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The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG has two new deals:

• The new Deal of the Day is Tavern Master, 20% off until Friday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/tavern_master
• The new Midweek Sale features deck building games with up to 85% discounts during the next 4 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220810_midweek_sale

Steam also has two new deals:

• Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is going to be 40% off until August 16: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1563180/Internet_Cafe_Simulator_2/
• And Exo One gets a 30% discount until the 23rd of August: https://store.steampowered.com/app/773370/Exo_One/

And Fanatical has two new flash deals:

• The first flash deal is The Jackbox Party Pack 8, 52% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-jackbox-party-pack-8
• The second flash deal is Resident Evil Village, 58% off until tomorrow's refresh: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/resident-evil-village

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

A mobile ad tech company wants to buy Unity for $17.5B
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-mobile-ad-tech-company-wants-to-buy-unity-for-dollar175b/
California-based mobile ad tech company AppLovin has offered $17.5 billion to acquire Unity in an all-stock deal, Reuters reports. The deal would leave Unity with 55% of the shares of the company resulting from the merger, which comes to 49% of the voting rights.
You've heard of Unity, given that its engine seems to run everything that Unreal Engine doesn't these days, but you might not know AppLovin. The company made its name with its marketing and analytics platforms that provide developers the tools to promote and monetise their mobile apps. Advertising technology, in other words. They do have some tendrils in games, though: they bought mobile game maker Machine Zone a couple of years ago, and even bought that other Wordle last May.
The offer comes hot on the heels of Unity's July announcement that it would be merging with ironSource, a company mostly notorious for developing a malware installer called InstallCore back in the early 2010s. Game devs who use Unity were less than thrilled by that prospect, to say the least.
>> So first Unity merges with a malware making company and now it can be bought by an adware making one. Unity's future looks more and more grim.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Half-Life 2: VR’s Public Beta launches this September
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/half-life-2-vrs-public-beta-phase-launches-this-september/
The SourceVR Mod Team has announced that the public beta phase for Half-Life 2: VR will begin this September. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has released a new trailer that you can find below.
Half-Life 2: VR is a mod that will allow you to play this classic Half-Life game in VR. The mod will allow you to do things that were almost impossible in the non-VR version. For instance, you can spin the blocks in the playground just by hitting them or play tetherball with a corpse in Ravenholm. You will also be able to physically dodge for cover, and manually reload your guns.
For those wondering, Half-Life 2: VR is targeting SteamVR, so any headset supported by SteamVR should be good to go. So far, the mod has been successfully tested on Index, Quest, Vive and Pimax headsets.

GAMING NEWS

Here are the PC graphics settings for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-the-pc-graphics-settings-for-marvels-spider-man-remastered/
The PC review embargo for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered will be lifted tomorrow and its PC graphics settings have been leaked online. As we can see, the PC version will feature numerous graphics settings. Not only that, but the game will also support PC-specific features.
>> And here are the launch times of the game.