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Here's a beautifully animated 2D cat platformer
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-beautifully-animated-2d-cat-platformer/
What is a boss that a house cat might face? If you guessed vacuum cleaner, you are correct.
Such is the journey players will find in Stars in the Trash, a hand-drawn indie platformer from developer Valhalla Cats that's coming in the vague future, but has a demo you can play right now.

Silent Hill director says multiple studios working on new games
https://www.pcgamer.com/silent-hill-director-says-multiple-studios-working-on-new-games/
Christophe Gans, director of the 2006 Silent Hill movie, was recently interviewed by France's Movie and Game. Though Gans was not involved in 2012's Silent Hill: Revelations, he previously claimed to be returning for another Silent Hill movie, and told Movie and Game that it will be part of a larger Silent Hill push by Konami.

A huge text adventure begun by anonymous creators 40 years ago was only completed this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-huge-text-adventure-begun-by-anonymous-creators-40-years-ago-was-only-completed-this-year/
Jason Dyer has a blog called All the Adventures (via RPS) where he plans to play and write about every text adventure ever made, from the beginning. It is of course a gloriously doomed undertaking, just like the CRPG Addict's impossible quest to finish every CRPG in chronological order, which is why it's wonderful. Right now, Dyer is playing and blogging about Ferret, an obscure sci-fi adventure first released in 1982.

Fallout, Homeworld, and more tabletop RPGs go digital native on Role
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-homeworld-and-more-tabletop-rpgs-go-digital-native-on-role/
Up and coming digital roleplaying platform Role is launching a marketplace where people can pick up tabletop roleplaying games from some of the biggest IPs out there, partnering with Modiphius and Magpie Games. That means games like the Fallout, Homeworld, Dune, and Star Trek TTRPGs are on there, with upcoming Avatar Legends on the way.
"Role proudly stands as both the easiest place to play and create for RPG fans today. Every game room is designed for minimal prep, easy navigation, and fast gameplay that focuses on social fun rather than complex cumbersome tabletop simulation tools," said Role's CEO, Elle Dwight.

Hysterical Overwatch 2 bug lets Bastion players paint the world with artillery
https://www.pcgamer.com/hysterical-overwatch-2-bug-lets-bastion-players-paint-the-world-with-artillery/
Okay so any new video game release, especially one that includes lots of unique powers, is going to see bugs. Overwatch 2 isn't free of those, and while some are frustrating, others are mostly funny. This one... is hysterical, even if it's an exploit.

Rebuild society after a climate apocalypse in city builder Floodland
https://www.pcgamer.com/rebuild-society-after-a-climate-apocalypse-in-city-builder-floodland/
A promising demo out of Steam Next Fest is Floodland, a city and society builder set in a world ravaged by rampant, apocalyptic climate change. It has the distinction of not being just a colony-style city builder, but a society builder ala Frostpunk, where your decisions shape laws: How people behave and what they can do.

EA canceled a singleplayer Plants vs. Zombies spin-off to back a Star Wars game, which it also canceled
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-canceled-a-singleplayer-plants-vs-zombies-spin-off-to-back-a-star-wars-game-which-it-also-canceled/
Seven years ago, a team of roughly 30 developers at EA Vancouver began working on a Plants vs. Zombies spin-off. Popcap's original tower defense game had already been successfully transformed into an online shooter with Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare in 2014, and apparently EA was open to more new ideas—in this case, a singleplayer action-adventure with Arkham-style combat in which a teenager partners with plants to fight undead while traveling through time.
As IGN reports, this intriguingly strange project was canceled through no fault of its own so the developers could be moved to the singleplayer Star Wars action-adventure begun by Visceral, which was itself canceled in 2017.

Blizzard has quietly fixed Overwatch 2 'auto-purchase' glitch but refunds are yet to come
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-has-quietly-fixed-the-overwatch-2-auto-purchase-glitch-but-refunds-are-yet-to-come/
The embattled launch of Overwatch 2 appears to have solved at least one of its issues, with Blizzard's latest hotfix putting an end to a bug that was causing players using the in-game chat to make accidental purchases in the game's store. The bug was brought to public attention by Dracyoshi, a Reddit user who found themselves inexplicably buying Junker Queen's Plutonium Skin while using chat in the game's hero gallery.

'We're not very happy'—Platinum CEO apologises for Babylon's Fall, hints at troubled development
https://www.pcgamer.com/were-not-very-happyplatinum-ceo-apologises-for-babylons-fall-hints-at-troubled-development/
September saw the unsurprising news that Babylon's Fall, a live service game developed by Platinum Games and published by Square Enix, was to be shuttered after less than a year. The game is no longer available for sale, and has stopped sales of premium currency, though the servers remain live until February 27, 2023.
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It's been another misfire for Platinum Games and any fan of blistering action experiences must hope that the studio can get back to the glory days. The studio's CEO Atsushi Inaba, a developer of the highest pedigree with an incredible track record, knows things didn't go well with this one. Due to the nature of the deal between Platinum and Square Enix, however, he can only say so much.