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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's going to give the best player in the world a one-of-a-kind prize
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2s-going-to-give-the-best-player-in-the-world-a-one-of-a-kind-prize/
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is shortly entering its second season of competitive content, and the developers have now posted about what players can expect from the new ranked mode. The post also goes on to outline the various cosmetic rewards in enormous detail, and one feature jumped out immediately.

Minecraft is getting a new biome in update 1.20 after all
https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-is-getting-a-new-biome-in-update-120-after-all/
Following the archeology announcement and those Sniffer details, Mojang has announced yet another Minecraft 1.20 feature today and it's a sweet one. The update will include a new biome after all: the Cherry Blossom biome. Mojang had kept pretty quiet about whether we could expect a new biome in 1.20 so this is a nice Valentine's surprise.

Guild Wars 2 is switching to smaller, more frequent expansions
https://www.pcgamer.com/guild-wars-2-is-switching-to-smaller-more-frequent-expansions/
Guild Wars 2 had a good 2022. Its tenth year brought a new expansion, the return of the first season of its Living World story, a Steam launch, and quality-of-life improvements that addressed some long-standing gripes lingering in its ageing code. It also brought renewed hope for the future, with the announcement—shortly after End of Dragons' release—of a fourth expansion. It was such a good year that we named it our Best Ongoing Game.
Now, for 2023, ArenaNet is preparing us for that expansion's release. We don't have a theme, or even a release date. Instead, we have a new format for how expansions (plural) will be released.

Mick Gordon is donating his fee for Atomic Heart to humanitarian aid for Ukraine
https://www.pcgamer.com/mick-gordon-is-donating-his-fee-for-atomic-heart-to-humanitarian-aid-for-ukraine/
Mick Gordon, the composer on games like 2017's Prey, the Doom reboots, and the new Wolfenstein games, has been hard at work on upcoming BioShock-like Atomic Heart, but he's not keeping the money for it. In a post to Twitter earlier today, the veteran videogame musician announced he's going to donate his fee for the game to the Australian Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal, in order to "use [his] work as a means to help those affected by the conflict" that began when Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago.

Destiny 2 just dropped its biggest twist since Cayde-6 got killed off and I'm a mess
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-just-dropped-its-biggest-twist-since-cayde-6-got-killed-off-and-im-a-mess/
When you are many thousands of hours deep into a six-year-old videogame, it takes a lot to surprise you. But today's Destiny 2 season finale did just that. I'll explain why in a second, but first here's the obligatory SPOILER WARNING for details and discussion of the final Season of the Seraph mission and accompanying cut-scene which is embedded further down the page.

Age of Empires 4 is getting a dash of Age of Mythology-style magic in tomorrow's big update
https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-4-is-getting-a-dash-of-age-of-mythology-style-magic-in-tomorrows-big-update/
Age of Empires 4 is getting magical in its season 4 update. Launching tomorrow, February 16, AoE 4's Enchanted Grove promises a swathe of new content that will turn the decidedly history-focused RTS into a more fanciful, almost Age-of-Mythology-flavoured experience. Because I guess the real-life Holy Roman Empire wasn't basically Faerûn? News to me.

The Witcher 3 unwittingly added a mod called 'Vaginas for Everyone' after another chaotic modder snuck it in
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-unwittingly-added-a-mod-called-vaginas-for-everyone-after-a-chaotic-modder-snuck-it-in/
One of the year's most unusual stories thus far has been the Witcher 3's spiffy next-generation update not only polishing the game to a mirror sheen, but adding detailed vagina models to a select group of monsters. Four characters suddenly found themselves in possession of anatomically accurate nether regions (The Crones of Crookback Bog, who look more like Victoria's Secret models than crones, and the vampire-like bruxae) and the weirder element was that, initially at least, the game's developer CD Projket Red didn't seem to know why.
When first reporting on this, PCG's Josh Wolens speculated on a likely cause: The various community made mods that CDPR integrated into the new version of the game. Looks like that was on the money, because CDPR has now confirmed in a statement to Kotaku that the rogue vaginas originate in a mod called HD Monsters Reworked (HDMR), which was ostensibly about adding more realistic textures to in-game characters, but it turns out also incorporates parts of another mod called, straightforwardly enough, Vaginas for Everyone.
>> Well, now you know which mod you need to bring that content back.

League of Legends is getting a '2D hi-bit pixel action RPG' where you lead a magic revolution
https://www.pcgamer.com/league-of-legends-is-getting-a-2d-hi-bit-pixel-action-rpg-where-you-lead-a-magic-revolution/
The South Korean game ratings board's worst-kept secret has finally gotten an official announcement. The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story promises to be a "gritty indie 2D hi-bit pixel action RPG that lets players raise a rogue mage army and lead a revolution," and it's set for release in Spring this year.

11 years on, Natural Selection 2's going to that great alien-infested spaceship in the sky
https://www.pcgamer.com/11-years-on-natural-selection-2s-going-to-that-great-alien-infested-spaceship-in-the-sky/
I guess this is really two news pieces in one. The first bit of news is that apparently Natural Selection 2 has been getting updates for the last 11 years, ever since it was released at the tail-end of 2012. The second bit is about how that's all over now: Unknown Worlds Entertainment has "ceased active development" on the game as of yesterday.