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Marvel Rivals' heroes 'leap off the page,' thanks to the devs meshing 2D and 3D together to make the eye-catching art style
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/marvel-rivals-heroes-leap-off-the-page-thanks-to-the-devs-meshing-2d-and-3d-together-to-make-the-eye-catching-art-style/
Before playing Marvel Rivals, I was suffering from a serious case of MCU fatigue. I'd gone from watching every film on opening night to actively trying to avoid whatever slop they were trying to shove out as quickly as possible after Endgame. But it took all of two seconds after booting up Marvel Rivals to get excited about all the superheroes again, and its comic book art style was a big reason why.
"In the early stages of defining the overall project's style, our aim was to create a distinctive artistic style," the art director known as Dino says in a YouTube video. "Therefore, we drew inspiration from various aspects such as animation, film, and graphic design. We infused our style with bold colours and rough brushstrokes, emphasising primary colours and the vitality of hues. We call it 'dynamic comic style.'"
>> By the way, there is, or will be, or not, a strike of strategists because a streamer said dumb things.

The new Monster Hunter Wilds cherry blossom festival brings some of its best-looking armor sets yet
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/the-new-monster-hunter-wilds-cherry-blossom-festival-brings-some-of-its-best-looking-armor-sets-yet/
Monster Hunter Wilds kicked off April with Title Update 1, adding new monster hunts, challenge quests, and a new Grand Hub as a central base of operations and socializing space for hunters to hang out between quests. It's also the venue for Blossomdance, the first Monster Hunter Wilds seasonal event, which kicked off last night in a blizzard of cherry blossom petals and sakura-themed armor sets.

Swen Vincke and Larian celebrate the last major content update for Baldur's Gate 3, and say now they'll 'focus on making our next big thing as good as we can'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/swen-vincke-and-larian-celebrate-the-last-major-content-update-for-baldurs-gate-3-and-say-now-theyll-focus-on-making-our-next-big-thing-as-good-as-we-can/
Baldur's Gate 3 recently received its eighth major patch and, pinky promise, this time Larian Studios says it's done. All those other times it said it was done were just plain fooling: it's really, properly done with the game now.
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While Larian will obviously continue to issue bug fixes and maintenance where necessary, this really is the end of active development. And the team is understandably now looking back on what it achieved with pride, and a determination to focus on the next thing.

The company behind the Wheel of Time series on Amazon is now working on a Wheel of Time open-world RPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-company-behind-the-wheel-of-time-series-on-amazon-is-now-working-on-a-wheel-of-time-open-world-rpg/
A Variety report says a new videogame based on Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time series of books is now in development at a newly established game division of Iwot Studios, one of the production companies responsible for the Wheel of Time TV series on Amazon.

If you dig into Oblivion Remastered's files you can find almost the whole original game like a set of dinosaur bones
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/if-you-dig-into-the-oblivion-remasters-files-you-can-find-almost-the-whole-original-game-like-a-set-of-dinosaur-bones/
If you're anything like me, the first time you laid eyes on Oblivion Remastered, you wondered why it was called Oblivion Remastered. 'Surely,' you mused to yourself in an urbane, handsome, charmingly mischievous sort of way, 'this is a full-on remake? This is far too much work to just call a remaster.'
Well, it's because it really is a remaster—that 2006 game wrapped in a few lovely looking layers of Unreal Engine 5. If you delve into Oblivion Remastered's files, you'll eventually find pretty much all the files for the original game in the exact same structure they were in when they hit your hard drive in 2006. Head to [Drive Letter] > SteamLibrary > steamapps > common > Oblivion Remastered > OblivionRemastered > Content > Dev > ObvData > Data and, if you ever spent any time shuffling mods around an original Oblivion install, it'll be like seeing an old friend.
>> Maybe that’s why the NPC are still “charmingly ugly”

Oblivion Remastered kept the acting gaffe where its master speech trainer says 'Let me do that one again' and repeats their line—It's even lip-synced now
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/oblivion-remastered-kept-the-acting-gaffe-where-its-master-speech-trainer-says-let-me-do-that-one-again-and-repeats-their-line-its-even-lip-synced-now/
I was convinced Oblivion Remastered would satisfy my childhood nostalgia when, in the middle of its official reveal, Todd Howard declared with a slight grimace that the devs had made sure to preserve its "charm." That is to say, those baffling bits of jank and strange NPC behaviours that still make the original one of the funniest games ever made.
But even I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much jank Virtuos and Bethesda left in. Fans have been very excited to find that the devs have even left in a now-legendary flubbed take, where High Elf actor Linda Kenyon speaks, says "Wait a minute, let me do that one again," and then delivers the line a second time. Bonus irony: the line comes from Tandilwe, the Imperial City's master speechcraft trainer.

'We want you to be a part of it': Subnautica 2's Early Access is about to begin, and the devs want players to experience all the new vehicles, craftables, and leviathans first-hand
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/we-want-you-to-be-a-part-of-it-subnautica-2s-early-access-is-about-to-begin-and-the-devs-want-players-to-experience-all-the-new-vehicles-craftables-and-leviathans-first-hand/
2025 is going to be a great year for anyone who likes building elaborate underwater laboratories or is just a fan of crustaceans, thanks to Subnautica 2 coming into Early Access, which soon players will be able to be a part of.

Fortnite's latest update has semi-resurrected Harmonix's undeservedly short-lived DJ rhythm game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/fortnites-latest-update-has-semi-resurrected-harmonixs-undeservedly-short-lived-dj-rhythm-game/
Harmonix's Fuser was an excellent game that had a regrettably short tail. It released in late 2020, offering a flexible DJ experience that let you mash together layers from all kinds of different songs… or, y'know, just dropping Smash Mouth into everything instead.
Unfortunately, the game was delisted a mere two years later, leaving wannabe DJs/inappropriate Smash Mouth users with no outlet for their song smash shenanigans. Until now. Kinda, anyway.
In case you weren't aware, Epic actually snapped up Harmonix back in 2021. Since then the developer has lent its musical expertise to a sort of diet Guitar Hero in the form of Fortnite Festival. Music tracks get added pretty regularly, and they can even be used outside of Festival mode to create jams—where other players in close vicinity can contribute different tracks and instruments, and they'll all sync up together to create a new banger or some auditory horror.
Usually you need other players to come along for a full jam, but this week's 34.40 update has changed that: You can now solo jam by selecting different instruments and songs, and it's basically a semi-resurrected Fuser.