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Tuesday news, with a strong emphasys on yesterday's GDC announcements:

SALES & DEALS

Steam has a new daily deal and, of course, the weeklong deals:

• The daily deal, that will last 48 hours, is Silence, 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/314790/Silence/
• Unforeseen Incidents is 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/501790/Unforeseen_Incidents/
• Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is half its price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/368070/Sniper_Ghost_Warrior_3/
• Silver is 67% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/606680/Silver/
• BIOSHOCK: THE COLLECTION is 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/127633/
• And The Stronghold Collection gets a 80% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/901735/The_Stronghold_Collection/

On the Humble Store there are two new sales:

• DOVETAIL GAMES MORE (MARCH) MADNESS SALE, features up to 75% discounts for the next 7 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/dovetail-games-march-madness/
• And there's also a Rockstar Week sale, that will last 12 days... anyway, the discounts can reach the 75% mark: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/rockstar-week/

And at Fanatical, the new Star Deal is Hitman Game of the Year Edition, 81% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/hitman-game-of-the-year-edition

 

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA will enable real-time ray tracing for its GTX 10XX graphics cards via DXR in April
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-will-enable-real-time-ray-tracing-to-its-gtx-10xx-graphics-cards-via-dxr-in-april/
NVIDIA has announced that it will be bringing real-time ray tracing to its Pascal GPUs. According to the green team, a new driver will enable all GTX10XX series graphics cards, from GTX1060 all the way up to the GTX1080Ti, to run real-time ray tracing via the DXR API.
As NVIDIA noted, GeForce GTX gamers will have an opportunity to use ray tracing at lower RT quality settings and resolutions, while GeForce RTX users will experience up to 2-3x faster performance. Naturally, this performance jump is thanks to the dedicated RT Cores that the Turing GPUs feature.

Unity Engine showcases one of the most impressive real-time demos we’ve seen, called The Heretic
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/unity-engine-showcases-one-of-the-most-impressive-real-time-demos-weve-seen-called-the-heretic/
At GDC 2019, Unity’s award-winning Demo team, the creators of Adam and Book of the Dead, showcased a new short film called The Heretic. The Heretic tech demo was a real-time cinematic running at 30 fps at 1440p on a consumer-class desktop PC.
>> And the Megacity tech demo is now available to download.

 

MODS/EMULATORS

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GAMING NEWS

Control – GeForce RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing GDC 2019 Demo
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/control-geforce-rtx-real-time-ray-tracing-gdc-2019-demo/
Remedy has released a new trailer for its upcoming supernatural third-person game, Control, showcasing some of its real-time ray tracing effects. In this video you can see examples of various real-time ray tracing techniques such as Ray Traced Indirect Diffuse, Ray Traced Indirect Specular and Ray Traced Contact Shadows.

Nexon’s online action RPG, Dragonhound, will support real-time ray tracing effects
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nexons-online-action-rpg-dragonhound-will-support-real-time-ray-tracing-effects/
At GDC 2019, NVIDIA and Nexon announced that Dragonhound, a mounted-combat online action RPG that has players hunting big dragons and monsters in a massive world, will support real-time ray tracing effects.

Here is the first in-engine teaser trailer and first official screenshots for System Shock 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-is-the-first-in-engine-teaser-trailer-from-system-shock-3/
OtherSide Entertainment has released the first teaser trailer for System Shock 3. This trailer features in-engine pre-alpha footage, meaning that it does not represent the final version which may look different from what is being shown here.

NVIDIA announces Quake 2 RTX, first official screenshots and details
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-announces-quake-2-rtx-first-official-screenshots-and-details/
According to the green team, Quake 2 RTX will feature real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination, refraction on water and glass, emissive, reflective and transparent surfaces, normal and roughness maps for added surface detail, particle and laser effects for weapons, procedural environment maps featuring mountains, sky and clouds, which are updated when the time of day is changed and a flare gun for illuminating dark corners where enemies lurk.
>> I wonder if it will be free and available to all or only for Nvidia users, given that it's Nvidia who's doing it.

Oddworld: Soulstorm targets a 2020 release, first in-engine cinematic released
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/oddworld-soulstorm-targets-a-2020-release-first-in-engine-cinematic-released/
At GDC 2019, Oddworld Inhabitants released an in-engine video, giving gamers a glimpse of a cinematic while at the same time showing off the rendering techniques it is using in this new Oddworld title.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider RTX patch available for download, adds real-time ray tracing and DLSS
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-rtx-patch-available-for-download-adds-real-time-ray-tracing-and-dlss/
And the time has finally come. Nixxes has released the highly anticipated RTX patch for Shadow of the Tomb Raider that adds real-time ray tracing, as well as support for Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will support Windows 7 & Windows 10, FOV slider confirmed and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/halo-the-master-chief-collection-will-support-windows-7-windows-10-fov-slider-confirmed-and-more/
In a Reddit AMA, 343 Industries confirmed that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will not be locked on the latest Windows operating system, meaning that it will support both Windows 7 and Windows 10.