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The Friday news, part two:

The Future Games Show returns March 23, featuring over 50 games
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-future-games-show-returns-march-23-featuring-over-50-games/
The Future Games Show Spring Showcase returns this March with a game-stuffed lineup of some of year's most exciting titles, including Sega's upcoming Hyenas and The Expanse: A Telltale series. The show, which is being put together by our sister site GamesRadar+, will be broadcast on Thursday, March 23 at 3PM PDT / 6PM EDT / 10PM GMT, and hosted by... Cloud and Aerith?

Microsoft's charm offensive with COD deals has reportedly paid off with the EU
https://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-charm-offensive-with-cod-deals-has-reportedly-paid-off-with-the-eu/
Microsoft's been on a tear recently, offering anyone and everyone 10-year Call of Duty contracts like it's going out of style. (...)
But it turns out that might be enough for the EU. Three sources tell Reuters that Microsoft's deal spree will probably be enough "to address EU antitrust concerns" surrounding the Activision acquisition, clearing the way for European regulators to greenlight the deal at some point in the future. Of course, it's still likely that Sony will do whatever it can between now and then to change that.

Skate's janky playtest videos are making unfinished games look cool
https://www.pcgamer.com/skates-janky-playtest-videos-are-making-unfinished-games-look-cool/
Skate has posted yet another video of insider highlights from its closed playtests, all of which makes me want to play the skateboarding game because of how hard I'm laughing at these skaters absolutely eating it. I cannot play it, however, because I have not been deemed worthy by EA to be an insider. That's a shame, because these insiders look like they're having a lot of fun.

Co-op fantasy tavern sim Innchanted is coming out this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/co-op-fantasy-tavern-sim-innchanted-is-coming-out-this-month/
Every fantasy inn seems to be run by a retired adventurer, and more than one tabletop RPG I've played involved the players deciding they wanted to spend their accumulated loot on buying a pub. Innchanted lets you live out that dream with up to four players in local or online co-op, or solo with an AI companion you can delegate tasks to.

No Vampire Survivors sequel for us unless its creator comes up with something 'radically new'
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-vampire-survivors-sequel-for-us-unless-its-creator-comes-up-with-something-radically-new/
Our favourite roguelike of 2022 isn't likely to get a sequel any time soon. In a chat with GameSpot, Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante said that, unless he devised some way to "offer something radically new" with a potential Vampire Survivors 2, a sequel would remain "unlikely".

And here are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

• The first of the three new Deals of the Day is The Inheritance of Crimson Manor, 60% off during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_inheritance_of_crimson_manor
• In case you didn't had enough with the last DotD's Red Faction deals, here you have Red Faction: Armageddon, 83% off until Monday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/red_faction_armageddon
• The third, and last, DotD is the Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered, with an 83% discount until March 6th: https://www.gog.com/en/game/red_faction_guerrilla_remarstered
• And the new Weekend Sale features up to 90% discounts during the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20220303_weekend_sale

+Steam

• The first Weekend Deal is F1 Manager 2022, free to try during the weekend and 70% off until Monday, if you want to keep playing it, of course: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1708520/F1_Manager_2022/
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide gets a 20% discount until March 9: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1361210/Warhammer_40000_Darktide/
• Shredders will be 25% off until next Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874170/Shredders/
• Tavern Master gets a 50% discount until Thursday, 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1525700/Tavern_Master/
• The Ubisoft Publisher Sale brings up to 80% discounts until the 9th of March: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ubisoft/sale/UbisoftPubSale
• The PLAION (formerly Koch Media) Publisher Sale also comes to Steam with up to 89% deals until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/deepsilver/sale/plaionpublishersale
• I'm not sure when it started, it likely has something to do with its 7th anniversary, but Black Desert is free to keep if you claim it before the 9th of March: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert/
• And the last one is Deep Rock Galactic, 67% off until March 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/

And that's enough of news. Until the next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.