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The Thursday news:

Let me tell you that the PC Secret Santa thread is open! If you want to join, come here: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/243930/the-11th-semi-annual-pc-secret-santa-event/

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam has two new daily deals:

• Killsquad, Still in Early Access, is the first daily deal, 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/910490/Killsquad/
• The other one is SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising, 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/528230/SYNTHETIK_Legion_Rising/

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• Headup Games has a Pre-Xmas Sale with up to 80% discounts for the next four days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/headup-publisher-sale/
• And the Kojima Productions Anniversary Sale puts it's only game 50% off for the next 19 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/kojima-productions-anniversary-sale/

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, 77% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-definitive-edition
• And the new Nitro Bundle comes with 6 racing games plus 6 DLCs with a 98% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/nitro-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Free Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 Arcade Mugen 2020 games bring new life to Midway’s classic fighting games
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/free-mortal-kombat-1-2-arcade-mugen-2020-classic-fighting-games/
Mugen developers Fabian Arispe and Billie Rodriguez have released two new updates for Mortal Kombat Mugen and Mortal Kombat 2 Mugen. These updates bring some balance tweaks, new movements and various improvements to these free MK games.
Both of the MK1 and MK2 Mugen games bring major gameplay improvements. For instance, they introduce combos for all players and add the Run button from MK3. Additionally, they add new fatalities for all characters.
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You can download Mortal Kombat Arcade Mugen and Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade Mugen from here. Also note that Mortal Kombat Komplete 2020 features a 2D version of Mortal Kombat 4.

This Mod for Skyrim Special Edition overhauls the grass and ground textures of all regions
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/this-mod-for-skyrim-special-edition-overhauls-the-grass-and-ground-textures-of-all-regions/
Modder ‘Velanimus’ has released a brand new HD Texture Pack for Skyrim Special Edition, overhauling its grass and ground textures for all regions. This pack also provides a complete set of landscape and LOD textures on top of the grass models. Thus, the transition between the detailed and the LOD textures will be seamless.
Going into more details, this HD Texture Pack comes with dozens of new high-resolution grass textures, complemented by matching ground textures and pre-crafted, fitting LODs. In addition, every region of Skyrim has its own look with different grasses and colors. To offer optimal performance, the grass models are mostly simple meshes and make use of hand-edited mip maps. As such, the grass fields now have a denser look (with even moderate density settings).
>> You can get it from Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

CRSED, Enlisted, Mordhau and Warface now support NVIDIA Reflex
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crsed-enlisted-mordhau-and-warface-now-support-nvidia-reflect/
NVIDIA announced that four new first-person shooter games now support its NVIDIA Reflex tech. These four FPS games are Warface, Enlisted, Mordhau and CRSED.

Marvel’s Avengers Update 1.4.1.7 available for download, full patch notes revealed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/marvels-avengers-update-1-4-1-7-available-for-download-full-patch-notes-revealed/
Crystal Dynamics has released a new update for Marvel’s Avengers that is available for download on Steam. According to the release notes, Update 1.4.1.7 brings two new Minor Artifacts (two ISO-8s and two Norn Stones).

Halo The Master Chief Collection December 2020 Update released and detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/halo-the-master-chief-collection-december-2020-update-released-and-detailed/
343 Industries has released the December 2020 Update for Halo The Master Chief Collection, which brings numerous tweaks and improvements to all Halo games.

New Death Stranding Update brings Cyberpunk 2077-themed free content
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-death-stranding-update-brings-cyberpunk-2077-themed-free-content/
Kojima Productions has released a brand new update for the PC version of Death Stranding, that brings to the game some new free Cyberpunk 2077-themed content. This content is exclusive to the PC, and adds six new missions featuring characters and lore from Cyberpunk 2077.

Sperasoft and CCP Games are working on a brand new game
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sperasoft-and-ccp-games-are-working-on-a-brand-new-game/
Sperasoft has announced its partnership with CCP Games, the creators of EVE Online, for a brand new game. According to the press release, this new game will be an online shooter that will be set in the EVE universe.

Crysis Remastered PC Update 2.0 adds the Ascension level, brings further performance improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crysis-remastered-pc-update-2-0-adds-the-ascension-level-brings-further-performance-improvements/
After a rocky launch, Crytek has done its best to improve the PC version of Crysis Remastered. And today, the team released a new update that brings back to the game the Ascension level. Yeap, Ascension is now available in Crysis Remastered.