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Wednesday news, part two:

Modern Warfare 2 post-credits scene reimagines Call of Duty's most infamous level
https://www.pcgamer.com/modern-warfare-2-post-credits-scene-reimagines-call-of-dutys-most-infamous-level/
When I booted up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's campaign last week and was immediately asked to confirm that "I understand" some scenes include "graphic or intense content" before playing, I got a little nervous. The first time I can recall digitally consenting to be traumatized by a videogame was the original 2009 Modern Warfare 2, remembered best for the headlines its infamous mass shooting mission, No Russian, made across the world when it launched.
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It never came, thankfully, but the campaign does eventually depict its own No Russian moment in the form of a post-credits scene that's really easy to miss. Go no further if you haven't finished the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign, because we're diving into the spoiler zone.

Overwatch 2's new Halloween PvE mission is so good that it's starting to feel like a sequel
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2s-new-halloween-pve-mission-is-so-good-that-its-starting-to-feel-like-a-sequel/
Overwatch has had PvE modes for a long time, but none of them are as thrilling as Overwatch 2's Halloween Wrath of the Bride mission.
Wrath of the Bride is a sequel to the Junkenstein's Revenge mode that Overwatch 1 players spent years grinding loot boxes in. A new monster-hunting squad is here: Junker Queen, Sojourn, Ashe, and Kiriko. Each of them are equipped in their Halloween Terror skins and are dropped into a medieval fantasy horror story set in a fictional German town.

Turn on this helpful Overwatch 2 setting right now
https://www.pcgamer.com/turn-on-this-helpful-overwatch-2-setting-right-now/
If you've ever been deep into an Overwatch fight completely unaware that half of your team died 15 seconds ago, I implore you to turn on a setting new to Overwatch 2. It's a distinct sound that plays when a teammate dies and having it on has already saved my bacon more than once.

Deep Rock Galactic's third season turns your miners into grenade-lobbing doctors
https://www.pcgamer.com/deep-rock-galactics-third-season-turns-your-miners-into-grenade-lobbing-doctors/
Deep Rock Galactic, the market's premier space-mining dwarf simulator, enters its third season on Steam's experimental servers today. The instalment, called Plaguefall, brings with it a bevy of add-ons and updates, plus "the sinister and highly transmissible Rockpox infecting the caverns of Hoxxes IV," which is certainly a series of words.

Remember Epic's action-Moba that got steamrollered by Fortnite's success? It's back
https://www.pcgamer.com/remember-epics-action-moba-that-got-steamrollered-by-fortnites-success-its-back/
One of the big victims of Fortnite's runaway success was, surprisingly enough, Epic's own videogame: Paragon. First released in 2016 after many years of development, this bombastic thirdperson Moba never quite gained enough of an audience and, when Fortnite took off, Epic decided to pull the plug. It did so in an interesting way though, closing the game but releasing all of its $17 million worth of assets, for free, on the Epic Game Store.
Several games have already been released that make use of Paragon's assets. Fault: Elder Orb has been on Steam since 2020, while Omeda Studios is working on a Moba called Predecessor. So we come full circle to a game that not only uses all of Paragon's assets, but has been granted permission by Epic to use the game's branding—welcome to Paragon: The Overprime.

You'll soon be able to play 2 Age of Empires games from the comfort of your sofa
https://www.pcgamer.com/youll-soon-be-able-to-play-2-age-of-empires-games-from-the-comfort-of-your-sofa/
Age of Empires just celebrated its 25th birthday, and with it a cheeky little livestream that announced that both Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires 4 are coming to Xbox in 2023. Turns out that's pretty good news for us too, as the PC versions will be getting the extra goodies coming to console.
Both games will be getting cloud gaming support and, more excitingly, controller support and crossplay with our console friends. I can imagine contorting complex RTS controls onto a controller was no easy feat. In an Xbox News Wire post, director of customer voice at World's Edge Emma Bridle acknowledged that it was a "massive task," one which the developer "had to approach carefully and thoughtfully."