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JEMC on 13 December 2024
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We’re not done yet. Here’s the third post of news from today, also quite long:

The makers of Overcooked have teamed up with No Man's Sky developer Hello Games to release a new local and online co-op escape room game: Stage Fright
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-makers-of-overcooked-have-teamed-up-with-no-mans-sky-developer-hello-games-to-release-a-new-local-and-online-co-op-escape-room-game-stage-fright/
Peanut butter and chocolate, macaroni and cheese, Omar Little and Brother Mouzone… those are a few of my all-time favorite team-ups. At The Game Awards tonight, an exciting new dynamic duo appeared, and one I never would have expected: Ghost Town Games, maker of frenetic co-op cooking game Overcooked, have teamed up with No Man's Sky studio Hello Games.
No, it's not Chefs in Space, but it still looks pretty great: Ghost Town Games announced its new local and online co-op game, Stage Fright, and Hello Games is publishing it. How about that! Check out the reveal trailer below

Obsidian is about to make it a monster year for RPGs, with The Outer Worlds 2 coming later in 2025 after Avowed
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/obsidian-is-about-to-make-it-a-monster-year-for-rpgs-with-the-outer-worlds-2-coming-later-in-2025-after-avowed/
In a trailer at this year's Game Awards, Obsidian not only showed off the first gameplay footage of The Outer Worlds 2, it also revealed that the game will release sometime in 2025, meaning that the studio now has two full-fat RPGs coming in the next 12 months given that Avowed drops in February.

Okami 2 is a real thing and Hideki Kamiya is directing it
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/okami-2-is-a-real-thing-and-hideki-kamiya-is-directing-it/
Back in July acclaimed Japanese developer Hideki Kamiya publicly begged Capcom to let him make a sequel to Okami, a brilliant 2006 Zelda-like he directed. Six months later, it seems the begging worked, because Okami 2 was just announced at the 2024 The Game Awards.

Arrowhead boss sees Helldivers 2 players pulling off 'gambits,' loves it, and 'wants to keep investing in' community war tactics
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arrowhead-boss-sees-helldivers-2-players-pulling-off-gambits-loves-it-and-wants-to-keep-investing-in-community-war-tactics/
It should speak volumes about Helldivers 2 that it's one of the best, most creative co-op games we've ever played, and yet the part where you shoot stuff is only the second most impressive aspect of it. What really kept our eyes glued to Super Earth command this past year was the galactic war, an ongoing war simulation that allows the community to steer the direction of a meta narrative by following major orders and capturing enemy-owned planets.
The galactic war metagame has proven so compelling that some hardcore players have made a habit of finding weak points on the enemy frontlines that, if exploited by capturing a specific planet, present an opportunity to liberate multiple planets at once. The community has dubbed these opportunities "gambits," and Arrowhead chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt absolutely loves them.
>> By the way, Joel is now a team.

Illuminates invade! Helldivers 2's biggest update yet drops today with a new alien faction and four-person vehicle
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/illuminates-invade-helldivers-2s-biggest-update-yet-drops-today-with-a-new-alien-faction-and-four-person-vehicle/
Super Earth needs us more than ever: Joining the Terminids and Automotons, Helldivers 2's much-teased third faction has just been added in a surprise update called Omens of Tyranny, which was announced during The Game Awards. The mind-controlling Illuminates are "back with a vengeance" after previously being exiled from the galaxy, and Helldivers 2 creative lead Johan Pilestedt says that even experienced defenders of Super Earth should expect the new alien threat to give them trouble.
>> And they won’t be easy to defeat.

Watch Kyle Crane activate beast mode (and drive his new car) in Dying Light: The Beast
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/watch-kyle-crane-activate-beast-mode-and-drive-his-new-car-in-dying-light-the-beast/
This summer Dying Light fans got some news of the "both good and bad" variety. The bad news was that the DLC they were expecting for Dying Light 2 wasn't going to be coming after all. The good news was they were getting a whole new standalone game, and it was free if they'd already bought Dying Light 2: Ultimate Edition.
That game is Dying Light: The Beast, which stars the hero of the original Dying Light, Kyle Crane. Tonight at The Game Awards, we got a look at the baddie of the story, The Baron, who has been subjecting Crane to some pretty awful looking experiments. Unsurprisingly, the mad science goes wrong and Crane goes into beast mode.

Laura Bailey, Aaron Paul, and more are starring in a Telltale-like game about 911 dispatchers for superheroes
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/laura-bailey-aaron-paul-and-more-are-starring-in-a-telltale-like-game-about-911-dispatchers-for-superheroes/
Following a Game Awards bit in which Laura Bailey of Critical Role fame pretended not to know who Aaron Paul was, praising the Breaking Bad actor for being in "the greatest show of all time, The Wire," the pair announced Dispatch, a "superhero workplace comedy" where we'll send superheroes out to intercept crimes while chasing our own heroic dreams.

Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry at The Game Awards
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/larian-boss-swen-vincke-calls-out-pretty-much-the-entire-videogame-industry-at-the-game-awards/
Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards, not to claim an award this time but to present one—the biggest award of all, in fact, Game of the Year. But he used his time in front of the microphone to first share some thoughts about the current state of the videogame industry, and where it's all gone wrong.

After 3,500,000 units sold and its Game Awards wins, Balatro does a victory lap and absorbs 8 new crossovers in its unstoppable march to turn all games into cute little cards that get you points and stuff
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/after-3-500-000-units-sold-and-its-game-awards-wins-balatro-does-a-victory-lap-and-absorbs-8-new-crossovers-in-its-unstoppable-march-to-turn-all-games-into-cute-little-cards-that-get-you-points-and-stuff/
Dear reader, I have some sorry news to report—Balatro is taking over all of gaming. No RPG, no strategy game, no charming indie hit is safe. If you have a videogame, you are getting absorbed into Balatro, until all is rendered poker, praise be to the Almighty Blind. This is the part where you imagine me sacrificing a goat.
In all seriousness, Balatro is on a well-deserved victory lap. Aside from being the PC Gamer staff's predominant mind goblin this year, it's also a superbly-designed roguelike that feels as eponymous to the genre as Slay the Spire was back in 2017. Recently, it's sold over 3,500,000 units across platforms (a number no doubt increased by its mobile release), though it's also taken best mobile and indie game at The Game Awards 2024.
In celebration of its undeniable conquest of our conscious and subconscious lives, Balatro has released its third free cosmetic update, Friends of Jimbo: Pack 3, which adds 8 more games to its already-swelling, Lovecraftian mass of crossovers, for 16 crossovers total as of the time of writing.

Undisputed has added Jake Paul DLC and given the YouTube grandad-basher a rating equivalent to two-time world champion Ricky Hatton
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/undisputed-dlc-has-added-jake-paul-and-given-the-youtube-grandad-basher-a-rating-equivalent-to-two-time-world-champion-ricky-hatton/
Boxing, and boxing games, are in a strange place at the moment. In the sport itself, we have a high-ranking member of the Saudi Arabia Royal Court clicking his fingers like a Roman Emperor at the Colosseum to create the fights that fans have long been wanting to see. On the games front, meanwhile, we have Undisputed, a flawed but strongly supported boxing sim that's undisputed in its genre by nature of the fact that it's the only serious boxing sim to have been released in over a decade (and, if I'm not mistaken, the first ever one on PC).
Another thing that speaks to the state of boxing is that the headline feature of the new Undisputed DLC released yesterday isn't the three Mexican boxing legends included in it, nor James 'Buster' Douglas—the man who infamously toppled a prime Mike Tyson in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the sport. No, front-and-centre of the new DLC is the man who beat a 60-year-old iteration of Mike Tyson, 'The Problem Child' Jake Paul.

Warframe's bonkers 1999 update sneaks out today: Y2K, dating, boy bands, motorbikes—it's gonna be a weird weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/warframes-bonkers-1999-update-sneaks-out-today-y2k-dating-boy-bands-motorbikes-its-gonna-be-a-weird-weekend/
Warframe's weirdest update is due out today, Digital Extremes announced at The Game Awards last night. And that's saying a lot, for a game that absolutely revels in the strange. But this time we've got an alternate history of the turn of the millennium, an old Earth city to explore, a bunch of new pals sporting prototype warframes to hang out with and date, and a corrupted '90s boy band to fight.

Planetary Annihilation successor has a bumpy landing on Steam, and the backers aren't happy: 'So bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rts/planetary-annihilation-successor-has-a-bumpy-landing-on-steam-and-the-backers-arent-happy-so-bare-bones-that-its-basically-an-asset-show-without-a-game/
Any game with the noble ambition of reviving 90s-style real-time strategy is going to have our attention here at PCG, especially when it comes from the great minds behind Command and Conquer. Industrial Annihilation, a follow-up to Planetary Annihilation and spiritual successor to Total Annihilation, landed on Steam Early Access the other day after accomplishing its Kickstarter funding goals earlier this year, but its first few days on Steam have been a bit faltering.

Here are the GOG and Steam deals for the wekend:

+GOG

  • The Winter Sale is live. Enough said.

+Steam

And that's it. *Phew* That was a lot. Until the next time, hopefully with a lot less news, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.



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