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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Beat Saber slashes VR sales records after shipping 4 million copies
https://www.pcgamer.com/beat-saber-slashes-vr-sales-records-after-shipping-4-million-copies/
Beat Saber has officially sold over 4 million copies, along with over 40 million paid DLC songs.
The game's team took to Twitter to thank everybody for playing the game, adding "this is just the beginning." Beat Saber has doubled its sales in less than a year after Oculus reported in 2020 that it had crossed the threshold of 2 million copies sold, two years after initial release.

Chinese open-world RPG rockets to the top of Steam with over 170,000 concurrent players
https://www.pcgamer.com/chinese-open-world-rpg-rockets-to-the-top-of-steam-with-over-170000-concurrent-players/
Tale of Immortal (or 鬼谷八荒) is an Early Access sandbox sim that's only been out a week, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming one of the most popular games on Steam. Earlier today, concurrent players peaked at just over 172,000 people, making it the fifth most popular game on Steam—beating out Grand Theft Auto 5 and Rust. Players seem to really enjoy Tale of Immortal too, as it now has over 15,000 positive Steam user reviews, giving it an 86 percent positive rating. Not bad for an Early Access game that just launched a few days ago with Simplified Chinese as its only available language option.

Steam has two new deals:

• The new daily deal is Opus Magnum, 66% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/558990/Opus_Magnum/
• And Citadel: Forged with Fire is free to try during the next 3 days and also 60% off until Tuesday 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/487120/Citadel_Forged_with_Fire/

Fanatical has the new Staff Picks Bundle 2, with 10 games at a 97% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/staff-picks-bundle-2

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Steam Game Festival has been launched, offering a lot of free game demos
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/steam-game-festival-has-been-launched-offering-a-lot-of-free-game-demos/
Valve has launched a new Steam Game Festival, offering a lot of free PC game demos. From today and until February 21st, PC gamers can find and download numerous indie game demos.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

The next Nioh could feature open-ended gameplay similar to Dark Souls
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-next-nioh-could-feature-open-ended-gameplay-similar-to-dark-souls/
Nioh 2: Complete Edition is only a couple of days away. (...)
The director of Nioh, Fumihiko Yasuda, has recently given an interview to Games Talk. According to the director the original plan for Nioh is to have open-ended gameplay similar to Dark Souls.
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That was the original plan for Nioh, but never came through. Nevertheless, the third installment of Nioh might go that way.

Hellish Quart is a realistic sword dueling title developed by senior animator of Witcher 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hellish-quart-is-a-realistic-sword-dueling-title-developed-by-senior-animator-of-witcher-3/
Hellish Quart is a physics-based, realistic sword dueling game, set in the 17th century. The lead developer of the game is an ex-senior animator for the Witcher 3.

Subnautica 3 is a possibility along with multiplayer and VR support
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/subnautica-3-is-a-possibility-along-with-multiplayer-and-vr-support/
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Subnautica: Below Zero is still on Early Access, and the developers are already working on another game. It will probably be something different. However the possibility of another Subnautica is very high.
According to the developers, multiplayer was not an option with Below Zero. It was initially meant as an expansion pack for the original game. So multiplayer and VR made no sense. However, all these features could be in the next Subnautica game.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition PC Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mass-effect-legendary-edition-pc-requirements/
Electronic Arts and Bioware have revealed the official PC system requirements for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-8350 with 8GB of RAM. Moreover, EA has listed the NVIDIA GTX 760 and AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X as the minimum required GPUs.

eFootball PES 2021 Season Update Data Pack 4.0 now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/efootball-pes-2021-season-update-data-pack-4-0-now-available-for-download/
Konami has released Data Pack 4.0 for eFootball PES 2021 Season Update. According to the team, this update adds over 70 face updates, including several from Partner Clubs.

Nioh 2 Complete Edition suffers from some annoying PC issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nioh-2-complete-edition-suffers-from-pc-optimization-issues/
Nioh 2 Complete Edition releases tomorrow and, unfortunately, it suffers from some PC issues. As such, we’ve decided to delay our PC Performance Analysis until Team Ninja releases its first post-launch update.