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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Offworld Trading Company and Obduction are free on Epic Games Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/offworld-trading-company-and-obduction-are-free-on-epic-games-store/
Epic Games has announced that Offworld Trading Company and Obduction are currently available for free on Epic Games Store. From today and until July 22nd, PC gamers can visit their EGS pages and acquire their free copies.
>> And next week, the free games will be "Defense Grid: The Awakening" and "Verdun".

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is the Far Cry 5 + Far Cry New Dawn Deluxe Edition Bundle, 85% off during the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/far-cry-5-far-cry-new-dawn-deluxe-edition-bundle
• The new All Stars 14 Bundle comes with 7 games at a 98% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/all-stars-bundle-14
• Also, Fanatical is doing a user survey, and there are 100 $5 vouchers to win. If you're interested, head over here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/fanatical-user-survey-have-your-say-chance-win-spending-spree

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.7.1 improves performance in F1 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-21-7-1-improves-performance-in-f1-2021/
AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.7.1 driver adds support for Radeon RX 6600M and 6700M, and increases performance in F1 2021.
Going into slightly more details, this new driver increases performance by up to 6% in F1 2021 at 4K/Ultra High/Ray Tracing. Additionally, the driver improves performance by up to 26% at 1080p/Ultra/No-RT.
>> Available from here.

AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution world just got a whole lot bigger
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amd-fsr-resident-evil-village-unity-unreal-engine/
AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution is seriously expanding as of today. As well as being added into Resident Evil Village at some point next week, the source code for team Radeon's spatial upscaling technology has just been made available to everyone via the GPUOpen platform.
Maybe more importantly for broader future implementation of the upscaling tech, it has today been released, via a beta branch, for the Unity game engine, and as a patch for registered Unreal Engine developers, too. With effectively native support for FSR now baked into two of the biggest third-party game development engines around, there is almost no reason for any game built from them not to incorporate the performance bumping feature.
>> It's not just RE VIII, but also "Arcadegeddon", "Necromunda: Hired Gun" and "Edge Of Eternity".

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Chapter 2 for the Half-Life Blue Shift Remake in Black Mesa is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/chapter-2-for-the-half-life-blue-shift-remake-in-black-mesa-is-now-available-for-download/
In March 2021, we informed you about a Half-Life Blue Shift remake in the Black Mesa engine, Black Mesa: Blue Shift. And today, we are happy to report that HECU Collective has released its second chapter.
In Black Mesa: Blue Shift, players will relive the Black Mesa Incident as Gordon Freeman’s best friend, Barney Calhoun. This fan remake currently has the first two chapters of Blue Shift. These chapters are Living Quarters Outbound and Insecurity.
Additionally, HECU Collective added keyboard/mouse/xbox controller icons in the binding options in the new UI. The team also redid some dialogues in the first chapter, fixed some bugs and extended it’s ending for a few minutes.
>> You can find it at ModDB.

GAMING NEWS

Electronic Arts will not show any new Star Wars game at EA Play 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-will-not-show-any-new-star-wars-game-at-ea-play-2021/
Electronic Arts has just announced that it will be not showing any new Star Wars game at its upcoming gaming event, EA Play 2021. However, the company hinted that we’ll get more Star Wars news next year.

NieR Automata’s 14.3GB Steam Patch removes Denuvo anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nier-automatas-14-3gb-steam-patch-removes-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/
As promised, Square Enix has just released the first patch for the PC version of NieR Automata. And, alongside all the changes, improvements and tweaks, this patch also removes the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.

Warhammer 40K: Darktide has been delayed until Spring 2022
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warhammer-40k-darktide-has-been-delayed-until-spring-2022/
Fatshark has announced that its 4-player co-op Warhammer game, Warhammer 40K: Darktide, has been delayed until Spring 2022. Fatshark plans to use the extra time to both focus on the level of quality at release, as well as invest in more systems to support Darktide for years to come.

Bless Unleashed releases on August 6th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bless-unleashed-releases-on-august-6th/
NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio have announced that their upcoming open-world online game, Blesh Unleashed, will release on August 6th. In addition, the teams released a new trailer that you can find below.