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And this is the third, and last, part of the Monday news (PCGamer had a lot of articles):

This adorable, Wind Waker-inspired platformer casts you as a friendly delivery witch
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-adorable-wind-waker-inspired-platformer-casts-you-as-a-friendly-delivery-witch/
Mika and the Witch's Mountain has an immediately arresting look, an aesthetic and premise practically lab-grown to immediately pierce your average millennial's lizard brain nostalgia cortex. It's Wind Waker and Kiki's Delivery Service, together at least to melt your heart in 3D platformer form.

First ever Grammy award for videogame score goes to AC Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok composer
https://www.pcgamer.com/first-ever-grammy-award-for-videogame-score-goes-to-ac-valhalla-dawn-of-ragnarok-composer/
The Grammy awards, considered among the most prestigious music awards in the world, have inaugurated a new category dedicated solely to games. The inaugural award in "Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media" was presented today, and went to Stephanie Economou, the composer behind the soundtrack for Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok.

FromSoftware drops a lengthy new interview about Armored Core 6
https://www.pcgamer.com/fromsoftware-drops-a-lengthy-new-interview-about-armored-core-6/
Elden Ring makers FromSoftware have given out some new details about the next entry in their mech combat series, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. In an interview broadcast from Taipei Games Show 2023, game producer Yasunori Ogura spoke with a host about the game and spoke not only about the game but about how massive successes like the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring have affected development at the now-quite-famous FromSoftware.

This turn-based deconstruction of the fighting game is blowing minds
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-turn-based-deconstruction-of-the-fighting-game-is-blowing-minds/
A quiet corner of the Fighting games scene is blowing up thanks to the release of Your Only Move Is Hustle. YOMIH, as adherents call it, is an indie that viciously strips the Fighting genre apart and puts it back together in a turn-based format that still has all the hallmarks and features you'd expect.

The Day Before trainwreck continues with accusations it's copied other game trailers
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-day-before-trainwreck-continues-with-accusations-its-copied-other-game-trailers/
After a bizarre series of twists and turns, we finally got a full-fledged gameplay trailer from The Day Before last week, and it looked, well, pretty generic. More than generic, in fact, it felt familiar, and Twitter sleuths reckon they've figured out why: They're accusing the game of copying many of its trailer shots and other marketing materials from completely different games.

Hogwarts Legacy review roundup: 'the Harry Potter RPG I’ve always wanted to play'
https://www.pcgamer.com/hogwarts-legacy-review-roundup-the-harry-potter-rpg-ive-always-wanted-to-play/
The Hogwarts Legacy review embargo has lifted, and it turns out a lot of people like being an open-world wizard. The game has been in development for many years at Avalanche and is Warner Bros' big attempt to establish the Harry Potter gaming universe. Fans have previously had the movie tie-in games, but this is entirely its own thing and distinct from the ongoing film franchise.

One of our favourite space shooters leaves early access next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/one-of-our-favourite-space-shooters-leaves-early-access-next-month/
Very pretty space shooter Everspace 2 has finally got a release date. After two years of early access tinkering, the game PCG's Steven Messner once said was "close to being the new gold standard for space shooters" will come out exactly a month from now, on April 6.

John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned: 'I believe in saving everything'
https://www.pcgamer.com/john-carmack-goes-off-about-online-only-games-being-abandoned-i-believe-in-saving-everything/
Last week Meta announced that, as well as losing four billion dollars on the metaverse in the last quarter, it would be shutting down Echo VR. This zero-gravity sports title was one of the early VR successes for the then-Oculus, first on Rift and later on the Quest headset, to the extent Meta acquired the developer behind it, Ready at Dawn, in 2020.
The announcement of Echo VR's closure (it's still live but will shutdown on August 1, 2023) has caused some consternation among fans of VR generally, simply because this is one of the standout experiences and soon will be no more. It feels especially unusual to see it happening to a six year-old game that, relatively speaking, has found an audience. But such is the way of the world at Meta, with CTO Andrew Bosworth saying "those resources could be put to other uses that I think will be useful to the now tens of millions of people who are in VR."
Interestingly enough Bosworth also said John Carmack, who's now left Meta, "would not have shut down Echo VR." And how. Carmack has sent a lengthy statement to UploadVR about Echo VR's closure, and does not sound at all impressed.