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Let's do the Wednesday news:

SALES & DEALS

GOG has two new sales:

• The Midweek Sale is full of classic Point'n'click games up to 90% off for the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200422_midweek_sale
• And, if that's not enough, there's a special Sierra games sale with up to 75% discounts for 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200422_sierra_midweek

Steam has 7 new sales, including 6 Midweek Madness deals:

• Niffelheim will be 85% off until April 27: https://store.steampowered.com/app/351100/Niffelheim/
• The first of the Midweek Madness deals is a publisher sale featuring Beamdog, with up to 75% discounts until tomorrow: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/beamdogpublisher/
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is 40% off until Friday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/692850/Bloodstained_Ritual_of_the_Night/
• Dead by Daylight is 60% off also until Friday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/381210/Dead_by_Daylight/
• Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr gets a 66% discount until the 24th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/527430/Warhammer_40000_Inquisitor__Martyr/
• Prison Architect will be 75% off until the 24th too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/Prison_Architect/
• And lastly there's a Homeworld franchise sale, with up to 80% discounts until Friday, 24: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/HomeworldFranchise

There's a new Humble Bundle: the Humble Square Enix Collective Bundle 2020, with up to 12 games available during the next 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/square-enix-collective-2020

And Fanatical's Insanity Sale will end soon. Give it an eye in case you missed something before it's too late.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS/EMULATORS

6GB HD Texture Pack released for Dark Souls Remastered, overhauling maps, objects and enemies
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/6gb-hd-texture-pack-released-for-dark-souls-remastered-overhauling-maps-objects-and-enemies/
Evelyn Schwab has released a new HD Texture Pack for Dark Souls Remastered. This new HD Texture Pack weights around 6GB in size, and overhauls a lot of textures. Thus, we strongly suggest using this pack in case you want to replay this game.
According to the modder, this is a full faithful texture replacement for maps, objects and enemies. Evelyn Schwab has used a mix of hand-made textures and ESRGAN upscaling tech. Furthermore, this pack is compatible with overhaul mods, and you can use it while playing online.
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In order to install this mod, you’ll also have to download and extract TKGP’s Texture Packer and Unpacker. After that, you can download all the main files for this mod. Then, you must extract both Map archives and the Object/Character archive into the texture override folder of the texture packer and unpacker. Run DSR-TPUP.exe, enter the correct game directory, click Repack and you’ll be ready to go.

Cook your enemies with this Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord fire mod
https://www.pcgamer.com/mount-and-blade-2-bannerlord-fire-mod/
Swords are, I've been told, pretty dangerous. They're sharp, apparently, and who knows was grime the blade is coated in? You could get an infection. But they're also a bit boring. I've seen loads of swords in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. After every battle, I usually have 50 of them in my inventory, just taking up room until I can sell them. Now, if they were all on fire, I'd probably take more notice.
Fire Lord heats up the Early Access sandbox by introducing fire arrows and slightly more mystical fire-enchanted swords, axes and polearms. Bannerlord doesn't have fire damage at the moment, so modder PureDark has implemented their own system where all warriors have an ignition bar that goes up to 100 points, at which point they start to get pretty toasty.

This open world Lego Bionicle fan game looks ridiculously ambitious
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-open-world-lego-bionicle-fan-game-looks-ridiculously-ambitious/
A few minutes into an extended gameplay video for Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui, the narrator casually mentions that this fanmade open world RPG will support up to six players in co-op. It's the kind of impossibly ambitious fan project that sounds like it would never actually get made or released, but Quest for Mata Nui looks quite far along already, with nimble combat, NPCs with quests, and a bunch of different environments. Barring a takedown order from Lego, this one might live long enough to be finished.

GAMING NEWS

Universal Pictures has trademarked a new Jurassic World game, Jurassic World Aftermath
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/universal-pictures-has-trademarked-a-new-jurassic-world-game-jurassic-world-aftermath/
It appears that a new Jurassic World game is currently under development. Universal Pictures has trademarked Jurassic World Aftermath on July 14th. While we don’t have enough information, we do know that Jurassic World Aftermath is indeed a video-game.

Rumor: COD 2020 won’t be titled “Black Ops,” Modern Warfare 3 Remastered in development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rumor-cod-2020-wont-be-titled-black-ops-modern-warfare-3-remastered-in-development/
Back in March, we reported on the latest COD 2020 rumors surrounding it. Now according to TheGamingRevolution, this new Call of Duty game won’t be titled “Black Ops”. However, the game will still take place in Cold War/Vietnam, meaning that it will be related to Black Ops.

Control April 2020 Update released, fixes numerous gameplay issues, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/control-april-2020-update-released-fixes-numerous-gameplay-issues-full-patch-notes/
Remedy has released the April 2020 Update for its supernatural action adventure game, Control. According to the release notes, this patch fixes numerous bugs and glitches. Moreover, it packs various localization fixes.