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And the Monday news, the third, and last, part:

Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/stimulation-clicker-distills-a-decade-of-internet-brainrot-into-exposure-therapy-that-makes-you-stupid-plus-its-free/
If every single day you wake up, log on, and think "the internet sure is stupid," then have I got a game for you. Stimulation Clicker is another absolute banger from creator Neal Agarwal, whose weird little browser games are always a delight.

Forbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/forbidden-solitaire-is-an-upcoming-horror-game-about-a-cursed-cd-rom-from-the-spookily-distant-year-of-1995/
If I were presented with the opportunity to purchase and place into my disk drive a very obviously cursed CD from 1995 I would simply not do so. This is, of course, what sets me apart from the protagonist of Forbidden Solitaire, a person who would put a cursed disk into their computer and pay the requisite karmic price. (What we have in common is that our PCs still have a disk drive.)

The best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/the-best-unofficial-alien-game-is-getting-a-spiritual-successor-where-you-carve-up-derelict-ships-and-manage-drones-with-personality-quirks/
What's the best Alien game after Alien: Isolation? No, it isn't Aliens: Dark Descent, though that is an excellent real-time tactics take on James Cameron's sequel. Neither is it Alien: Rogue Incursion, Survios' recent VR spin on Isolation. The answer is, of course, Duskers, the 2016 indie game about scavenging derelict spacecraft using drones controlled remotely via a command-line interface.
Duskers may not be officially tied to Alien, but it captures the sci-fi peril of Ridley Scott's movie like few others, particularly the scene where the Nostromo crew watch the motion tracker, helpless, as the xenomorph chase down Dallas in the vents. Replace Tom Skerritt with a remote-controlled Roomba, and the motion tracker with a top-down blueprint of a spaceship, and you've got Duskers, baby.
Duskers' developer, Misfits Attic, hasn't released a game since, but studio founder Tim Keenan recently released a video (via RPS) revealing what he's been working on all this time. "For a while now, we've been heads-down exploring three new titles, and we finally have some playables" Keenan says at the outset. One of these games is codenamed "Humanity 2.0" and it is a spiritual successor to Duskers.

Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/abiotic-factors-massive-dark-energy-update-which-adds-teleporters-pocket-dimensions-and-black-hole-grenades-to-the-half-life-inspired-survival-sim-is-out-now/
Abiotic Factor's Dark Energy update is so vast and comprehensive it opened a rift right into The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, where developer Deep Field Games revealed the new faction, new gizmos, and enormous new area coming to the Half-Life inspired survival game. Indeed, it was large enough that the studio delayed the update out of 2024, and only now has Dark Energy formally arrived into the GATE Cascade Research Facility.

Blizzard co-founder and Diablo designer thinks new ARPGs have 'cheapened' the genre with fast leveling, throwaway loot and enemies
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/blizzard-co-founder-and-diablo-designer-thinks-new-arpgs-have-cheapened-the-genre-with-fast-leveling-throwaway-loot-and-enemies/
Speaking to VideoGamer, Blizzard co-founder and Diablo programmer/designer David Brevik expressed a dim view of the current state of Diablo-like ARPGs, arguing that inflated enemy numbers and a deluge of loot and experience have robbed the genre of the friction and weight present in the first two Diablo games.

Civilization 7 is coming to VR on Meta Quest 3, in case you'd like a full-size Benjamin Franklin to lecture you about stuff
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/civilization-7-is-coming-to-vr-on-meta-quest-3-in-case-youd-like-a-full-size-benjamin-franklin-to-lecture-you-about-stuff/
It's not quite out on PCs yet—unless you paid to play early—but it looks like a VR edition of Sid Meier's Civilization 7 will be coming to Meta Quest with its own unique features later this Spring.

Oh hell yeah, someone's making a game about customizing and off-roading RC cars in your backyard
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/oh-hell-yeah-someones-making-a-game-about-customizing-and-off-roading-rc-cars-in-your-backyard/
Some of the absolute best simulators recreate a hobby or career that you don't have the money, time, space, or energy to pursue yourself, but which you definitely, 100% find incredibly rad and would love to do. Thus the enduring popularity of flight sims, or the delightful joy of ruining big trucks in SnowRunner.
Well, here's one for just that niche: Indie dev Eugene Hatskevich is making TrophyRC, a game where you tinker with and drive little remote control cars over elaborate obstacle courses you build in your backyard. It's a to-scale offroading and bouldering game with all the whimsy and inventiveness you expect from the concept. You shouldn't build a giant seesaw for your multi-ton off-roader but you can totally build one for your little RC Cars.

Stealth tactics game Commandos: Origins will be out in April
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/stealth-tactics-game-commandos-origins-will-be-out-in-april/
It's a shame that Mimimi Games, the studio behind the Shadow Tactics games, closed down in 2023. But other studios have picked up the real-time stealth tactics slack, resulting in games like Sumerian Six, and the upcoming prequel to the Commandos series.
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As well as singleplayer it'll have two-player co-op, which can be played either splitscreen local or online. Commandos: Origins is scheduled for release on April 9 via Steam, where you can currently download a demo.