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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

A Plague Tale: Innocence and Speed Brawl are free on Epic Games Store this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-plague-tale-innocence-and-speed-brawl-are-free-on-epic-games-store-this-week/
Today, Epic is switching up its offering of free games, and lets you grab A Plague Tale: Innocence and Speed Brawl for free. This is a great time to grab A Plague Tale especially, since the sequel was announced at this year's E3. Plague Tale tells the story of siblings Amicia and Hugo, who find themselves hunted by the Inquisition in 14th century France. The game portrays the horrors of that time rather thoughtfully, from war to, well, the Plague, and the siblings have to face plenty of horrors on their journey.
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Speed Brawl is a side scrolling brawler/racer hybrid with some seriously slick animations. In each course, you're supposed to reach the goal as fast as possible, but waves of enemies are trying to get in your way, naturally. I like the cartoon-y art style and there are many characters to meet—it even tells its story with visual novel-style conversation bits and comic book panel cutscenes. Definitely worth a look.
>> Since the article comes a day earlier than usual, we still don't know which game(s) will be given next week.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition sales exceeded EA’s expectations
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mass-effect-legendary-edition-sales-exceeded-eas-expectations/
Mass Effect Legendary Edition remasters the first three Mass Effect games and came out in May. And, according to EA, its sales exceeded its expectations.
As EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson said during the company’s latest conference call.
“The launch of Mass Effect Legendary Edition – the remaster of the first three Mass Effect games – reignited the passion of fans around the world, driving sales performance well above our expectations.”
This is definitely good news as Mass Effect Legendary Edition only features single-player games. Not only that, but it does not have any micro-transactions. So, let’s hope that EA will get it this time, and start investing more in single-player games.
>> I doubt they'll get it.

GOG gets a new release and also a sale with extra steps:

• The game Haven Park launches on the store with a 15% discount until August 12: https://www.gog.com/game/haven_park
• Also, the store is giving a 85% redeem discount to purchase Hitman games during the next 72 hours. Check it out by yourselves.

There's a new Humble Bundle: the Remarkable Roguelikes Bundle, featuring 7 games to get during the next 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/remarkable-roguelikes.

Fanatical has launched the Platinum Collection BYOB for August, with 20 games to build your 3, 5 or 7 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Skyrim third-person mod looks dope
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-skyrim-third-person-mod-looks-dope/
One of the truisms about Bethesda games, and I love them for it, is that they look hilariously bad in third-person. The default first-person perspective? You can almost hear the deep voiceover booming "epic fantasy adventure!" Stick it in third person, and almost immediately the voice transforms into yakety sax music as your avatar stiffly bumbles o'er the landscape.
There are already, of course, a ton of Skyrim mods that make various tweaks to the third-person view (here's the best of the best Skyrim: SE mods). The big deal with the True Directional Movement mod (first clocked by Eurogamer) is not just that it allows full 360° movement, though this is the core feature. It's ended up layering a bunch of other additions on top to make it feel like a more contemporary third person action game: such as, for example, a target lock which can also be used for aiming projectiles.
>> You can find it at Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

New PC demo released for F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-pc-demo-released-for-f-i-s-t-forged-in-shadow-torch/
TiGames and bilibili have released a new PC demo for F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch on Steam. This new demo showcases the game’s early stages, and will be available until August 10th.
>> Available from here.

Here are six minutes of gameplay from Tom Clancy’s XDefiant
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-six-minutes-of-gameplay-from-tom-clancys-xdefiant/
The closed beta phase for Tom Clancy’s XDefiant is currently underway and IGN has shared a video, showing six minutes of gameplay footage from it.

Aliens Fireteam Elite Day-One Update will add Horde Mode, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/aliens-fireteam-elite-day-one-update-will-add-horde-mode-full-patch-notes/
Aliens Fireteam Elite releases on August 24th and Cold Iron Studios has detailed its day-1 update. According to the team, this first patch will a Horde Mode to the game.