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The second part of the gaming news:

Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/capcom-president-says-ps5-prices-are-why-monster-hunter-wilds-sales-arent-doing-so-hot-and-were-trying-not-to-take-that-personally-here-at-pc-gamer/
Monster Hunter Wilds is going through the wringer at the moment—and while it's addressing some issues, namely its initially thin endgame content loop, it's still clunking along through some major performance woes in PC. Woes which, at the time of writing, won't be fully addressed to the end of the year.
But the major obstacle's totally the PS5 prices, says Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto in an interview with Nikkei (thanks, VGC). Here's an excerpt, brought to you with machine translation—and all the caveats about intent and tone that come with such wondrous technology.

Left 4 Dead lead Mike Booth is making a new 'four-player co-op shooter built on the foundations of what made L4D special'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/left-4-dead-lead-mike-booth-is-making-a-new-four-player-co-op-shooter-built-on-the-foundations-of-what-made-l4d-special/
Left 4 Dead project lead Mike Booth is working on something new, and if you're hoping it's something like L4D but different in some undefined, hopefully additive way, I have good news: It sure sounds like it.

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster devs built a replacement for its lost source code from fansite downloads, director says: 'I do want to thank all of the fans for all of their help in keeping that information archived'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-remaster-devs-built-a-replacement-for-its-lost-source-code-from-fansite-downloads-director-says-i-do-want-to-thank-all-of-the-fans-for-all-of-their-help-in-keeping-that-information-archived/
Back in June, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director Kazutoyo Maehiro offered something of an explanation for why it's been more than a decade since FF Tactics has been playable on current platforms: Square Enix had lost the game's original source code.
At a recent PAX West 2025 panel on August 30, Maehiro offered additional details on how the devs of the Ivalice Chronicles remaster stitched together a replacement for the original FF tactics source code, and how we should all thank fan archivists for their contributions to that effort.

How to watch the 30-minute 007 First Light gameplay 'deep dive' at Sony's State of Play
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/how-to-watch-the-30-minute-007-first-light-gameplay-deep-dive-at-sonys-state-of-play/
Sony is about to unveil a little something for your eyes only. Well, to be fair, it's for your eyes and everyone else's eyes (but all those eyes only). At State of Play this week, Sony will show off 30 minutes of 007 First Light gameplay, and you can watch it on September 3 at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm CEST.

Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/borderlands-1s-artstyle-overhaul-filled-gearbox-ceo-randy-pitchford-with-dread-because-he-thought-hed-have-to-go-in-and-look-at-what-they-did-and-shoot-it-in-the-head/
I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a series that 'plays it safe' more than Borderlands—and this isn't an insult. Every game I've played in the series has taken the same formula and added another nice crunchy little layer on top of it, and as a result, I've enjoyed basically every one I've touched. It's my ol' faithful, my pal, my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good-time boy. What I'm saying is I like them a lot.
But there was a time when looter-shooters weren't ubiquitous. Not only was Borderlands doing something new back in (oh man) 2009, it also pulled off one hell of a Hail Mary—a complete top-to-bottom revamp of its artstyle that saw most of the game remade.

Big updates are coming to player housing in Guild Wars 2's next expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/big-updates-are-coming-to-player-housing-in-guild-wars-2s-next-expansion/
Guild Wars 2's player housing is getting a big update next month, with the launch of the Visions of Eternity expansion. Players will have the chance to up sticks, trading the rustic homeliness of the existing Janthir plot for an island paradise instead. But more than just a prime piece of real estate, the most interesting part of the update is the ability to save and share your builds.

This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-rpg-lets-you-enable-or-disable-the-oxford-comma-despite-there-being-just-15-of-them-in-the-entire-game-he-added-the-setting-when-nobody-was-looking/
I think we've got a new contender for The Most Specific UI Option award 2025, which I must emphasise, is an entirely real award that I definitely did not make up alongside my Most Specific Bug Fix 2025 award. Quartet, a lovely little turn-based RPG by a four-person team, lets you toggle the Oxford comma off and on again.

After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow's news will be quite boring, actually
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/after-a-tease-drove-fans-mad-cyberpunk-2077-sheepishly-warns-that-tomorrows-news-will-be-quite-boring-actually/
Cyberpunk 2077 sure had our attention the other day, when it posted a vague tease on its myriad social media accounts indicating that something—frustratingly undefined—would be happening on September 4.
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Well, no. The official Cyberpunk 2077 X account intervened yesterday to assure everyone that, don't worry, the announcement is actually going to be boring.