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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam has a couple of new deals, plus new weeklong deals:

• STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II is going to be 88% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1237950/STAR_WARS_Battlefront_II/
• NIS celebrates its 30th anniversary with a sale featuring up to 80% discounts until February 6: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/nisa/sale/30th
• And here are some of the weeklong deals:
  • Lost Eidolons will be 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580520/Lost_Eidolons/
  • Townsmen VR gets a 40% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/749960/Townsmen_VR/
  • Tangledeep is going to be half its price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/628770/Tangledeep/
  • Battle Chasers: Nightwar features a 75% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/451020/Battle_Chasers_Nightwar/
  • And Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is going to be 90% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/440550/Atomik_RunGunJumpGun/

The Humble Store has a new Flash Deal: MAFIA: Trilogy will be 70% off during 26 hours: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/mafia-trilogy.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Tomb Raider Caves HD Remaster Project available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tomb-raider-caves-hd-remaster-project-available-for-download/
A few days ago, ilariacroft released an HD remaster of the Caves map from the first Tomb Raider game using the Tomb Raider 4 Engine. This custom map is really faithful to the original map, and can give you an idea of what a faithful remaster of it could look like.
Going into more details, ilariacroft improved the geometry, textures, items, enemies and music. Furthermore, the mapper added more elements to the gameplay and some other improvements.
>> There's an almost 20 minutes video of the mod.

GAMING NEWS

First Dead Space Remake patch released, resolves the VRS issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/first-dead-space-remake-patch-released-resolves-the-vrs-issues/
EA Motive has just released the first patch for Dead Space Remake. As promised, this update resolves the game’s VRS issues by adding an option via which PC gamers can disable it.
This patch is 400MB in size on Origin (and according to reports it may be around 150MB on Steam). Naturally, both of the stores will download it the next time you launch their clients.

First Forspoken PC Patch released, full patch notes revealed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/first-forspoken-pc-patch-released-full-patch-notes-revealed/
Square Enix has released the first PC patch for its latest action RPG, Forspoken. This patch is around 190MB in size, and below you can find its complete changelog/release notes.
According to the changelog, this first update does not bring any meaningful improvements for desktop gamers. However, if you game on the Steam Deck, you’ll definitely see some improvements.

New Cyberpunk 2077 Update adds NVIDIA DLSS 3 & Reflex support
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/new-cyberpunk-2077-update-adds-nvidia-dlss-3-reflex-support/
CD Projekt RED has just released a new update for the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 that adds support for NVIDIA DLSS 3 and Reflex. However, this patch does not introduce the new Overdrive Ray Tracing effects that CDPR promised a while back.