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SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Shovel Knight has sold two million copies, most sales coming from the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/shovel-knight-has-sold-two-million-copies-most-sales-coming-from-the-pc/
Yacht Club Games has announced that Shovel Knight has sold two million copies worldwide on all platforms. According to the team, it took 18 months in order to hit the 1 million milestone and 26 months in order to surpass the 2 million sales.

>>Green098 has made a thread about it, focusing mostly on the Switch sales.

 

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has sold one million copies worldwide
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warhammer-vermintide-2-has-sold-one-million-copies-worldwide/
Fatshark today announced that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has surpassed one million units sold within five weeks after being released on PC.
Martin Wahlund, Fatshark’s CEO, said:
“We are genuinely humbled by the reception of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 from gamers all over the world. We reached half a million units within the first week, and one million within five weeks, which is far quicker than we ever expected.”

 

Let's check the daily deals of our favourite stores:

• At GOG, it's the game Tharsis, 75% off: https://www.gog.com/game/tharsis
• On Steam, the deal involves Galactic Civilizations III, 66% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/226860/Galactic_Civilizations_III/

 

SOFTWARE

Unity Engine ADAM: Episode 2 benchmark available for download, assets from Episode 2 & 3 also available
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unity-engine-adam-episode-2-benchmark-available-for-download-assets-from-episode-2-3-also-available/
Last year Neill Blomkamp and OATS Studios debuted ADAM: Episode 2 and ADAM: Episode 3, two beautiful short-films created and rendered in real-time in Unity. These short films were incredible and showcased the capabilities of the Unity Engine, and we are happy to inform you that ADAM: Episode 2 is available right now as a downloadable executable.
This basically means that everyone can download and run the film in real-time, pause it at any point, move the camera around and examine the scenes from any angle. Furthermore, assets from these two episodes are now available on the Unity Asset Store so that all Unity creators can use them in their work.

 

MODS/EMULATORS

Here are console-exclusives Lollipop Chainsaw and Shadows of the Damned running on RPCS3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-console-exclusives-lollipop-chainsaw-and-shadows-of-the-damned-running-on-rpcs3/
Lollipop Chainsaw and Shadows of the Damned are two games that released exclusively on old-gen consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360). And while some of you may not be interested in them, some others will soon be able to play them on the PC thanks to the best Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3.

 

Skyrim Landscape Overhaul HD replaces all landscape textures with new highly detailed 2K textures
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/skyrim-landscape-overhaul-hd-replaces-all-landscape-textures-with-new-highly-detailed-2k-textures/
Modder ‘luxor8071’ released a new texture pack for the Special Edition of Skyrim. According to its description, the Landscape Overhaul HD replaces all landscape textures with new highly detailed 2K textures.

>>It's available from Nexus Mods. And the article also mentions another mods from the same author.

 

Fallout 4 Sim Settlements mod add-on introduces disaster scenarios
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-sim-settlements-mod-add-on-introduces-disaster-scenarios/
Kinggath's Sim Settlements mod changed the way I play Fallout 4 by simplifying its colony system. Mr Jose Cuervo's Sim Settlements City Plan Disaster Pack add-on mixes things up by introducing catastrophe scenarios.

>>This mod is also available from Nexus Mods.

 

This GTA 5 Kratos mod brings God of War to PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-gta-5-kratos-mod-brings-god-of-war-to-pc/
Complete with his iconic Blades of Chaos, Lê Tuấn Khải's Kratos—God of War III Grand Theft Auto 5 mod lets the Ghost of Sparta pull planes from the sky, smash police vans to bits, and make a general nuisance of himself in San Andreas.

 

GAMING NEWS

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands’ Splinter Cell Mission features a lovely Metal Gear Solid easter egg
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-splinter-cell-mission-features-a-lovely-metal-gear-easter-egg/
Ubisoft has released a special Splinter Cell mission for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands which has a really lovely easter egg for the Metal Gear Solid series. And while we usually don’t share such stories, this is one that somehow touched us. After ‘acquiring’ the top-secret Intel from the rogue CIA agent, Sam tells Grim that there was another guy who could infiltrate bases and wore a bandana to which Grim responds by saying that he retired.

>>UltimateGamer1982 has made a thread about it.

 

Dynasty Warriors 9 Patch 1.05 is now available, fixes various bugs, does not improve performance
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dynasty-warriors-9-patch-1-05-is-now-available-fixes-various-bugs-does-not-improve-performance/
KOEI Tecmo has released a brand new update for Dynasty Warriors 9. This patch fixes a number of bugs and issues, enables Steam Trading, and adds support for displaying Japanese and Chinese. Unfortunately, though, this update does not pack any performance optimizations, meaning that the game performs as horribly as it did at launch.

 

Sea of Thieves update 1.03 improves aim down sights sensitivity and mouse binds
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sea-of-thieves-update-1-03-improves-aim-down-sights-sensitivity-and-mouse-binds/
Rare has released a new patch for Sea of Thieves. This patch, weighting around 1.2GB, increases the default mouse sensitivity to allow for more efficient aiming and adds mouse scroll up and down to the list of controls players can use to rebind actions to.

 

Hunt: Showdown performance patch is now available, features CPU and memory optimizations
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hunt-showdown-performance-patch-is-now-available-features-cpu-and-memory-optimizations/
Crytek has released the promised performance update for the Early Access version of Hunt: Showdown. According to the release notes, this update addresses most of the severe performance issues that have been reported, with a specific focus on stalling and stuttering as well as optimizing heavy CPU and RAM usage.

 

SoulCalibur VI – Siegfried joins the roster
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/soulcalibur-vi-siegfried-joins-the-roster/
Bandai Namco has announced that Siegfried will be joining SoulCalibur VI’s roster. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has also released a new trailer that you can find below.

 

Gun Rage is an old-school, fast-paced, side-scrolling, run and gun 16-bit game that releases this Summer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/gun-rage-is-an-old-school-fast-paced-side-scrolling-run-and-gun-16-bit-game-that-releases-this-summer/
Denis Galewski has informed us about his indie game that has been in development for three years, Gun Rage. Gun Rage is an old-school, fast-paced, side-scrolling, run and gun with 16-bit era graphics, heavily inspired by such classic series as Contra and Metal Slug, and pays homage to the greatest games of the genre.