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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Learn how to run VR flight sims and win a Pimax 8k headset
https://www.pcgamer.com/learn-how-to-run-vr-flight-sims-and-win-a-pimax-8k-headset/
As is true of most things in life, PC gaming is a wondrous spectrum of different interests and hobbies. Among the most intense of which can be the simulation crowd, always looking to emulate real experiences as closely as possible on PC hardware. Flight simulators, like the ever popular Microsoft Flight Simulator are among the most impressive out there, complete with fantastic rigs featuring realistic control configurations like the Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack officially licensed by Boeing.
Combining these impressive setups with VR is often the next step for many seeking a bit of added realism to their flights of fancy. The Flight Simulator Association states that 15% of simmers are incorporating VR in their flying experience as of December last year. But it's also a lot of kit to get used to and understand. Thankfully, when it comes to flight sims and enthusiasts seeking the best experiences around, the community is rich and ready to help.
To help with this, the Flight Simulator Association and Pimax, makers of some of the most bonkers VR headsets we've seen, are hosting a webinar to help get people involved in simming in VR. It's happening live on the 27th of October at 2130-2230 UTC, where prizes and tonnes of information will be on offer.

Roblox says it had over 1.7 billion users last month
https://www.pcgamer.com/roblox-says-it-had-over-17-billion-users-last-month/
Every so often, Roblox releases some numbers and you remember just how massive it is. We all know the platform is huge among a younger demographic but the last time I wrote about the numbers in February this year, they were so big the only comparison that made sense was Canada. No wonder the CEO looks set to pocket $234 million over the next five years.
As a public company Roblox regularly issues metrics, and has just done so for September. We're gonna need a bigger comparison country because the daily active user count for the game has now hit 57.8 million, which marks an incredible 23% rise year-over-year. Other games are not as forthcoming with such numbers but this easily outstrips Minecraft (140 million monthly users), Fortnite (where numbers peak at 10-15 million whenever the game hosts one of its big live events), and the whole League of Legends franchise (180 million monthly users, as of October 2021) .
This is complete beermat maths, so don't go citing it, but based on these figures and a 30 day month Roblox would have 1.734 billion users and all those other games combined would be about 400 million.

GOG has two new sales and a giveaway (not a game):

• To celebrate the launch of A Plague Tale: Requiem, GOG is giving away a digital goodies pack during the next 55 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/a_plague_tale_requiem_digital_goodie_pack
• Publisher NIS America puts its games up to 80% off during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20221017_nisa_publisher_sale
• And there's a Special Sale featuring arcade classics up to 80% off during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20221018_arcade_classics

Steam has new deals and a new range of weeklong deals:

• The new daily deal is Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1337010/Alba_A_Wildlife_Adventure/
• The Forgotten City will be 40% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/
• Iratus: Lord of the Dead gets an 80% discount until October 20: https://store.steampowered.com/app/807120/Iratus_Lord_of_the_Dead/
• Snowrunner is going to be 40% off until next Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1465360/SnowRunner/
• Hard West 2 will be 20% off until October 31: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282410/Hard_West_2/
• Planet Zoo gets a 70% discount until the 31st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/703080/Planet_Zoo/
• NIS America also puts its games on sale here, with discounts that range from 30 to 80% until the 31st of October: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/nisa/sale/NISAPublisherSale2022
• And here's a small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • The Planet Crafter, still in Early Access and with a demo, is 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284190/The_Planet_Crafter/
  • The VR ONLY title Lucky's Tale gets a 30% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1803840/Luckys_Tale/
  • Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/339200/Oceanhorn_Monster_of_Uncharted_Seas/
  • Shakedown: Hawaii gets a 65% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598730/Shakedown_Hawaii/
  • Out of Space is 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/400080/Out_of_Space/
  • And Pix the Cat gets an 80% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/330180/Pix_the_Cat/

The Humble Store has three new sales:

• The Classic Games Sale features up to 80% discounts during 6 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG and UPlay: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/classic-games-sale/
• The Adventure Sale comes with up to 90% discounts during 6 days. There are keys for Steam and GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/adventure-sale/
• And 11bit Studios puts its games up to 85% off during 10 days. There are keys for Steam and GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/11bit-studios-publisher-sale/

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Valheim gets an HD Texture Pack that is compatible with version 0.211.9
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/valheim-gets-an-hd-texture-pack-that-is-compatible-with-version-0-211-9/
MrFisse has released a new HD Texture Pack for Valheim that is compatible with version 0.211.9. This pack is basically a special version of HD Valheim from DJAurelius and zJIoDeI, that works with the game’s latest version.
HD Valheim appears to be a promising overhaul graphics mod for the game. The modders have used original HD textures to replace vanilla textures (for also both diffuse and normals). Additionally, they have patched a number of graphical bugs.
Future versions of HD Valheim will introduce better meshes, more polygons and smoother models. Moreover, the modders aim to add some performance tweaks.
>> There's an almost 10 minutes long video showing the result.

Someone's reverse-engineered Perfect Dark for N64 and made a PC port possible
https://www.pcgamer.com/someones-reverse-engineered-perfect-dark-for-n64-and-made-a-pc-port-possible/
It's been quite a year for Nintendo games on PC. We've had an unofficial port of Ocarina of Time, a full decompilation of A Link to the Past, and now a coder called Ryan Dwyer has gone and reverse-engineered the original Nintendo 64 Perfect Dark. Pretty soon I won't feel the need to own any consoles at all.
The decompilation is available right now on Dwyer's GitHub page, and it opens up all sorts of new possibilities for tinkering with Perfect Dark on PC. Now that the game's been reverse-engineered, future tech wizards could do anything from modding the game, to creating entire unofficial PC ports.
Before you castigate me for drawing the baleful eye of Nintendo's lawyers, it should be noted that the decompilation—and a hypothetical PC port project resulting from it—would be technically legal (the best kind). If you wanted to use the decompilation to play Perfect Dark on PC, you'd need to provide your own ROM with all the game's copyrighted material on it. This is why the Zelda projects mentioned up top haven't been DMCA'd into oblivion, too.

GAMING NEWS

Here is an hour of brand new gameplay footage from Dead Space Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-is-an-hour-of-brand-new-gameplay-footage-from-dead-space-remake/
YouTube’s ‘YBR Gaming’ has shared a video, showing an hour of new gameplay footage from Dead Space Remake. This video shows off Chapter 3, so it may contain some spoilers. Thus, we suggest avoiding it if you want to experience the remake yourselves.

DayZ’s biggest update of 2022, Patch 1.19, is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/dayz-biggest-update-of-2022-patch-1-19-is-now-available-for-download/
Bohemia Interactive has just released the biggest update of 2022 for the standalone version of DayZ. Patch 1.19 packs new and enhanced features, including new weapons, reworked locations, a new vehicle and a secret underground complex located on the Livonia map.