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The Tuesday news, all in one post:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam has a new daily deal, six other sales/deals and also a new range of weeklong deals. Let's start:

• The new daily deal is Citystate II, 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352850/Citystate_II/
• Edge Of Eternity will be 40% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/269190/Edge_Of_Eternity/
• Solasta: Crown of the Magister is going to be 50% off until the 11th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096530/Solasta_Crown_of_the_Magister/
• The Chucklefish Strategy Bundle, that includes the games Wargroove, Halfway and Pathway, will be 62% off until Thursday 11 (the individual games are between 50 and 80% off): https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23031/Chucklefish_Strategy_Bundle/
• Red Solstice 2: Survivors will be 40% off until Friday, 12: https://store.steampowered.com/app/768520/Red_Solstice_2_Survivors/
• Kingdom Two Crowns, that has ademo, will be 60% off until November 17: https://store.steampowered.com/app/701160/Kingdom_Two_Crowns/
• Like at GOG, Thunderful Publishing also puts its games ons ale here, up to 90% off until November 17: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/thunderful-world
• And here's a small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • Detective From The Crypt is 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1352200/Detective_From_The_Crypt/
  • Skellboy Refractured, that has a demo, features a 35% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096100/Skellboy_Refractured/
  • Max's Big Bust - A Captain Nekorai Tale is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/416360/Maxs_Big_Bust__A_Captain_Nekorai_Tale/
  • Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition gets a 75% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/712190/Genesis_Alpha_One_Deluxe_Edition/
  • And BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition is 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/269670/BADLAND_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• Focus Home Interactive puts its games up to 80% off during the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/focus-home-interactive-publisher-sale/
• The Cybernetic Sale comes with up to 86% discounts for the next 6 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG ans EGS(1): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/cybernetic-sale-november/

Fanatical's new Star Deal is Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Legendary Hero Edition, 58% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/yakuza-like-a-dragon-legendary-hero-edition

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GAMING NEWS

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Update 1.4.0 is 20GB on PC, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/assassins-creed-valhalla-update-1-4-0-is-20gb-on-pc-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has announced that Title Update 1.4.0 for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will come out on PC tomorrow. This Update is 20GB in size and adds four new Tombs of the Fallen to the game, as well as support for the Oskoreia Festival.

Electronic Arts has removed Denuvo from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/electronic-arts-has-removed-denuvo-from-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. Electronic Arts and Respawn have just removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
>> It was one of the games that didn't work with Alder Lake.

Vote now for the Golden Joystick Awards' ultimate game and hardware of all time
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/vote-now-for-the-golden-joystick-awards-ultimate-game-and-hardware-of-all-time/
Voting ended for the Golden Joystick Awards 2021 on November 5, but you've still got a chance for you to show some love to your faves—and this time it's not just games that came out in 2021. To celebrate 50 years of videogames, you can now vote for the Ultimate Game of All Time and Best Gaming Hardware of All Time.

MMO Fallen Earth rises from the dead two years after it was shut down
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/mmo-fallen-earth-rises-from-the-dead-2-years-after-it-was-shut-down/
Fallen Earth is a 2009 MMO that has had something of an interesting history. (...)
(...) in 2018, publisher Little Orbit acquired the rights and, a year later, made the decision to temporarily shut it down citing performance problems, old server code, bugs, exploits and, probably most important of all, too few players.
Fallen Earth is now back as Fallen Earth Classic (thanks, MassivelyOP), a version of the MMO that, according to Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott, "balance[s] getting this back online in a reasonable amount of time versus the laundry list of things I'm sure players would have wanted. We did our best."

Back 4 Blood roadmap reveals a new offline mode and Tunnels of Terror expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/back-4-blood-roadmap-reveals-a-new-offline-mode-and-tunnels-of-terror-expansion/
Turtle Rock's co-op zombie shooter Back 4 Blood turned out to be really good—"A triumphant return to the genre it created," we said in our 88% review—and so it's probably not a great surprise to learn that the studio has big plans for it well beyond its initial release.

Activision exec reveals Warzone's new Pacific map, sewn into his jacket
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-exec-reveals-warzones-new-pacific-map-sewn-into-his-jacket/
Call of Duty: Warzone is getting an all-new map set in the Pacific called Caldera, and while it's not releasing for another month, we did finally get a look at the map's layout late last week. The map image didn't come from Infinity Ward or Raven, though, but from Activision chief creative officer Pelle Sjoenell, who as Charlie Intel explained tweeted a picture of a Call of Duty: Vanguard promotional jacket that was given to Warzone content creators and "big names in the community" during an event on November 3.

Discord screen share is causing Forza Horizon 5 to instantly crash for some
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/discord-screen-share-is-causing-forza-horizon-5-to-instantly-crash-for-some/
Forza Horizon 5 players are experiencing the worst kind of crashes. Discord screen sharing is causing both the Steam version (which connects to the Windows Xbox app) and Microsoft Store version to break, according to several reports on Reddit.
>> Remember kids, if you drive, don't share.

Travis Scott's 'Out West' emote removed from Fortnite store following festival tragedy
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/travis-scotts-out-west-emote-removed-from-fortnite-store-following-festival-tragedy/
Travis Scott's "Out West" emote is not currently available in Fortnite following an incident at the performer's Astroworld Festival in Houston last week in which eight people were killed and many others injured.

Deathloop director appointed head of Arkane Lyon
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/deathloop-director-appointed-head-of-arkane-lyon/
Deathloop director Dinga Bakaba is the new head of Arkane Lyon. As spotted by VGC, it looks like Bakaba took up the role in October following the departure of Romuald Capron, who had been with the developer for nearly 17 years.