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Monday news, part two:

Here are the official co-streamers of the PC Gaming Show
https://www.pcgamer.com/here-are-the-official-co-streamers-of-the-pc-gaming-show/
The PC Gaming Show for summer 2024 is still just a twinkle in our editorial team's eye, but we've already lined up an all-star cast of Twitch creators to co-stream the show. When our 2024 showcase of the coolest, most exciting things coming to PC does roll around, you'll be able to enjoy it directly from us, or via one of our trusted co-streamers.

You can turn Baldur's Gate 3 into Arduous Gauntlets Done Quick, speedrunning its most gruelling dungeon using a basic 2nd-level spell
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-turn-baldurs-gate-3-into-arduous-gauntlets-done-quick-speedrunning-its-most-gruelling-dungeon-using-a-basic-2nd-level-spell/
Hey, remember how much time you spent tackling Shar's Gauntlet in Baldur's Gate 3? The bloodshed? The tears? The gems? It's a real, well, gauntlet. But here's something to make you feel even worse about it: you could have skipped the whole thing using one level 2 spell.
Spotted by GamesRadar, BG3 fans are currently reckoning with the fact that they may have wasted hours of their life overcoming Shar's trials when they could have just (magically) knocked. No, really. Ordinarily, overcoming Shar's Gauntlet means enduring her three trials, gathering a bunch of umbral gems, winning numerous fights, and then finally broaching a gigantic door at the bottom of her temple that leads to your true goal: the Nightsong.
Or you could just cast Knock on that gigantic door and bypass all that tedious trial-gem-fight stuff. You've got places to be.
>> This revelation is so shocking that they've made a second article about it.

Age of Mythology: Retold's developers are going 'way beyond' the definitive editions for Age of Empires: 'We want to build the game in your head'
https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-mythology-retold-interview-preview/
The upcoming Age of Mythology: Retold has been shown off in-depth for the first time today during Microsoft's New Year, New Age livestream, marking the first showing of the definitive edition of everyone's favorite Age spinoff since its announcement in late 2022.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 'has fallen short of our expectations,' Warner says
https://www.pcgamer.com/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-has-fallen-short-of-our-expectations-warner-says/
Warner Bros. Discovery says sales of the superhero looter-shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did not meet the company's expectations, a shortfall that's put the company's game division on track for a "tough" first quarter in its 2024 fiscal year.
>> I'm shocked. I mean, who could see this coming?...

Two years after release Miyazaki says Elden Ring's world still has 'a small element that I feel has not yet been discovered'
https://www.pcgamer.com/two-years-after-release-miyazaki-says-elden-rings-world-still-has-a-small-element-that-i-feel-has-not-yet-been-discovered/
This week brought our first serious look at Shadow of the Erdtree, the major Elden Ring expansion set for release in June, and it certainly looks like FromSoftware is pushing the boat out. FromSoftware CEO and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on the interview circuit to accompany the trailer and, as well as being maddeningly vague about Bloodborne and re-claiming Dark Souls 2, has been musing on the secrets of Elden Ring's appeal.

If you like collecting critters in Palworld, how about collecting zombies in this co-op survival game?
https://www.pcgamer.com/if-you-like-collecting-critters-in-palworld-how-about-collecting-zombies-in-this-co-op-survival-game/
If you can't beat 'em… make 'em join you? That's not quite how the saying goes, but that's how co-op zombie survival game Welcome to Paradize works. The country has been overrun by zombie hordes, but instead of hacking them up with a machete you hack their brains with technology, turning them into loyal companions who can help you fight, gather, build, and survive.

Finally, a farm sim that will let me date hot demons and also collect capybaras
https://www.pcgamer.com/finally-a-farm-sim-that-will-let-me-date-hot-demon-people-and-also-collect-capybaras/
In the era of farmlife sims exploding on PC, new games really have to bring something special to catch my attention. The pitch for Tales of Seikyu includes kissing demon people and yeah, that'll do it for me. Honestly though, just about every part of this upcoming life sim has caught my eye: the animal transformations, the Japanese rural fantasy setting, and ranching capybaras too.

Fans of Pokémon-inspired MMO Temtem are arguing with the developer about what MMO means after Crema CEO says it's 'not feasible' to keep adding content forever
https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-of-pokemon-inspired-mmo-temtem-are-arguing-with-the-developer-about-what-mmo-means-after-crema-ceo-says-its-not-feasible-to-keep-adding-content-forever/
Temtem developer Crema announced a new game earlier this week called Temtem: Swarm, the latest Vampire Survivorsification of an existing game that eschews collecting and training in favor of all-out inter-Tem violence.
The news did not go over entirely well as some players of the 2022 Pokémon-style game complained about Temtem being abandoned, and that situation did not get better when Kikill0—that's Crema CEO Enrique Paños Montoya—waded into the fray to tell those fans exactly how they're wrong.

Rainbow Six Siege director says making a sequel after 9 years would be a mistake: 'I'm not going to name names, but you see games go through sequels and just completely drop the ball'
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-sequel-alex-karpazis/
Rainbow Six Siege turns nine years old in 2024, but in live service terms, it's more like 90. When Ubisoft's 5v5 FPS first released in 2015, Overwatch was still months away, PUBG didn't exist, and Fortnite was a zombie game we thought might never come out. Siege has been doing the live service game longer than the term has been a part of our vernacular.
That makes Siege one of the oldest games regularly receiving content updates. Ubisoft still plans to support Siege through Year 9 and beyond, but the game's many revisions and increasing age of its engine has led longtime players to ask a reasonable question as of late: Does Siege need a sequel?
The answer, according to Siege creative director Alexander Karpazis, is an emphatic no.

Games Workshop has no plans to bring Cathay and Kislev armies to Warhammer: The Old World 'for the foreseeable future'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games-workshop-has-no-plans-to-bring-cathay-and-kislev-armies-to-warhammer-the-old-world-for-the-foreseeable-future/
One of the exciting things about Warhammer: The Old World was the news of collaboration between the team working on it and Creative Assembly, which was working on Total War: Warhammer 3 at the time, to round out the army lists for Grand Cathay and Kislev. These two nations hadn't been focused on in tabletop Warhammer for years, and the thought of them being expanded in The Old World was tantalizing.
We even saw concept art for specific units, like Kislev's bear riders, Gryphon Legion, and Ice Guard. However, tucked away at the bottom of a news post about the additions coming to Total War: Warhammer 3's Shadows of Change DLC is the following statement: "Fans of Warhammer: The Old World should note that there aren't any current plans to bring Kislev or Grand Cathay to the tabletop for the foreseeable future."

Everybody loves the goofy glowing worm guy coming in Elden Ring's DLC, but we're also terrified something bad will happen to him
https://www.pcgamer.com/everybody-loves-the-goofy-glowing-worm-guy-coming-in-elden-rings-dlc-but-were-also-terrified-something-bad-will-happen-to-him/
There were many notable new characters in Shadow of the Erdtree's first trailer: future controller-snapping megaboss Messmer, zombie Lion Dance guy, gross bisected and impaled old dude, and, of course, the Wicker Man. The true people's champion, however, seems to have been squirreled away in supplemental promo screenshots⁠—I'm talking about the little worm guy.

A Halo co-creator who was working on the next Battlefield has seemingly left the franchise and EA
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-halo-co-creator-who-was-working-on-the-next-battlefield-has-seemingly-left-the-franchise-and-ea/
As reported by Insider Gaming and first spotted by Battlefield YouTuber DannyonPC, FPS veteran and Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto appears to have left his director position at Ridgeline Games, an EA subsidiary, where he was working on the next Battlefield game.

Here's a blocky voxel RTS from the studio that made the Command & Conquer remasters
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-blocky-voxel-rts-from-the-studio-that-made-the-command-and-conquer-remasters/
Veteran real-time strategy studio Petroglyph has released a cute new RTS in Early Access on Steam: 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far is a classic-style setup of building bases, cranking out units, and battering your enemy from every direction as fast as you can. It's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a studio founded by people who worked on the original Command & Conquer series at Westwood, and who were behind the Command & Conquer remasters a few years back.