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The Monday news:

SALES & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
3. Devil May Cry 5
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Total War: WARHAMMER II
6. Two Point Hospital
7. Far Cry New Dawn
8. Assassin's Creed Odyssey
9. Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
10. Frostpunk

Dead Cells sold over a million copies, most on PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/dead-cells-sold-over-a-million-copies-most-on-pc/
During this year's Game Developers Conference Sébastien Bénard, a designer on popular roguelike metroidvania Dead Cells, gave a postmortem of indie studio Motion Twin's hit game. He explained that Dead Cells had sold over a million copies, with about 60% of that number on PC. Of the console versions, the Nintendo Switch port was the biggest seller. He also described Dead Cells as a "last chance project" for the studio, and said that its success saved them from going under.

Sekiro reaches 125,000 concurrent players, fourth most-played on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/sekiro-reaches-125000-concurrent-players-fourth-most-played-on-steam/
Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice's outstanding combat is clearly a hit with players—as of writing, more than 120,000 people are playing it, and its daily peak is more than 125,000, making it the fourth most-played game on Steam today ahead of Rainbox Six Siege.
It's a monumental launch, bigger even than Devil May Cry 5's, which was itself Capcom's second biggest PC launch ever, topping out at around 85,000 concurrent players, according to Steam Charts.
>> Not exactly a sales report, but it's the closer we'll get until we get official numbers from Activision or From Software.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is available for free today on Bethesda’s launcher
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-elder-scrolls-iii-morrowind-is-available-for-free-today-on-bethesdas-launcher/
Bethesda has announced that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is currently available for free on its launcher. This free offer will only last for one day and once you acquire your free copy, you will be able to keep your game in your library forever.
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As said, this offer will only last for one day (meaning that it will end on March 26th) so go ahead and acquire your free copy if you are remotely interested in this classic The Elder Scrolls game (and provided you don’t mind installing the Bethesda launcher).

Warframe has almost reached 50 million registered players on all platforms
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warframe-has-almost-reached-50-million-registered-players-on-all-platforms/
Digital Extremes announced today that its cooperative online hit Warframe has reached nearly 50 million registered online users on its sixth anniversary, making 2018 its biggest year of growth to date. To celebrate the occasion, it is giving birthday gifts to all Tenno for free this Wednesday, March 27, including a brand new exclusive Liset (landing craft) Skin, last year’s amazing Dex Excalibur skin, and all its previous anniversary gifts.

Steam has two new daily deals:

• The first one is Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation, 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/568220/Lobotomy_Corporation__Monster_Management_Simulation/
• The other game is Road Redemption, 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/300380/Road_Redemption/

At Fanatical, there are three new deals:

• The Star Deal is Cossacks 3, 70% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/cossacks-3
• There's a new GameGuru Bundle, with 2 games and 7 DLCs split in 3 tiers, available for the next 14 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/game-guru-bundle
• And publisher Aspyr has a new Pick & Mix bundle where we can buy 3 or 5 of their games at great prizes: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/aspyr-pick-and-mix

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS/EMULATORS

Sekiro Mod Engine has been released, allows gamers to replace textures, 3D models and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sekiro-mod-engine-has-been-released-allows-gamers-to-replace-textures-models-and-more/
Modder ‘Katalash’ has released the first mod for FromSoftware’s latest third-person action adventure title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Sekiro Mod Engine is a file replacement injection library that allows you to modify weapons, armors, parameters and textures.
What this basically means is that by using this injection library, modders will be able to replace any of the in-game models they want, release highly detailed texture packs, modify the attributes of weapons, introduce new enemies and armours and more.
Do note that Mod Engine only supports the Steam version 1.02 for Sekiro and does not work with any older version or any pirated/cracked copy. Furthermore, Mod engine only supports file based mods, and mods that require dll injection are currently not supported.
>> You can get this mod from Nexus Mods.

New mod for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice unlocks its framerate on the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-mod-for-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-unlocks-its-framerate-on-the-pc/
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has just been released and as we’ve already reported, it’s locked at 60fps. Thankfully, modder ‘jackfuste’ has released a brand new mod that completely unlocks the framerate on the PC version.
Do note that by unlocking the framerate you may encounter bugs and glitches. As such, this is only for those that want to experience Sekiro with more than 60fps.
>> Available from here.

Caveblazers Together mod adds online co-op
https://www.pcgamer.com/caveblazers-together-mod-adds-online-co-op/
You may remember Vadim from Nuclear Throne Together, which added an online mode to Vlambeer's twin-stick shooter, as well as similar mods for Spelunky, Wasteland Kings, and other games. Now he's done the same for Caveblazers, adding online co-op to the 2D roguelike platformer. And it's available on Steam.
Vadim has written a blog post about the process of creating the Caveblazers Together mod if you're interested in a look behind the scenes. He writes about trickiness of creating it while the game was still being updated, but notes that if the game weren't still receiving patches it likely wouldn't have enough of a community to make it worthwhile creating this kind of mod for it.

GAMING NEWS

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will support real-time ray tracing, DLSS and mods
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-will-support-real-time-ray-tracing-dlss-and-mods/
Paradox Interactive has revealed, via a press release, that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will support both real-time ray tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). Furthermore, and like its predecessor, Bloodlines 2 will officially support mods.

Electronic Arts and DICE share the 2019 roadmap for Battlefield 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-and-dice-share-the-2019-roadmap-for-battlefield-5/
Electronic Arts and DICE have released the 2019 roadmap for Battlefield 5, revealing the new free content that will be coming to this latest part in the Battlefield series.

S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster is coming to the PC in Q2 2019, first details and screenshots
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/s-w-i-n-e-hd-remaster-is-coming-to-the-pc-in-q2-2019-first-details-and-screenshots/
Assemble Entertainment has announced that they are teaming up with Kite Games and taking over the publishing rights for S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster; a brand-new, highly polished version of the classic real-time strategy game S.W.I.N.E. Developer Kite Games, the team behind Sudden Strike 4, have worked with fans to extensively modernize the game to bring big, beautiful bunny-blasting, pig-punching battles to PC.

Detroit: Become Human will be using the Vulkan API, official PC system requirements revealed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/detroit-become-human-will-be-using-the-vulkan-api-official-pc-system-requirements-revealed/
Quantic Dream has revealed the official PC system requirements for Detroit: Become Human via the game’s Epic Store page. According to the developer, the PC version of this Playstation 4 exclusive will be using the Vulkan API.

The Division 2 PC players report a 100% CPU usage issue, Ubisoft is investigating
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-division-2-pc-players-report-a-100-cpu-usage-issue-ubisoft-is-investigating/
In our PC Performance Analysis article, we claimed that The Division 2 was a polished PC product. However, it appears that a number of gamers is currently reporting high CPU usage even on high-end CPUs.
>> 100% usage with 4-core CPUs. With more cores and/or Hyperthreading, it no longer happens.

Ubisoft will add a Field of View slider to The Division 2 via a future patch
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-will-add-a-field-of-view-slider-to-the-division-2-via-a-future-patch/
Ubisoft has announced that it will add a Field of View slider to The Division 2 via a future patch. Although we don’t know yet when this FOV slider will be added, and even though I personally had no issue with the camera, we do know that Ubisoft will eventually implement it.