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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG sees the release of YesterMorrow with a 25% discount until November 12: https://www.gog.com/game/yestermorrow

Steam has a new daily deal, Othercide 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/798490/Othercide/

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Steam Playtest solves some big problems with beta keys
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-playtest-solves-some-big-problems-with-beta-keys/
Developers commonly populate pre-release tests of their games by giving away Steam beta keys. Valve calls these keys "release override keys," because they grant access to a game before it has released, and developers have to contact Valve if they want more than 1,000 of them.
It's an imperfect system, and today, Valve announced an alternative called Steam Playtest. With Playtest, users can register their interest in a game's beta test by clicking a "Request Access" button on its store page. The developer can then grant access to batches of players from their Steam control panel. No keys are sent or redeemed.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Hero modder spends 3,000 hours translating Planescape: Torment into Japanese
https://www.pcgamer.com/hero-modder-spends-3000-hours-translating-planescape-torment-into-japanese/
Planescape: Torment, the classic RPG we ranked at number 11 in our latest list of the top 100 games on PC, is well-known for its wordiness. Its script is 950,000 words long. Which is presumably why, when it was released in Japan, only the manual was translated.
Official localizations in French, German, Korean, Polish, and Czech are available for the Enhanced Edition these days (though the latter two don't have translated audio, just text). Japanese players remained out of luck, unless they could read English of course. Until one volunteer, a member of the translation circle TRANAZ, sat down for 3,000 hours translating every single word of philosophical rambling, descriptions of the structure of the multiverse, and a floating skull flirting with zombies. They even programmed their own font tool, and the end result has scratched-up menu text that actually looks nicer than the smooth English font.
TRANAZ reached out to Torment's developer to ask about distributing the language pack and were told that sharing it with other players was fine, so long as it was distributed for free with the understanding that the rights to the text remain those of the copyright holder. And that's why, 21 years after its original release, players can download PST_JPMOD and finally experience Planescape: Torment in Japanese.

GAMING NEWS

Activision significantly reduces the free disk-space requirements for COD: Black Ops Cold War
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/activision-significantly-reduces-the-free-disk-space-requirements-for-cod-black-ops-cold-war/
Last month, Activision revealed the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. According to those specs, PC gamers would need 175GB for installing the MP and SP modes, and 250GB for gaming in 4K/Ray Tracing. However, Treyarch has revised and significantly reduced these free hard-disk space requirements.
According to the new specs, PC gamers will now need 82GB for installing both SP and MP modes. The MP mode will weigh around 35GB, and the SP Mode will weigh around 47GB.
>> They've cut it to less than half the original requirement. That's a lot of crap cut off of it.

The developers of Life is Strange have six games in production
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-developers-of-life-is-strange-have-six-games-in-production/
Dontnod Entertainment is slowly becoming the new Telltale Games in the adventure genre. Just like Telltale Games, most of Dontnod’s games are adventure, with a heavy focus on storytelling. Some may call these games “walking simulators”, but the truth is that a large majority of gamers really enjoy these kind of games.

New free update for Terminator: Resistance allows you to become a Terminator T-800
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-free-update-for-terminator-resistance-allows-you-to-become-a-terminator-t-800/
Reef Entertainment has announced a new free update for Terminator Resistance. This free update introduces an Infiltrator Mode, in which players are able to assume the role of a Terminator T-800.