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Monday news!

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Grand Theft Auto V
3. Event Pass: Sanhok
4. FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
5. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
6. Divinity: Original Sin 2
7. Jurassic World Evolution
8. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
9. The Forest
10. ARK: Survival Evolved

 

At GOG, we start the week with two deals:

• The daily deal is Raiden IV: OverKill, 80% off: https://www.gog.com/game/raiden_iv_overkill
• The weekly sale is named Trying out new things, so you can guess what kind of games ir features, with discounts of up to 90%: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180709_weekly_sale

 

At Fanatical, there are another two deals:

• Fanatical is celebrating the SEGA week, with discounts of up to 90%: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/sega
• As part of that sale, Total War: WARHAMMER is the Star Deal, 77% off for the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/total-war-warhammer

 

SOFTWARE

Here are the top 100 games with the highest amount of players on Steam right now
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-top-100-games-with-the-highest-amount-of-players-on-steam-right-now/
It appears that Valve has leaked the total number of players for almost every game that is currently available on Steam right now. A recently discovered hole in Valve’s API allowed gamers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for Steam games that featured Achievements.
As ArsTechnica pointed out, the following table was created thanks to the accuracy of Steam’s Achievement percentages.

 

Tencent plans to take its Steam-like WeGame store global
https://www.pcgamer.com/tencent-plans-to-take-its-steam-like-wegame-store-global/
When Chinese gaming giant Tencent rebranded its digital store as 'WeGame' last year, Andy asked: could a showdown with Steam be in the offing? Tencent is now set to launch an international variation of WeGame, which could make that scenario a reality.
As reported by the South China Morning Post (via gamesindustry.biz), an international version of the store and social platform—currently exclusive to China—will launch in Hong Kong. This instalment is designed to reach players outside of China, and to promote Chinese games overseas.

 

MODS/EMULATORS

Resistance 2, God of War Ascension and LittleBigPlanet 3 running on the PC thanks to RPCS3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/resistance-2-god-of-war-ascension-and-littlebigplanet-3-running-on-the-pc-thanks-to-rpcs3/
A couple of days ago, we informed you about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled running with 60fps on the best Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3. YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared some other videos, showing Resistance 2, God of War Ascension and LittleBigPlanet 3 running on it.
Contrary to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, however, the aforementioned Playstation 3 exclusive titles do not run smoothly. Still, this latest version of RPCS3 can run these games better than before.

 

New The Witcher 3 mod enables 60fps hair physics (movement/bouncing)
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-the-witcher-3-mod-enables-60fps-hair-physics-movement-bouncing/
Modder ‘BlurredNotions’ has released a new mod for The Witcher 3 that fixes the Hair Physics when playing at 60fps. According to its description, this mod “fixes” a flaw in the game which makes Geralt’s hair not animate properly when playing at any framerate higher than 30fps. This mod supports all hairstyles (including DLC), meaning that those that do not use Hairworks can also benefit from it. It’s not perfect, as the modder suggests, but about as accurate an approximation of vanilla 30fps hair bounce at 60fps as you’re gonna get as of now.

>>Get it from Nexus Mods.

 

New gorgeous screenshots released for The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project 5.1
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-gorgeous-screenshots-released-for-the-witcher-3-hd-reworked-project-5-1/
Modder ‘HalkHoganPL’ has released a new set of comparison screenshots between the latest version of his amazing The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project and the vanilla game. These screenshots showcase some of the new textures that HalkHoganPL has included in the upcoming version of his mod and they look great.
In case you weren’t aware of, The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project aims to overhaul CD Projekt RED’s title, featuring high quality meshes with a lot of details (most of them are created from scratch and good optimalization is preserved), very high quality detailed textures with great sharpness and performance, without any unnecessary VRAM losses, very high quality accurate normal maps and specially customized materials for all reworked stuff.

 

Silent Hill Homecoming mod enables 60fps, adds controllable FOV, patches hard-coded 720p resolution
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/silent-hill-homecoming-mod-enables-60fps-adds-controllable-fov-patches-hard-coded-720p-resolution/
Steam006 has released a must-have unofficial patch for Silent Hill Homecoming. This patch/mod finally enables 60fps, adds a controllable Field of View, patches hard-coded 720p resolution values and allows for up to 8X multisampling (MSAA).
Furthermore, this unofficial patch allows the game to use 4GB of RAM, patches the resolution of the map and items, adds options to disable DirectX fog, a wireframe mode, wallhack and adds controllable map and item size.

>>The link to the mod and the instructions to install it are on the article.

 

RTCW Venom Mod for Return To Castle Wolfenstein features HD textures and new shaders, improves AI
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rtcw-venom-mod-for-return-to-castle-wolfenstein-features-hd-textures-and-new-shaders-improves-ai/
Remember Gray Matter’s Return To Castle Wolfenstein that came out in 2001? Modder ‘_HellBaron_’ has released a new version of his graphics overhaul mod, RTCW Venom Mod, that aims to improve the game’s visuals and AI.
The Venom Mod is described as a general improvement of original Rtcw game, with a new challenging and aggressive AI and some features of the id tech 3 engine, while also keeping the original gameplay intact.
The mod comes with updated textures for levels, weapons and enemies, HD textures combined with new shaders, restores assets and effects that were not used, and HD menu, console, fonts, flames, blood and crosshairs.

>>Great. Now that I've finished it, they launch this new mod... *sigh* Anyway, if you want to give it a go, you can download it from ModDB.

 

Doom 2 map Diabolus Ex takes Deus Ex: Human Revolution to the old school
https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-2-map-diablolus-ex-takes-deus-ex-human-revolution-to-the-old-school/
The nearly 25-year-old Doom 2 has taken to draining the youth from newer games to fuel its apparent immortality. Thanks to the open-source GZDoom engine's continual evolution, classic Doom mods get a little more impressive with every passing year, and Diabolus Ex by mapper Arvell is a fine little example of that.
What you're getting here is a single short, sweet but highly explorable level that apes the style of Eidos's Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Perhaps a little on the easy side, but this particular trip to corporate hell is more about the sights and sounds (including a great synth soundtrack by El-Metallico) than the challenge.

 

Dark Souls Age of Fire mod pits playable Gwyn against its toughest boss combo
https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-age-of-fire-mod-pits-playable-gwyn-against-its-toughest-boss-combo/
Datehacks' long-term work-in-progress Age of Fire Dark Souls mod lets you play as your favorite bosses. Last week, it showcased Executioner Smough in the game's Undead Burg area. Now, it's sent Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, to Anor Londo.
Which means Gwyn can now battle Dark Souls' toughest boss combo—the aforementioned lightning hammer-wielding garroter, and his companion Dragonslayer Ornstein. It's a pretty marvellous showdown that features from 15.15 below.

>>Check out the subreddit thread.

 

GAMING NEWS

New Survarium screenshots showcase new graphics renderer and lighting system
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-survarium-screenshots-showcase-new-graphics-renderer-and-lighting-system/
Vostok Games has released some new screenshots, showcasing the new graphics renderer and lighting system that are coming soon to Survarium. Survarium is powered by the new proprietary Vostok Engine and focuses on the aftermath of a massive ecological catastrophe on Earth, the reasons behind which are only vaguely known.

 

New screenshots for JRPG Edge Of Eternity, preliminary PC system requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-screenshots-for-jrpg-edge-of-eternity-preliminary-pc-system-requirements/
Midgar Studio has released some new screenshots for its upcoming JRPG, Edge of Eternity. In addition, the team launched the game’s official Steam store page, revealing its preliminary PC system requirements.

 

First gameplay teaser for Star Wars: Battlefront 3-inspired game, Galaxy in Turmoil
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/first-gameplay-teaser-for-star-wars-battlefront-3-inspired-game-galaxy-in-turmoil/
Frontwire Studios has released a gameplay teaser video for its upcoming Battlefront 3-inspired game, Galaxy in Turmoil. Galaxy in Turmoil. The game is currently in a pre-alpha phase and while it missed its 2017 release date, it has not been cancelled.

 

Orange Cast is an indie third-person action adventure RPG inspired by the Mass Effect series
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/orange-cast-is-an-indie-third-person-action-adventure-rpg-inspired-by-the-mass-effect-series/
Team Rezy is currently working on a new action adventure RPG that is inspired by the Mass Effect series, called Orange Cast. This little gem looks cool – though still rough around the edges – and its development team has released a new gameplay trailer that you can watch below.

 

Monster Hunter World PC release date and PC system requirements to be revealed this Monday
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/monster-hunter-world-pc-release-date-and-pc-system-requirements-to-be-revealed-this-monday/
Capcom has announced that it will reveal the PC release date and the official PC system requirements for Monster Hunter World this Monday. The publisher will also reveal the distribution platforms, though we can already guess that the game will come on both Steam and the Windows Store.

 

Darksiders 3 releases on November 27th according to its official Microsoft Windows Store page
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/darksiders-3-releases-on-november-27th-according-to-its-official-microsoft-windows-store-page/
According to its official Windows Store page, Darksiders 3 will come out on November 27th, THQ Nordic has not announced anything yet, however this does not appear to be a placeholder. We went ahead and captured a screenshot of the store page in case Microsoft updates it.

>>I'm having a hard time believing this, with the game being absent from E3. But well, maybe the game is a turd and they want to show the least possible of it before release... (hopefully it's just false).

 

NASCAR Heat 3 officially releases on September 7th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nascar-heat-3-officially-releases-on-september-7th/
704Games has announced that NASCAR Heat 3 will be released on September 7th on the PC. NASCAR Heat 3 is the sequel to 2017’s NASCAR Heat 2, with Monster Games returning as developer and in order to celebrate this announcement, 704Games has also released a debut trailer.

 

Digital Extremes reveals open-world Warframe expansion Fortuna and new co-op experience Codename: Railjack
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/digital-extremes-reveals-open-world-warframe-expansion-fortuna-and-new-co-op-experience-codename-railjack/
At TennoCon 2018, its third annual Warframe convention, Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes unveiled the follow-up to 2017’s epic update Plains of Eidolon with the sweeping open-world Venus expansion Fortuna, and doubled down with a dynamic new future update that launches players seamlessly into space for tactical ship-to-ship battles.

 

TOKYO GHOUL:re CALL to EXIST announced for the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tokyo-ghoulre-call-to-exist-announced-for-the-pc/
Bandai Namco has announced the first video game based off the popular dark fantasy manga TOKYO GHOUL:re, TOKYO GHOUL:re CALL to EXIST. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has released the game’s debut trailer that you can watch below.