Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[JEMC]

The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Baldur's Gate, one of my favourite CRPGs of all time, will be free-to-keep for Prime subs next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-one-of-my-favourite-crpgs-of-all-time-will-be-free-to-keep-for-prime-subs-next-month/
Forget free delivery on all your, I don't know, microSD cards and mass-produced pantaloons, the real benefit of Amazon Prime is the games the company hands out on its Prime Gaming page once a month. For anyone as hopelessly dedicated to 90s RPGs as me, next month's headline offering is a doozy: Prime subscribers can pick up Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition completely for free from March 2 through the end of the month.

The Epic Store gives away Duskers: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/duskers
Next week, they'll give away Rise of Industry.

GOG has a new Puzzle and Point & Click Sale with up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_click_to_adventure.

Steam has two new deals:

• The Last Oricru is 55% off until March 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1663640/The_Last_Oricru/
• And Dreamscaper is 70% off until the 1st of March: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040420/Dreamscaper/

And Fanatical has launched its Safe in Our World Charity Bundle, with 24 games + 1 soundtrack: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/safe-in-our-world-charity-bundle-2023.
You can learn more about it here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/2023-safe-in-our-world-charity-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.2.2
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-2-2

Highlights
Support for:

• Atomic Heart
• Company of Heroes 3

Fixed Issues

• Corruption may be briefly observed when moving Netflix video between displays or minimize-to-fullscreen on some AMD Products such as AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800U.
• Maximum encode bitrate is limited to 100Mbps for certain applications.
• AMD Bug Report Tool pop-up or system hang may be observed after driver upgrade on some hybrid graphics notebooks.
• Application crash may be observed while playing Hitman 3™ with ray tracing settings enabled.
• Valve Index® VR headset may show a blank screen with 144Hz refresh rate setting on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Certain videos played with Movies and TV may briefly show corruption when moving the window between displays on some AMD Graphics Products such as AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
• Situational performance drop may be observed in DirectX® 11 based games on Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs using Ryzen™ processors.

>> Do note that this is a WHQL driver, not a beta one. Also, still no sign of a Hogwarts Legacy profile, which is strange.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Half-Life gets a Full Path/Ray Tracing Mod, available now for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/half-life-gets-a-full-path-ray-tracing-mod-available-now-for-download/
Modder ‘sultim_t’ has released a must-have mod for all Half-Life fans. As the title suggests, this mod brings real-time full path tracing to Valve’s classic first-person shooter.
sultim_t is the man behind the Path Tracing mods for Doom, Serious Sam TFE and Quake. This is an incredible mod and below you can find a video that showcases it in action. The fact that the modder has made it without using RTX Remix is also something that impresses me.

This fan remake of a Star Trek text game from 1978 is way better than it has any right to be
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-fan-remake-of-a-star-trek-text-game-from-1978-is-way-better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be/
Lay in a course, Mister Sulu. You can almost hear the voice. And now, thanks to the enterprising programmer Emanuele Bolognesi, wannabe Captain Kirks can play the 1978 game Super Star Trek in a gorgeously overhauled audiovisual form.
Super Star Trek 25th is a remake / conversion of the strategy game Super Star Trek, written by Bob Leedom and David Ahl and published in the book BASIC Computer Games in 1978. Bolognesi has gone back to this title and overhauled it with the visuals and UI of the awesome 1992 Interplay game Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, following on from an earlier project that ported the 1978 original to PICO-8 (a virtual machine that mimics the 8-bit consoles of the 1980s).
"The result is Super Star Trek but played on the Enterprise's bridge," said Bolognesi. "In short, you will be playing the strategy game on the main screen of the Enterprise, but you will issue commands by interacting with Sulu, Chekov, Spock, Scott, and Uhura. Additionally, I added original voices from the TV series to make things even more nostalgic." In this blogpost the programmer goes into more detail about re-developing what was initially a text game.

GAMING NEWS

WILD HEARTS remains a technical mess and you should stay away from it
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/wild-hearts-remains-a-technical-mess-and-you-should-stay-away-from-it/
Yesterday, Omega Force released a performance patch for the PC version of WILD HEARTS. The developers claimed that this patch would greatly improve CPU performance, however, it appears that the game is still a technical mess. WILD HEARTS currently suffers from some of the most annoying stutters we’ve witnessed in any game, and you should stay away from it.

First gameplay trailer for UFO Robot Grendizer – The Feast of the Wolves
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/first-gameplay-trailer-for-ufo-robot-grendizer-the-feast-of-the-wolves/
Microids has shared the first gameplay trailer for the video game adaptation of Go Nagai’s popular manga UFO Robot Grendizer, UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves.

Hogwarts Legacy and the latest version of Denuvo have been cracked
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hogwarts-legacy-and-the-latest-version-of-denuvo-have-been-cracked/
Hogwarts Legacy came out almost two weeks ago. The game uses the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech and from the looks of it, this latest version has already been cracked.
>> Oh, no!...