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The Monday news, the long part two:

Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bungie-slaps-youtube-takedown-impersonator-with-dollar76m-lawsuit/
Back in March, a wave of bizarre copyright strikes rocked the Destiny 2 community. Not only did it affect some of the game's biggest content creators, but also videos on Bungie's own YouTube channel.
It turned out none of them had actually come from the developer but a "bad actor" impersonating two employees from the CSC, Bungie's IP protection agency of choice. Now, that person has allegedly been identified and Bungie's suing them for a whopping $7.6 million. Ouch.

Into the Breach is getting a free Advanced Edition expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/into-the-breach-is-getting-a-free-advanced-edition-expansion/
Into the Breach is a turn-based tactics game about mechs and bugs developed by Subset Games, the makers of the outstanding sci-fi adventure-sim FTL. And it's even more outstanding: We said Into the Breach delivers "the most perfectly formed tactics" experience in our 93% review, and then selected it as our Ultimate Game of the Year for 2018.
On July 19 it will get even better with the release of Into the Breach: Advanced Edition, which will expand the original game with five new mech squads and nearly 40 new weapons, additional enemies, bosses, and mission objectives, and new pilots and pilot abilities. The Advanced Edition will also feature a new, "Unfair" difficulty mode, support for seven additional languages (Arabic, Thai, Swedish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Spanish), and two new tracks from composer Ben Prunty.

Once Overwatch 2 arrives, you'll never be able to play Overwatch 1 again
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/once-overwatch-2-arrives-youll-never-be-able-to-play-overwatch-1-again/
In a Reddit AMA on June 22, members of the Overwatch 2 developer team provided some new details and added context for the upcoming game, including a confirmation that the original Overwatch will be fully replaced by Overwatch 2 when it launches on October 4.

Warzone Season 4 players agree: great new map, jury's still out on balance changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/warzone-season-4-players-agree-great-new-map-jurys-still-out-on-balance-changes/
Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific got its big season 4 update yesterday, and the game received the usual slew of sandbox tweaks alongside a new map for the Resurgence game mode.

Stardew Valley is getting a 1.6 update, but don't expect it to be a big one
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/stardew-valley-is-getting-a-16-update-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-a-big-one/
Despite knuckling down on development for Haunted Chocolatier, Eric Barone hasn't completely shelved Stardew Valley just yet. He confirmed that a 1.6 update will be coming, but also warned that it won't be a big one (thanks, GamesRadar).

Dragon's Dogma is dirt cheap following the sequel announcement
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dragons-dogma-is-dirt-cheap-following-the-sequel-announcement/
After 10 long years of watching people ask for a sequel to Dragon's Dogma, Capcom finally made it happen last week: Announcing Dragon's Dogma 2, appropriately enough, at the end of a 10-year anniversary mini-doc for the original.
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The game received a director's cut edition called Dark Arisen (which players universally agree is an improvement on the beloved original) and now, presumably thanks to the proximity of the sequel announcement, Capcom has dropped its price through the floor as part of the Steam Summer Sale: The RRP is $30/£24, but Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen can now be yours for the princely sum of $4.79/£3.83. That's a roughly 85% discount.
>> SteamDB agrees with this article. It never went below (or above) 70% off, so this is its lowest price ever on Steam.

The best milsim FPS just got its biggest update ever
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-best-milsim-fps-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever/
Squad, the tactical FPS that's basically Battlefield with logistics, is slowly growing. Almost two years after leaving early access, the underrated military sim is still getting substantial updates. The latest is update 3.0 Amphibious Assault, which adds a new playable faction, weapons, amphibious vehicles, and a coastal map to drive them on.

Elden Ring studio FromSoftware has a new game in the 'final stages' of development
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elden-ring-studio-fromsoftware-has-a-new-game-in-the-final-stages-of-development/
You might think that after putting out a massive magnum opus like Elden Ring, FromSoftware might be inclined to take a year or two (or three) off. But apparently not, because Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently told Japanese site 4Gamer (via Gematsu) that the studio's next game is in the "final stages" of development.

Bungie, Ubisoft, Bethesda, EA, and others speak out in support of abortion rights in the US
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bungie-ubisoft-sony-studios-and-others-speak-out-in-support-of-abortion-rights-in-the-us/
The Supreme Court of the United States voted to overturn Roe v Wade today, officially bringing to an end 50 years of constitutionally-protected access to abortion. (...)
(...) Now that option has been wiped off the table, and game companies are speaking out against the decision much more forcefully.

Valorant will start listening to your voice chat in July
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/valorant-will-start-listening-to-your-voice-chat-in-july/
Riot Games will begin background evaluation of recorded in-game voice communications on July 13th in North America, in English. In a brief statement Riot said that the purpose of the recording is ultimately to "collect clear evidence that could verify any violations of behavioral policies."

Speedruns aplenty kick off today in Summer Games Done Quick
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/speedruns-aplenty-kick-off-today-in-summer-games-done-quick/
One of the best speedrun events in gaming kicks off today, as Summer Games Done Quick 2022 runs from Sunday, June 26th to Sunday, July 3rd. If you're not familiar, this is the summer version of superb charity organization GDQ's big bash, where dozens of the best and most entertaining speedrunners go hard for a good cause.

Sovietcore FPS Hrot launches second episode, 'The Degustation'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/sovietcore-fps-hrot-launches-second-episode-the-degustation/
Hrot is a grim experience, with developer Spytihněv stating of its Czechoslovakia, 1986 setting: "Those times were dark and terrifying and so is this game." That's what makes its bone-dry sense of humor land so well.
Right at the start of the game's second episode, before encountering any enemies, you find an interactable object on the ground: it's a game-within-a-game, a Soviet knockoff Game & Watch where you guide a little cartoon wolf collecting eggs rolling down from hens. Then the bloody cultist murder starts.

Gordian Quest is a deckbuilding RPG inspired by the genre classics
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gordian-quest-is-a-deckbuilding-rpg-inspired-by-the-genre-classics/
Card-based deckbuilding RPG Gordian Quest has just recently left Early Access, reaching a version 1.0 after a few years of development that saw it journey from a just-ok card RPG to one that floats near the top of the pack. Not just my opinion, either, since Gordian Quest sits at 92% positive Steam reviews on a total of 3,461 as I write this.

This year's strategy RPG hotness might just be Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-years-strategy-rpg-hotness-might-just-be-symphony-of-war-the-nephilim-saga/
If you had any doubt as to whether a game was a strategy-focused roleplaying game, a JRPG in the style of Fire Emblem or Ogre Battle, I can bet you'd be clear that it is when I tell you it's called Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga. Preposterously grandiose name aside, this indie could be game of the year material if you're a fan of the genre.

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition updated with the un-enhanced edition on Steam after awful reception
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/blade-runner-enhanced-edition-updated-with-the-un-enhanced-edition-on-steam-after-awful-reception/
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition released last week on Steam and GOG, and anticipation for a visual remaster of arguably Westwood's greatest game was high... well, at least in the PCG offices. Sadly, the truth is it's more of a disaster than a remaster.
Nightdive had been working on this for a while, though one big complication was no-one being able to find the original source code. The ScummVM version, created by a team of volunteers in 2019, sadly remains the best way to play this seminal title; which is a problem, because the release of the Enhanced Edition saw the original removed from GOG and bundled-in with the new one.
The OG version wasn't available on Steam at all but, following the Enhanced Edition's reception (it's currently sitting on 'Mostly Negative' reviews) Nightdive has now added it to the Steam version.

Sonic Origins co-developer is 'very unhappy' about the state of it
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/sonic-origins-co-developer-is-very-unhappy-about-the-state-of-it/
Fans were pretty excited at the prospect of Headcannon, one of the developers of the best Sonic game of recent years, being involved with the Sonic Origins collection—which contains remastered versions of Sonic The Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD. Unfortunately since its release last week, forums and social media have seen a wave of videos showing the game's bugs, glitches, and general messiness.

Persona 5 Royal's PC port will be bundled with all DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/persona-5-royals-pc-port-will-be-bundled-with-all-dlc/
Persona 5 Royal has a lot of DLC, 45 of them to be exact. Thankfully you shouldn't need to cough up any extra cash for them, as Atlus has confirmed they'll all be bundled into the Windows version of the game.

Nethack is now in the Museum of Modern Art
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nethack-is-now-in-the-museum-of-modern-art/
Nethack is one of the great (and ongoing) gaming projects. It first appeared in 1987 as a fork of a 1982 title, Hack, created by Mike Stephenson, Izchak Miller and Janet Walz. The game operated on an open source principle, where anyone was free to create their own version, but only the members of the DevTeam could change the main source code.
Over time the DevTeam grew with skilled coders from the community and, after more than three decades, has had an unknown number of members. They seem to like the mystery. Over its lifetime NetHack has grown and grown in complexity, somehow juggling its hundreds of emergent elements together, with the DevTeam held up as collective coding gods by the game's devoted community. Browse the NetHack forums and even now you may well come across the initialism TDTTOE: The DevTeam Thinks of Everything.