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Public voting now open in the Golden Joystick's 40th anniversary awards
https://www.pcgamer.com/public-voting-now-open-in-the-golden-joysticks-40th-anniversary-awards/
The 40th Golden Joystick Awards has revealed this year's shortlisted games, and voting is now open worldwide until Friday, November 4 2022. The event is the longest-running public-voted game awards show around, with millions of votes cast every year, and is run by PC Gamer's parent company Future.

Overwatch 2 tier lists are a mess, but most agree that one hero is coming out on top
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2-tier-lists-are-a-mess-but-most-agree-that-one-hero-is-coming-out-on-top/
Overwatch 2 has been online for a few days now and when they've not been queueing, players have been pouring into the now free-to-play shooter. There is a certain amount of Overwatch 2 that hasn't changed since Overwatch, like the core abilities of much of the main cast, so players have already started destroying each other with honed skills from the first game. But who's coming out on top?

Guide a doggo astronaut home in this upcoming indie puzzle-platformer
https://www.pcgamer.com/guide-a-doggo-astronaut-home-in-this-upcoming-indie-puzzle-platformer/
Laika is one of the world's most famous dogs: On November 3, 1957, during the early days of the Soviet Union's space program, she became the first animal to be launched into space. She died not long after launch, but exactly 65 years later, the puzzle platformer Space Tail: Every Journey Leads Home will, with some effort, deliver a happier ending.

Bethesda finally confirms it: Deathloop is a Dishonored game
https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-finally-confirms-it-deathloop-is-a-dishonored-game/
Almost immediately after the release of Deathloop in 2021, fans began theorizing that it might somehow be connected to Dishonored, Arkane's previous game series. The two games are very different in many ways, but there are quite a few shared elements too, some overt and others quite subtle. Today, Deathloop creative director Dinga Bakaba made it official during an Xbox podcast: Deathloop is "one of the futures of the Dishonored world."

Elle Stranding? Death Fanning? Actress Elle Fanning to appear in Kojima Productions project
https://www.pcgamer.com/elle-stranding-death-fanning-actress-elle-fanning-to-appear-in-kojima-productions-project/
After a sequence of classically Kojima Twitter teasers, the developer has revealed that actress Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon, Galveston) will be making an appearance in… something being made by Kojima Productions.

Get instantly hooked on this free fishing puzzle browser game
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-instantly-hooked-on-this-free-fishing-puzzle-browser-game/
I have a great idea! Let's kick off the weekend by getting hooked on Curious Fishing. It's free, it's fun, it's filled with fresh fish, and it runs right in your browser. Play a few levels and I guarantee you won't want to stop until you've solved them all.

Major game studios believed this company was providing experienced, well-staffed QA teams—employees say that was a lie
https://www.pcgamer.com/quantic-QA-tester-report/
Testing videogames is a challenging job, and it's only becoming more challenging as games get bigger and more complex. What would make the job even trickier, however, is covering for the work of three other testers⁠ while pretending you have a full team to the developer that contracted the work. That's the kind of thing a number of QA developers say they were directed to do while testing major games at a large third-party testing house.
Two current and eight former workers at prolific Romanian quality assurance outsourcer Quantic Lab spoke to PC Gamer about their jobs on the condition of anonymity, alleging that management not only pressures its testers above and beyond the norm for this vital but too often under-resourced subset of game development, but also misleads clients about the size and competency of its QA teams⁠—and directs employees to keep up the charade.

Elder Scrolls Online will rescue Stadia castaways
https://www.pcgamer.com/elder-scrolls-online-will-rescue-stadia-castaways/
As reported by Massively Overpowered, Bethesda and Zenimax Online have announced that they will allow Google Stadia players to transfer characters and progress to the PC version of the game. The studios join the likes of Bungie and IO Interactive in rescuing players from the streaming platform, which is set to shut down in January.
>> Well done, Bethesda.

Modern Warfare 2 has the same 'no prepaid phone' requirement as Overwatch 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/modern-warfare-2-has-the-same-no-prepaid-phone-requirement-as-overwatch-2/
Blizzard announced last week that all Overwatch 2 players will be required to attach a phone number to their Battle.net accounts in order to play the game. The requirement was added as part of Blizzard's effort to combat toxicity and abuse in the game. But there's one major problem: The new 2FA system, called SMS Protect, will not accept certain types of numbers, "including prepaid and VOIP." This understandably caused a stir, because it effectively meant that if you own a prepaid cellphone, you can't play Overwatch.

Modern Warfare 2 trailer outlines PC features
https://www.pcgamer.com/modern-warfare-2-trailer-outlines-pc-features/
Activision has released a trailer outlining the PC features of the upcoming Modern Warfare 2, releasing on October 28. This game is not to be confused with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which was released on November 12, 2009.
>> You can watch it via the link above or from the article.