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The Sony State of Play 'open-world dress-up adventure' game and the RPG where you carry a child on your back are both headed for PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/the-sony-state-of-play-open-world-dress-up-adventure-game-and-the-rpg-where-you-carry-a-child-on-your-back-are-both-headed-for-pc/
I'll be honest, yesterday's Sony State of Play has already turned to a blur in my memory. All I recall is a now-familiar absence of Bloodborne and someone, at some point, saying "The path of a stylist is never easy" with a gravitas you usually reserve for warning your headstrong young apprentice off a quest to avenge his father or telling people the stock market has crashed.
The game that line came from, it turns out, was Infinity Nikki, the full-fat console follow-up to the Nikki series of dress-up games you can find on mobile. With the absolutely irresistible tagline of "It's glam time any time!"—which is also the maxim by which I live my life—Infinity Nikki promises an open-world fashion adventure that takes the stylist (and stylish) Nikki through multiple nations "each with a unique culture and history." And presumably outfits, which all have their own strange effects and powers.

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ends development, with multiplayer to shut down in September
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wolcen-lords-of-mayhem-ends-development-with-multiplayer-to-shut-down-in-september/
Developers Wolcen Studio have announced that 2020 action RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem will receive no further development or support, and that its multiplayer component will end later this year.

Here's a little psych-horror game set on a running subway train that never ends
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/heres-a-little-psych-horror-game-set-on-a-running-subway-train-that-never-ends/
A new horror game set on a sterile, liminal, and infinite subway train has attracted some positive buzz on its launch weekend. Platform 8 is a horror walking simulator that has you on an infinitely repeating, psychologically oppressive train where your only company are some advertisements and a guy looking at his phone.

Diablo 4 plans to celebrate its first birthday with a festival of free stuff
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/diablo-4-plans-to-celebrate-its-first-birthday-with-a-festival-of-free-stuff/
Blizzard's live-service looter-clicker Diablo 4 was released on June 6 of last year, meaning it's about to celebrate its first anniversary. Rather than the traditional paper-themed gift or a clock or something, it'll be celebrating with a week of free cosmetics and a pair of events called the March of the Goblins and Mother's Blessing.

UBOAT looks to be the best WW2 submarine simulator in a long time
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/uboat-looks-to-be-the-best-ww2-submarine-simulator-in-a-long-time/
The submarine-captain simulator used to be a pretty big deal, but it—among many other simulator genres—has fallen out of favor in the past decade. Depending on who you ask, the last great submarine sim was one of the last few Silent Hunter games released between 2005 and 2010—all of which are surely heavily modded in some way.
No more, though, as Deep Water Studio's UBOAT is set to release some time soon and seems to have really taken genre fans with its blend of operations detail and life on-board the infamous convoy-raiding German submarines of World War 2. First released in 2019, the Early Access period is now coming to a close with the release of a beta for the complete game this past week.

Helldivers 2 players save democracy by turning a planet into an ominous black hole that makes whale noises: Which is fine and normal and not a wormhole to the Illuminate, stop asking
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-players-save-democracy-by-turning-a-planet-into-an-ominous-black-hole-that-makes-whale-noises-which-is-fine-and-normal-and-not-a-wormhole-to-the-illuminate-stop-asking/
The latest Helldivers 2 major order has had some issues—but fair play to Arrowhead, the climax of said order is very dang cool, and far better than the lack of rewards offered for the Menkent Line.
In case you've not been keeping up with your Super Earth-mandated news broadcasts, last week divers were deployed to Meridia, the site of a super colony of Terminids. They were instructed to inject dark fluid, an experimental substance that spaghettified some scientists and was "liberated from the Illuminate following the First Galactic War", into the planet's crust.
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Upon completing the major order, however, Helldivers 2 players were immediately ejected out of the planet's orbit and delivered the following cutscene on the galactic map—captured courtesy of red-blooded patriot Interjessing-Salary on the game's subreddit.

Starfield players reckon 'something big is going on behind the scenes,' but it's probably just the upcoming Shattered Space expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/starfield-players-reckon-something-big-is-going-on-behind-the-scenes-but-its-probably-just-the-upcoming-shattered-space-expansion/
There are some rumblings going on in Starfield communities right now, as a few players have spotted some activity going on with the man behind the space curtain—specifically, there are more change logs now than ever before in the game's history. 

Patch 7 of Baldur's Gate 3 heralds the arrival of mod support in September, with a closed beta starting next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/patch-7-of-baldur-s-gate-3-heralds-the-arrival-of-mod-support-in-september-with-a-closed-beta-starting-next-month/
In terms of updates, Baldur's Gate 3 is—for the most part—starting to wind down, with the latest patch released in February of this year and Larian shifting gears to work on its new RPGs. That's only normal (the Sword Coast doesn't need battle passes), but there's still one more patch left in the oven: Patch 7.
The update, which is scheduled to release September of this year, intends to add "evil endings, plus a whole bunch of fixes, quality of life improvements, and more"—but that's not the marquee feature. The juicier, more long-term-impact of Patch 7 is that Baldur's Gate 3 will be finally getting fully-fledged mod support.