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Wednesday news, part two:

I almost don't believe the destructibility in this FPS is real
https://www.pcgamer.com/i-almost-dont-believe-the-destructibility-in-this-fps-is-real/
I thought multiplayer shooters had run out of ways to surprise me, but I had a genuine shock to the system yesterday morning watching this gameplay trailer for The Finals, a free-to-play FPS in development by the ex-Battlefield devs at Embark Studios. The trailer shows a brief look at what's apparently possible in The Finals: Entire buildings crumbling into hundreds of pieces at the whim of a grenade launcher while players parkour across the falling debris like Nathan Drake.

Turn Metal: Hellsinger into Jazz: Bebopswinger with new, free modding tools
https://www.pcgamer.com/turn-metal-hellsinger-into-jazz-bebopswinger-with-new-free-modding-tools/
Metal: Hellsinger, the high-speed headbanging FPS from Hell, features a "great soundtrack and well-integrated rhythmic combat," we said in our 78% review. But what's a poor gamer to do if they want to rock out against the hordes of Hades but, well, they really just don't care for metal?
Enter the power of mods. Announced today by The Outsiders and Funcom, Metal: Hellsinger's free modding tool enables users to insert their own music into the game, and make it react appropriately to the player's performance. Want to be a K-Pop Killer? A Disco Death Machine? An EDM MDK? All things, at least insofar as musical massacres go, are possible.

You can stop FIFA 23 from telling you you're bad at FIFA 23
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-stop-fifa-23-from-telling-you-youre-bad-at-fifa-23/
We've all had less than ideal matches in games. No matter what you play, from Rocket League to League of Legends, you'll know there are games in which you could have performed better. Normally any scathing remarks come from your opponents or maybe even the people you're playing with, and you can mute or just block them from engaging with you again. But FIFA likes to use its own commentators to rinse you a little bit when you're not performing well and, if that rubs you the wrong way, you can now turn this feature off.

New Overwatch 2 accounts have to unlock old heroes, too
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-overwatch-2-accounts-have-to-unlock-old-heroes-too/
As part of Overwatch's transition into a free-to-play game with its sequel, Overwatch 2 will have restrictions on new players to help prevent cheating and "disruptive players," Blizzard wrote in a blog post today. Most notably, new accounts, which have never played the original game before, will have to earn access to most of its game modes and heroes.

Overwatch 2 will record every naughty word you say in voice chat
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2-will-record-every-naughty-word-you-say-in-voice-chat/
Blizzard is taking aggressive new steps to tackle toxicity in Overwatch 2, including plans for a system that will record all voice chat and issue bans based on transcription analysis conducted by "chat review tools."
>> The Big Brother of videogames.

Alleged Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker pleads not guilty
https://www.pcgamer.com/alleged-grand-theft-auto-6-hacker-pleads-not-guilty/
The Grand Theft Auto 6 leak drama took another step forward over the weekend, as Eurogamer reports that the youth accused in the matter has pleaded not guilty to a charge of computer misuse.

Warhaven is a 'full contact sword action' game you can play for free in October
https://www.pcgamer.com/warhaven-is-a-full-contact-sword-action-game-you-can-play-for-free-in-october/
Warhaven is a "visceral medieval-fantasy sword fight experience" being developed by Nexon that will pit teams of 16 players against one another in brutal battles with blades, bows, and magic. It was revealed earlier this month with a trailer that strikes me as Chivalry mixed with a little bit of For Honor and just a hint of JRPG color, and while there's no release date yet, a beta test is coming in October and everyone's invited.

Aero GPX is F-Zero with the rage throttle set to 2,000 kmph
https://www.pcgamer.com/aero-gpx-is-f-zero-with-the-rage-throttle-set-to-2000-kmph/
There were some dark times for sci-fi racing games after Sony closed Wipeout developer Studio Liverpool in 2012. As Nintendo left F-Zero to languish, high-speed antigrav racers became one of those "don't make 'em like they used to" genres for a few years, until indie games like Redout and BallisticNG started to fill the void. There are a bunch of these games now, but almost all of them take after Wipeout more than F-Zero.
Then there's Aero GPX, which looks F-Zero as heeeeell.
>> There's a video of it.

Netflix establishes its first in-house game studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/netflix-establishes-its-first-in-house-game-studio/
Streaming giant Netflix is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and it's been quite the journey. (...)
Netflix doesn't just want to make the spinoffs, though, it wants to make the games. Now the company has announced it has set up its first games studio, based in Helsinki, Finland. The studio director is Marco Lastikka, who started in the industry as a programmer before rapidly moving into management: he spent eight years at Digital Chocolate (a specialist in Facebook games), four years at EA as a GM / executive producer on the mobile side, and five years at Zynga as a vice president.

This space MMO looks like Halo and Starfield had a beautiful baby
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-space-mmo-looks-like-halo-and-starfield-had-a-beautiful-baby/
Earth from Another Sun is a space MMO-slash-FPS that's just dropped a new trailer, and as you can see it's stuffed with bright pink mechs and gloriously lush vistas. At the start of it I was just thinking 'wow, this has shown me more to get excited about than Starfield has' and by halfway through when the mech-em-up action started, I was sold. Yeah who knows how it will turn out, but this looks bombastic, fun, and has battles on an epic scale (it claims up to 1000 participants in one conflict).