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The Thursday news

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Core Keeper blasts past half a million downloads on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/core-keeper-blasts-past-half-a-million-downloads-on-steam/
Core Keeper, the charming Terraria-like underground survival sim, has sold over half a million copies since launching in Early Access on March 8. This explosion in popularity can be traced in part to positive attention from streamers: Core Keeper streams are approaching 2 million views on Twitch.

The free game at the Epic Store is Demon's Tilt: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/demons-tilt
Next week, the free games will be two: City of Brass and Total War: WARHAMMER.

Steam has two new daily deals:

• The first daily deal is SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator, still in Early Access and 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293180/SuchArt_Genius_Artist_Simulator/
• The second daily deal is Day of Infamy, 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/447820/Day_of_Infamy/

There's a new Humble Bundle: the Europa Universalis IV Complete Bundle, featuring the game and up to 32 DLCs to get during the next 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/europa-universalis-iv-complete.

And Fanatical has launched the new Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle, featuring 57 games plus 1 DLC: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/stand-with-ukraine-charity-bundle.

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GAMING NEWS

God of War Patch 1.0.9 can improve performance by up to 20% in CPU-heavy areas
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/god-of-war-patch-1-0-9-can-improve-performance-by-up-to-20-in-cpu-heavy-areas/
Santa Monica Studio and Jetpack Interactive have released a new patch for the PC version of God of War. According to the release notes, Update 1.0.9 implements small object culling to help reduce the number of objects that the CPU can process. As such, it can improve performance by up to 20% in CPU-heavy areas.

New Forspoken Tech Video shows off AMD FSR & DirectStorage
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-forspoken-tech-demo-shows-off-amd-fsr-directstorage/
Luminous Productions has released a new tech video for its upcoming game, Forspoken. This video shows off some of the graphical techniques that it will be using, including AMD FSR and DirectStorage.
>> It's the game/video used for the The Verge article that Yuri posted, but that doesn't include the video itself.