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Monday news, part two:

Indie dev files DMCA takedown against his own game as dispute with publisher continues
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-files-dmca-takedown-against-his-own-game-as-dispute-with-publisher-continues/
In December, Conrad Grindheim of Conradical Games defaced the Steam page for his latest release, The Outbound Ghost, and asked people not to buy it on other platforms. The unusual move came as a result of a dispute between the studio and publisher Digerati. Conradical accused Digerati of mishandling the console ports of the game and putting the Steam version on sale without approval, and demanded that it relinquish the rights to the game; Digerati filed a lawsuit against Conradical, accusing it of attempting to violate its contract.
The Steam page was restored in relatively short order, but now it's gone again, this time due to a DMCA takedown request filed by Conradical. In a new video, Grindheim said he took the step after efforts to resolve the dispute amicably failed.

Beamdog is giving fans a chance to put themselves in Baldur's Gate
https://www.pcgamer.com/beamdog-is-giving-fans-a-chance-to-put-themselves-in-baldurs-gate/
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition(s) creator Beamdog is celebrating the original game's 25th anniversary by holding a contest to turn two fans of the series into in-game character portraits drawn by O.G. BioWare artist, Mike Sass. Prospective Sword Coast inhabitants are encouraged to provide reference photos, character notes, and any other supplementary material to [e-mail].

Indie city builder removed from Steam after angry fan claims ownership of a game mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-city-builder-removed-from-steam-after-angry-fan-claims-ownership-of-a-game-mode/
Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic is a niche, hardcore city-builder that's actually really good if you're into that sort of thing—"that sort of thing" being management games and workers' states. Unfortunately for anyone curious but uncommitted, it's no longer available for purchase on Steam because of a very strange DMCA takedown request filed by an angry fan.

This early access survival game just climbed over Starfield to become the most-wishlisted game on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-early-access-survival-game-just-climbed-over-starfield-to-become-the-most-wishlisted-game-on-steam/
We're always keeping our eye on the ever-shifting fortunes of Steam's most-wishlisted games, and there have been some interesting developments lately. A few weeks ago there was the whole The Day Before debacle, where one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam abruptly vanished due to a trademark dispute, a story that managed to only get weirder from there.
And this week horror survival sandbox Sons of the Forest took over the top wishlist spot from Starfield, Bethesda's intensely-anticipated RPG. It looks like more Steam users are now interested in exploring a single creepy island than they are in visiting 1,000 planets in outer space.

See anime spaceship sim Jumplight Odyssey's gameplay reveal
https://www.pcgamer.com/see-anime-spaceship-sim-jumplight-odysseys-gameplay-reveal/
We saw a story trailer for Jumplight Odyssey when it was announced last year, highlighting its sweet 1970s anime vibe inspired by Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato. Now, developer League of Geeks is giving us a closer look at the space-based roguelite's gameplay.

Fighter management sim Punch Club gets a sequel
https://www.pcgamer.com/fighter-management-sim-punch-club-gets-a-sequel/
In 2016, Lazy Bear Games released a fighter management sim called Punch Club, which is kind of like a Princess Maker game if the princess was actually Rocky, and sometimes had to fight crocodiles. Now the studio has announced it's working on a sequel. Punch Club 2: Fast Forward will be out in 2023.

Rainbow Six Siege is going to start doing evil things to mouse and keyboard players on console
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-is-going-to-start-doing-evil-things-to-mouse-and-keyboard-players-on-console/
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Rainbow Six Siege, with its slow movement and fast time to kill, seems to favor the precision offered by M&K, leading underhanded players to "input spoof" with latter-day Tactical Assault Commander-style setups. They lorded over their gamepad-bound victims with the godly aiming potential we've come to know and love on PC.
That ends soon though with Rainbow Six Siege's upcoming "Mousetrap" anticheat. Ubisoft has revealed that it can fairly reliably catch "spoofers" in the act, and that they are also endemic to high-level R6 Siege play on console. Rather than opting for instant bans, Ubisoft will start hitting detected "spoofers" with deliberate input latency that builds up into an intolerable delay between your mouse movements and in-game actions, hopefully removing the unfair M&K advantage on console.

Rainbow Six Siege is revamping riot shields and overhauling the new player experience in 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-is-revamping-riot-shields-and-overhauling-the-new-player-experience-in-2023/
As part of its 2023 Rainbow Six Siege Invitational livestream, Ubisoft outlined its plans for the tactical shooter's eighth year, including the new operators, tools, and balance changes coming down the pike.

Redfall production designer: 'Making a large, open world game, that was breaking the mold for us'
https://www.pcgamer.com/redfall-production-designer-making-a-large-open-world-game-that-was-breaking-the-mold-for-us/
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Production designer Ben Horne spoke to IGN, re-emphasizing what Arkane's been saying for a while now: Redfall is not like Left 4 Dead. "Left 4 Dead is an awesome game," Horne said, "but we wanted to make something different. We wanted to make something that we feel like has the Arkane DNA that we've made in games from the past, games like Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Prey, most recently Deathloop. You can think of all of those games almost like a Venn diagram, where they overlap in really key areas or critical areas—that we like to tell stories in games and we like to make games that have a rich, coherent story, systems that players can exploit and use to their advantage, maybe in some surprising ways. For Dishonored we went a little bit stealth, and for Prey we really focused on physics. For Redfall we wanted to focus on world-building, we wanted to focus on that narrative story."

It's better to reign in Hell, so check the trailer for a strategy game about conquering it
https://www.pcgamer.com/its-better-to-reign-in-hell-so-check-the-trailer-for-a-strategy-game-about-conquering-it/
Hell-set strategy game Solium Infernum has a new trailer out, showing off the first look at gameplay in the upcoming strategy game remake about conquering your demonic rivals to become lord of hell. It's a world where the Great Dark Majesty has disappeared, so controlling an Archfiend you'll have to politick, fight, and cast magic until your rivals are defeated and you're the new lord of the bad place.

A demon rat and a duck star in this buddy cop RPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-demon-rat-and-a-duck-star-in-this-buddy-cop-rpg/
A JRPG oddity has made its way onto Steam, an comedic fantasy buddy cop RPG that's about some weird, extremely asocial demons battling in a city falling down around their ears. You're a trashy rat creature, you have no idea what's going on, and your job is to climb a tower—but you'll need to make some friends (and enemies) to get there.

This Lemmings-like platformer drove me to the brink (in a good way) trying to rescue its hapless astronauts
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-lemmings-like-platformer-drove-me-to-the-brink-in-a-good-way-trying-to-rescue-its-hapless-astronauts/
Moons of Darsalon is that rare sort of game that makes an escort mission fun. Instead of trying to just get your guy to the end of a level, this '50s raygun sci-fi platformer sees you rescuing fellow spacemen and herding them through gauntlets of escalating difficulty and complexity.

Sega arrives late to Japan's pay-hike party, bumping employee salaries by 30%
https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-arrives-late-to-japans-pay-hike-party-bumping-employee-salaries-by-30/
Sega has announced that its current Japan-based staff are set to get a monthly pay bump, in a move likely spurred by surging inflation and similar pay increases at Sega's Japanese competitors. In a press release last Friday, Sega said that, starting July 1, it "plans to increase the average monthly salary of existing employees by approximately 30%".

The world's biggest charity speedrunning event just banned Hogwarts Legacy
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-worlds-biggest-charity-speedrunning-event-just-banned-hogwarts-legacy/
The world's biggest charity speedrunning event, Games Done Quick (GDQ), has banned speedruns of Hogwarts Legacy and other Harry Potter games in the most recent iteration of its speedrun submission guide. A new section of the guide listing "Disallowed games" (via The Gamer)—which didn't exist on the page as recently as January 6, https://gamesdonequick.com/submission-guide">per the Wayback Machine—explicitly forbids runners from submitting Harry Potter game speedruns to the bi-annual charity event.