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The Friday news, part two:

Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix stops character faces "turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes"
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3s-latest-hotfix-stops-character-faces-turning-into-stretched-eldritch-horrors-with-pits-of-flesh-in-place-of-eyes/
You can always expect Baldur's Gate 3 to deliver, even when what it's delivering is as mundane as patch notes. Earlier today, Larian launched Hotfix #15 for its world-beating fantasy RPG, and the accompanying Steam announcement is gripping before we even get to the patch notes. "Have you found some characters' faces turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes?" it reads. "That should not be a problem anymore."

War Thunder celebrates the holidays with an old-fashioned leak of restricted military info on its forums
https://www.pcgamer.com/war-thunder-celebrates-the-holidays-with-an-old-fashioned-leak-of-restricted-military-info-on-its-forums/
As my esteemed colleague Rich Stanton put it, it has now been [0] days since restricted military documents have been leaked in the War Thunder forums. As reported by Task and Purpose, this latest incident relates to the M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a tracked AIFV that first went into service with the US military in 1981.

Four years after it was removed from sale, Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory has returned
https://www.pcgamer.com/four-years-after-it-was-removed-from-sale-paranoia-happiness-is-mandatory-has-returned/
Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory is a CRPG set in an Orwellian nightmare, a sci-fi society overrun by bureaucracy. At one point while playing it I tried to get a broken door fixed so I could get through, and after bouncing back and forth between various repair departments I eventually learned there was a final form I needed to fill out, and that form happened to be on the other side of the broken door. When Paranoia was mysteriously removed from sale weeks after its release with no explanation I tried to find out why, a quest that was just as frustrating as my attempt to get past that broken door.
And now it's back, just as mysteriously. Paranoia is available on Epic again, where it was exclusively released in December of 2019, and on Steam, which it's never been available on before. There's no press release accompanying this, and no explanation on the official Facebook or Twitter account, neither of which has been updated for years. It's just here, as suddenly as it was taken away.

Gloomwood's Christmas update invites you to step into the Mirror Realm
https://www.pcgamer.com/gloomwoods-christmas-update-invites-you-to-step-into-the-mirror-realm/
Samtsirhc Yrrem! As they say during the festive season in Gloomwood's Mirror Realm. Actually, I imagine they say things like "What was that?" followed by "Argh!" much as they do in regular Gloomwood. What is the Mirror Realm, you ask? Why, it's part of Gloomwood's just arrived Christmas update, which adds bugfixes, new areas, and a whole host of festive doohickies alongside mysterious alternate dimensions.

Five Nights at Freddy's Roblox game debuts by accident because series' creator 'approved a skin'—devs say it was a beta, then nuke its Discord over unholy NSFW content
https://www.pcgamer.com/five-nights-at-freddys-roblox-game-debuts-by-accident-because-series-creator-approved-a-skindevs-say-it-was-a-beta-then-nuke-its-discord-over-unholy-nsfw-content/
Five Nights at Freddy's, a cultural gaming giant big enough to have its own movie (that was apparently Just Okay, according to critics) has come to Roblox—wait, hold on a second, it's gone. Now it's in beta? Oh, but the beta's been "taken down for a few weeks." Err.

There's just nine days left before Friday the 13th: The Game disappears from sale forever
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-just-nine-days-left-before-friday-the-13th-the-game-disappears-from-sale-forever/
There's just over a week left before Friday the 13th: The Game, the awkwardly titled yet surprisingly decent multiplayer slasher, sinks back into Camp Crystal Lake forever, as it's to be delisted from sale on December 31st.

South Park: Snow Day will dribble icily down your back in March next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/south-park-snow-day-will-dribble-icily-down-your-back-in-march-next-year/
South Park: Snow Day seems like it would be an ideal Christmas game. A third person cooperative adventure set in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's fictional Colorado town, it sees you battling through its icy streets, banding together with Cartman & co to save your home from an endless winter. That'd be ideal for whiling away the long winter evenings with three of my pals. But forget all that because it's coming out next March.

'This experience has been extremely distressing': Insomniac shares a statement in response to catastrophic ransomware attack, including hopes for Wolverine's future
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-experience-has-been-extremely-distressing-insomniac-shares-a-statement-in-response-to-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-including-hopes-for-wolverines-future/
Last week, reports began to emerge that Insomniac Games had been the victim of a ransomware attack that had seen details of an upcoming Wolverine game (as well as personal information of several developers) revealed to the public.
Ransomware group Rhysida demanded that Insomniac give them roughly $2 million in BitCoin, or it would release the information stolen in the hack—as the ransom date passed, it followed through with the threat. The group released over a terabyte of data onto the internet, composed of millions of files.
This includes a development roadmap stretching into 2032, footage and files from said Wolverine game, business details and personal information on Insomniac employees. Today, Insomniac has posted an official response to Twitter.

Let's end the news checking the GOG and Steam deals, which will be fast:

+GOG

• The Winter Sale keeps going
• There's a new GIVEAWAY: Caveblazers https://www.gog.com/en/game/caveblazers
• And there are also three new Deals of the Day, that will last 70 hours:
  • Gothic 3 has an 80% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/gothic_3
  • Heroes Chronicles: All Chapters is 80% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroes_chronicles_all_chapters
  • The Whale Rock All Games Bundle, with 15 games, gets a 95% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/whale_rock_all_games_bundle

+Steam

• Surprise, surprise, the Winter Sale is now live. Check it out if you haven't yet.

And that's all. There won't be news until, at least, Wednesday, so, if we don't see each other, I wish you an amazing, and gaming (of course) weekend and Christmas.

Last edited by JEMC - on 22 December 2023