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Friday news, part two:

Experiencing Tekken 8 crashes? Nvidia admits to ongoing driver bug with 10-series cards
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/experiencing-tekken-8-crashes-nvidia-admits-to-ongoing-driver-bug-with-10-series-cards/
Tekken 8 is, I am told, a very good fighting game. Not that I'd know too much about this sort of thing, as my reflexes are now old and haggard enough that I could be beaten by a well-trained dog that licks the buttons on command in anything that requires fast-paced controls. Sigh. 
Anyway, what I do know about is Nvidia GeForce driver updates, and the notes for the most recent release confirm that Nvidia is aware of an ongoing crashing issue in the game. Listed in the release notes for the latest 552.44 Nvidia driver is the admission, under "open issues", that "Tekken 8 may randomly crash during gameplay on GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards". 
>> Welp, I’m glad I’m not playing it.That would drive me nuts.

It's not over—reports warn of more cuts on the horizon at Microsoft, citing a company structure spread too thin
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/its-not-overreports-warn-of-more-cuts-on-the-horizon-at-microsoft-citing-a-company-structure-spread-too-thin/
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." That's an idiom I've got rattling in my head while the games industry stares down the barrel of further cuts at Microsoft's gaming division, which is presently citing eerily familiar reasons for its alarmingly-rapid contraction. 
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Regrettably, it still isn't over. As reported by Bloomberg, "Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax" this week—while "others across the Xbox organisation have been told that more cuts are on the way."

Warzone hackers give overkill a new meaning by stuffing rockets into assault rifles, leaving victims clueless as to how it's even possible
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/warzone-hackers-give-overkill-a-new-meaning-by-stuffing-rockets-into-assault-rifles-leaving-victims-clueless-as-to-how-its-even-possible/
The devil may work hard, but Warzone hackers have proven time and time again that they work harder, especially since they've found a new way to bring utter chaos to the game by loading what looks like rocket ammo into their weapons.
A now-deleted video taken by a bystander showed a couple of hackers wreaking havoc in a Warzone lobby by loading sniper rifles and other guns with rocket ammo and tearing apart the competition and the map along with them. 

Large-scale game development is 'crushing under its own weight' according to Devolver co-founder
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/large-scale-game-development-is-crushing-under-its-own-weight-according-to-devolver-co-founder/
Devolver Digital is known for working with independent developers on games like Human Fall Flat, Children of the Sun, Cult of the Lamb, and, honestly, most of the quirky indie games that you can think of. While it has made a name for itself by championing the little guy, its co-founder, Nigel Lowrie, admits that competing against live service games and existing in the current gaming ecosphere isn't the easiest thing to do. 
During the last Game Developers Conference (GDC) in mid-March, Lowrie discussed these issues in an interview with Games Industry.biz and what it means for the publisher. "There's us, on maybe the smaller-to-medium-size end. But on the larger end, it feels like [game development] is crushing under its own weight a little bit," Lowrie says. "The consumers are so tied up in some of these really fantastic live service games, but there's only so much time they can spend. So there are more and more huge games being launched, asking for an enormous amount of time, but there's just not that much time available for people to play.

24 years later, Warren Spector offers more details about Deus Ex's cut 'Denver airport conspiracy' mission that was 'so crazy no one would believe it'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/24-years-later-warren-spector-offers-more-details-about-deus-exs-cut-denver-airport-conspiracy-mission-that-was-so-crazy-no-one-would-believe-it/
The Denver International Airport has been the subject of all sorts of odd conspiracy theories since its opening in 1995, which made it an ideal setting for director Warren Spector's conspiracy-filled 2000 immersive sim Deus Ex. Spector actually mapped out an entire level that would be set at the airport, but ended up cutting it "because it was so crazy no one would believe it," he said during a recent PC Gamer roundtable podcast.
>> Talking about the past, the voice acting back then was also different.

Mark Hamill to return as The Joker in Multiversus
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fighting/mark-hamill-to-return-as-the-joker-in-multiversus/
Mark Hamill will return as the voice of The Joker for Multiversus, Warner Brothers and Player First Games have confirmed, following several years away from the role. A brief teaser, posted to X/Twitter, gives some of The Joker's moves, while a short trailer was posted to YouTube with a longer one to come later.

Animal Well is shaping up to be the most acclaimed metroidvania since Hollow Knight
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/animal-well-critic-reviews-launch/
One of the best-reviewed games of the year so far launched on Steam today. In his 90% Animal Well review for PC Gamer, Shaun said that the 2D metroidvania "may go down in history as one of the genre's best," and other critics agree.

Check out this gorgeous, sepia-toned apocalyptic adventure set in northern Finland
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/check-out-this-gorgeous-sepia-toned-apocalyptic-adventure-set-in-northern-finland/
The humble point-and-click adventure game has gone through many iterations, with ups and downs year to year, but the genre has given up its relevance entirely. I know this because at least once a year I see one that's just drop-dead interesting for some reason or other. Rauniot, out now from Finnish indie developer Act Normal Games, is drop-dead interesting because it's drop-dead gorgeous. 

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, one of my favorite recent CRPGs, is getting a monster farewell DLC in the style of Mass Effect 3's Citadel add-on
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-one-of-my-favorite-recent-crpgs-is-getting-a-monster-farewell-dlc-in-the-style-of-mass-effect-3s-citadel-add-on/
Even with its hands full on Warhammer 40K CRPG Rogue Trader, Owlcat Games has found time to add a ton of substantial DLC to its 2021 RPG epic, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Now WotR is set to get its swan song on June 13 with A Dance of Masks, a massive new epilogue chapter to the main game.

DayZ's upcoming arctic expansion will let you freeze, burn, starve, and get eaten by zombies all at once
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/dayzs-upcoming-arctic-expansion-will-let-you-freeze-burn-starve-and-get-eaten-by-zombies-all-at-once/
Marquee zombie survival shooter DayZ has a new expansion coming this fall, its first in nearly five years. DayZ Frostline will introduce the frigid new Sakhal archipelago, a sprawling 83km² map—that's about 32 square miles of frigid islands and volcanic peaks. A debut trailer and screenshots show off industrial facilities, mines, pipelines, and oil derricks in tundra environments. Those same shots, however, are interspersed with steaming sulfurous pools, volcano cones, and rugged rocky shorelines.