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Monday news, part two:

Rainbow Six Siege cheater who swatted Ubisoft Montreal with a fake hostage call gets a three-year community sentence
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-cheater-who-swatted-ubisoft-montreal-with-a-fake-hostage-call-gets-a-three-year-community-sentence/
A Montreal Gazette report says 22-year-old Yanni "Y4nnOXX" Ouahioune, the man responsible for a 2020 swatting that forced the evacuation of Ubisoft Montreal, has been given a three-year community sentence—a non-custodial sentence that allows people convicted of some non-violent crimes to serve their time outside of prison—by a court in France.

Baldur's Gate 3 will have an in-game newspaper that will react to your choices⁠—but you can also break into the office and control the press
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-will-have-an-in-game-newspaper-that-will-react-to-your-choicesbut-you-can-also-break-into-the-office-and-control-the-press/
There were a lot of things in Larian's final "Panel From Hell" preview of Baldur's Gate 3 that have me more excited than ever for the upcoming RPG, but the top spot may very well go to the funny papers: Baldur's Gate 3 will have an in-game newspaper, "Baldur's Mouth," that will change based on the decisions you make.
>> And the hardest difficulty setting will test you.

Baldur's Gate 3 will let you respec your characters: 'We want the players to really experiment with what is possible'
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-will-let-you-respec-your-characters-we-want-the-players-to-really-experiment-with-what-is-possible/
Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot going on, and that applies to character classes and subclasses as much as anything else. That kind of choice can be intimidating, especially when the unknowable consequences of a poor decision has the potential to leave you unhappy (or straight-up screwed) 40 hours in. The good news for anyone worried about being hung up by a bad call is that developer Larian Studios has confirmed that players will be able to respec their characters if they want to.
>> And it will give you many options for romance.

Fans of Forager and Satisfactory should probably check out Nova Lands
https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-of-forager-and-satisfactory-should-probably-check-out-nova-lands/
A surprise release from last month really is quite fun: Nova Lands is a casual base-building and exploration game that blends the automation satisfaction of something like Satisfactory with the delightfully unserious vibes and "but wait, there's more!" energy of incremental crafting in Forager to create a nice little sci-fi adventure that's easy to spend hours on.

Jagged Alliance 3 will have mod support and co-op, thank goodness
https://www.pcgamer.com/jagged-alliance-3-will-have-mod-support-and-co-op/
The latest dev diary for upcoming turn-based merc-manager Jagged Alliance 3 outlines a couple of interesting features. The first is mod support, which is particularly relevant given the way modders kept Jagged Alliance 2 alive. Here's our own Evan Lahti singing the praises of the 1.13 mod, which "enhances what's there, upping the maximum resolution, adding hundreds of new weapons—including gratifying super-items like Ghillie suits and depleted-uranium bullets—reorganizing hotkeys and altering the AI so that enemies flank better, take cover more often, climb onto roofs, and utilize suppressive fire."
Jagged Alliance 3 will receive mod support as part of a post-launch update, the dev diary explains: "Modders will have access to the tools we use internally to create content such as mercs, weapons, items, quests, voice responses, and can even add support for new languages."

Adam Jensen's voice actor says he's not working on a new Deus Ex
https://www.pcgamer.com/adam-jensens-voice-actor-says-hes-not-working-on-a-new-deus-ex/
Actor Elias Toufexis has been busy in recent years, showing up as space spy Kenzo in The Expanse, delightful rubber forehead alien L'ak in Star Trek: Discovery, and The Penguin in Gotham Knights, among other roles. According to the actor though, he hasn't heard anything about reprising the role most gamers know him for: Deus Ex prequel series protagonist Adam Jensen.

The lead dev of inXile's steampunk RPG says it's a 'love child' of two of the best RPGs ever made⁠—and he should know, he helped make them
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-lead-dev-of-inxiles-steampunk-rpg-says-its-a-love-child-of-two-of-the-best-rpgs-ever-madeand-he-should-know-he-helped-make-them/
"Our game is like if Dark Souls had a baby with God of War," The marketing guy insists to you. "It is as though The Sims had sex with Neverwinter Nights," He raves, fingers digging into your arm. His eyes dilate, "Our game is reminiscent of a theoretical scenario where Twisted Metal was the illicit court paramour of Barbie Horse Adventures, and they produced a royal bastard capable of upending this kingdom's fragile politics."
I've heard this shtick before, is what I'm saying, but it's definitely way more believable when the guy saying it actually helped make both of the copulating games in question. "With deep world building, compelling narrative, crunchy RPG systems, engaging gameplay, and massive reactivity," Wrote Chad Moore, project director on inXile's Clockwork Revolution, "I’ve always described [Clockwork Revolution] as the love child of [Arcanum] and [Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]"

Retro-RTS Dying Breed comes complete with campy FMV cutscenes
https://www.pcgamer.com/retro-rts-dying-breed-comes-complete-with-campy-fmv-cutscenes/
In the golden age of the RTS we thought that FMV cutscenes were really cool and fun. Then, later on, we decided they were very bad and made us cringe. Now we have come full circle and realize that they are good, actually.
Thus we receive as a gift from old-school strategy publisher MicroProse a fresh and beautiful new single-player retro-RTS by developer Sarnayer, complete with cornball live action FMV cutscenes that I can already tell are going to be terrible but in a good way.

Following the success of Final Fantasy's Pixel Remasters, Square Enix is considering more old games
https://www.pcgamer.com/following-the-success-of-final-fantasys-pixel-remasters-square-enix-is-considering-more-old-games/
During the Q&A portion of Square Enix's recent 43rd Annual Shareholders' Meeting, one shareholder asked the question everyone's been thinking about. (Apart from "Can you just confirm a release date for Final Fantasy 16 on PC already?") As spotted by VGC, the shareholder asked, "Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster has been well received. Are there plans to remaster other past titles? Personally, I would like to play Xenogears."
"We will refrain from sharing information about new titles," one of Square Enix's board members replied, "but we are considering various ideas within the company and hope that you will look forward to forthcoming announcements."

The king of military sims finally goes to WW2 with Arma 3's Spearhead 1944
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-king-of-military-sims-finally-goes-to-ww2-with-arma-3s-spearhead-1944/
Just when I figured I was done with Arma 3, resigning myself to stepping away from the military simulation genre for a while to wait for the inevitable Arma 4, they find a way to drag me back in. That way is, of course, turning over the guttural Curtiss-Wright R-975 Whirlwind radial engine of a M4A1 Sherman tank to go blow up Nazis.
How can I resist this pitch? "Spearhead 1944 places you in the boots of the soldiers fighting to break out from a tenuous foothold in the hellish maze of the bocage to liberate occupied Normandy" and then also "Explore 150 km² of unique terrain, based on real locations and topography of North-West France." There have been WW2 mods in Arma 3 for years, but nothing like this.

Diablo 4 developers gently suggest players should 'take a break', as the brutal grind continues to wear them down
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-developers-gently-suggest-players-should-take-a-break-as-the-brutal-grind-continues-to-wear-them-down/
As reported by Gamesradar+, a developer livestream last week featured an offhanded remark by associate game director Joseph Piepiora while they were discussing Diablo 4's seasonal structure.
"When you’ve reached all the goals and done the things you think are important, take a break, that's fine [...] we do the same thing," he then goes on to add "when a new season [arrives] and there's new things for you to come check out, that's a great time to come back [...] that's exactly when you should come back and check out Diablo 4 fresh."