Civilisation VI expansion focused on Natural Disasters? I'm always ready for more CIV content.

That hardware is drool worthy. I would legit caress it before I go to bed each night.

Nothing a little bit of overclocking on the 4670 can't fix to keep you in the game in the meantime anyway.

Going to be waiting on PCI-E 4, DDR5 to drop before I upgrade my desktop again.

In the meantime... Purchased a Ryzen 2700u, 16GB DDR4, 1080P IPS, 256GB M.2 SSD notebook for only $700AUD as a Christmas gift to myself... The display is low resolution, but at that price point, can't complain I guess, not like the integrated graphics is good for 1440P anyway.

Can finally do some light gaming when I travel.

At that price it's the least I expect.

More content is always good. But things like that is what reinforce my idea of waiting until they launch a complete edition of the game. Not only will I save a lot of money, but I'll also be able to have the complete experience out of the game. Also, some of thos new features change the gameplay, so all the habits you developed from playing the base game are now almost useless and you (almost) have to start learning how to play it from the ground, which is great for some users, but a hassle for others.

And I'm having the same problem with other games like Cities Skylines and other Paradox titles.

Nice gift.

My own X-mas gift will probably be... one or two Steam games on sale.

The Wednesday news:

SALES & DEALS

Get Dirt 4, Oriental Empires, Pinstripe, and some dead ninjas in the new Humble Bundle
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-dirt-4-oriental-empires-pinstripe-and-some-dead-ninjas-in-the-new-humble-bundle/
Videogames are good, and supporting charity is good, so with that established let's turn our eyes to the Humble Jumbo Bundle 12, a collection of nine games and a couple of bonuses that begins with Pinstripe, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Super House of Dead Ninjas: True Ninja Pack, and Rise & Shine for as little as $1. Pinstripe is the one I'm familiar with (it's good), but Super House of Dead Ninjas looks to be the big draw at this tier, with an "overwhelmingly positive" rating on Steam across more than 1,100 reviews.

GOG has started its Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) sale, with up to 90% discounts on more than 500 games until the 27th.

And at Fanatical, we have to talk about two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Hitman Game of the Year Edition, 78% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/hitman-game-of-the-year-edition
• And there's a new bundle, the Survivors Bundle, with 13 games split into two tiers of 4 and 13 games that will last another 14 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/survivors-bundle

SOFTWARE

Steam now has Australian pricing, but lots of big games are unavailable
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-now-has-australian-pricing-but-lots-of-games-are-now-unavailable/
When it was revealed last week that Australian currency would be supported on Steam come November 21, the good news was accompanied by a worrisome caveat. If publishers and devs failed to update Steam's database with a specific Australian price, their games would no longer be available to purchase for Australian customers.
It's now November 21 in Australia, and as promised, Steam is showing AU dollar prices across both its client and its website. But many publishers and studios, including big names like Microsoft Studios and Konami, have apparently failed to provide an Australian price, meaning the likes of Fable Anniversary, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Metal Gear Solid V can not be purchased by Australians at present.

MODS/EMULATORS

MKP Revitalized 2 is a new great free Mortal Kombat Mugen game that is available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mkp-revitalized-2-is-a-new-great-mortal-kombat-mugen-game-that-is-available-for-download/
MKA has released a brand new version of his Mortal Kombat Mugen game, MKP Revitalized. MKP Revitalized 2 features 54 fighters from all the classic Mortal Kombat fighting games, including some characters that appeared in other Mortal Kombat games, like MK Sub-Zero Mythologies, and rumoured characters from the old 2D MK games. MKP Revitalized 2 features new moves, stages, and fatalities, as well as new stage fatalities. Not only that, but the game actually plays great and is on par with the gameplay of the original 2D Mortal Kombat games. As such, we strongly suggest downloading it in case you are die-hard MK fans.
>> Here's the download link (Mediafire).

This mod for Fallout 4 adds several drivable cars
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/this-mod-for-fallout-4-adds-several-drivable-cars/
Modder ‘ViciousCeph’ has released a new mod for Fallout 4 that adds several drivable cars. According to the modder, the Vanilla Pickup Truck is the most stable car in this mod and this is the reason why it’s the only car included in the main file. Those who want to experiment though can also try some other cars.
Players can also drive the Station Wagon and the Vault-Tec Van. Both of these cars have a seat for a companion and the Station Wagon comes in various colors and 3 prewar skins whereas the Vault-Tec Van only comes with the Original Prewar and Rusty Postwar skins. However, players may sometimes fall through the ground briefly before entering these vehicles.
>> Get this mod from Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

Hitman 2 Patch 2.11 is now available, adds Simulation Quality option, brings optimization tweaks
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hitman-2-patch-2-11-is-now-available-adds-simulation-quality-option-brings-optimization-tweaks/
IO Interactive has released a new patch for the PC version of Hitman 2. According to the release notes, patch 2.11 adds a brand new graphics setting called Simulation Quality and brings various PC optimization tweaks.

No Man’s Sky Visions update leaked information and trailer; will feature visual enhancements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/no-mans-sky-visions-update-leaked-information-and-trailer-will-feature-visual-enhancements/
It appears that the first details and the trailer for No Man’s Sky’s next update, Visions, have been leaked online. According to Hello Games, Visions will bring new worlds, new base parts, new precious materials, new emotes and new fauna.

Ubisoft reverses its censorship plans for Rainbow Six: Siege; will be reverting all aesthetic changes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-reverses-its-censorship-plans-for-rainbow-six-siege-will-be-reverting-all-aesthetic-changes/
Earlier this month, we informed you about Ubisoft’s plans to censor Rainbow Six Siege by removing environmental blood, gambling and sexual content. However, the French company announced yesterday that it will abandon these plans and that it will be reverting all aesthetic changes.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 November 20th patch brings numerous balance tweaks & stability improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-november-20th-patch-brings-numerous-balance-tweaks-stability-improvements/
Treyarch has released a new patch for Call of Duty Black Ops 4. According to the release notes, the November 20th update adds Nuketown to rotation in MP playlists, improves stability by fixing a number of crashes and brings numerous balance tweaks.

Star Citizen Alpha 3.3.5 is now available to all backers
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-citizen-alpha-3-3-5-is-now-available-to-all-backers/
Cloud Imperium has released Star Citizen Alpha 3.3.5 to all backers. This new alpha version adds planet Hurston which is the first planetary location and as such is considerably larger than moons and has varied biomes. Additionally, players will find several outposts, labed HMC (Hurston Mining Centers) scattered about the surface.

New trailer for Atomic Heart features new gameplay footage
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-trailer-for-atomic-heart-features-new-gameplay-footage/
Mundfish has released a new trailer for its upcoming FPS Soviet-Union game, Atomic Heart. We usually don’t share pre-order trailers – and we are also against pre-ordering a game – however we know that some of our readers are interested in this title and this trailer also features new gameplay footage.

CRYENGINE-powered online hardcore survival game, Miscreated, fully releases on December 18th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cryengine-powered-online-hardcore-survival-game-miscreated-fully-releases-on-december-18th/
Entrada Interactive announced today that its online multiplayer, hardcore survival game Miscreated is set to leave Early Access for its full Version 1.0 launch on December 18th. According to the press release, Miscreated’s 1.0 launch will bring many new features to its post-apocalyptic open world including: new weapons, player hosted servers with many configuration options, map expansion, new weather patterns, farming, cooking, powering houses, harder AI, and much more.

New Shadow of the Tomb Raider PC patch improves MultiGPU stability, fixes various crashes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-pc-patch-improves-multigpu-stability-fixes-various-crashes/
EIDOS Montreal and Nixxes have released a brand new PC patch for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. According to the release notes, this latest update improves MultiGPU stability and usability of voice-chat feature (for co-op multiplayer), and fixes various crashes.

Wednesday news, part two:

Fortnite players puzzle over the appearance of a mysterious cloud
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-players-puzzle-over-the-appearance-of-a-mysterious-cloud/
Last week, James was convinced that winter was coming to Fortnite, and it increasingly looks like he’s probably right. It shouldn’t be surprising, given the game’s proclivity for fancy events and the fact that Christmas isn’t far off, and the evidence is starting to mount up. Grab your pipe and your deerstalker.
>> Oh, and the Wild West mode had dynamite, but they've already removed it.

GTA Online's latest update pays you up to 1.35 million GTA$ just for logging in
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-onlines-latest-update-will-pay-you-up-to-135-million-gtadollar-just-for-logging-in/
If you log in to GTA Online this week you will get 750,000 in-game bucks, just for being you. For each subsequent day you log in you'll earn a further $100k through to November 26. In total you can make $1.35 million, to be delivered to your Maze account by December 3.

Assassinate Sean Bean in Hitman 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/assassinate-sean-bean-in-hitman-2/
Sean Bean, Hitman 2’s first elusive target, appeared in the game today. If you need someone to die, you really can’t do better than everyone’s favourite prematurely killed off Yorkshireman. The man of many deaths is playing Mark Faba, a disgraced MI5 operative who, appropriately, has been assassinated more than a dozen times but never seems to stay dead.

Overwatch's new hero Ashe has a problem with her aim, a fix is on the way
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatchs-new-hero-ashe-has-a-problem-with-her-aim-a-fix-is-on-the-way/
The Wild West-style gunslinger Ashe came off the Overwatch PTR a week ago, and her debut hasn't gone perfectly smoothly. Aiming is the issue: As Blizzard forumite OnlyReaper described it a day after Ashe went live, aiming down sights "feels so clunky and the hitscan feels like a projectile... I main McCree and Soldier, I have good precision with both, but it seems like I can't hit anything consistently like with my McCree."

Underworld Ascendant developer video promises that fixes are coming
https://www.pcgamer.com/underworld-ascendant-developer-video-promises-that-fixes-are-coming/
The first-person dungeon crawler Underworld Ascendant was probably the game I was most looking forward to this year. So it really breaks my heart to see that its release has been pretty much a catastrophe: Underworld is currently rated "mostly negative" on Steam, and a lowly 2.0 user score on Metacritic—where there are currently no critic reviews at all (we have one in the works). The situation is bad enough that game director Joe Fielder posted a brief, ever-so-slightly desperate-looking development update video promising that the studio is still working on it.

World of Warcraft's most infamous disaster is becoming a Hearthstone card
https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcrafts-most-infamous-disaster-is-now-a-hearthstone-card/
Few moments are as memorable in all of World of Warcraft history as the Corrupted Blood Incident. On September 13, 2005, a player returned from the grueling new Zul'Gurub raid and summoned his pet in one of Azeroth's capital cities only to find that, due to a bug, the pet had acquired a debuff that wasn't supposed to exist outside of the raid.
And now, 13 years later, Hearthstone is finally paying tribute to that cataclysmic moment in its own, cool way. Meek Hakkar, the Soulflayer, the boss from which corrupted blood originated, now transformed into a Hearthstone card.

Enter the Gungeon expansion plans scrapped, development ending after next update
https://www.pcgamer.com/enter-the-gungeon-expansion-plans-scrapped-development-ending-after-next-update/
The roguelike bullet hell Enter the Gungeon was quite good when it came out in 2016 and got better this summer with the big Advanced Gungeons & Draguns update, which enabled Shaun to suck less at it. As it turns out, that will be the final expansion for the game: Developer Dodge Roll said in a lengthy update on Reddit that after five years of working on the game, it's ready to move on to something else.

Walk on the skin of a god in Pillar of Eternity 2's last DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/walk-on-the-skin-of-a-god-in-pillar-of-eternity-2s-last-dlc/
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire’s nautical misadventures come to an end next month, lamentably, with the launch of the final piece of DLC, the ominously titled Forgotten Sanctum. With it comes a new island to explore, a dungeon to fight your way through and the archipelago’s best-kept secret to uncover.

Planetside 2's new faction lets you play as a robot mercenary who will fight for anyone
https://www.pcgamer.com/planetside-2s-new-faction-lets-you-play-as-a-robot-mercenary-who-will-fight-for-anyone/
After six years, Planetside 2 is getting a fourth faction. The massive-scale FPS celebrated its sixth anniversary yesterday and, during a livestream, revealed the game’s first new faction since launch. Nanite Systems Operatives don’t function like soldiers, however, as they’re robotic mercenaries who fight on behalf of other other factions.

Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic Mount & Blade that leaves Early Access soon
https://www.pcgamer.com/kenshi-is-a-post-apocalyptic-mount-and-blade-that-leaves-early-access-soon/
Kenshi, which first appeared on Steam Early Access way back in 2013, is as a peculiar and ambitious RPG. It is, at times, an RTS, a squad management game, a trading RPG and several other things, depending on the life you decide to lead in the massive sandbox. It’s leaving Early Access on December 6, 12 years after work initially began.

Thursday news:

SALES & DEALS

The Steam Autumn Sale has begun
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-fall-sale-2018/
November is here, the leaves are falling, and the prices are too: The 2018 Steam Autumn Sale is now live.
The Autumn Sale also sees the return of the Steam Awards, the now-annual ritual in which users nominate games for recognition across a number of ill-described, vaguely-defined, and occasionally outright-bizarre categories—last year's awards gave us "Mom's Spaghetti" and "Whoooaaaaaaa, Dude! 2.0," for instance.
>> Go and buy new games that you'll never play... or don't. It's your money and you can do whatever you want with it. By the way, any suggestions on what games to nominate for the awards? I'm out of ideas.

SOFTWARE/DRIVERS

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MODS/EMULATORS

Half-Life 2 Classic Ravenholm demo demake for the first Half-Life is available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/half-life-2-classic-ravenholm-demo-demake-for-the-first-half-life-is-available-for-download/
In June, we shared some screenshots from the Half Life 2 demake for the first Half-Life, Half-Life 2 Classic. Created by Team Classic, this demake mod aims to recreate the entirety of Half-Life 2 in GoldSource Engine. And yesterday, the team has released a demo that you can download.
The team has been recreating demake models for all monsters and characters from scratch and the demo features new texture for normal zombies, making them wear citizen clothes instead of scientist ones, new sounds for weapons, footsteps, and more, new models/textures for weapons in the low-poly style of Half-Life 1, new “advanced” options to toggle weapon sway and change weapon fov (this will probably be used for more stuff later on), and allows zombies to be cut in half with sharp objects.
As its title suggests, this demo features the entire Ravenholm chapter from Half-Life 2, fully playable in Goldsrc as a Half-Life 1 mod, and those interested can download it from here.

New Dragon Ball Unreal demo released for Patreon backers
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-dragon-ball-unreal-demo-released-for-patreon-backers/
Back in June, we informed you about a new demo of the fan-made Dragon Ball game in Unreal Engine 4, Dragon Ball Unreal, that would be coming out shortly. Well, today we’ve got some good and some bad news for you DBZ fans. The good news is that a new demo has been released. The bad news is that the demo is currently behind a Patreon-wall.
This new demo is currently available to all Patreon backers and has not been released to the public yet. Moreover, we don’t know when – and if – Emudshit will release this latest demo of Dragon Ball Unreal to the public. As such, we won’t be covering this project anymore until the new demos become available to everyone.

Modder recreates Fallout 76's photomode in Fallout 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/modder-recreates-fallout-76s-photomode-in-fallout-4/
When I want to take nice screenshots in Fallout 4 I use console cheats: tfc to enable the freecam and tm to hide the UI. But modder extraordinaire registrator2000 is working on a far more elegant solution, a lovely photo mode for Fallout 4 based on the one from Fallout 76.
The mod isn't available for download yet, but it even the little bit we can currently see looks fantastic.

GAMING NEWS

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice patch 1.03 adds HDR support, packs memory improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice-patch-1-03-adds-hdr-support-packs-memory-improvements/
Ninja Theory has released a brand new update for the PC version of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. According to the release notes, patch 1.03 adds HDR (high dynamic range) support for both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards.

DICE details upcoming real-time ray tracing RTX optimizations coming to Battlefield 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dice-details-upcoming-real-time-ray-tracing-rtx-optimizations-coming-to-battlefield-5/
In an interview with Eurogamer, EA DICE’s rendering engineer Yasin Uludag has detailed the optimizations that are coming to Battlefield 5’s real-time ray tracing RTX effects. According to Yasin, performance of the RTX effects will noticeably improve in the future as both NVIDIA and DICE are working on various performance improvements.

NieR Automata has not received a single patch on the PC but a GOTY Edition is coming out
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nier-automata-has-not-received-a-single-patch-on-the-pc-but-a-goty-edition-is-coming-out/
While NieR: Automata sold quite well on the PC, it’s a game that could benefit from some patches. Surprisingly enough, Square Enix dropped the ball on this one and the game still suffers from mediocre PC controls (unless of course you’re playing with a gamepad but that’s not an excuse).
But anyway, according to ESRB there is a Game of the Year Edition, called NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition, coming out soon. My guess is that this Edition will simply include the DLCs that have been released and nothing more. So no, don’t expect any PC improvements or tweaks.

Jurassic World Evolution patch 1.05 improves screen space reflections, improves dinosaurs and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/jurassic-world-evolution-patch-1-05-improves-screen-space-reflections-improves-dinosaurs-and-more/
Frontier has released a brand new patch for Jurassic World Evolution. According to the release notes, patch 1.05 features screen space reflections improvements, cleans up template missions (contracts) from the game database when starting/loading a career, brings various stability fixes and balances various music types lengths.

Thursday news, part two:

The next Europa Universalis 4 expansion lets you become a pirate
https://www.pcgamer.com/europa-universalis-4s-new-expansion-lets-you-become-a-pirate/
Europa Universalis 4: Golden Century lets you break free from stuffy empires and gives you pirate republics to run, plundering the coast and robbing ships. Or, if you’re a narc, you can try to civilise the seas, fighting off the pirates and establishing order.

The latest Star Citizen update lets you explore the sim's first world
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latest-star-citizen-update-lets-you-explore-the-sims-first-world/
Ahead of Star Citizen’s free week, the space sim’s very first planet has gone live, along with VOIP and the fancy face-tracking integration. Everyone will be able to check out Hurston and the city of Lorville on Friday, but for now only people who have bought the game can start exploring.

The Messenger cranks up the difficulty with a New Game+ mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-messenger-cranks-up-the-difficulty-with-a-new-game-mode/
The Ninja Gaiden-inspired retro-platformer The Messenger got a big update today that adds "quality of life" changes including remappable controls and "dialog turbo speed," as well as a New Game+ mode that will give players the option of bringing items unlocked in previous playthroughs into new games. Access to that bonus equipment comes at a cost, however, as New Game+ mode will also serve up significantly increased difficulty.

Rumor: Diablo 4 takes after Diablo 2, but a cancelled version looked like Dark Souls
https://www.pcgamer.com/rumor-diablo-4-takes-after-diablo-2-but-a-cancelled-version-looked-like-dark-souls/
An in-depth Kotaku report on the state of things at Blizzard, and in particular the next Diablo game, has revealed a few very interesting, if unconfirmed, surprises, including that the studio had been working on a version of Diablo 4 that was similar in many ways to Dark Souls. Codenamed Hades, the game was being developed as a hardcore dungeon crawler with an over-the-shoulder view instead of Diablo's traditional isometric perspective.
>> The same Kotaku article also mentions a Pokémon Go-style game based on Warcraft.

The guy who redirected playdiablo4.com to Path of Exile wants people to stop bashing Blizzard
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-guy-who-redirected-playdiablo4com-to-path-of-exile-wants-people-to-stop-bashing-blizzard/
When Blizzard first announced that Diablo 3 would be coming to the Nintendo Switch, redditor Zein had a really funny idea. He went on GoDaddy and bought the URL "playdiablo4.com" and then made it redirect to Path of Exile's website—Diablo 3's biggest competitor. After Blizzard outraged fans earlier this November with the announcement of Diablo Immortal, Zein's little joke went viral. But now he's asking people to stop bashing the developer.

Battlefield 5 machine gunners are learning how to duck in the next patch
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-5-machine-gunners-are-learning-how-to-duck-in-the-next-patch/
The top gunners on Battlefield 5 tanks have a hell of a gun under their control, and play an important role as they deal with any infantry that gets close to harass the tank with explosives. They also die a lot, because they're sitting on top of a large tank with a big gun, making a lot of noise and not doing what they should arguably be doing most of the time: ducking.

Destiny 2 'Pinnacle weapons' are coming to Vanguard strikes, Gambit, and the Crucible
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-pinnacle-weapons-are-coming-to-vanguard-gambit-and-the-crucible/
The start of Destiny 2's Season of the Forge next week will see three powerful new Pinnacle weapons added to the game: One for Vanguard missions, one for Gambit, and one for the Crucible that will take a little extra effort to acquire.

A Wreck-It Ralph 2 event is probably coming to Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-wreck-it-ralph-2-event-is-probably-coming-to-fortnite/
Wreck-It Ralph has snuck into Fortnite, likely teasing a larger Disney crossover similar to the Thanos event for Avengers: Infinity War. So far, it’s just a cameo, but with Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet now on big screens in the US, we might be seeing more of the reformed video game villain soon.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is getting Obi-Wan Kenobi and a new map in a free update
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-battlefront-2-is-getting-obi-wan-kenobi-and-a-new-map-in-a-free-update/
Obi-Wan Kenobi is headed to Star Wars Battlefront 2 next week. Everyone’s favourite beardy Jedi mentor will also be accompanied by the Battle of Geonosis map, where clones and droids fight over the barren world. The update is free for all Battlefront 2 players. Point your eyes as the trailer above.

Total War: Arena is shutting down early next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-arena-is-shutting-down-early-next-year/
Total War: Arena, Creative Assembly and Wargaming’s multiplayer experiment, is coming to a close. The final real-time battles between Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians and barbarians will take place in February, with the game shutting down permanently on February 22.

Take a sneak peek at World of Warcraft's new island expedition locations
https://www.pcgamer.com/take-a-sneak-peek-at-world-of-warcrafts-new-island-expedition-locations/
A pair of new islands will hit World of Warcraft’s island expeditions next month, along with the meaty Tides of Vengeance update. Unfortunately, Havenswood and Jorundall both look like pretty gloomy places, so don't expect any beach fun. Joining them are changes to what you’ll be doing in these expeditions, which fuel the war between the Alliance and Horde.

Outlast: Second Contact is free at Humble.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/outcast-second-contact

I'm so in love with AC: Odyssey. I never thought I'd have so much fun with an Assassin's Creed game.