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There aren't many news today, so here's all of them in one single post:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

The Humble Store is having a Fallout sale
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-humble-store-is-having-a-fallout-sale/
Fallout 76 is now just a month away, and if you're not sure what all the hubbub is about (or maybe you just missed some bits along the way), the Humble Store's "Bethesda Bombs Drop Sale" is here to hook you up.
The sale includes all things Fallout, from the original post-nuclear role playing game ($5) to Fallout 4 ($15), its DLCs, and various Workshop expansions. New Vegas is in there ($5, or $13 for the Ultimate Edition) and so is the unfairly maligned Fallout Tactics ($5), the tactical combat game that's actually quite good.

Steam has a new daily deal and two Midweek Madness deals:

• The daily deal is MOTHERGUNSHIP, 35% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/574090/MOTHERGUNSHIP/
• The first Midweek Madness deal is (Portal) Bridge Constructor, 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/Bridge-Constructor/
• The other deal is a publisher sale featuring Codemasters, with up to 90% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/codemasters

And at Fanatical, there are four new deals:

• The Star Deal is Book of Demons, 45% off for the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/book-of-demons
• The game My Time At Portia is 33% off for the next 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/my-time-at-portia
• The LEGO DC Super-Villains game is 25% off for the next 5 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/lego-dc-supervillains
• There's an Origins Bundle for the next 16 days with two tiers, one with 3 games and the other one with 12: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/origins-bundle

SOFTWARE

The Discord game store is now open
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-discord-game-store-is-now-open/
The Discord game store that was opened to a bunch of Canadians back in August is now available to everyone, as the global beta of the store and Nitro subscription service got underway today. The initial lineup of games available for purchase is a small, curated selection of titles including Frostpunk, Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-Stered, Subnautica, and Pillars of Eternity 2, plus a handful of "First on Discord" games that aren't available on other platforms.

Remedy reveals early performance overhead for real-time ray tracing effects in Northlight Engine
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/remedy-reveals-early-performance-overhead-for-real-time-ray-tracing-effects-in-northlight-engine/
Remedy, one of the companies that will implement real-time ray tracing effects in its upcoming title, Control, has revealed the performance overhead for the RTX effects in its Northlight Engine. According to the team, RTX effects require an additional of 9.2ms per frame.
Unfortunately Remedy did not reveal any framerate numbers, though it did reveal the additional computational power that is needed for specific effects like Global Illumination, reflections and de-noising.
As Golem reported, contact and sun shadows – calculated with two beams per pixel and with also including noise rejection – require 2.3ms per frame and the reflections require 4.4 ms per frame. As for the Global denoising lighting, it requires an additional 2.5ms. As such, we are basically looking at a 9.2ms performance overhead for the real-time ray tracing effects that Remedy will implement in – most likely – Control.
>>I'm sure you already know this, but to get 30fps you need to achieve 33ms, and for 60fps it's 17ms.

MODS/EMULATORS

Fallout 4 Spooky Scary Radio mod adds over 150 Halloween-themed tracks
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-spooky-scary-radio-mod-adds-over-150-halloween-themed-tracks/
Fallout 4's irradiated Boston Commonwealth is terrifying all year round. Take the edge off this Halloween with a selection of seasonal tunes, courtesy of Natezomby's Spooky Scary Radio mod.
With a host of Halloween-themed songs (Monster Mash, Zombie Jamboree, Haunted Heart), movie trailers (The Mummy, The Exorcist, Frankenstein), poem readings (Poe's Raven, read by Vincent Price), and short story recitals, Spooky Scary Radio spans over 150 tracks, and has more on the way. Read the (tentative) list in full here.

GAMING NEWS

3D Realms’ Scott Miller on Duke Nukem Forever: “We were too small, we were always playing catch up”
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/3d-realms-scott-miller-on-duke-nukem-forever-we-were-too-small-we-were-always-playing-catch-up/
Speaking with IGN, 3D Realms’ Scott Miller revealed some really interesting details about the game’s development. According to Miller, 3D Realms was a really small company that was always playing catch up. While the team had some cool ideas, it was so understaffed that it was never able to really finish this huge game before its competitors releasing their own games.

Sean Bean will die once again, this time in Hitman 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sean-bean-will-die-once-again-this-time-in-hitman-2/
Warner Bros and IO Interactive today announced that international actor Sean Bean will star in the first Elusive Target mission for Hitman 2. Sean Bean will take on the role of Mark Faba, a former MI5 agent turned freelance assassin.

GTA Online extends $500,000 free GTA money bonus, double RP on gunrunning
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-online-extends-dollar500000-free-gta-money-bonus-double-rp-on-gunrunning/
This week, GTA Online extends its Red Dead Redemption 2-related bonuses to October 29. Which means those who've already obtained the Stone Hatchet and Double-Action Revolver can claim a minimum of $500,000 of free backdated in-game cash; while those yet to complete these missions can net up to $1 million.

Blizzard says it put in-game Hearthstone tournaments on hold because players had a different vision
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-says-it-put-in-game-hearthstone-tournaments-on-hold-because-players-had-a-different-vision-for-them/
Blizzard said in September that plans for in-game tournament support in Hearthstone, announced earlier this year, had been put on hold "for the foreseeable future." Exactly why it would put the kibosh on an in-the-works feature that fans were clamoring for wasn't really clear. "We no longer felt that the end result would deliver on everyone’s expectations" is as close as it came to an explanation. Fair and reasonable, but not exactly specific.

PUBG teases Silent Hill-style nurses and Pennywise-like clowns for Halloween
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-teases-silent-hill-style-nurses-and-pennywise-like-clowns-for-halloween/
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is gearing up for a Halloween-themed event, it seems.
Alongside the not-so-subtle line "Beware… Halloween approaches", the game's official Twitter feed teased the following nine-second clip.

Football Manager is an RPG 'with more NPCs than any other RPG on the planet'
https://www.pcgamer.com/football-manager-is-an-rpg-with-more-npcs-than-any-other-rpg-on-the-planet/
I like Football Manager, and I'm forever telling friends/colleagues/anyone who'll listen that, at its heart, it's a complex strategy game. If you hate football, you won't like it. But if you've even a passing interest in The Beautiful Game, I'm convinced you'll fall for its flood of stats, numbers, players and management sim mechanics. Granted, Miles Jacobson is inclined to agree, but the Sports Interactive head honcho also believes Football Manager shares core values with the RPG genre.

New World, Amazon's MMO, shows off a big chunk of its map in gameplay footage
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-world-amazons-mmo-shows-off-a-big-chunk-of-its-map-in-gameplay-footage/
A few weeks ago, we covered how footage of Amazon's MMO New World had leaked via Pornhub, since this is 2018 and that's just what happens now. That video has been taken down due to a copyright claim, but in recent days, Amazon has been sharing a more official look at one area of its massive map. Check out the video above.