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Tuesday news, part two:

The 40th Golden Joystick Awards to be hosted by Troy Baker and Laura Bailey
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-40th-golden-joystick-awards-to-be-hosted-by-troy-baker-and-laura-bailey/
The 40th Golden Joystick Awards will be hosted by actors Laura Bailey and Troy Baker (Abby and Joel in The Last of Us, respectively, along with appearances in countless other titles). You can watch the pair hand out the gongs, virtually speaking, when the awards ceremony is broadcast on Tuesday, November 22 on Twitch, YouTube and GamesRadar+ at 12 pm PST / 3 pm EST / 8 pm GMT. The awards are run by PC Gamer's parent company, Future.

Team Ninja boss seemingly confirms Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive reboots in slide presentation
https://www.pcgamer.com/team-ninja-boss-seemingly-confirms-ninja-gaiden-and-dead-or-alive-reboots-in-slide-presentation/
Two classic Team Ninja franchises could be receiving a new lease on life, according to a translated developer talk.
Reboots of both Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive are reportedly in the works, seemingly confirmed by Team Ninja's president at a panel at South Korea's G-Star conference this weekend. As reported by VGC (via Ruliweb), Fumihikio Yasuda didn't provide any details on either resurrection but essentially confirmed that they were happening.

Microsoft offered Sony a 10 year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation
https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-offered-sony-a-10-year-deal-to-keep-call-of-duty-on-playstation/
Microsoft's proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is facing intense scrutiny from regulators around the world, with one of the main sticking points being the future of the Call of Duty series on PlayStation platforms. In an effort to help assuage those concerns and push the deal through, Microsoft told the New York Times that earlier this month it committed to a 10-year deal with Sony to keep the Call of Duty series on PlayStation consoles.

Warzone 2's scariest weapon is a flying bomb, and that's OK
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-warzone-2-bomb-drone-deadliest-weapon/
Call of Duty: Warzone 2's most vicious weapon might not be a gun at all, it might just be a drone equipped to blow up near targets. The bomb drones, a rare pickup on the Warzone 2 map, are quiet, can find targets through walls, and blow up with such power that an entire team at full health can be reduced to rubble in seconds. Reddit, and other social media, is littered with videos of players cackling madly as their bomb drones take down enemies.

Modern Warfare 2 players are turning into lethal orangutans with new 'G Walking' glitch
https://www.pcgamer.com/modern-warfare-2-players-are-turning-into-lethal-orangutans-with-new-g-walking-glitch/
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players are at it again. Not content with defying both divine and natural law with MW2's superman trick, they've now developed a frustrating and nightmarish movement technique they're calling the "G Walk," which turns them into some kind of speedy, barely-targetable primate. You can see what I mean below.

Fortnite crossover gives a taste of open world Rocket League—something Psyonix once considered
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-crossover-gives-us-a-taste-of-open-world-rocket-leaguesomething-psyonix-once-considered/
I'm going to wax slightly lyrical here but Rocket League is one of those games I can't imagine existing in any other form. Yes it's now accumulated many years' worth of cruft around it but developer Psyonix has never messed with that near-perfect core experience. Psyonix is now owned by Epic which has seen plenty of crossover between the game and Fortnite, but the latest stirs a dim memory of what could have been: one of the roads that these battle cars never traveled.
A new update adds the Octane, Rocket League's most recognisable car, to various Fortnite modes excluding competitive. You can hop into Octane and it behaves more-or-less as any Rocket League fan might expect: double jumps, boosts, wall-running, and dodging around, it's like playing one game in another.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' first DLC has Dreadnoughts aplenty
https://www.pcgamer.com/warhammer-40000-chaos-gate-daemonhunters-first-dlc-has-dreadnoughts-aplenty/
In the grim present of tactical turn-based gaming, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters has decided there isn’t just war, but also room for big stompy coffin-robots, the stars of its first DLC: Duty Eternal. The Grey Knights are getting some reinforcements in their ongoing battle against the plague-piñata forces of Nurgle, with both playable Dreadnoughts and a new class in the form of the Techmarine.

Calling all Vikings! The Valheim Mistlands update is now live on the public test branch
https://www.pcgamer.com/calling-all-vikings-the-valheim-mistlands-update-is-now-live-on-the-public-test-branch/
It's been a long, long wait for the Valheim Mistlands update, but now it's here! Mostly. While the new Mistlands biome hasn't been fully launched or added to the base game of Valheim yet, it is accessible on the public test branch and you can check it out for yourself right now. Finally!

Suspicious: Marvin the Martian joins Multiversus just as Bugs Bunny gets nerfed
https://www.pcgamer.com/suspicious-marvin-the-martian-joins-multiversus-just-as-bugs-bunny-gets-nerfed/
MultiVersus is still technically in open beta, but in one of those senses where 'beta' doesn't really mean what it should; not least because it's been supported since launch with various seasonal content and battle passes. Season 2 has started, and the headline addition is everyone's favourite Marvin the Martian, a cartoon character with the rather dark goal of destroying Earth so it doesn't get in the way of his view of Venus.

After calling online games 'spiritual opium,' China says youth have now kicked the habit
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-calling-online-games-spiritual-opium-china-says-youth-have-now-kicked-the-habit/
In yet another sign that Beijing might be gearing up to ease its ongoing crackdown on the games industry, China's top gaming industry association released a report today declaring that the problem of gaming addiction among Chinese youth has been "basically resolved". Well, I guess that wasn't so hard, was it?
>> Wow. They're better dealing with this than COVID.