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Let's go with the Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has sold 2 million copies on Steam in its first week
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fall-guys-ultimate-knockout-2-million-copies-first-week/
Devolver Digital has just announced that Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has sold a lot of copies in its first week. According to the publisher, Mediatonic’s game has sold 2 million copies on Steam in just a week.

GOG has two sales, one of them new:

• The new one is the weekly sale featuring "games perfect for white nights", whatever that means, up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200810_weekly_sale
• The old one is the Quakecon sale, that will still last another 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200804_quakecon_sale

Steam has two new daily deals:

• The first one is Whispers of a Machine, 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/631570/Whispers_of_a_Machine/
• And The Town of Light is 85% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/433100/The_Town_of_Light/

Fanatical has a new Star Deal, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Standard Edition, 69% off for the next 24 hours. The keys are for UPlay: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/tom-clancy-s-rainbow-six-siege-year-5-standard-edition

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Fans have gotten Hawken on PC working again... in singleplayer
https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-have-gotten-hawken-on-pc-working-again-in-singleplayer/
Cult free-to-play Mech shooter Hawken shut down on PC at the beginning of 2018, was removed from Steam, and its fans mourned. Despite its troubled development history, Hawken was unique in both the free-to-play and mech game spaces. Various statements and rumors about the game's revival have proven false so far, the official website is completely dormant, and its social media accounts have either gone dormant or been deleted.
Fans, however, can't be deleted. A group referring to themselves as Hawakening have been laboring to get the game running again and have finally met some success. It's back up, at least in limited fashion, thanks to a method devised by Hawakening team. You can boot it up, but since there are no multiplayer servers nor code to enable them, you can only play the game's modes that work in offline singleplayer vs the game's AI.
Still, if you're nostalgic for Hawken that might do the trick. The modding community has said they'd like to speak to publishers 505 Games or developers Hawken Entertainment Inc about reviving the game's PC multiplayer.
To be clear, backing up your software and using this method to play the game in Singleplayer is only legal (in the United States, other nations may vary) if you have own a license to the game. If you played the game on Steam, you have a license.
>> If you want to learn more, go to hawakening.com.

GAMING NEWS

New Command & Conquer Remastered patch adds LAN support, brings QoL improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-command-conquer-remastered-patch-adds-lan-support-brings-qol-improvements/
Petroglyph has released the second major update for Command & Conquer Remastered that adds support for LAN play. LAN Play can be accessed directly from the Main Menu, and includes the ability to play LAN games with Mods enabled and over certain VPN networks.

Acclaim Austin pitched a new Turok game in 2004, TUROK 5: Resurrection
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nightdive-studios-pitched-a-new-turok-game-in-2004-turok-5-resurrection/
Stephen Kick, CEO of NightDive Studios, has shared the documents for a game Nightdive Studios Acclaim Austin pitched back in 2004. As you may have guessed, this game never saw the light of day and was cancelled. This new Turok game would be called Turok 5: Resurrection, and would retain its first-person perspective.

Focus Home Interactive issues official statement about Limestone Games and Aeon Must Die!
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/focus-home-interactive-issues-official-statement-about-limestone-games-and-aeon-must-die/
Focus Home Interactive released yesterday the debut trailer for Aeon Must Die!. However, it appears that most of the Limestone’s developers have quit the studio due to crunch and lack of payments. And, since this caught the eye of the media, Focus Home Interactive decided to issue an official statement about this whole situation.

Horizon Zero Dawn supports AMD FidelityFX SPD, AMD TressFX and Asynchronous Compute
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/horizon-zero-dawn-supports-amd-fidelityfx-spd-amd-tressfx-and-asynchronous-compute/
Horizon Zero Dawn has finally been released on the PC. As we’ve already reported, Guerrilla Games and Virtuos partnered with AMD in order to bring this game on PC. And, AMD has detailed all the new AMD PC features that the game packs under its hood.
>> Not the best showcase for those features, right?

Despite reports, the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn is not a debug build
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/horizon-zero-dawn-pc-version-not-debug-build/
Horizon Zero Dawn has just been released on the PC and there has been a big controversy surrounding its PC version. Yesterday, a report surfaced on Reddit, suggesting that the PC version is actually a debug build of the game. However, it appears that this report was inaccurate.

PGA TOUR 2K21 Official PC System Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/pga-tour-2k21-official-pc-system-requirements/
2K Games has revealed the official PC system requirements for its upcoming golf game, PGA TOUR 2K21. PGA TOUR 2K21 will feature PGA TOUR Career Mode, licensed courses and more, and will release on August 21st.

Warner Bros Games is no longer up for sale, will remain part of AT&T
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warner-bros-games-is-no-longer-up-for-sale-will-remains-part-of-att/
Some reports surfaced earlier this month, suggesting that Warner Bros Interactive was up for sale. However, that’s no longer the case. Warner Media has issued an official statement in which it states that Warner Bros Games will remain part of AT&T.
>> Blood_Tears made a thread about this.