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Let's go with the Friday news!

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Textorcist is free to own on Epic Games Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-textorcist-is-free-to-own-on-epic-games-store/
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia is currently free to own on Epic Games Store. You can grab the game without charge until November 19th. Elite Dangerous & The World Next Door will also be available for free, the week after.
>> A shame that Elite Dangerous doesn't have a single player mode. Oh, well, a couple week without adding new games to my backlog.

The Humble Store has a new Bandai Namco Sale, with up to 84% discounts for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/bandai-namco-publisher-sale/

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Epic Games offers 3000+ assets from What Remains of Edith Finch for free
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-offers-3000-assets-from-what-remains-of-edith-finch-for-free/
Epic Games, Annapurna InteractiveRemove and Giant Sparrow are offering for free over 3000 assets from What Remains of Edith Finch. According to Epic, this is an Unreal Engine initiative that brings free high-quality content to all creators.
Epic claims that this will be the first in a series of new, free content coming to the Unreal Engine Marketplace from teams across the community. As such, creators can expect more free content from other Unreal Engine games to be available for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

DOSBox Pure promises to be "A new way to experience the past"
https://www.pcgamer.com/dosbox-pure-promises-to-be-a-new-way-to-experience-the-past/
Indie developer Bernhard Schelling has announced DOSBox Pure, a forthcoming version of the open-source DOS emulator designed to be compatible with emulator frontend RetroArch, which has struggled with it in the past. DOSBox Pure will include new features like the ability to launch games directly from zip files and mount CD images from them, as well as full controller support, with mouse, keyboard, and joystick mapping. It'll have a cheat menu and the ability to search for new cheats in a game's code, and support for save states as demonstrated by a clip of some classic reloading until you hit an unlikely shot in Jagged Alliance.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Half-Pint somehow crams Half-Life into a few small rooms
https://www.pcgamer.com/half-pint-somehow-crams-half-life-into-a-few-small-rooms/
I'm sure we all get that urge to replay Half-Life every now and then. But who even has the time to wander aimlessly through Black Mesa's subterranean labyrinth these days? Thankfully, modder MrFloyd has compressed Gordon Freeman's bloody journey into a single level, as part of collaborative Half-Life mod TWHL Tower 2.
Following its 2016 predecessor, TWHL Tower 2 tasks you with working your way through an awfully strange tower block. Each floor is its own bespoke level created by a member of the Half-Life mapping community, resetting your health and weapons each floor to give you a fresh start on each map.
>> You can also download it from ModDB.

GAMING NEWS

Arkane’s DEATHLOOP is coming to PC in May 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/arkanes-deathloop-is-coming-to-pc-in-may-2021/
Bethesda has announced that Arkane’s DEATHLOOP will release on May 21st, 2021. DEATHLOOP aims to continue Arkane’s signature gameplay design, challenging gamers to play their own way.

Here are the first 15 minutes of Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War’s campaign
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-the-first-15-minutes-of-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-wars-campaign/
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War is the sixth first-person shooter title in the Black Ops series. It’s also the seventeenth installment of the Call of Duty series. The original Call of Duty was released almost exactly seventeen years ago.

Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition is officially coming to the PC in February 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nioh-2-the-complete-edition-is-officially-coming-to-the-pc-in-february-2021/
KOEI Tecmo has just announced that Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition will be officially coming to the PC on February 5th, 2021. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has also released a new trailer that you can find below.