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A new Monday, a new round of news:

 

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Warhammer: Vermintide 2
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Far Cry 5
5. Assassin's Creed Origins
6. Far Cry 5
7. Assassin's Creed Origins
8. Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
9. FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
10. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

 

The XCOM 2 Collection, which includes the game and all the DLCs, including War of the Chosen, is 70% off at Fanatical: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/xcom-2-collection

 

And at GOG, we have the new daily and weekly sales:

• The daily deal involves the game Tempest and its DLCs: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180326_daily_deal_tempest
• The weekly sale, dubbed Long Time no See, included games that haven't been on sale at the store for a while. Some of its game are The Long Dark, Door Kickers, Pizza Tycoon 1 & 2 and more up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180326_weekly_sale

 

SOFTWARE

The Witness and Wasteland 2 added to Origin Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witness-and-wasteland-2-added-to-origin-access-subscription-service/
EA opened up its Origin Access subscription service to other publishers earlier this month by ushering Batman through its doors, and now the next round of games has arrived. The Witness, Wasteland 2, Out of the Park Baseball 19 and Lost Castle have been added to the service, which lets you play a catalogue of games for $5/£4 a month—it's like a Netflix for gaming, albeit with a fairly limited library.

 

MODS/EMULATORS

RPCS3, the best Playstation 3 emulator, received huge rendering improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rpcs3-the-best-playstation-3-emulator-receives-huge-rendering-improvements/
The team behind the best Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3, has announced some new and huge rendering improvements that it has implemented to its emulator. As the development team noted, kd-11 has re-written the Texture Instructions, allowing texture inputs to use the srgb colorspace (which basically fixed Bloom and Shadows in all Unreal Engine 3 titles).

 

Mega Man Maker 1.3 is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mega-man-maker-1-3-is-now-available-for-download/
WreckingPrograms has released a brand new version of Mega Man Maker. As its title suggests, Mega Man Maker let’s you create your own Mega Man levels, and is available for free to all PC gamers.

>>If you want it, go to its official website.

 

4K highly detailed and realistic terrain/landscape textures released for Skyrim
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/4k-highly-detailed-and-realistic-terrain-landscape-textures-released-for-skyrim/
Modder ‘MystiriousDawn Pfuscher’ some really detailed and realistic terrain/landscape textures for Skyrim Special Edition. As its title suggets, HD Ground Textures replaces the vanilla super blurry textures with crisp realistic ones.

>>Available from Nexus Mods.

 

GAMING NEWS

New Kingdom Come: Deliverance patch adds support for NVIDIA Ansel and Shadowplay
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-kingdom-come-deliverance-patch-adds-support-for-nvidia-ansel-and-shadowplay/
Warhorse Studios has released a brand new patch for Kingdom Come: Deliverance that adds support for NVIDIA Ansel and Shadowplay. In addition, this patch fixes some random encounters bugs.

 

God Eater 3 has been confirmed for the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/god-eater-3-has-been-confirmed-for-the-pc/
During the livestream for God Eater’s eighth anniversary, Bandai Namco officially confirmed that God Eater 3 will be coming to the PC. The publisher has also released a new trailer, which confirms the PC version, that you can view below.

 

Electronic Arts may be working on a new open-world Star Wars game
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-may-be-working-on-a-new-open-world-star-wars-game/
It appears that Electronic Arts may be working on a new open-world Star Wars game. According to a job listing on EA’s site, the big publisher is looking for a Lead Online Engineer who will lead a team to deliver online features for a Star Wars Open World project.

 

Steins;Gate 0 is coming to the PC on May 8th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/steinsgate-0-is-coming-to-the-pc-on-may-8th/
During its GDC 2018 presentation, Spike Chunsoft announced that Steins;Gate 0 will be coming to the PC. According to the publisher, this sequel to the award-winning time travel science fiction interactive visual novel will hit Steam on May 8th.

 

Ghost of a Tale receives its biggest update, resolves the vast majority of bugs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ghost-of-a-tale-receives-its-biggest-update-resolves-the-vast-majority-of-bugs/
SeithCG has released the biggest update for Ghost of a Tale. According to the release notes, this patch enables the ambient sounds in the catacombs, harbor, great hall and shore, a bug that forced the camera to be too close to Tilo after reloading a save, and improves sounds during dialogs.

 

New Gundam Breaker is coming to the PC on June 22nd
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-gundam-breaker-is-coming-to-the-pc-on-june-22nd/
Back in February, we informed you about the possibility of the new Gundam Breaker game coming to the PC. And it appears that we were right. Bandai Namco’s official Twitter account has revealed that the game will be coming to the PC on June 22nd.

 

Here are the first WIP screenshots for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ new island
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-the-first-wip-screenshots-for-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-new-island/
NVIDIA and Bluehole have revealed the first WIP screenshots for the new island that will be coming to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This map will be 4x4km, meaning that it will be a much smaller map and should give players all a much more intense and faster paced Battle Royale experience.

 

New trailer for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire showcases its key features
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-trailer-for-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire-showcases-its-key-features/
Obsidian Entertainment, in partnership with Versus Evil, today revealed their new ‘features’ trailer for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. In this trailer, we get a sneak peek of the new adventure that awaits us in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, sequel to the award-winning, party-based RPG Pillars of Eternity.