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Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/europa-universalis-lead-johan-andersson-says-paradoxs-dlc-model-has-been-pretty-f-ing-great-you-decide-whats-going-in-you-decide-the-scope-you-decide-exactly-when-you-can-release/
If you've played a Paradox game before, you know the deal. The studios' 4X and grand strategy games in particular tend to have very long lives supplemented by constant infusions of paid DLC, ranging from piecemeal addons to full-on expansions. It doesn't always go to plan, and the execution was particularly spotty with Europa Universalis 4, but EU5 lead Johan Andersson reckons the problem isn't Paradox's DLC strategy. In fact, it's been "pretty fucking great."
In an interview with PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens, Andersson said the DLC model has been a logistical and financial win. "When we started with that system, we were a studio of 12 people. That's [around the time Crusader Kings 2 released] and we're doing EU4. I have no idea how big PDS Stockholm is—300, 400 500 people—I have no idea about Stockholm these days.
>> Other tidbits from the interview are: A Baldur’s Gate-like they made that was full of bugs (link); Europa Universalis 2's launch (link); and how design documents stifle creativity (link).

Boltgun 2 will let you play a Sister of Battle
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/boltgun-2-will-let-you-play-a-sister-of-battle/
Back in May Auroch Digital found a delightful way to announce the existence of Boltgun 2, teasing it at the end of a free typing game. And while it's nice to know Boltgun 2 is in development, it's nicer to know a bit about what it will actually contain. The latest trailer does just that, by informing us that Boltgun 2 will let us choose a second playable character.

Battlefield 6 dataminers claim mysterious 'granite' files related to this week's patch could be a shadowdrop for its battle royale mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/battlefield-6-dataminers-claim-mysterious-granite-files-related-to-this-weeks-patch-could-be-a-shadowdrop-for-its-battle-royale-mode/
The Battlefield 6 leaker and dataminer community was all in a tizzy late last week—see, we've known that BF6 is getting a battle royale mode for a while, just not when. Well, turns out 'when' could be as soon as tomorrow, per a group of known Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty leakers.

Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/former-sony-boss-says-the-industrys-obsession-with-the-mirage-of-live-service-games-is-futile-the-highway-is-littered-with-people-wanting-to-take-on-fortnite/
One thing I'm at least reasonably confident that we at the good ship PC Gamer share with you lot is the fact we're all a little sick of live service games. As fellow PCG writer Ted Litchfield put it in the article I just linked, "Surely we've seen enough to know that trying to retrofit a singleplayer studio into a 'live service machine go brrr' moneymaker is not a smart bet."
Joining the crowd of nodding heads on this particular matter is Shawn Layden, a former Sony exec who left the company in 2019, who was part of a multi-developer interview with The Ringer's Lewis Gordon.

It's opposite day in CS2: Accounts full of previously run-of-the-mill reds are now worth upwards of $90,000, while one of the most sought-after knives drops $10,000 in value
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/its-opposite-day-in-cs2-accounts-full-of-previously-run-of-the-mill-reds-are-now-worth-upwards-of-usd90-000-while-one-of-the-most-sought-after-knives-drops-usd10-000-in-value/
If you want to get ahead of the curve when trading stocks and shares, some of the best advice out there is to simply keep an eye out for what rich US senators are doing, but for Counter-Strike 2 players, the equivalent unfortunately isn't so s1mple.
In the wake of Valve's most controversial update, which tore down CS2 inventories worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, some fresh accounts have risen to the top of the wealth list, and they're almost entirely full of some of the cheapest reds around—or at least they used to be cheap.