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| + | |Title=[[Assassin's Creed Valhalla]] is free to play until February 28. | ||
| + | |Date=February 24, 2022 | ||
| + | |Link1=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-is-free-until-february-28/1100-6501038/ | ||
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| + | |Title=[[Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn]] resumes its free trial offering. | ||
| + | |Date=February 22, 2022 | ||
| + | |Link1=https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/1496077718273724416 | ||
| + | |Link2=https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/21/22944364/final-fantasy-xiv-free-trials-february-22nd-resume-back-ff-14 | ||
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| + | |Title=Bethesda Launcher is being retired in favour for [[Steam]]. | ||
| + | |Date=February 22, 2022 | ||
| + | |Link1=https://bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam | ||
| + | |Link2=https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/FfWIVEmUL8vXXpAtkYnCT/farewell-bethesda-net-launcher-fallout-76-faq | ||
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| + | |Title=[[No Man's Sky]] release their first major update for the year, titled Sentinel. | ||
| + | |Date=February 16, 2022 | ||
| + | |Link1=https://www.nomanssky.com/2022/02/no-mans-sky-sentinel-update/ | ||
| + | |Link2=https://www.nomanssky.com/sentinel-update | ||
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| + | |Title=[[Cyberpunk 2077]] release their major 1.5 update. | ||
| + | |Date=February 15, 2022 | ||
| + | |Link1=https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/41435/patch-1-5-next-generation-update-list-of-changes | ||
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{{News/row | {{News/row | ||
|Title=Steam Deck announced to ship its first wave of units on February 28th, 2022. | |Title=Steam Deck announced to ship its first wave of units on February 28th, 2022. | ||
Revision as of 23:24, 26 February 2022
This project page is for the maintenance of a News section on PCGamingWiki.
Aims
- Market people to view articles that will receive high interest based on recent news.
- Highlight platform changes on articles which will require substantial changes/attention.
- Encourage community participation in current events.
- Make it easier for Andytizer (or anyone else) to create News articles quickly.
Inclusion criteria
- Any games with high wishlist/player counts/press coverage/notability/surprise announcement/releases.
- Major platform changes e.g. GOG/Steam/Origin/Microsoft Store.
- Major DRM changes e.g. removal of Denuvo or becoming DRM-free.
- Major patches or content changes.
- Notable sales.
- Don't cover new releases, those are covered in PCGamingWiki:Assignments.
Title
- Brief and concise and ideally a single sentence with period at the end.
- Internally link where possible in order to encourage users to click through to an article.
- Explain why the change might be considered interesting to the reader/PCGamingWiki visitor.
- Add additional information that can't be summarised in the title can be placed in the Notes field.
- This is currently set to an abbr tag which mouse users can use to hover. Mobile solution needs to be developed.
Instructions
- PCGamingWiki:News/Table - this is the area where the data is kept.
- New rows are added newest at the top.
- Currently only Moderators and Editors have permission to edit this page.
- When the Table is edited, it also needs to be purged for the data to refresh in the queries.
Syntax
{{News/row
|Title=
|Date=
|Link1=
|Link2=
|Link3=
|Notes=
|Community=
|Pin=false
}}
Title- concise title.Date- Month dd format.Link1- URL only.Link2- URL only.Link3- URL only.Notes- any additional information, ideally a single sentence, no formatting/links.Community- URL to community site only.Pin- true/false - this will pin to the top in certain queries. Ideally only 2 or 3 pinned at any one time.
Main contacts
Related pages and templates
- {{News/row}} - each data row is used in PCGamingWiki:News/Table.
- {{News/displayonly}} - only used for cargo queries so as to not duplicate table rows.