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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG's new Weekly Sale is full of platformers up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/platformers_galore

Fanatical has three new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Sid Meier’s Civilization VI Platinum Edition, 75% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-platinum-edition-aspyr
• The new Mega Bundle 2 brings 20 games with a 99% discount during the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/mega-bundle-2
• And the Killer Bundle 15 features 8 games plus 1 DLC up to 97% off split into two tiers of 8 and 9 games respectively: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-15

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Nintendo Switch emulators can already run Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury on PC with 60fps
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nintendo-switch-emulators-can-already-run-super-mario-3d-worldbowsers-fury-on-pc-with-60fps/
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is a new Mario game that has just been released on Nintendo Switch. And, from the looks of it, both Yuzu and Ryujinx can run this new Mario game with 60fps on the PC.
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From what we can see, there are some slowdowns due to the game generating some shaders. My guess is that future versions of these emulators will address this issue. Still, it’s really cool witnessing a new Nintendo Switch game running (on launch day) via these two emulators.
>> There's a couple of videos, in case you want to check it out.

Fallout 4 gets an unofficial Photo Mode, available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fallout-4-unofficial-photo-mode-download/
Modder ‘reg2k’ has released an unofficial Photo Mode for Fallout 4. This mode is accessible from the Pause menu or via a hotkey and lets you capture some lovely high-quality screenshots from the game.
As the modder noted, Photo Mode works with both KB/M and controllers. You can download the mod from here. Below you can also find its key features.

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas gets a 4.6GB AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-gets-a-4-6gb-ai-enhanced-hd-texture-pack/
Modder ‘Kadakash’ has released an AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. This pack is 4.6GB in size, and uses AI techniques in order to upscale all of the game’s texture by four times.
Going into slightly more details, this mod improves the textures of all weapons, vegetation, decals, pedestrians, UI and skybox. Do note that since this an AI-enhanced Texture Pack, the new textures look similar to the vanilla ones. So, while the new textures retain the same art style, they are not THAT much different. Still, we are pretty sure that some GTA: SA fans will find it interesting.
>> Available from Nexus Mods.

Enderal, the biggest Skyrim mod ever, is being made compatible with Skyrim Special Edition
https://www.pcgamer.com/enderal-the-biggest-skyrim-mod-ever-is-being-made-compatible-with-skyrim-special-edition/
Last month SureAI, the team behind the hugely popular Skyrim overhaul Enderal, announced they have moved on to focus on a commercial project, and won't be updating Enderal to be compatible with Skyrim Special Edition (the original version required "Oldrim" to play). However, fans have since taken on the task and created a version of Enderal that runs in the Skyrim Special Edition engine, with a Steam release on the way.
Advantages of being able to play Enderal in Skyrim Special Edition include "smoother image quality and improved lighting effects" as well as "Best performance and stability", they say. It also makes a VR version possible, and someone's working on a VR mod already.

Skyrim mod Wyrmstooth returns, years after being deleted
https://www.pcgamer.com/skyrim-mod-wyrmstooth-returns-years-after-being-deleted/
After being taken offline in 2016 when its creator Jonx0r retired from modding, the popular expansion-sized Skyrim mod Wyrmstooth has returned. Jonx0r has uploaded a new version of Wyrmstooth, and apparently returned to the modding scene.
Wyrmstooth adds a fully voiced new questline, set after the events of Skyrim's main story, in which the Dragonborn is hired to defeat a dragon that is harassing the ships of the East Empire Company. Your job is to assemble a team of mercenary companions and travel to the island of Wyrmstooth, which features a variety of sidequests and a gigantic dungeon. To promote the updated version of the mod, Jonx0r made a trailer using text-to-speech software trained on several of the familiar voices of Skyrim.

Fans have reverse-engineered Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/fans-have-reverse-engineered-grand-theft-auto-3-vice-city/
It appears that fans have reverse-engineered two classic GTA games, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City. And while for the average Joe this does not mean much, it opens up the doors for more mods, as well as unofficial ports to other platforms.
According to the devs, both of them work on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, on x86, amd64, arm and arm64. Rendering is handled either by original RenderWare (D3D8) or the reimplementation librw (D3D9, OpenGL 2.1 or above, OpenGL ES 2.0 or above). On the other hand, MSS (using dlls from original GTA) and/or OpenAL are responsible for their audio.
>> There's a link to download the codes in the article (from GitHub), for those interested.

GAMING NEWS

Biomutant PC Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/biomutant-pc-requirements/
Experiment 101 has revealed the official PC system requirements for Biomutant. According to the developers, PC gamers will at least need an AMD FX-8350 or Intel Core i5-4690K with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380.