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Thursday news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Steam's new daily deal is Super Meat Boy, 90% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/40800/Super_Meat_Boy/

On the Humble Store, the Spotlight Deal is We Happy Few, 20% off for the next 3 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/we-happy-few

SOFTWARE

Microsoft plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/microsoft-plans-to-bring-xbox-game-pass-to-the-pc/
During its FY19 Q1 earnings conference call, Microsoft revealed that it plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to the PC. While we don’t have enough details about it, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that bringing Game Pass to the PC is going to be a big element of increasing the strength of its gaming community.
Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service like Netflix. Xbox gamers pay $9.99 per month in order to get access to a library of more than 200 new and old games. The list includes games like Gears of War 4, Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 4 and more.

Unity showcases amazing tech videos for Unity Engine, FPS Sample available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unity-showcases-amazing-tech-videos-for-unity-engine-fps-sample-available-for-download/
Unity has shared some new tech videos, showcasing some of the visual improvements that are coming to the Unity Engine. The first, and perhaps most spectacular, tech video shows a sci-fi city that was built with Unity 2018.3.
This tech demo feature 4.5 million mesh renderers, 200K unique objects per building, 100K individual audio sources and 5K dynamic vehicles. What’s really interesting here is that Unity will release this demo to the public with full source and assets sometime in 2019.

MODS/EMULATORS

Halo Reach sees incredible performance boost in the latest version of the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/halo-reach-sees-incredible-performance-boost-in-the-latest-version-of-the-xbox-360-emulator-xenia/
YouTube’s ‘wwm0nkey’ has shared a new video, showing Halo Reach running in the latest version of the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia. This latest version of Xenia, which is available for download right now, appears to be running the game smoothly (or at least its multiplayer mode).
There are still some graphical glitches, and we don’t know whether its single-player mode can be played from start to finish without any game-breaking bugs, however this is the smoothest we’ve seen Halo Reach in Xenia.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gets an amazingly realistic Reshade mod that makes the game look gorgeous
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-odyssey-gets-an-amazingly-realistic-reshade-mod-that-makes-the-game-look-gorgeous/
As you may have noticed, we don’t usually share Reshade mods however, modder ‘Xanthus’ has released a pretty amazing Reshade mod for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. According to the modder, this mod greatly enhances the visuals of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey with very little performance cost. His intention was to achieve a level of visual fidelity as close to pure realism as possible.
Going into slightly more details, this Reshade mods brings MXAO (an SSAO algorithm with indirect lighting) for deeper and richer visuals, more vibrant and realistic colors, removes the yellow tint, packs bluer and brighter skies, as well as greener and more realistic foliage, and sports a blend of sharpen filters for crisper and better-looking textures without over-doing it.
>>Available from Nexus Mods.

Burn Skyrim to the ground with this stunning, hyper-realistic fire mod
https://www.pcgamer.com/burn-skyrim-to-the-ground-with-this-stunning-hyper-realistic-fire-mod/
For me, the best Skyrim mods transform the realm's aesthetics. Be that by way of weather overhauls, lighting ENBs, or, my newest favourite, BuzzDee84 and PhenomFazMFQ's Ultimate HD Fire Effects SSE.
I've a particular fondness of the dark arts in high-fantasy RPGs, and the College of Winterhold is always my first stop during new playthroughs of Skyrim. As always, the best way to show off mods of this calibre is with pictures.
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Ultimate HD Fire Effects SSE is more than an update of its Oldrim counterpart, with a host of nips and tucks—including improved smoke patterns, over 20 new textures, several meshes and 4K-8K resolution support.
>>Get this mod from Nexus Mods.

Dark Souls 3 'Enemy Onslaught' mod duplicates all enemies, including bosses
https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-3-enemy-onslaught-mod-duplicates-all-enemies-including-bosses/
There are Dark Souls 3 mods that dilute its difficulty. And then there are Dark Souls 3 mods like TKGP's Enemy Onslaught. Which essentially turns Lothric into a Royal Rumble-style free for all. Yeah, good luck with that.
Enemy Onslaught does this by duplicating enemies—both run of the mill baddies and end-of-zone bosses—and by removing the event IDs of clones. In turn, this lets reproduced bosses leave their designated arenas (something standard bosses cannot do), and also allows swarms of friendly NPC summons to lend a hand.
>>This mod is also available from Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

Kingdom Come Deliverance receives a new 10GB patch, full release notes unveiled
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/kingdom-come-deliverance-receives-a-new-10gb-patch-full-release-notes-unveiled/
Warhorse Studios has released a brand new update for Kingdom Come Deliverance. According to the release notes, this patch will update your game’s version to 1.7.1 and will fix some bugs so that players can get the full experience for The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon and free update Tournament.

Final Fantasy XV may get real-time ray tracing support for reflections
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/final-fantasy-xv-may-get-real-time-ray-tracing-support-for-reflections/
In a brief interview with WCCFTech, Takeshi Aramaki, Technical Director and Lead Programmer on FINAL FANTASY XV at Square Enix, revealed that the team is looking into implementing real-time ray tracing effects to the game.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 Data Pack 2.0 is now available, new update brings gameplay improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/pro-evolution-soccer-2019-data-pack-2-0-is-now-available-new-update-brings-gameplay-improvements/
Konami has released Data Pack 2.0 for its latest soccer title, Pro Evolution Soccer 2019. This new pack updates a lot of players, adds 9 new pair of boots, and adds two new leagues (Chinese Football Association Super League and TOYOTA Thai League).