With a bit of luck, it can be the new Founders Edition "tax" from a couple gens ago and cards from third parties, with their own (better?) coolers will be cheaper.

New rumours suggest that it could be Persona 4 Golden and not Persona 5. (Least not yet anyway)

Look forward to Persona 4 Golden on Steam sometime soon https://t.co/RmRgMT6Szp

— Wario64 (@Wario64) June 9, 2020

Interesting move.

Maybe it's easier to port Persona 4 given that it's a PS3 game and it will be a cheaper way to gauge the interest of the series on PC. Or maybe they're giving the PS4 version a year of exclusivity before launching it on another platform. Who knows.

Whatever the case, I think this is the first time a main line persona game is being ported outside of PlayStation! May not be the latest and greatest but it is a sign of what's to come!

IF the rumor is true. Let's not forget that.

True that

Looks like we can stop calling it a rumor, it's all but confirmed.

The news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Sea of Thieves is now the top trending game on Steam
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sea-of-thieves-is-now-the-top-trending-game-on-steam/
It has been a couple of years since the initial release of the multiplayer pirate game, Sea of Thieves. The game is now available on Steam, and it’s already the top trending title.
Sea of Thieves has reached a 43,848 all-time player peak, which is quite impressive for such a title. Also, the game is not cheap. It costs 40 dollars, which is a bit much for a 2018 title. Even so, Steam users are quite pleased with the game, and that is probably why it has received a ‘very positive’ rating.

The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality now includes more than 1,000 games
https://www.pcgamer.com/donate-dollar5-or-more-for-742-games-in-the-bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality/
Hello! Would you like 742 games for $5? That's a rhetorical question because of course you do.
Update 2 (June 9): Just one day after breaking $2 million, Itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has now sailed well past the $3 million mark. The number of games on offer has also grown: A new round of additions has brought the total number of games in the bundle to more than 1,000. There's just under a week left to pick it up.

Summer of Pride 2020 Steam Sale features big deals on queer-positive games
https://www.pcgamer.com/summer-of-pride-2020-steam-sale-features-big-deals-on-queer-positive-games/
The " target="_blank">Summer of Pride 2020 Steam sale is now underway, with discounts of up to 80 percent on queer-positive games including " target="_blank">Outer Wilds (which will launch in the midst of the sale, on June 18), " target="_blank">Gone Home, " target="_blank">Tacoma, and more.
Unsurprisingly, the sale is indie-focused, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.
>> Of course, that's not the only sale at Steam right now:

• Florence is the new daily deal, with a 30% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1102130/Florence/
• Probably because of the recent expansion, Megaquarium is on sale, 50% off during the next 7, almost 8 days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/600480/Megaquarium/
• And there are three new Midweek Madness deals:
  • The Enter x Exit the Gungeon pack with both games is 47% off until Friday (the individual games are 50 and 25% off respectively): https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14087/Enter_x_Exit_the_Gungeon/
  • Europa Universalis IV is 80% off (the DLCs are up to 50% off) during the same period: https://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/Europa_Universalis_IV/
  • And Killing Floor 2 is free to try for 4 days and 67% off until June 25 (when the Summer Sale will should begin): https://store.steampowered.com/app/232090/Killing_Floor_2/

GOG has started a new contest with a special prize: a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition! Learn more over here: https://www.gog.com/news/win_a_rare_geforce_rtx_2080_ti_cyberpunk_2077_edition_graphics_card

There's a new Humble Bundle with Plug in Digital & Dear Villagers, with up to 11 games. The bundle will last 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/plug-in-digital-and-dear-villagers-games

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal (I hope you took my advice and took advantage of the new Star Deal from yesterday) is UNO, 76% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/uno
• And Square Enix has its games on sale, up to 90% off during the next 11 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/square-enix

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Here are some new screenshots from the Quake 2 Retexture and Relight Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-some-new-screenshots-for-the-quake-2-retexture-and-relight-mod/
Modder ‘diolator’ has released some new screenshots from the Quake 2 Retexture and Relight Mod. These screenshots showcase some of the new high quality textures and the new lighting system that this mod will feature.
In case you weren’t aware of, Quake 2 Retexture Project is a project that will feature more than 200 textures. These textures were created from scratch and aim to be aesthetically similar to the original ones. Moreover, these new textures will have PBR (Physically Based Rendering) materials. Additionally, the shaders that have been used in this project support Albedo, Roughness, Specular, Parallax, Normal mapping, though there is currently no support for a “metallness” shader.

GAMING NEWS

Ikumi Nakamura plans to propose a new Okami to Capcom
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ikumi-nakamura-plans-to-propose-a-new-okami-to-capcom/
Ikumi Nakamura has recently given an interview to IGN Japan. According to the interview she is planning to visit Capcom after the pandemic is over, and propose a new Okami game. She also said that the only personal guideline she has is the return of Kamiya-san as a director.

Warframe The Deadlock Protocol is coming to the PC later this week
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warframe-the-deadlock-protocol-is-coming-to-the-pc-later-this-week/
Digital Extremes has announced that the The Deadlock Protocol update for Warframe will release later this week on the PC. The Deadlock Protocol will introduce the Corpus Faction’s dramatic origin story through richly re-crafted environments that integrate iconic new visuals and gameplay elements to reinforce the money-worshipping cult’s rise to power.

Persona 4 Golden is definitely and unquestionably coming to the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/persona-4-golden-is-definitely-and-unquestionably-coming-to-the-pc/
It appears that two Persona games are finally coming to the PC. According to reports from industry insiders, both Persona 3 and Persona 4 Golden are coming to Steam.
Now while we are certain that Persona 4 Golden will be indeed coming to the PC, we are not so sure about Persona 3. Industry insider Sabi was the first one that revealed the existence of Persona 3 and Persona 4 on the PC. However, Sabi has deleted the tweet that mentioned Persona 3.
>> Persona 4 has a page on SteamDB.

Nemesis: Distress is a new first-person multiplayer horror game
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nemesis-distress-is-a-new-first-person-multiplayer-horror-game/
Awaken Realms Digital and Ovid Works have announced a new first-person multiplayer horror game, Nemesis: Distress. In this game, players will play through 40-minute scenarios, trying to fulfill their secret objective and survive.

Rumor: Battlefield 6 will be set in modern-day
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rumor-battlefield-6-will-be-set-in-modern-day/
While Battlefield 6 is not coming out anytime soon, it appears that it will be set in modern-day. This will definitely put a smile on most BF fans’ face, as this is something they’ve wanted since Battlefield 4.

No Man’s Sky will support cross-play between PC, Xbox One and PS4 tomorrow, June 11th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/no-mans-sky-will-support-cross-play-between-pc-xbox-one-and-ps4-tomorrow-june-11th/
Hello Games has announced that No Man’s Sky will add support for cross-play between all platforms on June 11th. As such, PC gamers will be able to play with their PS4 and Xbox One friends. Players will be able to explore, journey, survive, build, and trade together.

The news, the sequel:

Destiny 2: Season of Arrivals has begun, new dungeon goes live today
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-season-of-arrivals-has-begun-new-dungeon-goes-live-today/
The Season of Arrivals has arrived in Destiny 2: A mysterious Pyramid ship that's been gliding through humanity's solar system is now looming above Io, confronting Guardians with new activities, rewards, gear, and questions.

Destiny 2: Beyond Light is coming this September and will let players wield the Darkness
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-beyond-light-announced/
The next stage of Destiny's sprawling multi-year saga kicked off today with Season of Arrivals, which is live now. Beforehand, Bungie gave us a live stream detailing plans for the game spanning the next three years, starting with the Beyond Light expansion on September 22. This will be the first instalment in a three-year trilogy of expansions telling the story of the Guardians climactic fight with the Darkness. Each of these major expansions will add a new destination area to the game.

Bungie plans to remove old planets and raids because Destiny 2 is too bloated
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-plans-to-remove-old-planets-and-raids-because-destiny-2-is-too-bloated/
Alongside three new major expansions, Bungie has also announced plans for something called the Destiny Content Vault. It's essentially a rotational retirement scheme for older content, that will launch alongside Beyond Light on 22 September, which sees "less actively played" destinations and activities cycled out of the live game to make room for both new stuff, and older stuff returning from Destiny 1.

Rainbow Six Siege is going free for the weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-is-going-free-for-the-weekend/
Another Rainbow Six Siege free weekend is on the way: Beginning at 9 am (local time) on June 11 to 4 pm on June 15, curious but unconvinced shooter fans can jump into the action on any platform, with full access to all maps, modes, and 20 "legacy" operators.

Re:Turn - One Way Trip trailer showcases a bizarre 2D horror adventure
https://www.pcgamer.com/return-one-way-trip-trailer-showcases-a-bizarre-2d-horror-adventure/
First-person horror games like Amnesia and Outlast are great, but less obviously-immersive styles of games can do very interesting things with the genre too. The top-down Darkwood is fantastically freaky, the sidescrolling platformer The Final Station has a wonderfully creepy ambiance, and the retro point-and-click adventure The Last Door is a genuinely unsettling tale of Victorian-era evil.
Re:Turn - One Way Trip, unwieldy title aside, looks like it might pull off something similar. A 2D horror-adventure rendered in 16-bit style, it tells the tale of five college friends who embark on a camping trip to celebrate graduation. But things take a dark turn when one of them awakens in the middle of the night to find that everyone else has disappeared: Lured deeper into the woods, she stumbles across an abandoned train, and falls into a bizarre journey between the past and the present, filled with dark mysteries and danger.

Resident Evil games on Steam no longer have ultra-long, randomly capitalized titles
https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-games-on-steam-no-longer-have-ultra-long-randomly-capitalized-titles/
Resident Evil is called Biohazard in Japan, which used to be a bit of trivia that fans of the series could enjoy knowing. And then a few years ago it became hard not to know, because nearly every Resident Evil game on Steam included both the English and Japanese titles—with wildly inconsistent use of lowercase and capitalized letters to boot.
(...)
As of yesterday, our library organization nightmare is over. As noticed by Reddit poster Comboxer, the titles all changed this week, and now include only the localized English game names. The playful use of caps lock has also been removed.

Chivalry 2 is getting crossplay with current and next-gen consoles
https://www.pcgamer.com/chivalry-2-is-getting-crossplay-with-current-and-next-gen-consoles/
Chivalry 2 is getting crossplay with both the current and incoming generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, according to the brief appearance of an announcement trailer.
In a now-deleted trailer on the official Deep Silver channel, noticed by Twinfinite, it was announced that not only is the multiplayer medieval slash-em-up now coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 as well as PC, it will feature full crossplay between all platforms.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker's latest trailer shows how zero-g space salvaging can go very, very wrong
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardspace-shipbreakers-latest-trailer-shows-how-zero-g-space-salvaging-can-go-very-very-wrong/
Hardspace: Shipbreaker's latest trailer shows how life as a spaceship salvager isn't quite as glamorous as it may sound.
The trailer shows all the exploding, zero-g-tumbling, and minor head trauma that comes with ripping apart abandoned spaceships. It reminds me of the movie Gravity, except it's entirely your own fault when you're ejected into the black vastness of space.

Medic: Pacific Corpsman will put you in the boots of a World War 2 medic
https://www.pcgamer.com/medic-pacific-corpsman-will-put-you-in-the-boots-of-a-world-war-2-medic/
Hypnotic Ants, PlayWay S.A. and Games Operators have announced Medic: Pacific Corpsman, a World War 2-based simulator where you work as an army medic on the front lines.

My Hero One's Justice 2 adds the English dub cast in its latest update
https://www.pcgamer.com/my-hero-ones-justice-2-adds-the-english-dub-cast-in-its-latest-update/
For those who are objectively wrong and prefer dubs to subs, My Hero One's Justice 2 has finally added in the dub's voice actors in its latest update.
Shown off by Katsuki Bakugou's voice actor, Clifford Chapin, and announced in the latest update's patch notes (via Gematsu) , it appears as if the entire roster's English cast have been included. Whether they are newly-recorded lines for the game, or simply archival audio from the anime itself, hasn't been confirmed.

Hunt: Showdown overhauls damage systems and adds new toys in its 1.4 update
https://www.pcgamer.com/hunt-showdown-overhauls-damage-systems-and-adds-new-toys-in-its-14-update/
Creepy battle royale Hunt: Showdown's latest update has completely revamped the game's damage over time systems, while also adding new toys to take on the horrific monsters of the Bayou with.

Here are three bits of news for you:

AMD bundles Horizon Zero Dawn with select AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-bundles-horizon-zero-dawn-with-select-amd-ryzen-3000-cpus/

Notice that it's for the "older" 3000 series, not the 3000XT. Also, you may wonder why they do it for these procs and not wait and do it for the 4000 series. Well, the reason is likely because the game will launch this summer while the new CPUs...

AMD’s Next-Gen Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ Desktop CPUs With Zen 3 & Radeon RX ‘Big Navi’ Graphics Cards With RDNA 2 Coming In October 2020
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-4000-zen-3-vermeer-cpu-and-radeon-rx-big-navi-rdna-2-gpu-october-launch/

This news come from China, so take it with a pinch of salt. Like the next one, that looks more and more likely by the day:

NVIDIA Ampere Cooling Solution Heatsink Pictured, Rumors of Airflow Magic Quashed
https://www.techpowerup.com/268332/nvidia-ampere-cooling-solution-heatsink-pictured-rumors-of-airflow-magic-quashed

Although still a blurry-cam pic, this new picture of three GeForce RTX 3080 "Ampere" graphics card reference heatsinks on a factory-floor reveals exactly how the cooling solution works. The main heat-dissipation component appears to be a vapor chamber base, above which there are four flattened copper heat pipes, which hold the cooler's four aluminium fin arrays together. The first array is directly above the CPU/memory/VRM area, and consists of a dense stack of aluminium fins that make up a cavity for the fan on the obverse side of the graphics card. This fan vents air onto the first heatsink element, and some of its air is guided by the heatsink to two trapezium shaped aluminium fin-stacks that pull heat from the flattened heat pipes, and get airflow from the obverse fan.
The heat pipes make their way to the card's second dense aluminium fin-stack. This fin-stack is as thick as the card itself, as there's no PCB here. This fin-stack is ventilated by the card's second fan, located on the reverse side, which pulls air through this fin-stack and vents upward.