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Friday news!

 

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

The Witcher 3 PC vs PS4 vs Xbox One sale percentages revealed for 2015, 2016 and 2017
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-witcher-3-pc-vs-ps4-vs-xbox-one-sale-percentages-revealed-for-2015-2016-and-2017/
During its fiscal year 2017 financial presentation, CD Projekt RED’s Piotr Nielubowicz, revealed the sale percentages for The Witcher 3 per platform in the past three years. According to the graph, the PC version has surpassed each console version in 2016 and 2017.

>>PC Sales = 31% in 2015; 43% in 2016; 50% in 2017.

 

GDC's 'realistic' talk about game sales on Steam paints a grim picture
https://www.pcgamer.com/gdcs-realistic-talk-about-game-sales-on-steam-paints-a-grim-picture/
"So here's the thing. In February, around 850 games launched on Steam, which is about 40 a day," said Mike Rose, the indie publisher behind downhill biking game Descenders. "About 82 percent of those didn't even make minimum wage ... by this I mean, the money that came out of 82 percent of the games that came out on Steam would not support a singular person on American minimum wage, which I had to Google."

>>Because of too many games to choose from or because there's too many garbage?

 

The top 100 games on Steam made 50% of the total money in 2017, according to SteamSpy
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-100-games-on-steam-made-50-of-the-total-money-in-2017-according-to-steamspy/
During a panel at GDC about the latest data scraped from Steam’s public user profiles by SteamSpy, owner and operator Sergey Galyonkin stated that around 50% of the total revenue earned on Steam was made by the top 100 games available on Valve’s popular digital marketplace.
Those 100 games made up 0.5% of all titles available on Steam in 2017, which was a landmark year in what is sure to be a continuing trend for the amount of games released on the service. 7,696 games were released on Steam in 2017, and, holy shit, that’s 39% of the over 21,000 games available on the service today.

 

F1 2015 is free on the Humble Store
https://www.pcgamer.com/f1-2015-is-free-on-the-humble-store/
The Humble Store has kicked off weekend sales on Bethesda and Codemasters games, and to attract your interest (and hopefully your attention) it's giving away the Codies racing sim F1 2015 for the next two days.
You might say that F1 2015 is "weird," and in fact we did say that in our review. We called it "the best representation of F1 racing to date," but hit it with a middling 61/100 score because of a "lack of content, unstable multiplayer suite, and unchanged foundations." It's been patched and updated a number of times since then, which has presumably improved the experience, and also it's free. Hard to go wrong at that price.

 

Edith Finch, Oxenfree, Gorogoa going cheap in GOG's Greatest Stories sale
https://www.pcgamer.com/edith-finch-oxenfree-gorogoa-going-cheap-in-gogs-greatest-stories-sale/
This weekend George Stobart, Geralt of Rivia and Edith Finch join forces in (unfortunately not the best night out ever conceived) GOG's Greatest Stories sale. Running now through March 26 at 1pm PST/9pm BST, those interested can save up to 85 percent on story-heavy games—not least Broken Sword (£0.99/$1.19), The Witcher 3 (£12.49/$16.44) and What Remains of Edith Finch (£8.99/$11.82).

>>You'll find them over here.

 

SOFTWARE

Twitch Prime lets Final Fantasy 15 players claim purple chocobo and 10,000 gil
https://www.pcgamer.com/twitch-prime-lets-final-fantasy-15-players-claim-free-purple-chocobo-and-10000-gil/
Twitch has spent the last several months incentivising its premium Prime service by offering its members free stuff. Monthly games, Fortnite cosmetics and now Final Fantasy 15 goodies can be claimed—the latter of which includes a new ride and some in-game cash.

 

PUBG viewers can win free KFC chicken dinners this weekend on Twitch
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-viewers-can-win-free-kfc-chicken-dinners-this-weekend-on-twitch/
This weekend, KFC is teaming with Twitch and several PUBG streamers to give viewers a chance to win free chicken dinners by using a 'KFC bucket emote' in chat. I'll let the press release I received do the heavy work:

>>The article will be updated with more details about the gift cards... or if it will be available outside the US (which I doubt).

 

MODS/EMULATORS

The Playstation version of Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown finds its way to the PC thanks to this mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-playstation-version-of-duke-nukem-total-meltdown-find-its-way-to-the-pc-thanks-to-this-mod/
Back in 1997, GT Interactive released a special version of Duke Nukem 3D in the original Playstation, called Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown. While this version suffered from major performance issues, it also came with some new levels and re-designed sprites. And modder ‘Fox_666’ has just released a total conversion mod for Duke Nukem 3D that brings all the content of the Total Meltdown PSX version to it.

>>The mod is available from ModDB.

 

Dark Souls 'Bonewheels Everywhere' mod is as horrifying as it sounds
https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-bonewheels-everywhere-mod-is-as-horrifying-as-it-sounds/
Against my ever-growing backlog, I probably shouldn't play Dark Souls Remastered.
Inadvertent rant aside, PC mods have elevated the original game to the point where I'm unsure how, or indeed if, the remaster can better what we already have. Uninspired by the latest batch of PS4 screens (cheers, WccfTech), I checked Nexus Mods on the off-chance new visual overhaul mods had popped up since I last checked.
I instead found horkrux's Bonewheels Everywhere. As the name suggests, this mod adds one of the game's most irritating, volatile and health-devouring-if-you-misjudge-their-movement-patterns enemies to all areas of Lordran.

 

GAMING NEWS

Metro Exodus – NVIDIA RTX Real-Time Raytracing GDC 2018 Tech Demo Video
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/metro-exodus-nvidia-rtx-real-time-raytracing-gdc-2018-tech-demo-video/
4A Games has released its GDC 2018 tech demo video for Metro: Exodus, showcasing the newly implemented NVIDIA RTX real-time raytracing effects. 4A Games has utilized true raytracing to render both Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting in full real-time, in a practical in-game scenario, however the YouTube compression in this particular video is really awful and makes it hard to notice the improvements.

 

New Final Fantasy XV update adds support for AMD Phenom II processors, fixes performance degradation
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-final-fantasy-xv-update-adds-support-for-amd-phenom-ii-processors-fixes-performance-degradation/
Square Enix has released a brand new update for Final Fantasy XV. According to the release notes, this patch adds support for AMD Phenom II processors and fixes some bug issues with NVIDIA’s Ansel tech. Furthermore, this patch also – partially – fixes the performance degradation issues we’ve already reported.

 

Behaviour Interactive details new roadmap of updates for Dead by Daylight
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/behaviour-interactive-details-new-roadmap-of-updates-for-dead-by-daylight/
Behaviour Interactive has shared its roadmap for all the new content updates that will be coming to Dead by Daylight. Since launch, the development team brought in 8 new survivors, 8 new killers, and 11 new maps set in 8 new locations. Moreover, it added a bunch of features players had been asking for like “survive with friends” modes, seasonal events, the shrine of secrets and a lot of new languages.

 

Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition announced, will be free to all PC owners of the original
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/space-hulk-deathwing-enhanced-edition-announced-will-be-free-to-all-pc-owners-of-the-original/
Focus Home Interactive has announced that an Enhanced Edition of Space Hulk: Deathwing will be released on May 22nd and will be free to all PC owners of the original game. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has also released a new trailer that you can view below.

 

Here are 45 minutes of gameplay footage from the alpha version of The Bard’s Tale IV
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-45-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-the-alpha-version-of-the-bards-tale-iv/
inXile Entertainment has released an alpha version of its upcoming classic fantasy RPG, The Bard’s Tale IV, to its Kickstarter backers and YouTube’s ‘Retcon Raider’ has shared a video showing 45 minutes of gameplay footage from it. In addition, inXile has announced that this new Bard’s Tale game will be called The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep.