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Life is Strange team announces Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, a '90s teen drama with 27 years of trauma baked in
https://www.pcgamer.com/life-is-strange-team-announces-lost-records-bloom-and-rage-a-90s-teen-drama-with-27-years-of-trauma-baked-in/
Don't Nod announced its next adventure game at The Game Awards tonight, which is called Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. The debut trailer teased a story of four '90s teens who discover some weird alien (magical?) stuff in the woods, and a meeting they have 27 years in the future.

Den of Wolves is a 'mind-f***' heist game from the Payday designer set in a sci-fi city 'where late-stage capitalism has gone rampant'
https://www.pcgamer.com/den-of-wolves-preview-game-awards/
The Den of Wolves trailer at The Game Awards first announces that we're looking at a new game from from the creator of Payday: The Heist and Payday 2, but then goes on to show something that has very little resemblance to a bank robbery: a pair of men growling at each other in a sci-fi dungeon that could've appeared in Cyberpunk 2077. So, what the heck is this game?

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt studio Sharkmob reveals a new 'tactical open world extraction shooter' at The Game Awards
https://www.pcgamer.com/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodhunt-studio-sharkmob-reveals-a-new-tactical-open-world-extraction-shooter-at-the-game-awards/
Sharkmob, the developer of the World of Darkness battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt, unveiled its new game tonight at The Game Awards: Exoborne, a "tactical open-world extraction shooter" set in a devastated near-future world where the remnants of humanity use powerful "Exo-rigs" to survive, scavenge, and—of course—shoot at each other.

'We didn't set out to recruit a Hollywood cast': Marvel star Simu Liu's love of StarCraft led to a big role in upcoming RTS Stormgate
https://www.pcgamer.com/we-didnt-set-out-to-recruit-a-hollywood-cast-marvel-star-simu-lius-love-of-starcraft-led-to-a-big-role-in-upcoming-rts-stormgate/
Stormgate is an upcoming real-time strategy game from a company with a great RTS development pedigree going back to StarCraft, but not one you'd necessarily expect to attract big Hollywood actors. Sometimes, though, big Hollywood actors happen to be huge StarCraft fans.
At The Game Awards tonight, Marvel star Simu Liu added a Hollywood twist to Stormgate when he appeared on stage to introduce a new trailer; Liu is voicing a major character in the RTS. The trailer also revealed that Stormgate, which went into closed beta this week, will hit early access this summer.

The Finals just surprised launched at The Game Awards with a new map and battle pass
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-finals-just-surprised-launched-at-the-game-awards-with-a-new-map-and-battle-pass/
When Geoff Keighley takes the stage for The Game Awards, it's expected that there might be a new game releasing before the end of the night. This year, that game is The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-DICE folk that attracted hundreds of thousands of players to its open beta last month.
Season 1 of The Finals begins now. On top of the maps and modes that were in the open beta, launch day adds a new map set in Las Vegas, a few new tools, and a full Season 1 battle pass. The light class has two new loadout options: throwing knives that serve as your primary weapon and a "vanishing bomb" gadget that I envision working like a ninja smoke bomb that grants temporary invisibility.

The Game Awards 2023 results: All the winners
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-game-awards-2023-results-all-the-winners/
Every winner for The Game Awards 2023 has been announced. This year, over 100 "global media and influencer outlets" (including PC Gamer) cast their votes for 31 award categories. And the winners were announced live on The Game Awards stream in between an avalanche of new game trailers and reveals.

'I didn't think we were gonna get it': Baldur's Gate 3 dominates The Game Awards with 6 wins, including GOTY
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-game-awards-goty/
Baldur's Gate 3 racked up six awards at The Game Awards today, including Game of the Year, a win Larian founder Swen Vincke tells PC Gamer he didn't expect, even after leaving the recent Golden Joystick Awards with too many awards to carry.

Cyberpunk 2077 completes its redemption arc by nabbing its first Game Award three whole years after launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-completes-its-redemption-arc-by-nabbing-its-first-game-award-three-whole-years-after-launch/
Three years on from a legendarily catastrophic launch that jeopardized CD Projekt Red's once-sterling reputation, Cyberpunk 2077 has completely turned it around. After failing to nab a Game Award for its initial launch (eligible at the 2021 TGA), Cyberpunk took home an award for Best Ongoing Game at this year's show.

Developers blast the celeb-laden Game Awards as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs'
https://www.pcgamer.com/developers-blast-the-celeb-laden-tgas-as-an-embarrassing-indictment-of-a-segment-of-the-industry-desperate-for-validation-with-little-respect-for-the-devs/
The Game Awards have been and gone, turning the PC Gamer homepage into something like the deranged Instagram feed of someone obsessed with Sam Lake and Swen Vincke, but it's left plenty to discuss—and criticise—in its wake.
In particular, the show has come under fire for the short time allotted to acceptance speeches and celebrations of nominated games, with some devs rankling at celebrities getting seemingly limitless time to ramble while game makers were told to "Please wrap it up" after barely half a minute.

And these are the weekend deals at GOG and Steam:

+GOG

• The first of the two Deals of the Day is The Whispering Valley, 50% off during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_whispering_valley
• The other DotD is 7Days Origins, with a 65% discount until Monday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/7days_origins

+Steam

• The Dragon Ball franchise is on sale, up to 90% off until Monday, the 11th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/dragonballfranchise
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, that has a demo, will be 20% off until the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/Shadow_Gambit_The_Cursed_Crew/
• Chivalry 2 is going to be free to try during the weekend and 60% off until the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824220/Chivalry_2/
• The Assassin's Creed franchise is also on sale, with up to 85% discounts until the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/AssassinsCreedFranchise
• Metal: Hellsinger, that features a demo, is going to be 67% off until December, the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061910/Metal_Hellsinger/
• GTFO is going to be free to try during 3 days and 40% off until the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/493520/GTFO/
• Sands of Salzaar gets a 60% discount until the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094520/_Sands_of_Salzaar/
• And Capcom has its own TGA Sale featuring un to 87% discounts until the 21st of December: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/capcom/sale/tga

And that's it. I hope I didn't forget anything. If that's the case, I'll add it Monday. Until then, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.