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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam has lots of new sales, including the weeklong deals:

• BIOMUTANT will be 67% off until May 26: https://store.steampowered.com/app/597820/BIOMUTANT/
• Train Sim World 2 gets a 35% discount until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282590/Train_Sim_World_2/
• The Steam Racing Fest brings up to 80% discounts until May 30: https://store.steampowered.com/category/racing/
• Destiny 2 puts its DLCs on sale, with up to 50% discount until the 6th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085660/Destiny_2/
• And here's a sample of the weeklong deals:
  • Kingdoms and Castles gets a 30% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/569480/Kingdoms_and_Castles/
  • Maneater is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/629820/Maneater/
  • GreedFall - Gold Edition gets a 60% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/595711/
  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/241260/Sherlock_Holmes_Crimes_and_Punishments/
  • And Agent A: A puzzle in disguise, that has a demo, gets a 90% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/801480/Agent_A_A_puzzle_in_disguise/

Fanatical has four new deals:

• The new Star Deal is The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, 66% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-walking-dead-the-telltale-definitive-series
• The new bundles added to BundleFest are: BioShock: The Collection, XCOM: Ultimate Collection and Diamond Collection BYOB.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Operation Half-Real is a Half-Life-inspired free game in Unreal Engine 4
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/operation-half-real-is-a-half-life-inspired-free-game-in-unreal-engine-4/
Modder ‘gclocker’ is working on a Half-Life-inspired free game in Unreal Engine 4, called Operation Half-Real. As the title implies, this free game aims to create a Half-Life experience in Unreal Engine 4, and below you can find the first gameplay footage from it.
From what we can see, this fan game will be using the original assets of Half-Life. However, and thanks to Unreal Engine 4, the modder will also implement some modern-day techniques.

This Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod upscales all the textures of antagonists
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-red-dead-redemption-2-mod-upscales-all-the-textures-of-antagonists/
There is no doubt that Red Dead Redemption 2 remains one of the best-looking games on PC. However, the game does have a number of low-resolution textures here and there. In order to slightly address this issue, modder “AClassySliceOfToast” released an HD Texture Pack that overhauls the textures of the game’s villains/antagonists.
According to its description, this pack upscales all the antagonists to 2K. And while this mainly covers the skin textures, AClassySliceOfToast has also upscaled the clothing of some characters.
From the looks of it, this pack uses AI techniques in order to upscale the original textures. As such, the improved textures look identical to the original ones.

GAMING NEWS

The Division 2 Title Update 15.1 releases on May 31st, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/the-division-2-title-update-15-1-releases-on-may-31st-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has announced that Title Update 15.1 for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will release on May 31st. In addition, the team revealed its full patch notes that you can find below.

Here are the PC system requirements for The Quarry
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-system-requirements-for-the-quarry/
Supermassive Games has revealed the official PC system requirements for The Quarry. According to the PC specs, the game will require 50GB of free hard-disk space and, as we’ve already reported, it will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is coming to PC on September 1st
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-is-coming-to-pc-on-september-1st/
NACON and Daedalic Entertainment have announced that The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will release on PC on September 1st. However, NACON has not shared any new screenshots or even a new trailer for it.