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The second part of the gaming news:

The maker of Prototype and Simpsons: Hit and Run returns from the grave just months after an out-of-the-blue update broke Prototype's mods and added mysterious new credits
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-maker-of-prototype-and-simpsons-hit-and-run-returns-from-the-grave-just-months-after-an-out-of-the-blue-update-broke-prototypes-mods-and-added-mysterious-new-credits/
In news that will be deeply intriguing for a certain brand of rapidly-ageing millennial (me), it's looking more and more like that susurrus of a Prototype remaster from last year might actually bear fruit.
I say this because, as spotted by VGC, Prototype's original studio seems to have reforged itself in a new form. New Radical Games is, claims its website, a fusion of Radical Entertainment (Prototype, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction) and Hothead Games (Deathspank, episodes one and two of those Penny Arcade Adventures Games).

Mewgenics is getting official mod support, and could have DLC out by the 'end of next year'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/mewgenics-is-getting-official-mod-support-and-could-have-dlc-out-by-the-end-of-next-year/
Even 130 hours into Mewgenics I still don't feel like I'm close to exhausting everything it has to offer, and according to Edmund McMillen I've still got a very long way to go. So I'm both excited and a bit intimidated to see the game's co-developer Tyler Glaiel start talking about mods and DLC.
>> More Mewgenics articles: two areas of the game were inspired by a tabletop RPG (link).

Boy, this is awkward: Sony drops the first Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest directly on top of the Marathon server slam this weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/boy-this-is-awkward-sony-drops-the-first-horizon-hunters-gathering-playtest-directly-on-top-of-the-marathon-server-slam-this-weekend/
The long-rumored co-op action game Horizon Hunters Gathering was finally made official earlier this month, along with a promise of a "small-scale closed playtest" set for the end of February. Today Sony announced that the test will run from February 27 to March 1, and if those dates feel oddly familiar to you, it might be because you've already blocked them out on your calendar for the Marathon server slam.

The latest Arc Raiders patch makes Rocketeers way more important
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-rocketeer-crafting-wolfpack/
Something I love about videogames is the way that a single line of patch notes can have a disproportionate butterfly effect on millions of sessions. This little sentence, part of today's Shrouded Sky update, will alter the fate and behavior of countless raiders:

• Wolfpack - Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting cost.

>> More Arc Raiders articles: players are reporting the presence of huge UFOs (link); the devs promise more severe repercissions for cheaters (link); and here’s one talking about the weapons that have been nerfed and the ones that haven’t (link).

Path of Exile's next update might prevent your cursor from killing you, and it has a bunch of QoL changes that even PoE 2 doesn't have yet
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/path-of-exiles-next-update-might-prevent-your-cursor-from-killing-you-and-it-has-a-bunch-of-qol-changes-that-even-poe-2-doesnt-have-yet/
Path of Exile 2 spoiled me with all the things about it that feel like a modern videogame. Even though it's extremely similar in a lot of ways, Path of Exile 1 had me fighting against all the fussy parts of it that have gathered dust over the years.
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In the next expansion, Mirage, PoE 1 gets to go first with some quality-of-life changes that I fully expect to show up in the sequel eventually. One in particular is a change that sounds relatively minor, but is crucial if you regularly engage with the crafting system or enjoy trading items with other players: currency exchange favoriting.

This new clicker game dares ask: What if Bongo Cat picked up a sword and started killing everything he saw?
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-new-clicker-game-dares-ask-what-if-bongo-cat-picked-up-a-sword-and-started-killing-everything-he-saw/
As reflected by my 2025 Steam Replay, I poured a lot of time into Bongo Cat last year. So when someone said, 'What if Bongo Cat, with knives,' you best believe I was intrigued. That is, essentially, the premise for Tap Tap Loot, a cute and significantly more violent clicker game that's rolled out a demo for the Steam Next Fest.

I thought Overwatch's new Arcade mode was a glitch, but it's actually a ridiculous cat-stuffed free-for-all where spamming 'meow' is mandatory
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-thought-overwatchs-new-arcade-mode-was-a-glitch-but-its-actually-a-ridiculous-cat-stuffed-free-for-all-where-spamming-meow-is-mandatory/
Upon opening Overwatch to do my lunchtime dailies (this sans-2 reboot has truly rotted my brain and returned me to my 2016 lifestyle) I had a little poke around the menus to see the addition of a very bizarre Arcade mode: ;ASKLDFAL;S C;A.
Did someone at Blizzard Team 4 goof? Has a line of code caused a little hiccup somewhere, showing me this bizarre amalgamation of characters instead of whatever this mystery mode is supposed to be called? Oh, wait, nope. It's an incredibly silly 6v6 mode all about one of the newest additions to its roster, Jetpack Cat. Classic feline keyboard shenanigans included.