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Guess what. Here's the Monday news part three:

Monster Train dev cuts all the monetization from its tactical battler, Inkbound
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-train-dev-cuts-all-the-monetization-from-its-tactical-battler-inkbound/
The developers of Indie RPG Inkbound will remove all the in-game monetization from it at the end of this month. Starting October 27, 2023, there will no longer be any battle pass or cosmetic shop inside Inkbound. They were already quite unobtrusive, but now they're going away entirely.

Baldur's Gate 3 players surprised to discover that, due to elf shenanigans, Shadowheart is actually over 40 years old
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-players-surprised-to-discover-that-due-to-elf-shenanigans-shadowheart-is-actually-over-40-years-old/
As my colleague, PCG senior editor Robin Valentine, pointed out in his seminal treatise against horniness in Baldur's Gate 3, "An adventuring party is basically like the Olympic Village, and we all know what goes on there." Your BG3 crew has this youthful vitality to it, but "youth" can mean very different things for Faerûn's fantasy races. Some spoilers for Shadowheart's Act 3 story ahead.

Build a big tower, get punished by God, in incremental clicker Microcivilization
https://www.pcgamer.com/build-a-big-tower-get-punished-by-god-in-incremental-clicker-microcivilization/
An upcoming incremental strategy clicker is taking on the civilization-building theme in an interesting way: Knowing that you're going to collapse, eventually, before starting over. Indie developer Ondrej Homola's game Microcivilization has you ascending through tiers of difficulty by building progressively larger civilizations before you either choose to—or are forced to—ascend, gaining currency to spend on bonuses for future runs.

With the necromancer, Vermintide 2 is getting a pet class at last
https://www.pcgamer.com/with-the-necromancer-vermintide-2-is-getting-a-pet-class-at-last/
Fatshark said it would continue to support Vermintide 2 after the launch of Darktide and has done just that, with additions like new free levels and remastered levels from the original Vermintide. Next up, pyromancer Sienna will finally get her fourth career: the necromancer.

Manage your inventory to PvP glory in the demo of autobattler Backpack Battles
https://www.pcgamer.com/manage-your-inventory-to-pvp-glory-in-the-demo-of-autobattler-backpack-battles/
My love of games where you play inventory Tetris is well-known. I do not make a secret of this. I like to snugly fit a health potion in beside my spare dagger and weird stuff I've picked up off the latest shopkeep or slain demon. I have also played perhaps too much Dota, and therefore I like it when two or more items become one, stronger item.
Backpack Battles delivers unto me just that. Plus, it's a twist on the PvP autobattler genre that lets you play asynchronous multiplayer against others as you build and inventory manage your way to victory. Each round you get money to purchase from the shop with before you go into combat against an opponent at the same level as you. Win or lose, you move forward, combine some items into new ones, gain HP, and make new purchases.

Here's a remarkably open-ended sci-fi RPG inspired by the classics
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-remarkably-open-ended-rpg-inspired-by-the-classics/
The indie RPG scene is basically solely responsible for keeping the torch of the old-school isometric RPG burning. (...)
So that's why I'm telling you about Space Wreck, which after a year or so on my radar is finally released. A lovingly animated, deeply complex and very interesting game, Space Wreck is about the length of a movie but offers wildly divergent ways to take on its many challenges in your character's quest to find just the precise gear they need to escape repair their broken spaceship and escape junkspace. There's a demo that goes right into the full game, if you want to try it out.

Blizzard pulls Diablo Season 2 trailer that got almost everything wrong, its fumbled sums stunlocking this streamer with laughter
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-pulls-diablo-season-2-trailer-that-got-almost-everything-wrong-its-fumbled-sums-stunlocking-this-streamer-with-laughter/
Diablo 4's Season of Blood drops tomorrow. In the run-up, the game's social media accounts have been in overdrive—dropping trailers, explainer videos, memes, all that good stuff. One such video, however, came and went like a vampire in the night.

Climate activists land devastating blow against big oil by disrupting minor Tekken tournament
https://www.pcgamer.com/climate-activists-land-devastating-blow-against-big-oil-by-disrupting-minor-tekken-tournament/
The UK-based climate change group Just Stop Oil is often in the headlines for its large-scale marches and disruptive protests, most notably closing sections of the UK's busiest motorway, but this weekend its sights moved from civil disobedience to the fighting game community. A Tekken 7 event being held at EGX 2023 was targeted, during which three activists from the group invaded the stage during the tournament winner's final, before spraying orange paint on the big screen behind the competitors and on parts of the stage.
>> I honestly fail to see what they're trying to accomplish with these actions, other than annoying regular people.