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SALES & DEALS

Fortnite was the highest-earning game of the year again
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-was-the-highest-earning-game-of-the-year-again/
The unrelenting success of Fortnite continued for another year, with Epic's all-consuming (including Star Wars) battle royale earning a ridiculous $1.8 billion in 2019, according to SuperData's Year in Review report. It's not a record-setting number like its first year, but no other game generated as much cash in 2019.
Free-to-play games continue to be the top earners, with four out of every five dollars spent on digital games going towards them. A lot of that is on mobile, which netted $64.4 billion over the year, followed by PC at $29.6 billion. Combined, consoles generated $15.4 billion. On consoles and PC, free-to-play revenue actually dipped, though it rose by several billion on mobile.

At the Humble Store has a new Farming Sale with up to 80% discounts for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/farming-sale/

Fanatical has a new sale starring Focus Home Interactive, with up to 80% discounts for the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/focus-home-interactive

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Sign in to Twitch Prime this month and get 10 free games
https://www.pcgamer.com/sign-in-to-twitch-prime-this-month-and-get-10-free-games/
Trying to catch up with all the games you missed in 2019? Well, Twitch Prime has just made your list just a little bit longer. If you sign in to your Twitch Prime account during January you'll get access to a bundle of ten games for free. Claiming these games means that they are yours to keep forever even if you decide to unsubscribe from Prime in the future.

MODS/EMULATORS

After nearly a decade, Stalker: Call of Pripyat's Gunslinger mod is in open beta
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-nearly-a-decade-stalker-call-of-pripyats-gunslinger-mod-is-in-open-beta/
The Stalker series is such an interesting one: GSC Game World's open world first-person shooters are intensely beloved and incredibly influential, yet at the same time they cry out for major modifications and overhauls to fix their notable shortcomings. There have been many big mods for the Stalker games over the years, like Remake, Dead Air, and Call of Chernobyl for Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Remaster and Lost Alpha for Shadow of Chernobyl, and plenty more.
And now there's a new one, in a manner of speaking. Gunslinger, an overhaul mod for Stalker: Call of Pripyat, has been in the works for almost 10 years, but it's never had any sort of playable version released. Until now, that is. Gunslinger is finally in open beta.
Gunslinger is an overhaul of many of Stalker's weapons and animations, adding more realism to just about everything you do in the game.
>> You can get this mod from ModDB.

GAMING NEWS

Official PC requirements revealed for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, requires 40GB of free hard-disk space
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/official-pc-requirements-revealed-for-dragon-ball-z-kakarot-will-require-40gb-of-free-hdd/
Bandai Namco has revealed the official PC system requirements for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot via its Steam store page. According to the specifications, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i5-2400 or an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T with 4GB of RAM.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will be powered by Unreal Engine 4
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-will-be-powered-by-unreal-engine-4/
GSC GameWorld has announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will be using Unreal Engine 4. This information was first revealed by Epic Games, and GSC GameWorld has now officially announced it.

GRID 2019 is free to play this weekend on Steam
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/grid-2019-is-free-to-play-this-weekend-on-steam/
Codemasters has announced that the latest part in the GRID series is free to play this weekend on Steam. PC gamers can visit the game’s Steam store page, download, and start playing it. As said, this is a “free to play” offer, meaning that you’ll be able to only play the game during this period.
>> I think that they may be doing it to let people try the game and not make their decision about purchase it or not based on the user reviews, that aren't great.

The House In The Hollow is a new indie first-person exploration game, coming out in Q4 2020
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-house-in-the-hollow-is-a-new-indie-first-person-exploration-game-coming-out-in-q4-2020/
PSINE Studios has informed us about a new first-person exploration game that will be using Unreal Engine 4, The House In The Hollow. The game will allow players to explore an atmospheric location including an imposing Art Nouveau manor house and its surrounding forest in the mysterious void called the Hollow.

Rumour: FromSoftware claims that ELDEN RING will release in June 2020 [UPDATE: NOT]
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fromsoftware-claims-that-elden-ring-will-release-in-june-2020/
While we haven’t heard much about ELDEN RING in 2019, FromSoftware claims that the game will come out in June 2020. ELDEN RING will release on current-gen platforms, therefore a June 2020 release does make sense.
UPDATE: It appears that this is indeed a Google translation error.