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Well yes, today there’s a third post. Thankfully, it’s short:

The BAFTAs declares Shenmue and a game that came out 2 months ago more influential than Tetris and expects us to all just go along with that
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-baftas-declares-shenmue-and-a-game-that-came-out-2-months-ago-more-influential-than-tetris-and-expects-us-to-all-just-go-along-with-that/
A couple of months back, the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs, more or less the British Oscars) got bored of figuring out which things were good by itself. Instead, it decided to ask you, the humble gaming public, to divine the most influential game of all time. And boy, you've really made a hash of that.
>> Oh, boy. Someone had fun trolling the Baftas. To add salt to the injury, there’s a second article about Tetris that explains how putting it out the top ten is just nuts.

Fear not, potato gamers, the RuneScape Dragonwilds system requirements are pretty light and hallelujah for a new UE5 game that doesn't require ray tracing
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/fear-not-potato-gamers-the-runescape-dragonwilds-system-requirements-are-pretty-light-and-hallelujah-for-a-new-ue5-game-that-doesnt-require-ray-tracing/
RuneScape Dragonwilds has been in the works since at least 2022, but we hadn't heard much about it until late last year when Jagex started recruiting Alpha testers and then a few days ago when it was officially announced and named. There was no word on what it'd take to run the game, though—until now, that is, because the system reqs are now listed on the game's Steam page.

Those Elden Ring Switch 2 extras are coming to PC, and the game's now sold an incredible 28 million copies
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/those-elden-ring-switch-2-extras-are-coming-to-pc-and-the-games-now-sold-an-incredible-28-million-copies/
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"New features in Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition include four new armor pieces and the ability to change the appearance of the spirit horse Torrent (3 types in total)," reads a post from the FromSoftware X account. "We hope you will take this opportunity to get your hands on it."
A note then adds that "this element [the new stuff] is also planned to be available as a download on other platforms." Some machine translations indicate that it will be "sold" but this seems to be an error, and if Bandai Namco actually do sell Elden Ring horse armour it deserves the reaction it'll get. The only other curiosity is a reference to "new functions" in another FromSoftware post, though that could mean anything from gyro aiming to new menu options.

Endless Legend 2 continues the faction reveals with some cyborgs who use coral to make people chill
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/endless-legend-2-continues-the-faction-reveals-with-some-cyborgs-who-use-coral-to-make-people-chill/
Following the reveal of the Kin of Sheredyn, today Amplitude has shown off a much stranger Endless Legend 2 faction: the Aspects. While the Kin are deeply connected to the lore of the Endless series, the Aspects feel a bit more novel and peculiar, which makes them a good fit for the sequel to one of the 4X genre's most unusual games.