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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away two titles:

• Tunche: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche
• The Silent Age: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age

Next week, they'll give away Blazing Sails and Dying Light Enhanced Edition.

GOG has launched a new Deal of the Day, The Entropy Centre, with a 33% discount. But it looks like GOG still doesn't get what day means, because this deal will last for another 94 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_entropy_centre.

Steam has The Storyteller's Festival, full of Visual Novels and narrative games with up to 80% discounts until this Sunday: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/TwoHalfStudios/sale/thestorytellersfestival.

There's a new Humble Bundle: the Best of Boomer Shooters: Bigger and Boomier, with up to 8 titles to get during the next 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-boomer-shooters-bigger-and-boomier.

And Fanatical has the new Discovery Bundle, with7 games and a 96% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/discovery-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD releases Radeon driver optimized for The Last of Us Part 1
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-releases-radeon-driver-optimized-for-the-last-of-us-part-1
The company is expected to release a 23.4.1 driver early next month, but that update is probably still a few days away, which is why AMD is releasing a new driver “22.40.43.05” today. This driver has game optimizations only for one game and no issues fixed listed.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Final Fantasy 7 Remake gets a lore-friendly 8K Texture Pack for Tifa
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/final-fantasy-7-remake-gets-a-lore-friendly-8k-texture-pack-for-tifa/
Modder ‘SweetFluff3D’ has released a must-have lore-friendly 8K Texture Pack for Final Fantasy 7 Remake that overhauls Tifa Lockhart. This is an incredible Texture Pack, and we highly recommend downloading it.
This pack does not contain any new mesh data, meaning that it’s compatible with other Tifa mesh mods that don’t use custom textures. Furthermore, it fixes a small issue with Tifa’s earring color found in the original game.
>> There are a couple of screenshots and a 2 minutes video of the mod.

Skyrim Special Edition gets The Witcher 3 Ciri/Geralt Voice Mods
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/skyrim-special-edition-gets-the-witcher-3-ciri-geralt-voice-mods/
Here is something really cool for all our Skyrim and The Witcher fans. Modder ‘FearTcb’ has released two voice-over mods for Skyrim Special Edition that will allow your character to speak with the voices of Geralt or Ciri.
These mods are based on the Dragonborn Voice Over Mod, and require it to work properly. If you haven’t installed it, these The Witcher 3 mods won’t work.
>> There's a short video of the Ciri one.

Why not turn Left 4 Dead 2 into some kind of kawaii anime nightmare?
https://www.pcgamer.com/why-not-turn-left-4-dead2-into-some-kind-of-kawaii-anime-nightmare/
Left 4 Dead is just another victim of Valve's almost comical antipathy towards the number three, with the series seeing two brilliant entries in quickfire succession over 2008/2009 before it was left 4 modders. Who over the years have done quite the job, it has to be said, with a particular favourite being the mod that added Jaden Smith's tweets to the game as deranged graffiti (also a shout-out to the one that replaces the Charger enemy type with Homer Simpson in his car).
Now, a new challenger approaches. Eight of them, in fact. The Blue Archive mod by HCHA for Left 4 Dead 2 adds protagonists and extensive stylings from Blue Archive, a popular gacha-style tactical RPG from Nexon Games that casts you as the "sensei" of an apparently all-female academy city, in search of that classic combination: "military action, love and friendship!" Yep, it's one for the weebs.

GAMING NEWS

HD-2D RPG LIVE A LIVE is coming to PC on April 27th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/hd-2d-rpg-live-a-live-is-coming-to-pc-on-april-27th/
Square Enix has announced that its HD-2D RPG, LIVE A LIVE, will be coming to PC on April 27th. In order to celebrate this announcement, the company released a new gameplay trailer that you can find below.

Fantasy action RPG, Atlas Fallen, delayed until August 10th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fantasy-action-rpg-atlas-fallen-delayed-until-august-10th/
Focus Entertainment and Deck13 have announced that their upcoming fantasy action RPG, Atlas Fallen, has been delayed until August 10th. According to the teams, this will give the developers enough time to further polish it.

Square Enix has removed Denuvo from VALKYRIE ELYSIUM
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/square-enix-has-removed-denuvo-from-valkyrie-elysium/
Square Enix has released a new patch that removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from VALKYRIE ELYSIUM. VALKYRIE ELYSIUM is a third-person action RPG that came out in November 2022.