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/sniper-elite-5-release-time-unlock-pre-load/
When Sniper Elite 5's release time arrives in your region, I'm sincerely fearful for the innards of the poor sods that find themselves in your crosshairs. Lungs, hearts, and testicles, are set to be punctured en masse like balloons at a children's party. Of course the killcam isn't everything (just mostly everything): Rebellion's promising improved gun physics, plenty of customisation, and more.

'Ideally it melts your face off' says Destiny 2 dev about Solar rework
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ideally-it-melts-your-face-off-says-destiny-2-dev-about-solar-rework/
Season of the Haunted goes live in Destiny 2 in just under an hour, and thanks to a leak from the Japanese arm of Bungie's new paymasters at Sony, we now know quite a bit about it. What had been missing from the splurge last night, though, was details of the rework to the Solar subclasses. That's now here in the form of a developer insight video in which Bungie's designers showcase some of the fiery new abilities the guardians will be wielding.

This Chinese indie RPG brings 'wuxia games of the MS-DOS era' to Unreal Engine 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-chinese-indie-rpg-brings-wuxia-games-of-the-ms-dos-era-to-unreal-engine-4/
Chinese indie studio Xiameng has unveiled a wuxia-style pixel art RPG called Codename: Wandering Sword that casts players as a young man from Liao City who finds himself trapped in a feud between two rival clans.
>> You could also compare its style with Octopath Traveler.

Battlefield 2042's take on Hunt: Showdown is 'winding down'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/battlefield-2042s-take-on-hunt-showdown-is-winding-down/
One of the major talking points about Battlefield 2042 ahead of its release was the Hazard Zone mode. Heavily inspired by Hunt Showdown, it dropped players into four-member squads, with each vying for possession of Data Drives hidden throughout the map. To paraphrase our review, it was fun, though a little shallow compared to its source material.
It seems the Battlefield 2042 playerbase, as small as that may be nowadays, feels the same way. In a new development update mostly focused on forthcoming season 1 changes, DICE has announced that it will cease active development on Hazard Zone, though the mode will still be available as-is for those who want to keep playing it.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters update gives wounded Grey Knights more grit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/warhammer-40000-chaos-gate-daemonhunters-update-gives-wounded-grey-knights-more-grit/
While Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters certainly seems to have given players the XCOM-but-with-space-marines experience they were looking for, those players have been critical of its performance, even on quite high-end rigs. They've also complained about how long your Grey Knight marines can stay wounded for. An unlucky start can lead to a death spiral as you're forced to send suboptimal squads on missions, who then get wounded themselves and join the lengthening infirmary queue.
Daemonhunters' latest patch, Update V, should alleviate some of those issues. It includes an optimization pass on the ship's HUD and all the ornate technogothic objects on display in its various rooms, as well as the combat HUD. Draw distances have been reduced and debris pool loading updated, and with luck all that should help you squeeze out a few extra frames per second.

You can customize your Sims' pronouns now
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/you-can-customize-your-sims-pronouns-now/
With same-sex relationships a possibility since the first game in the series back in 2000, The Sims spearheaded queer representation in gaming. It's not always been perfect, with same-sex couples restricted to "joined unions" rather than marriages in The Sims 2 for instance, but it's been there. One area where it was still lacking in terms of representation is gender, with default pronouns applied based on players' chosen body type. That's changed as of an update (opens in new tab) adding customizable pronouns to The Sims 4.

Dune: Spice Wars roadmap teases multiplayer, a mystery faction and whole bunch more
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dune-spice-wars-roadmap-teases-multiplayer-a-mystery-faction-and-whole-bunch-more/
Dune: Spice Wars seems to have had an enviable early access launch, with no disasters and a largely positive response from players—at least the ones who can be bothered to leave Steam reviews. Funcom's now building on that launch with a series of updates, starting this summer, that have been teased in an early access roadmap.