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Thursday gaming news, part two:

Surprise! The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns with fantastic announcements and reveals December 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/events-conferences/surprise-the-pc-gaming-show-most-wanted-returns-with-fantastic-announcements-and-reveals-december-4/
My gosh, has it been a year already? Time just flies when you've been playing fantastic games like Citizen Sleeper 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Blue Prince. These are all games our esteemed Council of industry veterans put on the Most Wanted list last year, but they're old news now, and it's time to look ahead.
Luckily for you, the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025 is coming right up, broadcasting Thursday, December 4 at 12pm PST, 3pm EST, and 8pm GMT, showing off all the most hotly anticipated titles that will be coming out in the final weeks of December, next year, and beyond.

Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word 'layoffs,' with a 'voluntary career transition program' offer that some employees won't be able to refuse
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ubisoft-has-come-up-with-a-new-way-to-avoid-saying-the-word-layoffs-with-a-voluntary-career-transition-program-offer-that-some-employees-wont-be-able-to-refuse/
Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment, the developer of The Division games, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, says it has "realigned" its teams and resources "to strengthen our roadmap, ensuring our continued focus on The Division franchise and the technologies, including Snowdrop and Ubisoft Connect, that power our games." And if you think that sounds like layoffs are coming, well, so do I, but it hasn't actually happened yet.
As exercises in corporate bafflegab go, this one is a doozy. Here's the whole thing from LinkedIn, so you can appreciate it fully:
As part of our ongoing evolution and long-term planning, we have recently realigned our teams and resources to strengthen our roadmap, ensuring our continued focus on The Division franchise and the technologies, including Snowdrop and Ubisoft Connect, that power our games.
To support this transition responsibly, we introduced a voluntary career transition program, giving eligible team members the opportunity to take their next career step on their own terms, supported by a comprehensive package that includes financial and career assistance.
>> If this wasn’t about people losing their jobs, it could actually be funny to see how they twist the message to make it look something else.

'I will not revive anyone wearing this skin': Battlefield 6 players blast an upcoming blue camo skin they believe already breaks DICE's 'grounded' cosmetics promise
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-will-not-revive-anyone-wearing-this-skin-battlefield-6-players-blast-an-upcoming-blue-camo-skin-they-believe-already-breaks-dices-grounded-cosmetics-promise/
Battlefield 6 scored a lot of points with series fans when DICE announced that its cosmetics would be "grounded," defying the norms of an FPS scene inundated with ugly crossover bundles. By the low standards of the time, it's fair to say the studio has kept its word so far, but some fans think Battlefield 6 is already tumbling down a slippery slope.
On a Battlefield subreddit thread that's already amassed 11,000 upvotes and thousands of comments, folks are blasting a particular kin spotted in an early build of Season 1, which begins October 18. "Wicked Grin" is a variant of a default NATO assault outfit with a bright blue camo pattern. Its in-game description suggests it'll be given away as a free store gift.

Rainbow Six Siege X creative director talks PvE and cheating: 'we need to be faster' to combat cheat makers, but they'll never be eliminated entirely
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/rainbow-six-siege-x-creative-director-talks-pve-and-cheating-we-need-to-be-faster-to-combat-cheat-makers-but-theyll-never-be-eliminated-entirely/
When Rainbow Six Siege morphed into the free-to-play Rainbow Six Siege X back in June, it wasn't the brave new beginning some had hoped for. Players didn't like how currency gain slowed to a crawl (that has since been fixed) and server woes were widely reported. But one of the enduring complaints about Siege X is that the shift to free-to-play has triggered a huge uptick in cheating.
I caught up with Siege creative director Alexander Karpazis at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show last week. I asked if the team at Ubisoft Montreal expected cheating to surge to the extent that it did in June.

Suspicious Scarface: The World is Yours re-release taken off Steam and Epic, along with a community announcement that has also vanished without a trace
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/a-publisher-nobodys-heard-of-has-unintentionally-re-released-2006s-scarface-the-world-is-yours-early-and-im-not-so-sure-bout-this-one-boss/
A mere day has passed since this article's initial publishing, and already the Scarface: The World is Yours listings have vanished without a trace. Both the Steam and Epic Games Store pages have been taken down, and a community announcement, preserved here by Wario64, has similarly been swept out of existence.

As FBC: Firebreak fails to recover from its disastrous launch and profit warnings are issued to shareholders, the CEO of Remedy Entertainment is stepping down
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/as-fbc-firebreak-fails-to-recover-from-its-disastrous-launch-and-profit-warnings-are-issued-to-shareholders-the-ceo-of-remedy-entertainment-is-stepping-down/
It's been a strange few years for Remedy Entertainment.
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Now, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala has announced he's stepping down after 9 years in the role, as reported by GamesIndustry.
The company hasn't revealed, of course, the reason for Virtala leaving, but it's hard not to draw a connection to those recent troubles. What was supposed to be a bold new step for Remedy instead became perhaps its biggest ever embarrassment—it's likely that someone had to take the responsibility for that.
>> Let’s hope he is the only one at Remedy to lose its job over the FBC: Firebreak failure.