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The Thursday news, and there are some of them!

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

There are no more daily free games on the Epic Store and they've gone back to the weekly free ones. The new ones are the new Tomb Raider games, free from today until January 6th;

• Tomb Raider GOTY: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/tomb-raider
• Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/rise-of-the-tomb-raider
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider

Next week, the free game will be Gods Will Fall.

Fanatical has a new bundle: the BYO New Year Bundle, with 24 games to build your 1, 5 or 10 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-new-year-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

-Enpty-

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Far Cry – Definitive Edition Mod vs Original Comparison Video
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/far-cry-definitive-edition-mod-vs-original-comparison-video/
Modder ‘DarkChampion’ is currently working on a graphics mod for the first Far Cry game, called Far Cry Definitive Edition. And although there isn’t any ETA on when this mod will come out, the modder released a comparison video between the modded and the original/vanilla versions.
The primary focus of this mod is to improve the game’s Level of Detail values. As such, the modder has increased general Level View Distance by almost 3 times. Moreover, he deleted the LODs for Geometry and Textures. This will result in a more cohesive image, though there will be a noticeable performance hit. Additionally, he made some changes to the FOG Distance, and more vegetation for many levels.
Furthermore, the modder increased the running speed for all weapons, added the new mutant Screwed with working animation from the Far Cry Demo, and made some AI tweaks.
>> The video has been deleted, but at least now you know about this mod.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake gets an in-game character customization mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/final-fantasy-7-remake-gets-an-in-game-character-customization-mod/
Narknon, YudoKubos and AntonDickens have released a cool new mod for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade. As the title suggests, this mod allows you to customize your main characters in the game.
According to the modders, players can currently customize the Eyes, Hair, Glasses and Clothes. The mod currently supports Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Aerith, RedXIII, and Yuffie. By using the hotkeys, you can cycle through a variety of options.
You can download the mod from here. Also note that this mod requires basemod 3dmigoto to function (that you can download from here).

GAMING NEWS

Unreal Engine 5-powered first-person horror game, ILL, gets a teaser gameplay video
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/unreal-engine-5-powered-first-person-horror-game-ill-gets-a-teaser-gameplay-video/
Team Clout has released the first teaser gameplay video for its upcoming first-person horror game, ILL. ILL will be using Unreal Engine 5, and this teaser video can give you a glimpse at what this indie team aims to achieve.

New gameplay trailer surfaces for Madmind Studio’s horror game, PARANOID
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-gameplay-trailer-surfaces-for-madmind-studios-horror-game-paranoid/
Madmind Studios has released a brand new official gameplay trailer for its upcoming horror game, PARANOID. Madmind is the team behind AGONY and SUCCUBUS, so let’s hope that this new title will be better than those.

Be a skeletal accountant in this spreadsheet game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/be-a-skeletal-accountant-in-this-spreadsheet-game/
In the world of video games there are some of us who are very, very happy to play a game that looks like a spreadsheet. Game designers, on the other hand, spend a lot of time designing systems inside of spreadsheets. Alexander King, a professor of game design at NYU's Game Center, gave his students an assignment: Make a prototype game that exists within a spreadsheet.
One of these projects, by design student Jordan Grayson, is Dividends & Decay: Accounting for the Damned, and it's somewhere between a joke about my favorite kind of game and an actual example of my favorite kind of game. Described thusly: "Play as an undead accountant managing the evil spreadsheets of a necromancer!"

Try out the Cold War tactics of Regiments in its free playtest
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/try-out-the-cold-war-tactics-of-regiments-in-its-free-playtest/
How about a big fat single player campaign RTS about your classic cold war Germany conflict scenario? Regiments is going to be just that when it releases in 2022, with a dynamic campaign about wide-scale warfare in the East-West German border region in 1989. It's a pretty large scale game, intended to let you control platoons rather than individual squads or units, putting you in the role of commanding officer rather than lieutenant or sergeant.

Here's a free visual novel about Communist Poland
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/heres-a-free-visual-novel-about-communist-poland/
Want a nice, sort-of-depressing visual novel about Communist Poland to round out the year? Do you want it to be free? Of course you do.
In Martial Law, you play a lower class man who's left behind by the government of Warsaw Pact Poland. Trying your best to take care of your daughter, he wants to try and have a better lift. It's a classic visual novel setup, with plenty of endings to find and issues to solve and/or not. I called it depressing earlier, but there's a happy ending if you want to go looking for it.
>> It's on Steam.

Last edited by JEMC - on 30 December 2021