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The Friday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Fanatical has three new deals:

• The first flash deal is Viscera Cleanup Detail, 55% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/viscera-cleanup-detail-game
• The second flash deal is Outward Definitive Edition, also 55% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/outward-definitive-edition
• And the new Hidden Gems Bundle 9 comes with 5 games with a 92% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/hidden-gems-bundle-9

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Unreal Engine 5.1 detailed, will attempt to fix shader compilation stutters
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unreal-engine-5-1-detailed-will-aim-to-fix-shader-compilation-stutters/
Epic Games has detailed the key features of the brand new iteration of Unreal Engine 5, Unreal Engine 5.1. According to the dev team, Unreal Engine 5.1 will bring numerous Nanite and Lumen improvements. Moreover, it will attempt to fix the annoying shader compilation stutters we’ve seen in a lot of Unreal Engine 4 games.

Game engine developer Unity signs lucrative contract with US Defence
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-engine-developer-unity-signs-lucrative-contract-with-us-defence/
Software development company Unity, creator of the popular game engine of the same name, has signed a major contract with the US government to provide its digital simulation technology for defence purposes.
As reported by Bloomberg, the company announced the three year, multi-million dollar deal earlier this week. The contract is in partnership with CACI International Inc., an information technology firm that has previously provided military intelligence, including aerial surveillance, to the US government.
>> I wonder if this will affect in any way the offer to buy Unity from that Adware company. After all, I doubt any army will want to use a software that spies you.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Suffer in style with this mod that brings Devil May Cry combat to Dark Souls 3
https://www.pcgamer.com/devil-may-cry-dark-souls-3-mod/
Dark Souls 3 is a bit of a drag, right? It's all foreboding this, doomsaying that, and long stretches of grey sky that terminate in wan, dispirited horizons. I bet not a single one of its gibbering inhabitants has ever done anything cool like smoke and ride a motorcycle. They're all too busy picking through the ashes of a dead kingdom and feeling sorry for themselves.
Well, no longer. Dark Souls 3 May Cry—released in March by a creator named Shigu—finally does the necessary if unobvious task of importing Devil May Cry's Dante into Lothric, along with his weapons and moveset. The work that's been done to the game's standard animations is pretty impressive: Dante transitions from the standard moveset of DS3's combat into the frenzied staccato of DMC's leaps and stabs without missing a beat.

This Undertale mod adds local co-op, but playing online requires some extra work
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-undertale-mod-adds-local-co-op-but-playing-online-requires-some-extra-work/
Originally released in 2019, Moddb user Depa31's Undertale Together allows two players to complete the entirety of Toby Fox's 2015 indie adventure, well, together. With help from a remote desktop tool like Parsec, it can effectively offer online co-op as well.
The mod itself is a pretty simple tweak to a lean game⁠—you're able to name two players at the start and select overworld and battle sprites for the second player. One character is controlled by the arrow keys, and the other with WASD. Installation is an absolute breeze, with a .exe installer taking care of things in seconds.

Mod makes Halo's Master Chief into a Yakuza enforcer
https://www.pcgamer.com/mod-makes-halos-master-chief-into-a-yakuza-enforcer/
1980s Tokyo⁠—the glitz, the glamor, the excesses of the postwar economic miracle, the… genetically enhanced super soldier from 2551?
Modder Kashiiera over on Nexus Mods has traded one gaming sex symbol for another, replacing Yakuza 0's sensitive hunk Kiryu with Halo's sensitive hunk, Master Chief Petty Officer John 117. Thanks to a simple model swap, you can now rough up thugs, teach important life lessons, and unravel the mystery of the Empty Lot as a 7-foot-tall, one-ton killing machine from the 26th century.

GAMING NEWS

First screenshots & details leaked for Alone in the Dark Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/first-screenshots-details-leaked-for-alone-in-the-dark-remake/
French retailer Smartoys has just leaked the first screenshots and details for an upcoming remake of Alone in the Dark. And since THQ Nordic will hold its Digital Showcase later today, we are pretty sure that the publisher will officially reveal it today.
>> The page has already been removed, but you can see the screenshots in the article.