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The Thursday news:

SALES & DEALS

Control generated €17.7 million in its first month, Death Stranding PC expected to generate €50 million in total revenue
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/control-generated-e17-7-million-in-its-first-month-death-stranding-pc-expected-to-generate-e50-million-in-total-revenue/
Digital Bros, the parental company of 505 Games, has shared its Q1 2019 financial results. According to Digital Bros, there was a significant revenue growth in the first quarter and improvement of all financial metrics. This revenue growth was mainly thanks to the performance of both Control and Bloodstained.
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What this means is that in its first month, Control generated €17.7 million. After all, Control came out on August 27th. This is without the additional income that Digital Bros received from Epic Games for releasing the game exclusively on EGS. On the other hand, Bloodstained sales amounted to €5.5 million.
Digital Bros has also stated that it expects to generate lifetime revenue in excess of €50 million from the PC version of Death Stranding. This basically means that the company expects to sell from 834K to 1 million copies of Death Stranding on the PC.

Steam has two new daily deals:

• The first one is Bad North: Jotunn Edition, that has a demo, with a 25% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/688420/Bad_North_Jotunn_Edition/
• And Shenmue I & II is 66% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/758330/Shenmue_I__II/

On the Humble Store, Valiant Hearts: The Great War for UPlay, 70% off for the next 24 hours or so: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/valiant-hearts-the-great-war

And at Fanatical, there are four new deals:

• The Jackbox Party Pack 6 is 20% off for the next 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-jackbox-party-pack-6
• Tabletop Simulator is 55% off for the next 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/tabletop-simulator
• EVERSPACE is 80% off, and also for the next 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/everspace
• And there's also a new Staff Picks Fall 2019 build your own bundle, with 21 games to choose your bundle of 1, 3 or 5 games: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/staff-picks-fall-2019

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS/EMULATORS

Red Dead Redemption Damned Enhancement overhaul mod resumes development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/red-dead-redemption-damned-enhancement-total-conversion-mod-resumes-development/
In September, we revealed Take-Two’s attempts to shut down the Red Dead Redemption Damned Enhancement mod. And today, GamingDamned announced that he has resumed development for this mod.
Red Dead Redemption: Enhancement Project aims to improve the game’s visuals via the RPCS3 and Xenia emulators. This project will bring higher quality textures, UI/UX menu elements, and in-game HUD. Moreover, there are plans for draw distance optimizations, shader and model updates, and other features.
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It will be interesting to see the reaction of Take-Two, and whether it will try to, once again, shut it down. However, and after the backlash the company received over its first attempt, I believe that it will allow it. After all, the mod requires an actual copy of the game.
>> My bet is that they won't care about public reaction and they'll try to shut it down again.

GAMING NEWS

New Diablo 4 gameplay video showcases a World Boss fight
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-diablo-4-gameplay-video-showcases-a-world-boss-fight/
GameInformer has released a brand new gameplay video for Diablo 4. In this video, we get a look at the first and only world boss that Blizzard has featured in the Blizzcon 2019 build of Diablo IV. This video also features co-op gameplay so make sure to watch it if this is something that interests you.

Launch trailer released for Shenmue 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/launch-trailer-released-for-shenmue-3/
YsNet and Deep Silver have released the launch trailer for Shenmue 3. This trailer lets players relive the Shenmue III story beginnings and introduces them to some of the colorful characters they will meet as the story goes on.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC November 13th Update is 2.91GB & available for download, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-november-13th-update-is-2-91gb-available-for-download-full-patch-notes/
Rockstar has released a brand new update for the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 that weights around 2.91GB in size. The November 13th update adds an additional launch argument to rebalance workload on the CPU cores and avoid hitting an edge-case in certain NVIDIA graphics card drivers that causes significant stalls on 4-core and 6-core CPUs.

Halo Reach will release on the PC on December 3rd according to Microsoft Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/halo-reach-will-release-on-the-pc-on-december-3rd-according-to-microsoft-store/
It appears that the Microsoft Store has leaked one of today’s X019 surprises. According to the official store pages for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo: Reach, Halo: Reach will come out on the PC on December 3rd.

DokeV is a new open-world creature collecting MMO from the creators of Black Desert Online
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dokev-is-a-new-open-world-creature-collecting-mmo-from-the-creators-of-black-desert-online/
Pearl Abyss, creators of Black Desert Online, has announced a new open-world creature collecting MMO, called DokeV. Although the team has not revealed any additional details, it did release a cinematic trailer that you can find below.

New in-game trailers released for Pearl Abyss’ PLAN 8 and Crimson Desert
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-in-game-trailers-released-for-pearl-abyss-plan-8-and-crimson-desert/
Alongside the cinematic trailer for DoveK, Pearl Abyss released new trailers for PLAN 8 and Crimson Desert. Contrary to the trailer for DoveK, however, these two trailers feature in-game gameplay from these two upcoming titles.

Here are the graphics settings for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-the-graphics-settings-for-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order/
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order releases in a few hours and below you can find its graphics settings. The game is using the Unreal Engine 4 and from what we can see, there is no option to switch between different APIs (like DX11 or DX12).