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The Friday gaming news, part two:

The videogame voice actors' strike officially ends as performers ratify agreement between SAG-AFTRA and publishers
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-videogame-voice-actors-strike-officially-ends-as-performers-ratify-agreement-between-sag-aftra-and-publishers/
One year after launching a strike of videogame performers and a month after suspending that strike on reaching a tentative agreement with publishers, SAG-AFTRA has announced that its members have ratified the new Interactive Media Agreement, bringing a definitive end to the strike.

The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/the-next-helldivers-2-warbond-is-going-superscience-sicko-mode-with-a-seven-barreled-assault-rifle-a-plasma-cannon-and-a-wormhole-generating-backpack-that-lets-you-warp-around-the-battlefield/
After spending months in the field using Helldivers 2's explosive crossbows, lightning-throwers, and orbital railguns, "reserved" is never a word I would think to use to describe the armaments of the Super Earth military. And yet, after seeing the sheer amount of nonsense tech packed into the next HD2 warbond, Control Group, I can't help but feel like Super Earth R&D has been holding back.

Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/shark-dentist-is-a-horror-roguelike-thats-basically-the-meg-mashed-up-with-an-early-90s-milton-bradley-toy/
Shark Dentist. The words glared at me from my inbox. Shark Dentist. Chris Livingston brought them to the PC Gamer Slack channel, his curiosity fervent. Shark Dentist. Somewhere in the distance, a secretary began pounding her clipboard. Shark Dentist.
You are the Shark Dentist: Not a shark who is also a dentist (although that is also a game I want to play) but a dentist treating the rancid, rotten teeth of the world's most dangerous apex predators, who for some reason have been brought into your sketchy-ass office for their bi-annual checkup. They are anesthetized, but apparently only lightly: One false move could arouse them from their slumber, and that will be very bad for you.
>> The article has the trailer of the game.

Krafton accuses former Subnautica 2 bosses of abandoning the game in surprising new statement: 'We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/krafton-accuses-former-subnautica-2-bosses-of-abandoning-the-game-in-surprising-new-statement-we-feel-a-profound-sense-of-betrayal-by-their-failure-to-honor-the-trust-placed-in-them/
The cold war of words between Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton and the recently ousted leadership of developer Unknown Worlds got very hot today as Krafton issued a statement accusing the former studio heads of effectively abandoning the project, resulting in "repeated confusion in direction and significant delays in the overall project schedule."
Recent updates
According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Unknown Worlds founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire are filing a lawsuit against Krafton, alongside former CEO Ted Gill. "Much more to come in the next few days," he writes.

WoW continues to eat FF14's lunch with its housing system on paper—says it'll just make more neighbourhoods if they're full, and you can have private guild ones, too
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wow-continues-to-eat-ff14s-lunch-with-its-housing-system-on-paper-says-itll-just-make-more-neighbourhoods-if-theyre-full-and-you-can-have-private-guild-ones-too/
World of Warcraft has waited, well, arguably too long, to have a player housing system. Despite being a unanimously popular feature of most MMORPGs, WoW waited a stonking 20 years before incorporating the ability to have a home, sweet home into its economy.
The upshot of this, however, is that it can systematically see every single mistake other MMOs made in these past two decades, and then simply… not make them. Per a new blog discussing upcoming player neighbourhoods, WoW's dodging all the issues of other popular games with worse housing systems (ahem, cough, Final Fantasy 14).

'Coconuts will now bonk scouts': Peak's latest update makes fruit even deadlier but has spared other items from the same treatment
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/coconuts-will-now-bonk-scouts-peaks-latest-update-makes-fruit-even-deadlier-but-has-spared-other-items-from-the-same-treatment/
Aggro Crab and Landfall have been hard at work polishing up Peak for players to enjoy. What started out as a simple jam game or a way to take a break from bigger projects quickly snowballed into something more, as it was able to sell two million copies in just nine days.
The devs already released a big update targeting stability and performance last week, and then had to re-release it after it accidentally borked a bunch of games, and now there's another update which, this time, focuses on localisation and some other features.

The Sims' latest patch has caused a pregnancy epidemic, even if they've never had 'woo-hoo'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-sims-latest-patch-has-caused-a-pregnancy-epidemic-even-if-theyve-never-had-woo-hoo/
The Sims 4's latest expansion, Enchanted By Nature, has stayed true-to-form by messing up unrelated parts of the game. In this case loads of Sims are now being marked as pregnant by the game, even if they're male and have never woo-hooed in their virtual lives.
>> it’s not a bug, it’s a miracle.

And now that the Summer Sale is over, here are the weekend deals at Steam (GOG has no new sales):

+Steam

• Talisman: Digital 5th Edition, that has a demo, is going to be 40% off until the 17th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/app/908060/Talisman_Digital_5th_Edition/
• Totally Reliable Delivery Service will have an 80% discount until the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/
• RimWorld will be 20% off until the 24th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/
• Reignbreaker, that also has a demo, will have a 50% discount until July, the 24th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2129810/Reignbreaker/
• There are 13 new sales/events. I’ll only share one. To check the rest, visit the Steam page for them: https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/sales/
• Publisher Slitherine also puts its games on sale here until the 17th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Slitherine25thAnniversaryPublisherSale
  But wait, because unlike what they’re doing with their sales at GOG and the Humble Store, Slitherine is giving away three free games until the 17th, when the sale ends:
  • Battlestar Galactica Deadlock : https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/
  • Fantasy General II: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1025440/Fantasy_General_II/
  • And Field of Glory II: Medieval: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368870/Field_of_Glory_II_Medieval/

And that it. Until the next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.