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WoW's Pandaria Remix feels like it's emerged from an extended Pandaren brew session in the dev room
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/wows-pandaria-remix-feels-like-its-emerged-from-an-extended-pandaren-brew-session-in-the-dev-room/
The WoW expansion Mists of Pandaria, initially released in 2011, built out a faction and region of Azeroth that had been a part of Warcraft since 2003: essentially, boozed-up kung fu pandas. It's definitely one of my favourite expansions purely for the change in tone it brought to the game, and now Blizzard has announced a time-limited event called WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria is under development, and it looks… well, it looks like someone's been on the panda brew.

MultiVersus fans have become convinced that the game is now slower, and they absolutely hate it
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fighting/multiversus-fans-have-become-convinced-that-the-game-is-now-slower-and-they-absolutely-hate-it/
MultiVersus is in its makeover montage era right now. It's been "rebuilt from the ground up" in Unreal Engine 5, ready to emerge with its glasses off and hair down sometime in May. Are people excited about that? Maybe not so in the wake of new clips that have fans convinced the game looks and plays worryingly differently now.

One week after saying it was 'hard at work on our next project,' Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has reportedly furloughed most of its remaining staff
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/one-week-after-saying-it-was-hard-at-work-on-our-next-project-immortals-of-aveum-developer-ascendant-studios-has-reportedly-furloughed-most-of-its-remaining-staff/
Six months after laying off nearly half its staff following the poorly-received launch of Immortals of Aveum, developer Ascendant Studios has reportedly now furloughed the majority of its remaining employees.

Helldivers 2's new Ground Breaker armor suffers a wardrobe malfunction—it launched with the wrong passives
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2s-new-ground-breaker-armor-suffers-a-wardrobe-malfunctionit-launched-with-the-wrong-passives/
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that there was a bit of a mixup with the Democratic Detonation warbond that went live yesterday: Somehow, the CE-27 Ground Breaker medium armor rolled off the line with the wrong passive.
>> By the way, melee weapons are not off the table, but they won’t be lightsabers.

In this strategy city builder you'll grow your capital through 2,500 years of history
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/in-this-strategy-city-builder-youll-grow-your-capital-through-2500-years-of-history/
April is already a monster month for city builders and colony sims, and yet another city building game has just been announced, this one with a bit of a Civilization theme. The cities you grow and manage in most city builders can last for years, sometimes decades, and occasionally hundreds of years… but what about for thousands of years?

Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/possibility-space-closure/
It's despairingly common to hear about game studios closing lately, but I don't think I've ever heard a studio owner blame their company's closure on leaked information that has yet to be made public. That's what happened today when every employee at Possibility Space, a relatively young studio whose first game hadn't yet been revealed, was suddenly laid off.

Bethesda design director confirms Fallout: New Vegas is still canon: 'Of course it is'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/bethesda-design-director-confirms-fallout-new-vegas-is-still-canon-of-course-it-is/
The Fallout TV series arrived this week and the response has been almost entirely positive. (...)
I won't spoil things here, but midway through the series we learn the date of an important event that may (or may not) overlap with the timeline of Fallout: New Vegas. This led some Fallout fans to claim that the New Vegas storyline was being retconned out of Fallout lore altogether. (...) Emil Pagliarulo, Bethesda Game Studios design director and lead designer and writer of Fallout 3 and 4, posted a Fallout timeline on Twitter yesterday, hoping to clear up some confusion about when things happened across the main games of the Fallout series. That wasn't quite enough to settle the matter, but thankfully one Twitter user popped the real question: "So is New Vegas canon or not?"

Update: Fallout 4's lead writer reverses course, clarifies that main character is not actually a war criminal
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/uh-i-guess-fallout-4s-male-protagonist-is-canonically-a-war-criminal-now/
Well, this was unexpected: Fallout 4 lead writer Emil Pagliarulo took to Twitter yesterday to reveal that Fallout 4's male protagonist participated in the extrajudicial execution of a Canadian partisan during the illegal US occupation of its neighbor "up 'nort" in the 2070s. I always knew that guy had bad vibes.
Update: That was fast. Shortly before this story first went live, Bethesda design director Emil Pagliarulo amended his reveal about Fallout 4's male protagonist, whose default name is Nate.
"I wanted to share what I thought was a cool Fallout tidbit without realizing how divisive it might be," Pagliarulo tweeted. "I should have... Not every bit of Fallout info I share is automatically canon. Nate is NOT a war criminal."

Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/deep-rock-galactic-is-rolling-out-a-feature-to-let-you-play-old-seasons/
Cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic will soon let players take its old seasons of stuff out of the closet and take them for a spin. That means the first four rounds of themed extra stuff to do in Deep Rock will be available as their own game modes alongside a separate Vanilla module that can spit out events and game modes from every season—and all of that's coming as part of DRG season 5 this June.

Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition update adds cross-platform multiplayer, another cut character, and more
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/rise-of-the-triad-ludicrous-edition-update-adds-cross-platform-multiplayer-another-cut-character-and-more/
Ye olde 1990s knockabout shooter Rise of the Triad was remastered and rereleased as Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition last year. As our Shaun Prescott said at the time, it hasn't aged well but you should still play it. It's a goofball historical artifact with some fun power-ups and more hidden doors than Castle Dracula, and it's just received an update.
Version 1.1 brings cross-platform multiplayer, meaning that players on Steam and GOG can gib each other at last, as well as our friends over on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox. It also adds an alternate Lightning Guard enemy—the last cut character from the beta version to be restored for the Ludicrous Edition—and shows your kills and secrets completion on the map screen for each level.

Town-building survival RPG Bellwright hits Early Access this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/town-building-survival-rpg-bellwright-hits-early-access-this-month/
Survival and town-building RPG Bellwright will release on Steam this month, with developers Donkey Crew announcing that they're targeting April 23 for a release. The low fantasy RPG was well-received during its Steam Next Fest demo last year for its blend of survival crafting gameplay and third-person town building.

Elden Ring dataminer uncovers unused alternate underground zones tied to cut 'cataclysm' system that would have altered the world map as you progressed
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/elden-ring-dataminer-uncovers-unused-alternate-underground-zones-tied-to-cut-cataclysm-system-that-would-have-altered-the-world-map-as-you-progressed/
Prolific Elden Ring dataminer Sekiro Dubi has released a long video outlining alternate versions of some of the game's extensive underground areas. These zones seem to tie into a previous iteration of Elden Ring that involved more world map altering "cataclysms" similar to the meteor that strikes Limgrave in the final game.