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The Tuesday news:

 

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Skullgirls hits one million sales on Steam
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/skullgirls-hits-one-million-sales-on-steam/
Lab Zero Games’ Mike Zaimont? revealed that Skullgirls has hit its one million sales goal on Steam. Skullgirls was released on the PC in 2013 and it took Lab Zero Games four years to hit this goal.

 

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold more than 10 million copies
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-has-sold-more-than-10-million-copies/
Bluehole announced today that as of September 1st, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) – the first standalone Battle Royale video game – has sold over 10 million units since its Steam Early Access launch on March 23rd. PUBG also set a new mark for peak concurrent users (e.g. CCU) with over 970,000, highlighted by the strong reception at the PUBG Invitational at gamescom 2017.

>>People have gone nuts for this game!

 

After the sales, let's check the deals that Steam has for us and... it doesn't tells us much. There's no banner with XXX deals as usual (maybe we'll have a surprise later this week?), so I'll refer to the ones shown:

• The Long Journey Home is 25% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/366910/The_Long_Journey_Home/
• The FMV game Late Shift is 30% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/584980/Late_Shift/
• Syberia 3 has a nice 63% sale on it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/464340/Syberia_3/
• Murdered: Soul Suspect is 75% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/233290/Murdered_Soul_Suspect/
• The two Prototype games are on sale, both with a 75% discount. Here's the page of the first one, and here's the page of the second one.

 

SOFTWARE

Sonic Mania’s Denuvo has been cracked in just eight days since launch
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/sonic-mania-has-been-cracked-in-just-eight-days-since-launch/
And we all saw that coming. When SEGA announced that Sonic Mania would be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech, a lot of PC gamers got frustrated, especially since this was not indicated on the game’s Steam store page prior to its release. And while SEGA has not removed this anti-tamper tech from its title, pirates have managed to crack the game.

 

Steam's rules about adult content continue to baffle
http://www.pcgamer.com/steams-rules-about-adult-content-continue-to-baffle/
Valve opened the floodgates to any old rubbish appearing on Steam a long time ago, but the store still occasionally acts like a draconian gatekeeper—specifically when it comes to adult content. Steam’s had a turbulent relationship with pornographic games, and currently doesn’t permit graphic nudity or games that could be considered pornographic onto the store. The problem is that it’s a bit inconsistent.

 

MODS/EMULATORS

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GAMING NEWS

Reaching For Petals Officially Released On Steam
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/reaching-for-petals-officially-released-on-steam/
Last week Blue Entropy Studios released a new trailer for their upcoming Unreal Engine 4-powered adventure Reaching For Petals, now the game has been officially released to the Steam market.

 

Dauntless Closed Beta Test Now Available
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/dauntless-closed-beta-test-now-available/
Danutless, the Monster Hunter inspired action-RPG has just given the public access to their live closed beta test with a purchase of one of their exclusive Founders Pack.

 

Rainbow Six Siege Operation Orchid goes live tomorrow, will add a new map & three operators
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/rainbow-six-siege-operation-orchid-goes-live-tomorrow-will-add-a-new-map-three-operators/
Ubisoft announced today that Operation Blood Orchid, the Year 2 Season 3 add-on content for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, will launch September 5th. This add-on content will introduce a Theme Park map that will be available at no additional cost for all players. Starting September 5th, season pass holders will be able to access three new operators and their signature weapons skins. All other players will be able to unlock the new content starting September 12th using Renown or R6 Credits.

 

Piranha Bytes’ ELEX won’t have any DLCs because they “stink”
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/piranha-bytes-elex-wont-have-any-dlcs-because-they-stink/
In an interview with Gamestar, Björn Pankratz, project director at Piranha Bytes, claimed that ELEX will not have any stinking DLCs. According to Pankratz, this whole post-launch DLC trend does not fit in with Piranha Bytes, which is why it decided to not invest on such a thing.

>>And I agree, for the most part.

 

Unreal Engine 4-powered first-person horror adventure game, Scorn, gets new gameplay trailer
http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/unreal-engine-4-powered-first-person-horror-adventure-game-scorn-gets-new-gameplay-trailer/
Ebb Software has released a brand new trailer for its upcoming first-person horror adventure game, Scorn, showing almost 8 minutes of gameplay footage. Scorn is powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and is set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.