Monday news, the long part two:

TinyBuild buys Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread rights in $3M deal
https://www.pcgamer.com/tinybuild-buys-surgeon-simulator-and-i-am-bread-rights-in-dollar3m-deal/
In what is sure to be the biggest acquisition news you read today, TinyBuild—publisher of Pathologic 2, Not For Broadcast, Mr Shifty and many others—has announced that it's buying up a selection of Bossa Studios' games in a deal including "an upfront payment of $3 million".

Wo Long's first gameplay blows its pre-rendered teaser out of the water
https://www.pcgamer.com/wo-longs-first-gameplay-blows-its-pre-rendered-teaser-out-of-the-water/
Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja's upcoming wuxia action game, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, just got its first gameplay trailer and an updated Steam page. The gameplay and world on offer pretty much sent my personal interest in the game from zero to 100 at the drop of a hat.

Minecraft Legends 'brings down the tempo' of typical strategy games, Mojang says
https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-legends-brings-down-the-tempo-of-typical-strategy-games-mojang-says/
When it decided to turn Minecraft into a strategy game, Mojang had a couple specific goals, as creative director Magnus Nedfors explained during an interview in the Xbox booth at Gamescom this week. Minecraft Legends had to retain a somewhat indescribable "Minecraft feel," and also work well with a controller for console players. Mojang and development partner Blackbird Interactive managed both, Nedfors explained, by turning it into an action strategy game—a genre combo that really doesn't have a ton of successful examples to pull from.

Sifu's summer update will let you kick ass without getting your ass kicked
https://www.pcgamer.com/sifus-summer-update-will-let-you-kick-ass-without-getting-your-ass-kicked/
If you've wanted to try your hand at Sifu but felt put off by its notorious difficulty, the big summer content update might be just what you've been waiting for. Set to go live next week, it will include swanky outfits, a new scoring system, and gameplay modifiers that will make Sifu even harder—or, if you prefer, a whole lot easier.

Warframe's first-ever anime reveals its 50th warframe, free for all players
https://www.pcgamer.com/warframes-first-ever-anime-reveals-its-50th-warframe-free-for-all-players/
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is getting into the anime game with its first-ever animated short film: An introduction to Styanax, the game's 50th warframe, which will be free for all players for a limited time.

Jigging, pumping, and other fun terms I learned from this co-op fishing sim trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/jigging-pumping-and-other-fun-terms-i-learned-from-this-co-op-fishing-sim-trailer/
I love fishing in games, though most of my experience is with games that have fishing as a side activity (like Sea of Thieves, New World, and Core Keeper) rather than as the main event.
But more dedicated fishing simulation enthusiasts have a big new open world to look forward to at the end of the month. Call of the Wild: The Angler is hoping to hook you on August 31, and today developer Expansive Worlds (makers of The Hunter: Call of the Wild) chummed the water with a new gameplay trailer you can watch above.

Elden Ring dataminer explains why enemies smack you when you reach for a potion
https://www.pcgamer.com/elden-ring-dataminer-explains-why-enemies-smack-you-when-you-reach-for-a-potion/
As reported by our friends at GamesRadar, prolific Souls series dataminer Zullie the Witch has released a new video touching on a slightly controversial aspect of Elden Ring's much-discussed difficulty: enemies' propensity for reacting to certain actions (like self-healing) almost as fast as you can perform them, sometimes referred to by fans as "input reading."

Embrace the ranger fantasy in this bow-hunting FPS where the creatures hunt you back
https://www.pcgamer.com/embrace-the-ranger-fantasy-in-this-bow-hunting-fps-where-the-creatures-hunt-you-back/
Bethesda veteran and indie developer Nate Purkeypile recently released an updated 2022 trailer for his experimental fantasy hunting sim, The Axis Unseen. The latest trailer, as well as Purkeypile's dev logs on YouTube, paint an exciting picture of a sort of stealth-shooter that embraces some classic immersive sim inspirations.

System Shock 3 is up to Tencent, confirms Nightdive Studios
https://www.pcgamer.com/system-shock-3-is-up-to-tencent-confirms-nightdive-studios/
The missing in action System Shock 3 is still entirely in the hands of Tencent. That's according to Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick, who in an an interview with VGC said that the rights to make System Shock 3, originally licensed to OtherSide Entertainment, had been sold on to and remain with Tencent.

Here's gameplay from that goofy physics-based Mars delivery robot simulator
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-gameplay-from-that-goofy-physics-based-mars-delivery-robot-simulator/
Help build colonies on Mars by designing remote-controlled rovers and moving material from point A to point B. That's the concept for Mars First Logistics, an upcoming physics-based sandbox that'll have you delivering colonization cargo solo or cooperatively with a friend some time in 2023.

Expansion full of bees and mini-golf coming to Nobody Saves the World
https://www.pcgamer.com/expansion-full-of-bees-and-mini-golf-coming-to-nobody-saves-the-world/
Let's talk about a game that was pretty dang good and we didn't talk about enough because it came out in January and nobody pays attention to games that came out in January: Nobody Saves the World.
Why? Because the wonderful dungeon-crawling hack-and-slash RPG where you turn into slugs and zombies and dragons is getting an expansion, Frozen Hearth, primed to release next month on September 13th. It'll add the ability to turn into a Mechanic or the internet's* favorite thing: A bee.

An extremely loud bug is jumpscaring the snot out of Destiny players
https://www.pcgamer.com/an-extremely-loud-bug-is-jumpscaring-the-snot-out-of-destiny-players/
A gruesomely loud bug has interrupted the Destiny 2 community's normally joyous new raid release, as some players who die during the Golgoroth fight in King's Fall are left with ringing ears as a stupendously loud roaring noise kicks in. Obviously many videos embedded and linked to in this article include a very loud noise, so please be aware before you proceed.

Fortnite is doing an 'I Have a Dream' anniversary event, again
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-is-doing-an-i-have-a-dream-anniversary-event-again/
Epic is once again collaborating with Time Magazine to host an in-game event, "March Through Time", commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

Ex-Payday dev's studio is making a new co-op heist FPS
https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-payday-devs-studio-is-making-a-new-co-op-heist-fps/
Ulf Andersson was a designer on both Payday games before becoming CEO and creative director of 10 Chambers, so he knows a few things about co-operative heists. Though 10 Chambers continued the co-op theme with hardcore horror shooter GTFO, which hit version 1.0 in December, GTFO didn't have the same "Robert De Niro tries to orchestrate the perfect crime and it all goes wrong" vibe as the Payday games. 10 Chambers' next release sounds like it will.

This year's EEK3 had survival horror, fishing horror, and a management RPG in a haunted supermarket
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-years-eek3-had-survival-horror-fishing-horror-and-a-management-rpg-in-a-haunted-supermarket/
Indie low-poly horror showcase EEK3 returned this year in the form of an hour-long selection of trailers for upcoming games, hosted as always by a purple skeleton named Skully. While the Nintendo Switch logo appeared multiple times, don't worry, every game featured is coming to PC.

Diablo Immortal's Legendary Crests are being redesigned
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-immortals-legendary-crests-are-being-redesigned/
Diablo Immortal's free-to-play model has been lambasted by critics and players alike, although this hasn't stopped the game being downloaded by millions of players. One particular bugbear among the community is that Legendary Crests, items which boosts players' chances of receiving quality loot when running one of the game's randomly generated Elder Rifts, are visually very similar to Eternal Legendary Crests. (...)
Anyway, it seems the feedback (or perhaps that should be blowback) has been such that Blizzard has opted to make some changes. As reported by PCGamesN, an image of the game's three crests appeared on Reddit, including what appeared to be a new, orange design for the standard Legendary Crest. Immortal's lead game designer Wyatt Cheng confirmed this in a response to the post, stating "This is artwork that we're working on to help differentiate the Legendary Crest (which will become to Orange one) [sic] from the Eternal Legendary Crest (which will remain the purple one in the middle)."

Thanks for sharing. It does look like those switches are of very bad quality.

At least I won't have to deal with them because my mouse works again! Yesterday I did my routine cleaning and it turns out that there was a hair stick inside the left button that was, quite surprisingly, messing with the mouse button. But now it appears to be solved.

AMD Ryzen 7000 pricing leaks ahead of launch, Ryzen 9 7950X reportedly for 799 USD

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7000-pricing-leaks-ahead-of-launch-ryzen-9-7950x-reportedly-for-799-usd

While on the upper end, AMD should win pretty handly against Alder Lake and maybe even Raptor Lake in multi-core benchmarks, I get the feeling the mid-range will be a harder sell since Raptor Lake/Alder Lake gives you a lot more cores. Granted they are a mix of big.LITTLE cores but Alder Lake already gives you 6P cores and 4E cores for the price of 7600X and of course, it's being discounted. 13600k is supposed to be 6P cores and 8E cores. It will be interesting to see how it all stacks up but mid-ranged so far is pretty disappointing considering the competition.

AMD Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” CPUs Hit Retail on 15th September, X670 Motherboards on 27th September, B650 on 10th October

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7000-zen-4-cpu-retail-launch-15th-september-x670-motherboards-27th-september-b650-10th-october/

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Flagship Zen 4 CPU Can Hit Up To 5.85 GHz Clocks

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-7950x-flagship-zen-4-cpu-can-hit-up-to-5-85-ghz-clocks/

@JEMC Nice, good to hear its working. My friend who also has the same mouse and had the same issue, got some compressed air and spray in between it. Which worked so could also be something stuck in the mechanism. Think I may try that one my older unit and my second one.

But yeah seems to be a common thing with that model. Going by my units and several reports from Reddit and the like. Hopefully the G502's successor will get better switches or they give us some optical ones.

Yea pretty much. It's annoying how we are in the age of peripherals prematurely having major issues. Whether it's stick drift on controllers or double click issues on mice. Yet if you use an N64 controller or MX518 from the old days, they will still work as they were brand new. It's insane that we went backwards in reliability to this extent.

Least there's a light at the end of the tunnel with Hall sensors for Joysticks and Optical Switches for mice. We just need more companies to use them.

And yea, Razor has a pretty bad reputation. I did try Razor in the past but had to return them. Not because of reliability reasons but due to the way they felt. They seemed to be optimized for a claw grip which is something I don't do where as logitech mice is good for all sorts of grips.

Those were the prices we were expecting before that leak that made the 7600 and 7700 cheaper, and I don't know if it will work well for AMD even if these chips are 25% faster than Zen3 as some leaks/tests say.

And I agree with your core count thesis. I've said before that my goal is to get an 8-core chip, but the 12600K and the upcoming 13600K are enticing because while they only have 6 performance cores, there's the extra 4 or 8 that can come in handy.

Plus let's not forget that Intel will also launch the lower end CPUs, 13500, 13400, etc. very soon after launch, and those also have the potential to kill the market for the 7600X if AMD doesn't do something about them.

Yeah... until priven otherwise, I'm going to assume that this is BS.

Why would anyone launch new CPUs two f*cking weeks before launching the only motherboards that are compatible with them? It makes no sense.

Oh, well, at least we'll get some answers to those questions later today/ early tomorrow.

By the way, here are some Steam Deck news for you all:

Emulating 3DS games with a Steam Deck proves that the Wii U was right
https://www.pcgamer.com/emulating-3ds-games-with-a-steam-deck-proves-that-the-wii-u-was-right/

Through the magic of software emulation you can use a Steam Deck attached to a monitor to play Nintendo 3DS games, something I am now aware of thanks to tech video creator GameXData. In a tweet they posted, GameXData shows off a hilarious image combo using the Steam Deck's touch screen and Pokemon X/Y.

Through the power of linux, emulation, and the Steam Deck... we have reinvented the Wii U.

Valve confirms there will be next-gen Steam Decks 'more open and more capable than the first version'
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-confirms-there-will-be-next-gen-steam-decks-more-open-and-more-capable-than-the-first-version/
Valve is going to do something with the Steam Deck that it hasn't done with any of the previous pieces of hardware it's created: follow it up. Celebrating the launch of the handheld PC in the Asian territories Valve has created an ebook ostensibly to introduce itself to the new audience.

But it's not just that, it contains Valve's promises for the longevity of its Steam Deck and SteamOS platform, confirmation that this isn't just going to be a gen one piece of hardware that gets abandoned to the vagaries of time. 

Under the explicit headline: "The Future: more Steam Decks, more SteamOS" (via GamingOnLinux) it explains how those future Decks might be targeted.

"In the future," it reads, "Valve will follow up on this product with improvements and iterations to hardware and software, bringing new versions of Steam Deck to market.

True its frustrating because it can be easily avoided so easily too by the manufactures, by using quality components. Though manufacturers these days like to penny pinch and cheap out and go with the lower tier stuff. Personally, I'd definitely pay more a peripheral with quality components and switches rather than a cheaper one that breaks down after 12 months. It almost feels these are made for planned obsolescence as a factor in their design/s :/

Its a bit of a shame because besides that Logitech has been my go-to for PC stuff. And I really like my 502's. There's something about its shape, the arrangement of buttons and how many of them make it such a versatile mouse. I'm hoping they'll iterate on it with a successor. Maybe a lighter more refined shape and ofc better switches.

I had 2 Razor mouses and both died on me. Never had any other manufacturer mices do that lol so there that. But yeah they are usually quite slim or small and the premium ones like the Viper Ultimate are quite tiny and designed to be used with claw/finger grip.. which is fine for competitive but uncomfortable when just using normally for anything other than gaming.

AMD Ryzen 7000 “Zen4” desktop series launch September 27th, Ryzen 9 7950X for 699 USD

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7000-zen4-desktop-series-launch-september-27th-ryzen-9-7950x-for-699-usd#disqus_thread

Got leaked early

IF, in capital letters, IF review confirm that improvement, and that the mid-range 7600X is actually tied or faster than the 12900K, then this will be huge.

The 7900X and 7950X, with even higher clocks, could actually be on par with Intel's 13900K.