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Friday news, part two:

Studio makes its beloved destructible FPS free in bid to keep it alive
https://www.pcgamer.com/studio-makes-its-beloved-destructible-fps-free-in-bid-to-keep-it-alive/
GhostShark Games is best known for 2019's unique spaced-out puzzler Still There, but the studio's first game was 2015's Blockstorm. The game basically smooshed-together a fast Quake-style shooter with a Minecraft-inspired sandbox, the latter part of which allowed extensive customisation of avatars, maps, modes and weapons.

Rune Factory 3 Special has a release date on PC, invites you to fall in love with one of its hyperabundant bachelorettes
https://www.pcgamer.com/rune-factory-3-special-has-a-release-date-on-pc-invites-you-to-fall-in-love-with-one-of-its-hyperabundant-bachelorettes/
Sometimes I say that my tastes in games are too wide and strange to be condensed to a single genre or pithy phrase, but I take it all back. I just finished reading the newly-revealed Steam page for Rune Factory 3 Special, which invites players to "farm, fight, and fall in love," and I now realise those three things are all I've ever wanted from videogames or, indeed, life itself.

Try this story-driven fantasy card-battler for free before it launches in April
https://www.pcgamer.com/try-this-story-driven-fantasy-card-battler-for-free-before-it-launches-in-april/
Ash of Gods looked really good when it was revealed in 2018: "A game about angels and free will that looks like The Banner Saga" is how we described it, and that sounds like an interesting idea to me. It was renamed slightly to Ash of Gods: Redemption when it launched on Steam in March of that year, which was fortuitous because it simplifies the naming process for the follow-up, revealed today as Ash of Gods: The Way.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is reportedly delayed
https://www.pcgamer.com/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-is-reportedly-delayed/
Less than three months before it was due to launch, a Bloomberg report says Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed. An announcement at the 2022 Game Awards had set a release date of May 26, but it has now apparently been pushed back to later in 2023.
>> As unlikely as it gets with each new delay, I hope this game is a success. Otherwise, I fear for the future of Rocksteady.

D&D RPG Solasta is getting gnomes, tieflings, and a high-level campaign
https://www.pcgamer.com/dandd-rpg-solasta-is-getting-gnomes-tieflings-and-a-high-level-campaign/
Solasta: Crown of the Magister, the RPG that let me finally make the weird D&D party of my dreams, is about to get even weirder. The newly announced Palace of Ice DLC will add two more playable ancestries—gnomes and tieflings—as well as a new campaign for characters level 10–16.

This physics-heavy, melee-focused immersive sim reminds me of Deus Ex: Invisible War in all the right ways
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-physics-heavy-melee-focused-immersive-sim-reminds-me-of-deus-ex-invisible-war-in-all-the-right-ways/
Is it finally happening? Are we, as a community, as a people, ready to accept that maybe Deus Ex: Invisible War kind of ruled? I think we might be, and as evidence I present the demo for Corpus Edax, an "immersive first-person-melee RPG" created by a developer named Luis Bento.

Time to check the weekend deals at GOG and Steam:

+GOG

• The first Deal of the Day is Flat Eye, 10% off during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/flat_eye https://www.gog.com/en/game/flat_eye
• The second DotD is Steelrising, with a 50% discount until Monday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/steelrising
• The third, and last DotD is Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, with a 75% discount until March 13th: https://www.gog.com/en/game/batman_arkham_asylum_goty
• And publisher Nacon Connect puts its games up to 90% off during the next 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20230309_nacon_connect

+Steam

• The first Weekend Deal revolves around the 2023 Pégases Awards, with up to 75% discounts until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/pegases
• The Total War: WARHAMMER III franchise is free to try during the weekend and the game is 33% off until March 16: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/warhammerIIIFreeWeekend
• Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is also free to try during 3 days and 50% off until next Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101190/Dungeon_Defenders_Awakened/
• Halo Infinite's campaign will be 50% off until the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240440/Halo_Infinite/
• Transport Fever 2 also gets a 50% discount until the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/Transport_Fever_2/
• Another game that's free to try during the weekend is Dead by Daylight, that will also get a 60% discount until Thursday, 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/381210/Dead_by_Daylight/
• Frostpunk is yet another game that we'll be able to try for free this weekend, and will also be 80% off until the 16th of March: https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/
• The Playism Publisher Sale comes with up to 80% discounts until the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Playism/sale/pubsale23
• INSIDE, that has a demo, will be 90% off until Thursday, 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304430/INSIDE/
• And the last one, the Capcom Publisher Sale, comes with up to 87% discounts, but I don't know how long it will last: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/capcom/sale/CapcomPubSale

Enough with these news. Go! Go and have a happy and gaming weekend.