It's time for the Tuesday news:

SALES & DEALS

Steam has two new deals, as well as a new set of weeklong deals:

• Broken Lines will be 20% off for the next 6 days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/926580/Broken_Lines/
• Urtuk: The Desolation, still in Early Access, will also be 20% off for the next of the week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1181830/Urtuk_The_Desolation/
• And here are some of the weeklong deals:
  • The Early Access title Chrono Ark features a 20% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188930/Chrono_Ark/
  • Hyper Jam is 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/556050/Hyper_Jam/
  • Chasm is half its usual pass: https://store.steampowered.com/app/312200/Chasm/
  • Europa Universalis III Complete gets a 75% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/25800/Europa_Universalis_III_Complete/
  • Fantasy Wars is 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/63900/Fantasy_Wars/
  • And Trash Squad gets a big 90% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/676440/Trash_Squad/

The Humble Store has three new sales:

• Publisher Raw Fury is doing s Spring Sale and has its games up to 80% off for 2 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/raw-fury-spring-sale/
• Publisher Frontier has its games up to 75% off during the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/frontier-publisher-sale/
• And Paradox has a new Strategy DLC BYOB. Everything is 50% off, but the more you buy, the bigger the discount (3_60%, 4_63% and 5_65%): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/paradox-strategy-dlc-build-your-own-bundle/

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GAMING NEWS

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Title Update 9 releases tomorrow and here are its full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tom-clancys-the-division-2-title-update-9-releases-tomorrow-and-here-are-its-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has announced that Title Update 9 for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will be releasing tomorrow. This patch is 10GB in size for those that are already on version 8.5. For everyone else, Title Update 9 weights around 70GB in size. Additionally, Ubisoft revealed the full notes for this upcoming update.

Here are some 4K screenshots from the PC version of Halo 2 Anniversary Remaster
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-some-4k-screenshots-from-the-pc-version-of-halo-2-anniversary-remaster/
Microsoft and 343 Industries have invited us to the latest beta phase of the Halo 2 Anniversary Remaster. As such, we’ve decided to capture some 4K screenshots and share them with you. Thus, these screenshots will give you an idea of what you can expect from this game.

id Software developers react to DOOM Eternal speedrun
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/id-software-developers-react-to-doom-eternal-speedrun/
It’s been almost a month since the official release of DOOM Eternal, and speedrunners have already finished the game in under a half hour. Which is insane, especially when you see exactly how they do it. I mean seriously, these guys probably spent hundreds of hours playing the game and exploring every-freaking-thing.

Death Stranding has been delayed, now coming on the PC on July 14th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/death-stranding-has-been-delayed-now-coming-on-the-pc-on-july-14th/
Kojima Productions has announced that Death Stranding has been delayed until July 14th. 505 Games originally planned to release the game on June 2nd, however, and due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the game will miss that initial release date.

Tuesday news, part two:

Cut up corpses and then get chased by them in Autopsy Simulator
https://www.pcgamer.com/cut-up-corpses-and-then-get-chased-by-them-in-autopsy-simulator/
Autopsy Simulator follows a pathologist named Jack—like Cher, he needs no surname—as he cuts up cadavers and uses science to uncover causes of death. A straightforward autopsy sim sounds like an intriguing, if morbid, curio, but unfortunately some "sinister forces" won't let Jack get on with his job, instead opting to scare the poor guy.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a game about the horrors of blue-collar work in space, is coming in June
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardspace-shipbreaker-a-game-about-the-horrors-of-blue-collar-work-in-space-is-coming-in-june/
Hardspace: Shipbreaker, from Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak studio Blackbird Interactive, is a game about a having a job—specifically the job of a Cutter, living and working in space, breaking down massive derelict spaceships into scrap and spare parts. It sounds like a cool gig! In reality, though, it sucks.

Games Done Quick speedrunners raised $400,000 for coronavirus relief
https://www.pcgamer.com/games-done-quick-speedrunners-raised-dollar400000-for-coronavirus-relief/
The recently-concluded speedrunning extravaganza Corona Relief Done Quick was a big success, raising $400,000 to support Direct Relief, a charity organization working to provide personal protective equipment and other medical items to healthcare workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak. That figure is lower than the multi-million-dollar amounts raised by the long Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick events—they each run for a week, while CRDQ was a 60-hour weekend fling—but the GDQ team said the total "marks a new high for our side event efforts."

80 Days studio Inkle is looking for a little help making its next game
https://www.pcgamer.com/80-days-studio-is-looking-for-a-little-help-making-its-next-game/
In early April, 80 Days studio Inkle revealed that its next project is a "strategic narrative" retelling of King Arthur's final battle called Pendragon. As you'd expect from Inkle, whose previous games also include the narrative-focused Sorcery! and Heaven's Vault, the story will be central to the experience, and it's looking for a little help pulling it all together.
Inkle said on Twitter that it's looking for "500-word, lightly-interactive 'campfire tales'" to include in the game, which it detailed more in this doc. Submitted stories should be written as dialog between two characters, one the storyteller and the other the listener, who occasionally interjects "to pace the flow."

Gorgeous and surreal bullet-hell adventure ITTA releases this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/gorgeous-and-surreal-bullet-hell-adventure-itta-releases-this-week/
ITTA is an isometric bullet-hell shooter with an art style quite at odds with your usual bullet-hell game. It's set in a beautiful, pastel-hued world, which is home to 18 giant foes. The main character, Itta, moves through this world at the behest of her cat — the last living member of her family. This beloved feline gifts Itta a gun: those 18 foes better watch their backs.

American Truck Simulator now lets you get out of your truck to stretch your legs
https://www.pcgamer.com/american-truck-simulator-now-lets-you-get-out-of-your-truck-to-stretch-your-legs/
American Truck Simulator's 1.37 update, out now, mainly benefits your ears, introducing a new sound engine that's changed how the team mixes the cacophony created by vehicles and the great outdoors, but SCS Software has also thrown in a few more treats for good measure.

The Elder Scrolls Online's DLC is free to try all week
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-elder-scrolls-onlines-dlc-is-free-to-try-all-week/
The Elder Scrolls Online is shedding the price of its subscription for a week, letting everyone try out ESO Plus membership, which includes access to all the DLC game packs, until April 27.
The MMO is playable without a subscription, but that leaves you with a lot of DLC to buy; ESO Plus membership lets you save your crowns, however, giving you access to a whopping 16 game packs, up too and including last month's Harrowstorm DLC.

Artifact is getting a singleplayer campaign
https://www.pcgamer.com/artifact-is-getting-a-singleplayer-campaign/
After it failed to set the world on fire, Valve went back to the drawing board with Artifact, and lately it's been teasing some of the significant changes coming to the new version of the card-battling romp. One of the most notable new additions, at least for story-hungry people like myself, is a singleplayer campaign.

Desperados 3 is coming in June, so dust off that cowboy hat
https://www.pcgamer.com/desperados-3-is-coming-in-june-so-dust-off-that-cowboy-hat/
Desperados 3 finally has a release date, and it's not too far off. Gunslinger John Cooper and his eclectic gang will be popping up on PC, as well as Xbox One and PS4, on June 16. Yee-haw!

Jeez dem max requirements:

Captain_Yuri said: Jeez dem max requirements:

Yeah. They're really high and kind of odd (the 2080 is quite faster than the Radeon VII).

In my case, I barely meet the min CPU, I pass the recommended GPU and RAM, but damn 150GB of storage? And in SSD form for the max ones. I thought this game was supposed to use the cloud.

You wish. You're more like Eli Wallach .

Captain_Yuri said: Jeez dem max requirements:

It's Flight Simulator. That one always needed very high specs.

@JEMC And as to why a Radeon VII instead of a 5700X: It can possibly put it's raw power better to use, similar to GPGPU workloads. Again, that's something which wouldn't be too surprising for Flight Simulator. Either way AMD doesn't have anything as powerful as a 2080 in gaming workloads yet, so they couldn't put something of equal performance there either way.

You're right, in some cases the Radeon VII is faster than a 5700XT, and maybe this is one of those games where this is the case.

That's something that won't happen again with AMD (finally) splitting their architectures in two, for gaming and HPC.

Let's do the Wednesday news:

SALES & DEALS

GOG has two new sales:

• The Midweek Sale is full of classic Point'n'click games up to 90% off for the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200422_midweek_sale
• And, if that's not enough, there's a special Sierra games sale with up to 75% discounts for 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200422_sierra_midweek

Steam has 7 new sales, including 6 Midweek Madness deals:

• Niffelheim will be 85% off until April 27: https://store.steampowered.com/app/351100/Niffelheim/
• The first of the Midweek Madness deals is a publisher sale featuring Beamdog, with up to 75% discounts until tomorrow: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/beamdogpublisher/
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is 40% off until Friday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/692850/Bloodstained_Ritual_of_the_Night/
• Dead by Daylight is 60% off also until Friday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/381210/Dead_by_Daylight/
• Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr gets a 66% discount until the 24th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/527430/Warhammer_40000_Inquisitor__Martyr/
• Prison Architect will be 75% off until the 24th too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/Prison_Architect/
• And lastly there's a Homeworld franchise sale, with up to 80% discounts until Friday, 24: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/HomeworldFranchise

There's a new Humble Bundle: the Humble Square Enix Collective Bundle 2020, with up to 12 games available during the next 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/square-enix-collective-2020

And Fanatical's Insanity Sale will end soon. Give it an eye in case you missed something before it's too late.

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MODS/EMULATORS

6GB HD Texture Pack released for Dark Souls Remastered, overhauling maps, objects and enemies
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/6gb-hd-texture-pack-released-for-dark-souls-remastered-overhauling-maps-objects-and-enemies/
Evelyn Schwab has released a new HD Texture Pack for Dark Souls Remastered. This new HD Texture Pack weights around 6GB in size, and overhauls a lot of textures. Thus, we strongly suggest using this pack in case you want to replay this game.
According to the modder, this is a full faithful texture replacement for maps, objects and enemies. Evelyn Schwab has used a mix of hand-made textures and ESRGAN upscaling tech. Furthermore, this pack is compatible with overhaul mods, and you can use it while playing online.
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In order to install this mod, you’ll also have to download and extract TKGP’s Texture Packer and Unpacker. After that, you can download all the main files for this mod. Then, you must extract both Map archives and the Object/Character archive into the texture override folder of the texture packer and unpacker. Run DSR-TPUP.exe, enter the correct game directory, click Repack and you’ll be ready to go.

Cook your enemies with this Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord fire mod
https://www.pcgamer.com/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-fire-mod/
Swords are, I've been told, pretty dangerous. They're sharp, apparently, and who knows was grime the blade is coated in? You could get an infection. But they're also a bit boring. I've seen loads of swords in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. After every battle, I usually have 50 of them in my inventory, just taking up room until I can sell them. Now, if they were all on fire, I'd probably take more notice.
Fire Lord heats up the Early Access sandbox by introducing fire arrows and slightly more mystical fire-enchanted swords, axes and polearms. Bannerlord doesn't have fire damage at the moment, so modder PureDark has implemented their own system where all warriors have an ignition bar that goes up to 100 points, at which point they start to get pretty toasty.

This open world Lego Bionicle fan game looks ridiculously ambitious
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-open-world-lego-bionicle-fan-game-looks-ridiculously-ambitious/
A few minutes into an extended gameplay video for Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui, the narrator casually mentions that this fanmade open world RPG will support up to six players in co-op. It's the kind of impossibly ambitious fan project that sounds like it would never actually get made or released, but Quest for Mata Nui looks quite far along already, with nimble combat, NPCs with quests, and a bunch of different environments. Barring a takedown order from Lego, this one might live long enough to be finished.

GAMING NEWS

Universal Pictures has trademarked a new Jurassic World game, Jurassic World Aftermath
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/universal-pictures-has-trademarked-a-new-jurassic-world-game-jurassic-world-aftermath/
It appears that a new Jurassic World game is currently under development. Universal Pictures has trademarked Jurassic World Aftermath on July 14th. While we don’t have enough information, we do know that Jurassic World Aftermath is indeed a video-game.

Rumor: COD 2020 won’t be titled “Black Ops,” Modern Warfare 3 Remastered in development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rumor-cod-2020-wont-be-titled-black-ops-modern-warfare-3-remastered-in-development/
Back in March, we reported on the latest COD 2020 rumors surrounding it. Now according to TheGamingRevolution, this new Call of Duty game won’t be titled “Black Ops”. However, the game will still take place in Cold War/Vietnam, meaning that it will be related to Black Ops.

Control April 2020 Update released, fixes numerous gameplay issues, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/control-april-2020-update-released-fixes-numerous-gameplay-issues-full-patch-notes/
Remedy has released the April 2020 Update for its supernatural action adventure game, Control. According to the release notes, this patch fixes numerous bugs and glitches. Moreover, it packs various localization fixes.