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It's Monday again, and that means that here are the news!

SALES & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2. Risk of Rain 2
3. Survivor Pass 3: Wild Card
4. Outward Day One
5. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
6. Grim Dawn - Forgotten Gods Expansion
7. Tropico 6
8. Generation Zero
9. Grand Theft Auto V
10. No Man's Sky

Agony and Agony Unrated have sold 160K copies, with 100K coming from the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/agony-and-agony-unrated-have-sold-160k-copies-with-100k-coming-from-the-pc/
Madmind Studios has announced that the sales of Agony and Agony Unrated exceeded the total of 160,000 copies sold. The sale of the PC version exceeded 100,000 copies, while the console version sold about 60,000 copies.
The team stated that the sales data from consoles usually have a considerable delay, so the actual number of Agony copies sold on consoles is most likely higher.

Bayonetta is $5 on Steam until Tuesday
https://www.pcgamer.com/bayonetta-is-dollar5-on-steam-until-tuesday/
You can pick up Bayonetta, one of the best action games on PC, for just $5/£3.75 on Steam until Tuesday. If you haven't played it yet, you absolutely should: Phil gave it 93/100 in his review, and it's still on out list of the top 100 PC games.
The price is equal to its historic low, according to IsThereAnyDeal. It actually dipped to the same price earlier this month before going back up to the usual $20, so if you missed out then this is the perfect time to pounce. It'd be a good one to play if you just finished Devil May Cry 5, I reckon.
>> It's one of the daily deals. The other one is Medieval Kingdom Wars. 30% off for the next 7 days: https://store.steampowered.com/app/499660/Medieval_Kingdom_Wars/.

GOG's new weekly sale brings games like Furi, Battle Brothers, Trine and a lot more up to 80% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20190401_weekly_sale

And at Fanatical, there are 4 new deals:

• The Spotlight Deal is METAL SLUG PACK, 87% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/metal-slug-pack
• There's a new bundle, the Alicia Quatermain Complete Bundle, with 3 games at a 89% discount for the next 13 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/alicia-quatermain-complete-bundle
• There's a Konami Sale, with up to 90% discounts: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/konami-digital-entertainment
• And 505 Games also has its games up to 90% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/505-games

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Quixel’s next-gen photorealistic Rebirth tech demo was running on an NVIDIA GTX1080Ti with 60fps
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/quixels-next-gen-photorealistic-rebirth-tech-demo-was-running-on-an-nvidia-gtx1080ti-with-60fps/
Last week, we shared a tech demo from Quixel showing next-gen photorealistic graphics in Unreal Engine 4. Quixel used its Megascans photogrammetry tech in order to create something truly astounding and what’s interesting here is that this tech demo can run with 60fps on existing hardware.
As Quixel noted in a new video, the Rebirth tech demo can run with more than 60fps on a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080Ti. Yeap, Quixel did not use the more powerful NVIDIA RTX2080Ti in order to showcase this tech demo, proving that current-gen games can actually look like this (provided developers take full advantage of GPUs like the GTX1080Ti).
>> If they take full advantage of something like the 1080Ti and there's no gameplay at all, of course.

Humble Bundle co-founders step down, replaced by former Double Fine VP
https://www.pcgamer.com/humble-bundle-co-founders-step-down-replaced-by-former-double-fine-vp/
Humble Bundle's co-founders have stepped down from their roles at the head of the company, and have been replaced by the former chief product officer of free-to-play games developer Kixeye.
Jeffrey Rosen, chief executive, and John Graham, chief operating officer, founded Humble Bundle in 2010 and have led the company ever since. They will remain in advisory roles until the end of the year, and potentially "a long way past that".
Taking charge of the day-to-day operations of Humble Bundle is Alan Patmore, who joins from Kixeye. Before Kixeye, he was studio general manager at FarmVille developer Zynga, and he previously worked as a vice president at Double Fine Productions, overseeing the development of Stacking, Iron Brigade and Costume Quest.
>> Ever since they sold the company, it was a matter of time before this had to happen.

MODS/EMULATORS

Mortal Kombat Project Season 2 Final – Patch #3 adds new fatalities and stages, improves AI and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mortal-kombat-project-season-2-final-patch-3-improves-ai-adds-new-fatalities-and-stages/
The team behind Mortal Kombat Project Season 2 Final has released a brand new patch for this free MUGEN fighting game that is based on NetherRealm’s classic MK titles. According to the release notes, this patch adds new pit fatalities and some new stages.
Furthermore, update #3 revises the koin/treasure system and as such there won’t be any slot machines at the end and players will only have to input the code manually. The latest patch also improves the game’s AI, revises jump arcs and distances, and makes it easier to perform the various combos and brutalities.
It’s also worth pointing out that this patch also improves throw mechanics and introduces “breakable throws”, allows players to disable all smoke/visual effects on all characters at once, adds endings to all characters, and revises the “finishhim” state coding.
>> You can download the game from here or, if you already have it, just download the new patch.

Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption gets AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack, improving textures by 4X times
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/vampire-the-masquerade-redemption-gets-ai-enhanced-hd-texture-pack-improving-textures-by-4x-times/
Modder ‘Ridiculous Death’ has released a new HD Texture Pack for Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption. Ridiculous Death has used neural networks in order to improve the original textures by 4X times and upscales all of the game’s 3147 textures.
As the modder noted, all textures are based on their original versions, meaning that atmosphere is preserved. They were upscaled to 4X resolution with neural networks and then downscaled to meet the 512×512 resolution limit of the engine. As such, they may not look as sharp as they were intended to be (but then again there is nothing that the modder can do as this is an engine limtitation). Furthermore, the UI has a fixed resolution and the modder was unable to replace it.
>> You can download the 1.3GB file from Nexus Mods.

Sekiro mod adds Nic Cage death screen
https://www.pcgamer.com/sekiro-mod-adds-nic-cage-death-screen/
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a brilliant game, and Tom awarded it 92/100 in his review. But if there's one thing it lacks, it's Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage.
Thankfully, modder kasaiji has buckled to overwhelming pressure from fans and created a new mod that blesses you with Cage's face every time you die. It even has two variants: a grey face when you can still revive, and a blood red one for when you're finally, properly dead.

A photo mode's been hacked into Sekiro
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-photo-modes-been-hacked-into-into-sekiro/
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a rather nice-looking game that unfortunately doesn't have a photo mode, but that hasn't stopped avid screenshotters from finding a way. Jim2point0 (recently responsible for the Resident Evil 2 camera hack) has been using Cheat Engine to take some pretty screens of Sekiro, and has shared the table he used to do it. You can toggle the HUD, alter FOV, and now he's updated it so you can freeze time, or just enemies, to line up exactly the shot you need.

Minecraft with path tracing almost looks like Minecraft 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-with-path-tracing-almost-looks-like-minecraft-2/
It's Minecraft, but not as we know it. The latest build of popular shader pack Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders (SEUS) implements path tracing, a rendering method similar to ray tracing, and the results are stunning.
I love the way the light reflects off the floor in the first clip below, and in the second clip you can see sunlight streaming through a window. It looks better in videos than in screenshots—almost like Minecraft 2.0. Make sure you hit fullscreen on the videos for the full effect.
>> It's for Patreons only, at least for the moment.

GAMING NEWS

Anno 1800 is the next Ubisoft game that will stay exclusive to Epic Games Store and UPLAY, Steam pre-orders will be honored
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/anno-1800-is-the-next-ubisoft-game-that-will-stay-exclusive-to-epic-games-store-and-uplay-steam-pre-orders-to-be-honored/
Ubisoft has announced that after the successful launch of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on PC on the Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games store, it will be partnering once again with Epic Games for the release of Anno 1800. This basically means that the new strategy game will be available exclusively on these two digital stores.

Borderlands Game of the Year Edition will have a FOV slider, no split-screen or ultra-wide support
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/borderlands-game-of-the-year-edition-will-have-a-fov-slider-no-split-screen-or-ultra-wide-support/
Patrick Fenn, Producer for Gearbox, has revealed some new information about the PC version of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition. According to Fenn, both the console and the PC versions will feature a FOV slider.

Bethesda will not share any news about Starfield or The Elder Scrolls 6 at E3 2019
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bethesda-will-not-share-any-news-about-starfield-or-the-elder-scrolls-6-at-e3-2019/
Bethesda’s Todd Howard has confirmed that both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 will not be present at E3 2019. Not only that, but the team will not talk at all about these highly anticipated projects as it will be a long time until Starfield and TES6 come out.

Here are 20 minutes of new gameplay footage from Obsidian’s upcoming RPG, The Outer Worlds
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-20-minutes-of-new-gameplay-footage-from-obsidians-upcoming-rpg-the-outer-worlds/
At PAX East 2019, Obsidian showcased a brand new demo from its upcoming RPG, The Outer Worlds. In this 20-minute gameplay playthrough, Obsidian shows a small quest where the player is accompanied by 2 characters: Nyoka and Felix. This video also shows the game’s multiple choice dialog system, some of the weapons available, the looting and character customization system, as well as the general freedom that players will have in the game.

Yakuza: Kiwami 2 has been rated by the ESRB for the PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/yakuza-kiwami-2-has-been-rated-by-the-esrb-for-the-pc/
It appears that Yakuza Kiwami 2 will be soon coming to the PC as the ESRB has just rated this game for our platform. ESRB has recently leaked the PC version of several games so we can safely say that this is a legit leak and not something based on a placeholder listing.

Crysis 4 has been announced, powered by Unreal Engine 4, will be exclusive to Epic Games Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crysis-4-has-been-announced-powered-by-unreal-engine-4-will-be-exclusive-to-epic-games-store/
Crytek has announced that Crysis 4 is under development and will be released in 2020. The team has collaborated with Activision – who has purchased the IP rights of the franchise from Electronic Arts – and will be using Unreal Engine 4 instead of its own in-house CRYENGINE.
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