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The Wednesday news, part two:

Former Pokémon legal chief says Palworld 'looks like the usual ripoff nonsense I would see a thousand times a year ' and he's 'surprised it got this far'
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-pokemon-legal-chief-says-palworld-looks-like-the-usual-ripoff-nonsense-i-would-see-a-thousand-times-a-year-and-hes-surprised-it-got-this-far/
Palworld is Pokémon with guns. So much so, in fact, that in its four days on the market it's already been accused of straight-up ripping off the Nintendo franchise by various internet detectives, a claim the developer called "slanderous."
But it's not just internet commenters who have taken notice of Palworld and its gajillions of sales. The former head of The Pokémon Company's legal team, Dan McGowan, isn't mincing words about the game either. In a chat with Game File, McGowan straightforwardly said Palworld "looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was chief legal officer of Pokémon."
>> If they could have sued them, they would have already done that. It's Nintendo we're talking about.

Palworld releases roadmap with big promises but no dates: PvP, new islands, raid bosses, and an end to Game Pass woes
https://www.pcgamer.com/palworld-releases-roadmap-with-big-promises-but-no-dates-pvp-new-islands-raid-bosses-and-an-end-to-game-pass-woes/
Palworld has taken off—with a huge player count that's set Steam records, its own controversies surrounding unfortunate game mechanics, and AI worries. Now it has a roadmap, as posted to the game's official Discord server this morning.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reveals its first season, featuring a playable Joker from another universe—a camp, insecure 20-something with a rocket umbrella
https://www.pcgamer.com/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-reveals-its-first-season-featuring-a-playable-joker-from-another-universea-camp-insecure-20-something-with-a-rocket-umbrella/
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped a third entry into its sequence of insider episodes with a big reveal—in the game's first season, you'll get to play as da Joker, baby.

Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror
https://www.pcgamer.com/immortality-developer-sam-barlow-teases-2-new-projects-on-steam-and-one-of-them-is-survival-horror/
Sam Barlow's studio Half Mermaid, the developer of Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality—one of highest-reviewed games of 2022—are teasing a pair of mysterious new projects on Steam called, mysteriously, Project C and Project D.

Obsidian's next big RPG Avowed is looking to Vermintide's 'masterclass in having a sense of hitting and impact' to make its first-person sword-swinging feel weighty
https://www.pcgamer.com/obsidians-next-big-rpg-avowed-is-looking-to-vermintides-masterclass-in-having-a-sense-of-hitting-and-impact-to-make-its-first-person-sword-swinging-feel-weighty/
Obsidian (the studio behind Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Outer Worlds) released an extended gameplay trailer diving into its first-person RPG Avowed last week. PC Gamer's own Ted Litchfield sat down with both the game's director Carrie Patel and the gameplay director Gabe Paramo to talk shop.
>> Note to some: You won't be able to do a pure pacifist run.

Avowed's companions won't ditch you for making the 'wrong' choices: 'It's not about maintaining their approval, it's about getting to know them'
https://www.pcgamer.com/avoweds-companions-wont-ditch-you-for-making-the-wrong-choices-its-not-about-maintaining-their-approval-its-about-getting-to-know-them/
Avowed, the upcoming first-person RPG from Obsidian, mixes and matches a few RPG standards in its approach to companion characters and their stories. Before we get into details, some basics—in an interview with game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo this week, we learned the following about Avowed's companions and party management:

There's a new Stargate: SG-1 tactics game on Steam, because the '90s are forever
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-a-new-stargate-sg-1-tactics-game-on-steam-because-the-90s-are-forever/
We said in 2021 that the '90s are back, baby, because someone was making an RTS based on Stargate SG-1. Today they're really back, because that game, formally known as Stargate: Timekeepers, is now live—and for those of you who aren't sure whether real-time Stargate strategy is going to be your bag, a demo is available too.
>> It's a tactit strategy game, not an RTS.

The Day Before studio asks whether you're going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game's catastrophic performance to a 'hate campaign' by 'bloggers'
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-day-before-studio-asks-whether-youre-going-to-believe-it-or-your-own-lying-eyes-as-it-attributes-the-games-catastrophic-performance-to-a-hate-campaign-by-bloggers/
Fntastic, maker of the comprehensively disastrous The Day Before, has released a statement to combat "misinformation" circulating online about the game and the circumstances of its collapse.
>> In line with this BS, Club386 has an article about the co-founders of Fntastic creating another studio.