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Monday news, part two:

The maker of Among the Sleep and Mosaic unveils a new game about driving a food truck for super-cute animals
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-maker-of-among-the-sleep-and-mosaic-unveils-a-new-game-about-driving-a-food-truck-for-super-cute-animals/
Krillbite Studio is best known for dark, sometimes disturbing games like Among the Sleep, Mosaic, and the very brief but clever The Plan. But its next game looks to be something very different: It's "a culinary food truck adventure" called Fruitbus.

One of my favorite survival city builders just got a brand new building mode and a huge discount
https://www.pcgamer.com/one-of-my-favorite-survival-city-builders-just-got-a-brand-new-building-mode-and-a-huge-discount/
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So, yeah, I'm recommending Patron to anyone who enjoys city builders, and this is a great time to jump in and start playing. Not only is the game on the brink of celebrating two years since launch, it's just added an entirely new mode.
If you're finding the sandbox experience of Patron a little too difficult, or you just want to have all the everything unlocked when you start, a new creative mode has been added. All the research trees, building types, and even all the resources are unlocked and infinite at the very start of the game. It's a builder's paradise with no restrictions on how you craft and grow your city.

Blizzard on this week's Diablo 4 nerfs: 'We know it is not fun ... we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again'
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-nerfs-patch-1-1-campfire-chat-livestream/
During an emergency 'uh oh, everyone's mad' livestream today, Diablo 4 community manager Adam Fletcher said that this week's controversial patch, which heavily nerfed overall player damage output and survivability, is not something Blizzard plans to repeat.

After making the scariest game I've ever played, Amnesia's developer is considering moving on from horror
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-making-the-scariest-game-ive-ever-played-amnesias-developer-is-considering-moving-on-from-horror/
In an interview with 80.lv (spotted via Eurogamer), Frictional Games creative director and co-founder Thomas Grip revealed that the studio is considering de-emphasizing horror in its future projects, instead using its distinctive immersive, first-person style to tell other kinds of stories.

Fill alien caverns with factories in automation game Techtonica
https://www.pcgamer.com/fill-alien-caverns-with-factories-in-automation-game-techtonica/
Bringing a new vibe to the factory-building automation genre, Techtonica's neon alien caverns and synthwave soundtrack are a lot of fun to explore and excavate in. Releasing just this week on Steam and Game Pass, Fire Hose Games' debut release is a first-person factory game that follows in the footsteps of Factorio or Satisfactory, but adds literal depth to the formula by setting everything inside a network of subterranean caves on a strange, rogue exoplanet.

Get ready to balance your flying city and shoot down air pirates in Airborne Empire
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-ready-to-balance-your-flying-city-and-shoot-down-air-pirates-in-airborne-empire/
City-building game Airborne Kingdom was a really new, interesting twist on the genre, challenging you to balance the growth of your flying city with its physical needs (...)
Now developers The Wandering Band are back for Airborne Empire, a game continuing the story started in Airborne Kingdom by having you unite the disparate kingdoms of the world under your flying city in order to reforge an ancient protective alliance: The Airborne Empire. The big addition this time? Fighting. Attacks by sky pirates are now part of the game world, requiring the attention of your flying city to protect both yourself and the world below.

The best game about space mining is finally finished
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-game-about-space-mining-is-finally-finished/
Physics-based space mining simulator Delta V: Rings of Saturn, stylized as ΔV: Rings of Saturn, came out of early access this week. It is, in my opinion, the best space mining game you can play. It's a hard sci-fi game about physics, paydays, fission-powered space ships. It's also a gobsmackingly cheap $10.

Saddle up for cowboy Hotline Miami in Kill the Crows
https://www.pcgamer.com/saddle-up-for-cowboy-hotline-miami-in-kill-the-crows/
Do you know where your Colt Single Action Navy Revolver is? You'll probably want to strap on your gun belt then, because it's time to yeehaw.
Kill The Crows, an upcoming western shooter from 5minlab, is getting billed as a Wild West Hotline Miami where "A gunslinger burning with vengeance steps into the ruins of a forsaken town, ready to face death." Kill the Crows promises "one shot, one kill gunfights" with pixellated western flair. Presumably it's that one-shot ethos that likens it to Hotline, not the inclusion of some psychedelic level-based storyline.

Explosively popular indie Battlefield-alike BattleBit Remastered draws a line in the sand against boomsticks: 'no shotguns'
https://www.pcgamer.com/explosively-popular-indie-battlefield-alike-battlebit-remastered-draws-a-line-in-the-sand-against-boomsticks-no-shotguns/
First spotted by PCGamesN, one of BattleBit Remastered's developers stated in no uncertain terms that the breakout FPS will not be adding shotguns. In response to a query about the FPS staple, co-developer ThatLiquidHorse simply stated "no shotguns."

Get abducted by space gnomes to tend their garden in this chill strategy sandbox
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-abducted-by-space-gnomes-to-tend-their-garden-in-this-chill-strategy-sandbox/
Magically whisked across worlds by weird and slightly airheaded gnomes for your magical, inborn gardening ability, you must help them take a devastated wasteland and turn it into a lush garden. That's the plot for Horticular, a horticulture-based gardening game that wants to find interesting challenge with the puzzle of a healthy garden and beautiful layout.

Star Wars Outlaws needed a speeder because of its 'fairly vast' distances
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-outlaws-needed-a-speeder-because-of-the-fairly-vast-distances/
Star Wars Outlaws, the Star Wars game that will finally let us play a blaster-toting scoundrel who probably thinks a lightsaber is a low-fat cavalry weapon, is being published by Ubisoft. That brings with it certain expectations. Since this isn't a Rayman game, those expectations include an open world that's perhaps too big for its own good. In a recent interview at Comic Con, creative director Julian Gherity explained that open world locations in Outlaws, like the desert moon of Toshara, are so big they needed to give player-character Kay Vess her own speeder to cross them. "There isn't just this bustling city," Gherity said, "in Toshara's case it's called Mirogana, but there's all the wilderness outside where the player and Kay—driven by their objectives, but distracted by their curiosity—can go and explore. But those distances are fairly vast, so to make them fun, accessible, to grow access for the player, we came up with the speeder."

JK Simmons will reprise his role as Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1, and Robert Kirkman could not be more pumped
https://www.pcgamer.com/jk-simmons-will-reprise-his-role-as-omni-man-in-mortal-kombat-1-and-robert-kirkman-could-not-be-more-pumped/
As spotted by IGN, it's been confirmed at an interview at San Diego Comic-Con last week that JK Simmons—face of Spiderman's J. Jonah Jameson in multiple movies—will be reprising his role as Invincible's Omni-Man for Mortal Kombat 1's DLC.

Diablo 4's battle pass is such a mess that it doesn't even give you enough Platinum to buy a single item
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4s-battle-pass-is-such-a-mess-that-it-doesnt-even-give-you-enough-platinum-to-buy-a-single-item/
If you were looking at the Platinum payouts on Diablo 4's battle pass and getting excited about buying a cosmetic from the shop with your haul, you're in for some disappointment. Instead of offering a practical amount of premium currency, Blizzard has gone for a joke amount: 666 Platinum. Oh you cheeky devils. The real joke, though, is that 666 Platinum is useless—not even enough to buy the cheapest item in the shop.
>> How many f*ck ups has Blizzard done with Diablo 4 so far?