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Wednesday gaming news, part two:

Aureole – Wings of Hope is a high-speed, nifty platformer where you wrangle a supersonic, physics-based ring to eventually thwart a jacked devil
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/aureole-wings-of-hope-is-a-high-speed-nifty-platformer-where-you-wrangle-a-supersonic-physics-based-ring-to-eventually-thwart-a-jacked-devil/
Platformers are a tricky thing to iterate on. Given they're one of the older genres in the medium, and there are only so many ways to play with the idea of 'jump over platforms, sometimes fast'—it can be hard to come up with something that feels fresh. Aureole - Wings of Hope, by Team Stargazers, has succeeded, given it feels nifty and unique as hell.

'Brevity should be more of a virtue': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's devs are happy they made an 'intense and short' 30-60 hours of RPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/brevity-should-be-more-of-a-virtue-clair-obscur-expedition-33s-devs-are-happy-they-made-an-intense-and-short-30-60-hours-of-rpg/
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is, as far as JRPGs go, relatively short. Not too short, mind—if you want to throw yourself into its endgame challenges, you'll be spending about 60 hours, and there's always New Game+ if you want to do the whole thing over again.
Given Sandfall Interactive's team size (around 30, not counting contractors and the like) one might wonder if that was a problem of budget. Not so, says Sandfall Interactive's portfolio director Matthew Handrahan in a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz. As a matter of fact, it was their intention from the very start.

OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome are back on Steam after being delisted 4 months ago when 2K sold off Private Division
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/olliolli-world-and-rollerdrome-are-back-on-steam-after-being-delisted-4-months-ago-when-2k-sold-off-private-division/
Four months after they were unceremoniously delisted, Roll7's stylish skate games Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World are both back on Steam.

Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoft will be fine-tuning game balance right up until launch: 'We really try to tweak things until the last minute'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/elden-ring-nightreign-director-says-fromsoft-will-be-fine-tuning-game-balance-right-up-until-launch-we-really-try-to-tweak-things-until-the-last-minute/
We're just two days away from the launch of Elden Ring Nightreign. FromSoft sickos around the world might be eagerly awaiting their chance to wade into a new style of soulslike punishment, but it sounds like the studio itself will be busy polishing the experimental spinoff until the last possible moment.

Physics-based survival city-builder All Will Fall is having an open beta test in June
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/physics-based-survival-city-builder-all-will-fall-is-having-an-open-beta-test-in-june/
PC Gamer's Lauren Morton said All Will Fall is nearly all of her videogame things stuffed into a single package: It's a building game, it's a survival game, and it's a physics game. And in just under two weeks, it will also be a game that's in open beta, so you'll finally be able to see for yourself what it's got going on.

The 'most powerful creature in the game' is about to be unleashed into Lethal Company as part of its first update in months
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/the-most-powerful-creature-in-the-game-is-about-to-be-unleashed-into-lethal-company-as-part-of-its-first-update-in-months/
Whispers of Lethal Company's first update in months have been circulating for a while now, but it seems like we are getting a lot closer to a release date after the dev shared some new information about its content.
Developer Zeekerss has been hinting towards what to expect on social media, saying in April that he was sitting on a new update but wanted to spend more time on it to "add a new creature or two." Now, the creature in question has been confirmed, with a few behavioural details too.

A new farming sim has entered the ring, except you're a cowboy on a ranch and you have shootouts with bandits and rob trains
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/a-new-farming-sim-has-entered-the-ring-except-youre-a-cowboy-on-a-ranch-and-you-have-shootouts-with-bandits-and-rob-trains/
Cattle Country, a new addition to the farming sim space, has released on Steam. But to set it apart from what I'd say is a completely oversaturated genre, it strays from your standard routine as a farmer and puts you into the boots of a cowboy. If that's not enough to convince you to check it out, Arthur Morgan's voice actor, Roger Clark, narrates the launch trailer. Which, yes, is a selling point.

World of Warcraft Classic returns to Mists of Pandaria this July—marking a chance to return to the beloved expansion without the gulp frog melodrama
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-classic-returns-to-mists-of-pandaria-this-july-marking-a-chance-to-return-to-the-beloved-expansion-without-the-gulp-frog-melodrama/
Announced late last year, Mists of Pandaria Classic marks the next step in one of WoW's many side-projects—to give those with a nostalgic hunger (or just those of you who dared to be born after 2004) an opportunity to experience the 20-year old MMO's past expansions anew.
Well, now we know when it's coming. As per a recent Blizzard blog post, Mists of Pandaria Classic will be arriving July 21—with a pre-patch arriving on current classic realms July 1.