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The Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

GOG has four new deals:

• The new flash deal is DUSK, 55% off until Wednesday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/dusk
• The Special Sale from Bethesda, with up to 80% discounts, will also last until Wednesday: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220324_special_promo_bethesda
• The Weekly Sale features up to 80% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220404_weekly_sale
• And the last one is a GSC Sale in support of Ukraine, featuring 80% discounts during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220404_gsc_for_ukraine

Steam has two new daily deals:

• The first one is GRAVEN, 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371690/GRAVEN/
• The second daily deal is Model Builder, still in Early Access and also 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/

There are new deals at Humble:

• There's a new Humble Bundle: The Killing Floor Collection, including up to 20 itams to get during the next 18 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/killing-floor-collection
• At the Humble Store, there are three new sales:
  • Idea Factory puts its games up to 75% off during the next 4 days. All the keys are for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/idea-factory-publisher-sale/
  • The Arc System Works Publisher Sale brings up to 85% discounts during 4 days. All the keys are for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/arc-system-works-publisher-sale/
  • And the Greatest Hits Sale, with up to 90% discounts, will also last another 4 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG, EGS, UPlay and the Rockstar thing: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/greatest-hits-sale/

And Fanatical

• The new Star Deal is Days Gone, 59% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/days-gone
• The GSC for Ukraine Charity Sale, with up to 80% discounts, will last 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/gsc-game-world
• And publisher Playstation PC LLC Games puts its games on sale during the next 13 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/playstation-pc-llc

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

These mods bring Next-Gen NPCs to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/these-mods-introduce-next-gen-npcs-to-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/
Modder ‘Truceacred’ has released a high-polygon mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition that replaces the headpart of every single humanoid NPC. Thus, and alongside this mod, we’ve decided to share some additional mods that will greatly improve the appearance of NPCs.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition gets an RTS/City Building Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition-gets-an-rts-city-building-mod/
Modder ‘Mattski123’ has ported an amazing RTS/City Building Mod to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. Originally created by ripvanwinkle111 for Skyrim Legacy Edition, this mod introduces city building mechanics to Bethesda’s RPG.
Going into more details, this mod allows you to build a house, store or village. Additionally, they can dynamically place objects, walls, plants and furniture. Moreover, players can recruit villagers and merchants. Not only that, but players can expect random bandit raids or animal attacks.
Everything you place in the game world is paid for with gold or firewood. The default is to pay with firewood and if you don’t have enough, you can use gold.
There are three classes of Merchant; blacksmith, General store and Apothecary. There are also five merchant inventories for each class. Players can recruit up to 200 individually named NPCs, and there are four Militia Squads.

This 45GB Final Fantasy 7 Remake Mod overhauls over 6150 textures
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-45gb-final-fantasy-7-remake-mod-overhauls-over-6150-textures/
Last month, we shared a must-have HD Texture Pack for Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Created by modder ‘Alezein’, that pack overhauled all of the textures of the Sector 7 Slums section. And today, we are presenting you a new version of it that overhauls over 6150 environmental textures.
As the modder noted, this HD Texture Pack takes all the textures below 4K (4096×4096), and replaces them with AI upscaled versions of both C textures (color maps) and N textures (detail maps).

Half-Life Alyx: LEVITATION is a new mod, featuring 5 hours of gameplay
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/half-life-alyx-levitation-is-a-new-mod-featuring-5-hours-of-gameplay/
YouTube’s CoreyLaddo has shared a video for an upcoming mod for Half-Life Alyx, called LEVITATION. Half-Life Alyx: LEVITATION will feature around 4-5 hours of gameplay, and will release in Q3 2022.
Naturally, and as with all mods, LEVITATION will be available for free to all owners of Half-Life Alyx. From the looks of it, this mod will feature new environments (though I’m not sure whether there are any new enemies). Nevertheless, this is something that will excite a lot of Half-Life Alyx owners.

This mod brings The Witcher 3’s Triss Merigold & Yennefer to Monster Hunter World
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/mod-the-witcher-3-triss-merigold-yennefer-monster-hunter-world/
While Monster Hunter Rise has been a huge commercial success on PC, we haven’t really gotten a lot of mods for it. On the other hand, Monster Hunter World received numerous mods, and here is another one for it.
As the title implies, this mod brings Triss Merigold and Yennefer from The Witcher 3 to Capcom’s monster hunting title. Triss will replace the Commission and Rot armor, whereas Yennefer will replace the Brigade armor.

Relaxing walking game A Short Hike has a 99 person multiplayer mod now
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/relaxing-walking-game-a-short-hike-has-a-99-person-multiplayer-mod-now/
A Short Hike was one of the hidden gems of PC Gaming in 2019, a relaxing indie about a bird going on a walk/glide/swim around a nice big park to find all kinds of neat, pretty things as they go. A super-chilled exploration and adventure game with a few puzzles to figure out and all kinds of collectables to amass.
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You can find A Short Hike 99 on itch.io, along with instructions on how to install it if you're using itch, GOG, or Epic. If you're on Steam, you can use the Betas function to switch to a branch called "ashorthike99_mod." To do that, right click on the game, go to "Properties," click "Betas" on the right hand side, and use the drop down menu to select the mod.

Massive Game of Thrones mod for Mount and Blade 2 gets early access release
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/massive-game-of-thrones-mod-for-mount-and-blade-2-gets-early-access-release/
Game of Thrones and Mount and Blade go together like a Stark and an untimely death. We've already had A World of Ice and Fire, which brought George R.R. Martin's grim fantasy saga into Mount and Blade: Warband. It was inevitable that some ambitious modder would attempts to bring the treacherous lands of Westeros into the sequel to TaleWorlds' medieval life sim.
But that inevitability doesn't make Realm of Thrones any less impressive as a project. Released into Early Access yesterday, the total conversion offers a meticulous Thrones-themed overhaul of Bannerlord. Specifically, the mod transposes Bannerlord into the A Song of Ice and Fire universe around the time of the War of the Five Kings. In other words, the point in the story where all the major factions are in play.

Voxel Violence mod adds Minecraft blocks and building to Doom
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/voxel-violence-mod-adds-minecraft-blocks-and-building-to-doom/
It's a running joke that Doom can run on anything, from player-pianos to pregnancy tests. But it's becoming equally true that anything can run on Doom. In the last few years we've seen Doom total conversions that replicate Sonic, Castlevania, even a dystopian version of Thatcher's Britain. Now, some modding mad scientist has Frankenstein-ed Minecraft into id Software's totemic shooter.
Specifically a mod for Doom II, Voxel Violence adds Minecraft-style blocks and a building system into the classic FPS sequel. It functions pretty much exactly like Minecraft's system, letting you stack various types of block onto one another to create structures, obstacles—come on, you know how Minecraft works!

GAMING NEWS

New in-game screenshots leaked from Starfield’s 2018 build
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-in-game-screenshots-leaked-from-starfields-2018-build/
It appears that a new set of in-game screenshots have been leaked from Starfield’s 2018 build. These screenshots showcase some of its assets. However, and since this is a really old WIP build, they do not represent the quality of the final product. Still, they can give you a glimpse at what Bethesda aims to create.

Elden Ring Patch 1.03.3 released, fixes balance issue with Starscourge Radahn
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/elden-ring-patch-1-03-3-released-fixes-balance-issue-with-starscourge-radahn/
FromSoftware has released a brand new update for Elden Ring. This patch will update your game’s version to 1.03.3, and will fix a bug in the balance adjustment of the boss “Starscourge Radahn” in update 1.03, in which the power of some attacks was unintentionally reduced.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint Title Update 4.5.0 releases tomorrow, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-breakpoint-title-update-4-5-0-releases-tomorrow-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has announced that the Title Update 4.5.0 for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint will release tomorrow, April 5th. In addition, the French company has revealed its full patch notes, so go ahead and take a look.