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Tuesday gaming news, part two:

Lucasfilm wants to do more Star Wars games like Zero Company and Galactic Racer: 'We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/lucasfilm-wants-to-do-more-star-wars-games-like-zero-company-and-galactic-racer-weve-tried-to-be-more-flexible-about-who-were-willing-to-take-pitches-from/
We've had two Star Wars games in 2026, both of them quite good and neither of them quite what you might expect from the Star Wars mould: Zero Company, an XCOM-style tactics game, and Galactic Racer, an arcade racing game but Star Wars. And the success of those games means we may see more like them—which is to say, more offbeat Star Wars games from smaller-scale studios—in the future.

Star Wars Zero Company adds new difficulty options that can bring it closer to XCOM
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/star-wars-zero-company-adds-new-difficulty-options-that-can-bring-it-closer-to-xcom/
Star Wars Zero Company's 1.2 patch introduces a new granular difficulty system in addition to the usual bugfixes and tweaks. These new options exist alongside the original difficulty levels (easy, normal, hard, ironman beskarboy etc.), and home in on more creative/tactical tweaks, rather than just beefing up enemies.

Moonlighter studio won't host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: 'We know we're not the only developers feeling this way'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/moonlighter-studio-wont-host-a-public-playtest-of-its-next-game-due-to-rampant-ai-led-cloning-we-know-were-not-the-only-developers-feeling-this-way/
The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be "reverse-engineered, cloned and published". The move comes as a surge in rapidly vibe coded clones floods Steam, Roblox and mobile app stores in the aftermath of Claude Opus 5.5.

Subnautica 2 is heading for 'Early access 2.0,' which brings 'one of our scariest regions we've ever done'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/subnautica-2-is-heading-for-early-access-2-0-which-brings-one-of-our-scariest-regions-weve-ever-done/
Subnautica 2, a game so popular its original publisher will never forgive it, is gearing up for the next phase of its early access existence. In the first of a new vlog series, creative director Anthony Gallegos said that the game is preparing to move into "early access 2.0," which Unknown Worlds is calling its "most substantial update" since the game hit last May.

Of course a new Edgerunners series means a new Cyberpunk 2077 patch
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/of-course-a-new-edgerunners-series-means-a-new-cyberpunk-2077-patch/
A new series of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will drop on Netflix today and you know what that means: the nation of Poland has again conspired to make us all very sad.
Something else it means: CDPR's devs have been preparing a new patch for Cyberpunk 2077 (the videogame). Announced today, the details of Cyberpunk's 2.5 patch will drop tomorrow, the 21st of October, before the update itself releases on the 22nd.

And here's the only short one

Amnesia: The Dark Descent's co-founder explained the 'the dynamic of Steam' to Red Barrels after Outlast's sales slowed down
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/amnesia-the-dark-descents-co-founder-explained-the-the-dynamic-of-steam-to-red-barrels-after-outlasts-sales-slowed-down/