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House Flipper meets V Rising in this vampire hotel management sim
https://www.pcgamer.com/house-flipper-meets-v-rising-in-this-vampire-hotel-management-sim/
As the most feared and powerful members of the undead, vampires still have to follow a heck of a lot of rules. You have to stay out of sunlight. Garlic and crucifixes are a no-no. You can't cross running water, can't enter churches, and if someone throws rice at your feet you have to stand there and count the grains.
Most annoyingly, you can't enter someone's house unless invited.
But here's an excellent solution to that last rule: Instead of entering your victims' homes, just have them come to yours. In the first-person management sim Bloody Hell Hotel, which looks like a mix of House Flipper, Stardew Valley, and V Rising, you're a vampire renovating your spacious manor and turning it into a classy hotel. And unlike most hotel owners, you can dine on the blood of your guests.

Activision accused of ripping off Dr Disrespect's game for a $20 Call of Duty skin
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-accused-of-ripping-off-dr-disrespects-game-for-a-dollar20-call-of-duty-skin/
Just a few weeks after acknowledging the "misstep" of plagiarizing the Floof Fury skin for Call of Duty: Warzone, Activision is facing accusations of having done it again, this time with a skin that looks remarkably similar to a "Variant" in Midnight Society's upcoming extraction shooter Deadrop.

Tower of Fantasy has cut down on server queue times, promises unnamed 'punishments' for cheaters
https://www.pcgamer.com/tower-of-fantasy-has-cut-down-on-server-queue-times-promises-unnamed-punishments-for-cheaters/
The hot new gacha game of the minute Tower of Fantasy garnered enough interest during its launch last week to give players the traditional warm welcome of lengthy server queues with a special side of cursed graphical glitches. Hotta Studio is now keeping players informed with bug fix reports, including server cap increases that should help cut down on those queues this week.

All your Overwatch skins and cosmetics carry into Overwatch 2, Blizzard reaffirms
https://www.pcgamer.com/all-your-overwatch-skins-and-cosmetics-carry-into-overwatch-2-blizzard-reaffirms/
It's not often that I'll say this, but if you only play Overwatch on PC, you can safely ignore this entire post and move on to other things. But if not—if you play with multiple accounts on multiple platforms—then this is for you: A detailed explainer on how cross-progression will work in Overwatch 2, which will merge Overwatch accounts on consoles and PC into a single, all-encompassing profile that contains (with a few limitations) everything you've previously achieved in the game.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has three release dates now
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-has-three-release-dates-now/
The first boot of a new Call of Duty game is a crossroads with no right choice: do I jump into the big, flashy campaign headlining the game, or step first unto the virgin grasses of multiplayer, where no meta has yet taken root?
Activision is making that choice a bit easier for those who buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 early. In a first for the series, those who pre-order will have early access to the Modern Warfare 2 campaign on October 20, a full week before the game officially launches on October 28.

EA will honor the biggest pricing error we've ever seen
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-will-honor-the-biggest-pricing-error-weve-ever-seen/
In what may be the greatest regional pricing difference in the history of videogames, Epic Games Store pre-purchases for FIFA 23 recently went on sale in India for 4.80 rupees. That comes to about $0.06 USD.
The price was an error, of course: FIFA 23 is meant to be priced at 3,499 Indian rupees (INR), which comes to about $44.17 in US dollars. That would make the accidental price a 99.86% discount, but it gets better. The erroneous price wasn't for the normal version of FIFA 23. It was for the Ultimate Edition, which costs 4,799 INR. That brings the discount to 99.98%, and everyone who took advantage of it will get to keep the game, according to an email from EA (which we saw via Sportskeeda).
>> Well done, EA (it's been a while since I've been able to say that to EA).

Diablo 2 player completes pacifist Hell run previously only theorized to be possible
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-2-player-completes-pacifist-hell-run-previously-only-theorized-to-be-possible/
It took over 50 hours of playtime, but MacroBioBoi finally did it: They completed the "world's first ever completely untwinked solo self-found Hell pacifist Sorceress run" in Diablo 2: Resurrected.
In terms that'll be more familiar to people who aren't Diablo 2 speedrunners, Macro beat Diablo 2: Resurrected on the hardest difficulty without attacking anything, using only items they found during the run. ("Twinking," in Diablo 2 parlance, means using the trading system to give a character items.) Diablo 2 speedrunners had come up with theoretical ways to accomplish the run, but Macro was the first to do it for real.

Final Fantasy 16 director says series is 'struggling' to adapt
https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-16-director-says-series-is-struggling-to-adapt/
One of the most iconic franchises in videogame history is having a hard time staying relevant, according to Final Fantasy 14 and 16 director Naoki Yoshida.
“In terms of whether Final Fantasy is successfully adapting to industry trends, I believe the series is currently struggling," Yoshida told Inverse. "We’re now at a point where we receive a wide variety of requests regarding the direction of our game design. To be honest, it’d be impossible to satisfy all those requests with a single title. My current impression is that all we can really do is create multiple games, and continue creating the best that we can at any given time."

Wrath of the Lich King Classic's pre-patch arrives later this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/wrath-of-the-lich-king-classics-pre-patch-arrives-later-this-month/
The wait is almost over. Blizzard has finally announced that the Wrath of the Lich King Classic pre-patch will go live on August 30. The 50% XP buff will remain for the duration of the pre-patch and will also apply to Death Knights.

After eight years, the space MMO where players create the ships launches next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-eight-years-the-space-mmo-where-players-create-the-ships-launches-next-month/
Developer Novaquark has announced that the ambitious, player-driven MMO Dual Universe will launch on PC September 27. The game's been in development for eight years and the pitch is essentially a player-created EVE Online, with a flexible voxel-based crafting system that allows players to build more-or-less what they want.

Fortnite players can't get enough of DBZ's absurd finisher
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-players-cant-get-enough-of-dbzs-absurd-finisher/
The Fortnite x Dragon Ball crossover recently launched in Epic's all-conquering, brand-crossing metaverse, introducing OTT elements from the series as well as four characters (Son Goku, Vegeta, Bulma and Beerus). Mainly, though, players like the Kamehameha special attack, which is both fun to say out loud and a giant opponent-slaying energy beam launched in midair.