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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

GOG has four Deals of the Day and three new sales:

• The Deals of the Day, that will end Wednesday, in 46 hours, are:
  • The Mortal Kombat Trilogy has a 13% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/mortal_kombat_trilogy
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo - Digital Deluxe Edition gets a 35% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/alfred_hitchcock_vertigo_digital_deluxe_edition
  • Syberia: The World Before is going to be 40% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/syberia_the_world_before
  • And F.E.A.R. Platinum gets a 88% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/fear_platinum
• The Akupara Publisher Sale brings up to 85% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2022_akupara_publisher_sale
• The Weekly Sale features post-apocalyptic games with up to 90% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20221003_weekly_sale
• And publisher Warner Bros puts its titles up to 85% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2022_warner_bros_publisher_sale

Steam has two new deals:

• Supraland Six Inches Under, that has a demo, will be 40% off until Sunday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/
• Superliminal will be 50% off until October 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/

The Humble Store has a new sale: The Anime Sale, with up to 90% discounts during 4 days. All the keys but one are for Steam. The other may be for GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/anime-sale/

And Fanatical

• The new Star Deal is a DLC: Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök, 57% off during 48 hours. The key is for UPlay: https://www.fanatical.com/en/dlc/assassin-s-creed-valhalla-dawn-of-ragnarok
• The former is part of an Assassin's Creed franchise sale, featuring up to 81% discounts during 6 days. Again, the keys are for UPlay/Ubi Connect: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/assassins-creed
• And PQube Limited puts its games up to 90% off during 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/pqube-limited

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Mod introduces a “Batman: Arkham” over-the-shoulder camera
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-marvels-spider-man-remastered-mod-introduces-a-batman-arkham-over-the-shoulder-camera/
Modder ‘Maxie Zeus’ has released a new mod for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Mod that adds an over-the-shoulder camera, similar to the one used in the Batman: Arkham games.
This is a pretty cool mod that some of you may find interesting. After all, it will allow you to better appreciate spidey’s costumes.
>> There's a video of it in action (2 minutes).

New The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Mod overhauls over 125 NPCs
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/new-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-mod-overhauls-over-125-npcs/
Modder ‘Axarien’ has released a pretty cool mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that aims to overhaul over 125 NPCs. As the Axarien noted, this is a unique, vanilla-friendly, high poly appearance mod that improves 125 male and female NPCs.
The mod improves mostly the NPCs of the main game. However, it also covers a few from the Hearthfire, Dawnguard, and Dragonborn DLCs/expansions.
(...) Do note that this mod is for Skyrim Special Edition, and not for the Original/Legacy Edition.
>> No video of it, only screenshots.

Here’s Fallout 4 with over 300 mods and Reshade Ray Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/heres-fallout-4-with-over-300-mods-and-reshade-ray-tracing/
DigitalDreams has shared a video, showcasing Fallout 4 with over 300 mods and Reshade Ray Tracing. This video will give you an idea of what Bethesda’s RPG can look when heavily modded.
The Youtuber has shared the list of mods that they have used. As such, players can make the game look similar to what has been shown. Furthermore, DigitalDreams highlighted one specific mod, called NAC X. NAC X is the most comprehensive modular weather, lighting and visual overhaul for Fallout 4.

Skyrim Special Edition gets a new DLC-sized fan expansion, featuring new enemies, animals, ingredients & more
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/skyrim-special-edition-gets-a-new-dlc-sized-fan-expansion-featuring-new-enemies-animals-ingredients-more/
Yesterday, we shared a mod for Skyrim Special Edition that aimed to overhaul over 150 NPCs. And today, we have a brand new DLC-sized fan expansion for our Skyrim fans.
Created by modder ‘arminZX12’, this DLC-sized fan expansion will take you to visit the city of Elden Root and its huge forests.
>> There's a video of it (3 minutes).

Full Path Tracing Mod released for id Software’s classic Quake
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/full-path-tracing-mod-released-for-id-softwares-classic-quake/
Modder ‘sultim-t’, the man behind the Path Tracing mods for Doom and Serious Sam TFE has released Quake Ray Traced. As the title implies, Quake Ray Traced offers full path tracing effects to id Software’s classic first-person shooter.
Quake Ray Tracing uses ray tracing to calculate global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows and other visual effects. And below you can find a video that showcases this mod in action.
>> The video starts with his Half Life project, to announce that it has been delayed.

Cyberpunk 2077 car insurance mod wants you to check yourself before you wreck everyone else
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-car-insurance-mod-wants-you-to-check-yourself-before-you-wreck-everyone-else/
Driving recklessly is an open world game tradition. Leaving a wake of smashed cars, dead pedestrians, and downed lampposts behind you is just a fact of life, whether you're racing off on a world-saving quest or just driving to the store to buy a new pair of kicks. The wreckage, meanwhile, is all neatly cleaned up and there's no sign of your wanton destruction the next time you go roaring past that same street corner.
It's not really fair to the citizens of the world whose cars you sideswipe, ding, scratch, smash, or destroy, however, and now a mod has come along to at least balance the scales a little bit.
Spotted by PCGamesN, the Drive Carefully mod for Cyberpunk 2077 creates a new unseen entity in Night City: the NCID, or Night City Insurance Department. From now on, if you bump, bang, smoosh, or scratch another car while you're driving, you'll have to pay a fine.

You can add Jedi Academy to the list of audacious VR ports
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-add-jedi-academy-to-the-list-of-audacious-vr-ports/
As shared by the Flat2VRv modding community, creator Simon "DrBeef" Brown is in the early stages of creating a VR port of the classic FPS/Lightsaber duel simulator, Jedi Academy. Or, as the learned know it, Star Wars: Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy.
Flat2VR shared a 50-second preview gameplay clip of Jedi Academy running on the Meta Quest 2, showing off a portion of the game's Hoth Echo Base level. I already dig the idea of seeing this iconic movie location (and level I played over and over in grade school) from this new perspective, and the shooter combat looks like it translates well.

This King of the Hill Doom mod brings about Hank on Earth
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-king-of-the-hill-doom-mod-brings-about-hank-on-earth/
"God-dang it, Bobby. The legions of Hell have come for our Clean Burning Fuel," So begins Modder FreewayHere's description for their King of the Hill Doom WAD. "We must rip and tear until it is done, or else Arlen will succumb to the will of the damned."
There are truly few things more virtuous and right than Doom WADs riffing on '90s TV. The ambitious total conversions, voxelized sprites, and ray tracing overhauls of today owe a debt of honor to dopey hacks from '04 that turn all the Pinkies into Barney.
FreewayHere is keeping the tradition alive with this King of the Hill Doom pack. I'm a big fan of its file name: Hank.wad. The absurd, often heartwarming trials of the Hill family make for a surprisingly nice accompaniment to the horror and ultra violence of Doom, almost like fries with Worcestershire sauce, and it's about time someone brought that combo to the game itself.

Well, here's GoldenEye with Mario characters
https://www.pcgamer.com/well-heres-goldeneye-with-mario-characters/
Released in 2021 but updated multiple times since, with the most recent update bringing it up to version 3.17 and adding 15 more multiplayer maps, the GoldenEye With Mario Characters mod is one of those real "everything that's great about modding" achievements. Not just because of the wonderfully demented idea, but because of the follow through. The modder known as StupidMarioBros1Fan and their collaborators weren't content just swapping GoldenEye's bad guys with Koopa Troopas and calling it a day. Oh, no.
For starters, the dialogue (subtitled) has been rewritten to reflect the new character models. Alec Trevelyan's line, "For England, James?" made sense when he was being played by Sean Bean. Now that he's been replaced by Luigi, the line goes, "For-a Brooklyn, Mario?"
Everyone in the singleplayer campaign has been replaced appropriately, so Natalya Simonova is Peach, Xenia Onatopp is Daisy, and Valentin Zukovsky, the Russian gangster played by Robbie Coltrane in the movie, is now Wario. Of course.
>> There's a video of it (3 minutes).

GAMING NEWS

Riddledale is a cute open-world adventure game, coming to PC in Fall 2023
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/riddledale-is-a-cute-open-world-adventure-game-coming-to-pc-in-fall-2023/
MAGOO has announced a cute open-world adventure game, called Riddledale, which will be coming to PC in Fall 2023. In order to celebrate this announcement, MAGOO has also released the game’s debut gameplay trailer that you can find below.

Brand new Diablo 4 screenshots leaked online
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/brand-new-diablo-4-screenshots-leaked-online/
The “Family & Friends” closed beta testing for Diablo 4 is currently under way and some brand new screenshots have been leaked from it. These screenshots show off the game’s character creation and some of the skill trees.

Halo may ditch the Slipspace Engine over Unreal Engine 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/halo-may-ditch-the-slipspace-engine-over-unreal-engine-5/
According to numerous reports that surfaced yesterday, Halo may ditch Slipspace Engine over Epic’s Unreal Engine. If this actually does happen, the next Halo may be the next triple-A game that will ditch its in-house engine over Unreal Engine. And yes, the previous triple-A game that did this was The Witcher 4.