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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Black Desert Online Remastered is free to own on Steam until April 13th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/black-desert-online-remastered-is-free-to-own-on-steam-until-april-13th/
Pearl Abyss is currently offering its MMORPG, Black Desert Online, for free. From today and until April 13th, PC gamers can visit its Steam store page and acquire their free copy. Since this is a “free to own” offer, you will be able to keep the game yours forever, and play it whenever you want.

The new free games at the Epic Store are two:

• Rogue Legacy: https://store.epicgames.com/es-ES/p/rogue-legacy
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: https://store.epicgames.com/es-ES/p/the-vanishing-of-ethan-carter

Next week, the free games will be Insurmountable and XCOM 2.

Steam has two new deals:

• The Captain will be 25% off until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1721530/The_Captain/
• And the Early Access title House Party will get a 40% discount until April 13: https://store.steampowered.com/app/611790/House_Party/

And there's a new Humble Bundle: the Industrious Sim Bundle, featuring up to 9 games during the next 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/industrious-sims-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

GOG is returning to its 'Good Old Games' roots
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/gog-is-returning-to-its-good-old-games-roots/
In 2012, the online retailer formerly known as Good Old Games rebranded itself as GOG and began selling current releases, while promising to remain committed to DRM-free distribution and the absence of regional pricing. While GOG continued adding older games to the catalogue, they sat alongside more up-to-date releases. (A look at the banner on top of GOG.com today shows Horizon Zero Dawn beneath a rerelease of The Wheel of Time, which first came out in 1999.) Today, GOG announced a plan to "come back to our classic roots".
Don't expect the name to change again or those new releases to vanish from the shop. Instead, the aim is to make classic games more visible and the first step is a "revival of [the] Good Old Games concept". The newly added Good Old Game tag highlights more than 500 games, each of which is over a decade old and widely considered a classic, though you're welcome to quibble with the specifics of individual games.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Remedy is officially working on remakes of Max Payne & Max Payne 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/remedy-is-officially-working-on-remakes-of-max-payne-max-payne-2/
Remedy Entertainment has announced that it will remake the iconic Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne games in a new development agreement with Rockstar Games.
>> At least these remakes will be made by a competent studio, unlike the GTA remasters. Anyway, Ryuu96 has made a thread about it.