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The Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG has five deals:

• The first Flash Deal is Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love, 90% off during the next 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/game/irony_curtain_from_matryoshka_with_love
• The second Flash Deal is My Brother Rabbit, also 90% off during the next 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/game/my_brother_rabbit
• The new Weekly Sale is a Pre-Black Friday Sale with up to 90% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211122_weekly_sale
• Publisher Throwback Entertainment offers its games up to 60% off during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211122_throwback_sale
• And, from last week, Focus Home Interactive also puts its games on sale, up to 80% off during another 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/2021_focus_home_interactive_sale

Steam has a new daily deal: I Am Fish, 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1472560/I_Am_Fish/

The Humble Store has a Black Friday Sale that will last the next 12 days. And besides those titles, many other publishers (Bethesda, EA, WB, Capcom, etc.) are joining the fun as well. Check out what they have on sale!

Fanatical also jump on the Black Friday theme:

• There is a Black Friday Sale with more than 4000 items on sale.
• There are daily flash deals, with today's games being Mass Effect Legendary Edition ( 49% off), Days Gone (51% off) and Mordheim: City of the Damned (90% off).
• There are free games to be won for buying games during the sale. Learn more here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/what-free-mystery-games-could-you-find-black-friday
• And there's also a contest to win $500 worth of games. To find out which games are and also take part in it, head over here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/win-black-friday-pc-games-fanatical-ggdeals-giveaway

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

First GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition HD Texture Packs Released
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/first-gta-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-hd-texture-packs-released/
Modders QTmodz and Instanity666 have released the first HD Texture Packs for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.
QTmodz’s Texture Pack features new road/pavement textures for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas The Definitive Edition. On the other hand, Instanity666’s packs feature new road textures for both GTA 3 Definitive Edition and GTA Vice City Definitive Edition.
Instanity666 has also released another must-have mod for the whole trilogy. This mod attempts to fix the awful rain effects that are present in all three remasters.
>> Check the article for the links to those mods, all available from Nexus Mods.

Here is how you can play GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in VR
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/here-is-how-you-can-play-gta-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-in-vr/
Although Rockstar is currently working on a VR version of GTA San Andreas, owners of the recently released The Definitive Edition Trilogy can enable a WIP VR mode. While this VR mode is buggy, it can at least give you an idea of how these three remasters will look in VR.
All you have to do in order to enable VR in GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is download this mod. Horologium Console mod basically adds Unreal Engine console into the game. Then, launch the game, open the UE console, and type “GTA.VR 1”. And that’s it.

You can now mod Skyrim and make it look similar to Borderlands
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/you-can-now-mod-skyrim-and-make-it-look-similar-to-borderlands/
Modder ‘Kanjs’ has released some amazing new mods for Skyrim Special Edition. As the title implies, these mods completely transform Skyrim, making it look similar to Borderlands’ graphic-novel style.
Kanjs has released the following Texture Packs that have this “Borderlands style”. Naturally, you’ll have to install all of them for the complete Borderlands experience.
>> There are 11 packs, all available from Nexus Mods.

This mod brings Dark Souls 2 armors to Dark Souls PTDE & Remastered
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-mod-brings-dark-souls-2-armors-to-dark-souls-ptde-remastered/
Modders Xenthos, Dropoff and Nordgaren have released a simple mod that adds Dark Souls 2 armors to Dark Souls. In our opinion, this is a mod that most Dark Souls 2 fans will appreciate. After all, they will be now able to use their favourite armors in the first game.
According to the modders, the DS2 armors can be found on the undead female merchant in the canal and Rickert of Vinheim.
Thankfully, this mod is available for both the Prepare To Die Edition and the Remastered. You can download the PTDE from here, and the Remastered version from here.

The mod restoring Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's singleplayer is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-mod-restoring-wolfenstein-enemy-territorys-singleplayer-is-out-now/
In 2003, the retail release of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was cancelled, and its multiplayer mode was given away for free. As id and Activision said at the time, "Despite a strong effort from talented developers, the single player portion of the game did not progress as anticipated." Enemy Territory ended up becoming a formative multiplayer shooter, and its influence on the genre is still felt today. But players have always wondered: what would that singleplayer campaign have been like?
Modder William Faure has one answer, with a mod that takes Enemy Territory's maps and connects them together to form a story-driven campaign. There's a trailer for it above, featuring a rad metal version of Für Elise and a whole lot of Nazi-shooting action. A co-op version of the mod will follow on November 30, and is currently in testing.
To play it you'll need to have Return to Castle Wolfenstein installed as well as one of its overhaul mods (iortcw, RealRTCW, RTCW4A, RTCW-Touch, vitaRTCW, or RTCWQuest). The Enemy Territory singleplayer mod is available on ModDB and the Steam Workshop.

GAMING NEWS

Icarus will support Ray Tracing Global Illumination & NVIDIA DLSS
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/icarus-will-support-ray-tracing-global-illumination-nvidia-dlss/
RocketWerkz has announced that its upcoming survival game, Icarus, will support both Ray Tracing and NVIDIA’s DLSS tech. RocketWerkz has partnered with NVIDIA and will be using Ray Tracing in order to enhance the game’s Global Illumination.

GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Update 1.02 fixes numerous issues, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/gta-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-update-1-02-fixes-numerous-issues-full-patch-notes/
Rockstar has released the first post-launch patch for GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. According to the changelog, this update fixes numerous bugs, glitches and issues in all three GTA games.

DICE pitched Battlefront 3 to EA but was shot down, two story-driven single-player Star Wars games in development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dice-pitched-battlefront-3-to-ea-but-was-shot-down-two-story-driven-single-player-star-wars-games-in-development/
According to industry insider Tom Henderson, DICE pitched Battlefront 3 to EA for its next title. However, the publisher has shot it down due to licensing costs. As such, DICE is now – most likely – working on a new Battlefield game. Thankfully, though, there are currently two story-driven single-player Star Wars games in development at EA.

Here are twelve minutes of gameplay from Babylon’s Fall Closed Beta
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-twelve-minutes-of-gameplay-from-babylons-fall-closed-beta/
Gamespot has shared a video, showing 12 minutes of gameplay footage from Babylon’s Fall’s latest Closed Beta. This video will give you an idea of how the game plays in this beta build. It will also give you a glimpse at its visuals/graphics.

Microsoft Flight Simulator Patch 1.21.13.0 adds beta support for DX12
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-patch-1-21-13-0-adds-beta-support-for-dx12/
Microsoft and Asobo have released a brand new update for Microsoft Flight Simulator that adds beta support for the DirectX 12 API. However, and contrary to what you may have seen on YouTube, this update does NOT add any Ray Tracing effects.

IO Interactive will add Ray Tracing & VR support to Hitman 3 in 2022
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/io-interactive-will-add-ray-tracing-vr-support-to-hitman-3-in-2022/
IO Interactive has announced its future plans for Hitman 3. According to the game’s 2022 roadmap, IO Interactive will add Ray Tracing and VR support to it.