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Minecraft's DLC crossovers never fail to impress me, and the new Dragon Ball Z collab changes the experience entirely
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/minecrafts-dlc-crossovers-never-fail-to-impress-me-and-the-new-dragon-ball-z-collab-changes-the-experience-entirely/
If there's one thing Minecraft knows how to do, it's create a themed DLC. I was ecstatic when I discovered the Hello Kitty and Friends DLC earlier this year, which puts all the best Sanrio characters directly into your game and turns the traditional experience into a farming simulator. But although the newest crossover, a Dragon Ball Z collab, isn't as pink and cutesy, I don't doubt a huge number of players will be thrilled to step into the shoes of Goku.

EA's bug-blasting mission in The Sims 4 continues, with its latest patch preventing Sims from WooHoo-ing in broken steam rooms and rampaging werewolves from getting distracted by Tiktok
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-sims/eas-bug-blasting-mission-in-the-sims-4-continues-with-its-latest-patch-preventing-sims-from-woohoo-ing-in-broken-steam-rooms-and-rampaging-werewolves-from-getting-distracted-by-tiktok/
Late in September, EA committed to two months of maintenance for The Sims 4, as its community reported a growing number of bugs afflicting the 12-year-old life sim. The publisher wants the ageing sequel to continue as the primary platform for virtual soap operas for the foreseeable future, rather than replace it and its many expansions with a full-on sequel. But the bugs piling higher than a locust swarm in a grain silo threatened to undermine the game's foundations.
The first batch of bugfixes landed with immediate effect, addressing issues like deformed pets and vanishing ghost children. Slightly later than planned, the second QoL patch has now arrived, fixing more than 150 problems raised by the community on the EA forums and social media.

Football Manager 26 launches straight into a relegation battle as Steam reviews plummet to Mostly Negative: 'Been playing since 1993 and this is the worst one'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/football-manager-26-launches-straight-into-a-relegation-battle-as-steam-reviews-plummet-to-mostly-negative-been-playing-since-1993-and-this-is-the-worst-one/
Oh dear. Football Manager 26 has gone down about as convincingly as Luis Suárez in the penalty box. Released yesterday after a year-long delay and the cancellation of FM25, the latest iteration of the world's most riveting spreadsheet has immediately incurred the ire of players. Within 24 hours, FM26's Steam rating has plummeted to a mere 23% positive at the time of writing, putting it a whisker away from the rarely seen 'Overwhelmingly Negative' rating.
>> Wow. I remember Ka-pi played a lot of FM. He may be sorely disappointed by this new game.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/kingdom-come-deliverance-lead-says-obsidian-should-use-its-microsoft-fortune-to-make-games-more-like-kingdom-come-deliverance-give-me-something-more-than-level-grinding-in-a-static-scripted-world/
Reactions to The Outer Worlds 2 have been pretty mixed here aboard the good ship PC Gamer. Ted Litchfield was pretty hot on the game in his Outer Worlds 2 review, scoring it 83% and calling it "A great RPG that surpasses its predecessor." Others? Less hot, like our Fraser Brown, who found the game's attempts at satire toothless and disappointing. We contain multitudes around here.
I think Daniel Vávra, director on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2, hews closer to Fraser's position. In a post on X, Vávra said he'd finished Obsidian's latest and gave it a sober "7/10" (that's 70% in god's own review system). But he's disappointed: "What I find sad," wrote Vávra, "is that the company and the people who gave us one of my favorite games ever (Fallout and New Vegas) have been unable, even after 15 years and with all of Microsoft's money and latest technological advances, to come up with a single new game mechanic that could take this proven but ancient formula somewhere new."
>> Sure, because this Msoft will give them all the money they want/need...