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Let's go with the Tuesday news:

SALES & DEALS

GOG’s “Stay at home” promotion offers 27 free games that you can download and play
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/gogs-stay-at-home-promotion-offers-27-free-games-that-you-can-download-and-play/
Alongside its Spring Sale 2020, GOG.com is offering a “Stay at home” promotion. As the title suggests, this promotion is a direct result of the Coronavirus. Thus, and thanks to this promotion, PC gamers can download and play 27 games for free.
As GOG notes, these free games will help you relax and pass your time at home.
>> Here they are: https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home

Steam has two new daily deals, a publisher sale and the usual weeklong deals:

• The first daily deal is the recently released The Pedestrian (that has a demo), 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/466630/The_Pedestrian/
• The other daily deal is Farmer's Dynasty, also 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/678900/Farmers_Dynasty/
• Ubisoft is the star of the publisher sale, with up to 75% discounts until March, 26: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ubisoft_weekend/
• And here are some of the weeklong deals:
  • CrossCode, that has a demo, is 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/
  • The Early Access title The Last Hex is 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/891370/The_Last_Hex/
  • Kero Blaster gets a 50% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/292500/Kero_Blaster/
  • Shogun's Empire: Hex Commander sports a 60% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1093760/Shoguns_Empire_Hex_Commander/
  • And the last one is Black Mirror I, 75% off (the rest of the games in this series are also between 67 and 75% off, with the bundle having a 78% discount): https://store.steampowered.com/app/292930/Black_Mirror_I/

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• Publisher Wayforward celebrates its 30th anniversary with a sale, having its games up to 30% off for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/wayforward-30th-anniversary-publisher-sale/
• And there's also a multiplayer sale with up to 90% discounts for 6 days (some like Monster Hunter: World 7 days): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/multiplayer-sale/

Fanatical has once again changed the free game you get with purcahses of 10 € or more (they either have little keys or they're selling a ton of games, I don't know). Now they're giving away Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

The Khronos Group announces the public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-khronos-group-announces-the-public-release-of-the-vulkan-ray-tracing-provisional-extensions/
The Khronos Group announced today the public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray.
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Vulkan Ray Tracing consists of a number of Vulkan, SPIR-V, and GLSL extensions, some of which are optional. The primary VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension provides support for acceleration structure building and management, ray tracing shader stages and pipelines, and ray query intrinsics for all shader stages. VK_KHR_pipeline_library provides the ability to provide a set of shaders which can be efficiently linked into ray tracing pipelines. VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations enables intensive driver operations. These operations include ray tracing pipeline compilation or CPU-based acceleration structure construction to be offloaded to application-managed CPU thread pools.

MODS/EMULATORS

There is now a Coronavirus mod for Fallout: New Vegas that you can download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/there-is-now-a-coronavirus-mod-for-fallout-new-vegas-that-you-can-download/
Well, we all saw that coming. After what has happened in the real world with the Coronavirus, we were certain that someone would make a mod for it. And yesterday, modder ‘JotunYmir’ released a Coronavirus mod for Fallout: New Vegas.
Going into more details, Immersive Coronavirus adds Bat Soup and by eating it, you will get the Coronavirus. Once they get the virus, players will have to survive it. And… well… that’s it.
To be honest, I was expecting a Coronavirus mod for Resident Evil 2 Remake. I mean, this mod would make perfect sense in Capcom’s RE franchise. Let’s also not forget the similarities between Raccoon City and the Corona Virus. So yeah, it will be interesting to see such a mod for Resident Evil 2 Remake.
>> Available from Nexus Mods.

Dark Souls 3 gets an Enemy & Boss Randomizer Mod and a Sekiro Armor and Weapons Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dark-souls-3-gets-an-enemy-boss-randomizer-mod-and-a-sekiro-mod/
Modders ‘GodFilm233’ and ‘ElFonz0’ have released two new really cool mods for Dark Souls 3. The first mod is an Enemy and Boss Randomizer that PC gamers can use. The other one brings some weapons and armors from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Going into more details, the Randomizer only affects enemies and bosses. Thus, it does not affect Side Quests or NPCs. It’s a pretty cool mod that all Dark Souls 3 veterans will appreciate. After all, this mod will give all of you a new challenge.
On the other hand, the Sekiro Armor and Weapons Mod contains multiple armor pieces and weapons from various Sekiro characters. Each item is set up to replace a specific item, though you may change the ID of a Sekiro item to one of your choice.
>> Check the article for the links to those mods (both from Nexus Mods).

GAMING NEWS

The preparations for the Gamescom are continuing as planned
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-preparations-for-the-gamescom-are-continuing-as-planned/
Gamescom is the largest gaming event in the world. In 2018, 370,000 visitors and 1037 exhibitors form 56 countries attended the show. In 2109, 373,000 people visited the event. Gamescom 2020 is scheduled to be held from the 25th till the 29th of August. The event is set to take place in Cologne, Germany.

Resident Evil 3 Remake PC Demo is coming to Steam on March 19th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-3-remake-pc-demo-is-coming-to-steam-on-march-19th/
Capcom has announced that a PC demo for Resident Evil 3 Remake will be coming to Steam on March 19th. Furthermore, an an Open Beta phase for Resident Evil Resistance will begin on March 27th, allowing everyone to participate.

First gameplay video released for MotoGP 20
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/first-gameplay-video-released-for-motogp-20/
Milestone today unveiled the first gameplay video of MotoGP 20, the latest chapter in the beloved MotoGP franchise. The selection of rider, track and weather conditions of the gameplay has been done following community requests, that massively voted for Valentino Rossi on the Mugello Circuit in dry conditions.

X4: Foundations Update 3.0 will release on March 31st
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/x4-foundations-update-3-0-will-release-on-march-31st/
EGOSOFT announced today that it will significantly enlarge its current title X4: Foundations at the end of the month. Both the free Update 3.0 to X4: Foundations and its first expansion, X4: Split Vendetta, will come out on Steam and GOG on March 31st, giving space game enthusiasts the perfect opportunity to newly discover or revisit the biggest space sandbox this side of the galaxy.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 March 17th Update released, fixes various game issues, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tom-clancys-the-division-2-march-17th-update-released-fixes-various-game-issues-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has released a brand new update for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. According to the release notes, this latest update fixes a number of bugs and game issues. Moreover, it temporarily disables the ability to reset seasonal manhunts to prevent lost progression towards a manhunt.

Doom Eternal: Denuvo, Offline Mode, PC Graphics Settings & 4K/Max Settings Performance Impressions
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/doom-eternal-denuvo-offline-mode-pc-graphics-settings-4k-max-settings-performance-impressions/
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In order to find out whether the game uses Denuvo, we initially looked at the size of its executable file. As we’ve discovered, the size of the executable file is 434MB. We then got in touch with Bethesda which confirmed its presence in the game. Bethesda has not clarified whether it will remove it at its launch. This could be possible as that’s exactly what happened with RAGE 2. However, and since Wolfenstein: Youngblood is still using Denuvo, I’m pretty sure that Bethesda will keep Denuvo in Doom Eternal for a while.