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This is becoming a norm, and I don't like it. Here's the third part of the news:

New League of Legends champion Hwei is suspiciously similar to one of Dota 2's hardest-to-use heroes
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-league-of-legends-champion-hwei-is-suspiciously-similar-to-one-of-dota-2s-hardest-to-use-heroes/
League of Legends' new champion Hwei is a human mage designed to be played in the mid-lane, and he has 10 different spells that take more than one button press to cast. If you happen to be a Dota 2 fan that might sound a little familiar, as Invoker—a wizard dating all the way back to Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients—basically does the same thing.

Even after 180 hours of Baldur's Gate 3, I never realized there's a game-spanning unmarked quest to find a stray cat a new home
https://www.pcgamer.com/even-after-180-hours-of-baldurs-gate-3-i-never-realized-theres-a-game-spanning-unmarked-quest-to-find-a-stray-cat-a-new-home/
I have sunk so much of my life in Baldur's Gate 3, and it just keeps surprising me. YouTuber DragonsDream demonstrated an absolutely delightful little unmarked quest to find a stray cat a new home in Act 3, and I know exactly why I've never seen it before: you have to effectively fail another quest all the way back at the beginning of the game to make it happen.

NieR producer promises the series will continue as long as creator Yoko Taro is alive to work on it
https://www.pcgamer.com/nier-producer-promises-the-series-will-continue-as-long-as-creator-yoko-taro-is-alive-to-work-on-it/
First reported by Japanese site 4Gamer.net and shared in English by Genki_JPN on Twitter, on November 16, NieR creator Yoko Taro and producer Yosuke Saito gave a presentation about the series as part of the South Korean G-Star conference. At the end, Saito promised that the series would continue as long as Yoko Taro was still alive and kicking, but they had nothing concrete to share at the moment.
>> I'd add the caveat of good sales also being a factor as well.

Starfield's down to mixed reviews on Steam, while the community laments 'the magic is just missing from [the game]'
https://www.pcgamer.com/starfields-down-to-mixed-reviews-on-steam-while-the-community-laments-the-magic-is-just-missing-from-starfield/
Bethesda has a reputation for these big, deep, open-world RPG you can get lost in for years. They have a legacy of large, technically impressive worlds filled with detail and places to explore. To this day, Skyrim endures as a world people want to return to—which 12 years after launch is genuinely impressive.
Starfield, which was meant to be our 'Skyrim in space', was meant to carry on that tradition. All of Bethesda's pedigree, expanded to over 1,000 planets: a near-infinite universe you could explore for years.
And yet, less than half a year since its launch, the exhaustion's set in. Starfield now, at the time of writing, has mixed reviews on Steam, both All Time (69% positive) and Recent (48% positive).
>> Bethesda will have to work a lot to turn Starfield into the game it was meant to be.

After a community uproar over plans to charge players $10 to change their in-game IDs, Riot Games believes it has 'found the right balance with time alone'
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-a-community-uproar-over-plans-to-charge-players-dollar10-to-change-their-in-game-ids-riot-games-believes-it-has-found-the-right-balance-with-time-alone/
League of Legends developer Riot Games has walked back plans to charge players $10 to change their Riot ID, after an attempt to limit players' abilities to alter their in-game IDs provoked a community backlash.

Cities: Skylines 2 DLC has been delayed and weekly patches have come to an end
https://www.pcgamer.com/cities-skylines-2-dlc-has-been-delayed-and-weekly-patches-have-come-to-an-end/
Since Cities: Skylines 2's shaky launch, Colossal Order has been releasing regular patches to improve performance and squash bugs, but the studio's attention is now turning to the issues that "require a bit more work". This means an end to the weekly patches, as well as postponed DLC. The changes have been detailed today in the studio's blog, Word of the Week.