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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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Steam Sports Fest sale features birds, racoons, pro wrestlers, and the lowest price ever on FIFA 23 on PC—but sorry, no race cars
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sports-fest-sale-features-birds-racoons-pro-wrestlers-and-the-lowest-price-ever-on-fifa-23-on-pcbut-sorry-no-race-cars/
Valve has kicked off the Steam Sports Fest, an all-new Steam sale dedicated to sports, and if you're thinking to yourself, "I don't like sports games," it's worth checking out anyway: What qualifies as a "sport" in this sale is defined very loosely.

You can grab 500 hours of Mass Effect and Dragon Age for 20 bucks right now
https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-grab-500-hours-of-mass-effect-and-dragon-age-for-20-bucks-right-now/
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "I sure wish I had something to do with these free 500 hours I have". Well search no more, friend, because over on Steam you can pick up a bundle containing the entire Dragon Age and Mass Effect collection—some of our best RPGs in 2023—for £17/$20. Yes, that includes Andromeda. Sorry.
The BioWare Mega Collection includes Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 (in their remastered Legendary Edition incarnations), Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. According to the wisdom of the crowds over at HowLongToBeat.com, that's 500 hours of RPG if you go full completionist. When it's not on sale, the bundle retails for £160/$190, and you have until May 29 to pick it up at its discounted price.
>> This is part of a larger EA Sale that comes with up to 90% discounts.

If that's not enough, Steam also has X deals and new weeklong deals:

• Days Gone will be 67% off until the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1259420/Days_Gone/
• Publisher Humble Games puts its games on sale with up to 80% discounts until Sunday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/HumbleGamesPublisherSale
• Core Keeper, still in Early Access, is going to be 20% off until Monday, the 22nd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1621690/Core_Keeper/
• The Publisher Arc System Works Sale launches with up to 90% discounts until March, 22nd: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/arcsystemworks_publishersale2023
• And here's an example of the weeklong deals you may find:
  • Lunch Lady is 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571440/Lunch_Lady/
  • Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness gets a 40% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/962700/Chronicle_of_Innsmouth_Mountains_of_Madness/
  • Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374930/Black_Geyser_Couriers_of_Darkness/
  • The classic Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets a 65% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/704450/Neverwinter_Nights_Enhanced_Edition/
  • DreadOut, that has a demo, will be 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/269790/DreadOut/
  • And the last one is DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE, with a massive 90% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/323470/DRAGON_BALL_XENOVERSE/

GOG ha a couple things that may interest you:

• The Boomer Shooter Sale comes with up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_boomer_shooter
• And there's a GIVEAWAY: Bloody Hell is free for all: https://www.gog.com/game/bloody_hell

The Humble Store ha a new Flash Deal: Ixion will be 25% off during 26 hours: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/ixion

And Fanatical has two new bundles:

• The Bethesda VR Collection has 4 games with a 84% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/bethesda-vr-collection
• The BYO Play on the Go Bundle has 20 titles to choose from for your 2, 3 or 5 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/play-on-the-go-premium-edition-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Dark Souls 2 gets a Lighting Engine Mod that adds Volumetric Fog and improves Ambient Occlusion and Shading
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/dark-souls-2-gets-a-lighting-engine-mod-that-adds-volumetric-fog-and-improves-ambient-occlusion-and-shading/
Modder ‘Ganaboy’ has released a pretty cool mod for Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, aiming to improve its lighting system. This is a must-have mod as it can improve the game’s graphics, and we highly recommend downloading it.
Going into more details, this mod adds support for Volumetric Fog. Moreover, it updates the Lighting Model Falloff for all lights to be the more realistic fall off. Additionally, it updates Shading model to use Physically based rendering Metal/Diffuse. As a result of that, metal surfaces can now look better.
It’s also worth noting that the mod updates the Ambient Occlusion Algorithm to use GTAO. Not only that, but Ambient lighting now uses Bent normals to have better color depth.
>> There's a 10 minutes video of the mod.

This ridiculous deep cut mod adds guns from Bethesda's forgotten Terminator FPS to the biggest (and most frustrating) Elder Scrolls game
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-ridiculous-deep-cut-mod-adds-guns-from-bethesdas-forgotten-terminator-fps-to-the-biggest-and-most-frustrating-elder-scrolls-game/
When I'm going for mods in my games, I usually opt for bug fixes, convenience tweaks, and the like, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love a good old fashioned shitpost. Case in point: this mod that adds futuristic firearms to 1996's The Elder Scrolls Chapter 2: Daggerfall, here aptly demonstrated by Elder Scrolls YouTuber, Micky D.
Daggerfall's a game for a grognard's grognard, no two ways about it. It's got the biggest map of any Elder Scrolls by an order of magnitude, but it's largely empty. Daggerfall has the most skills, but if they aren't borked, they're nonfunctional (yeah I'm a Thaumaturgy and Centaurian language main). It's a key part of Bethesda's history, but God damn is it hard to come back to. Thankfully, the Daggerfall Unity source port is here to smooth out running the game on modern hardware, as well as introduce as many (or as few) modern niceties as suit your fancy. The port also inspired an expansive modding scene.
Enter Future Shock Weapons by spamtrooper on NexusMods. Spamtrooper's project not only upholds the sacred tradition of adding incongruous AKs and ACOGs to Bethesda's fantasy and retro-futurist worlds, but also celebrates one of the studio's lesser-known games. In-between Arena and Daggerfall, Bethesda released The Terminator: Future Shock, a Doom clone-era FPS set in the world of James Cameron's post-apocalypse. These days you can't even get Future Shock on GOG, but it does live on as abandonware on sites like Archive.org (and you'll need its assets for spamtrooper's mod to work).

GAMING NEWS

PC demo released for Unreal Engine 5-powered Layers of Fear
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/pc-demo-released-for-unreal-engine-5-powered-layers-of-fear/
As promised, Bloober Team has released a PC demo for its Unreal Engine 5-powered horror game, Layers of Fear. This demo will give you a glimpse at this new horror first-person game which takes advantage of Nanite and Lumen. It’s also one of the first UE5 games that you can test on your PC systems.

Dead Space Remake gets a 90-minute free trial on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dead-space-remake-gets-a-90-minute-free-trial-on-pc/
Electronic Arts has released a 90-minute free trial for the PC version of Dead Space Remake on Steam. From today until May 29th, PC gamers can download this free trial and get a taste of this third-person horror game.