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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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The Witcher 3 has sold 50 million copies
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-has-sold-50-million-copies/
Obscure cult classic The Witcher 3 has sold 50 million copies, according to developer CD Projekt.
In a video summarising the company's Q1 financial results (presented in Polish with English subtitles) CD Projekt CFO Piotr Nielubowicz stated "I would like to make an announcement which fills us with pride: The Witcher 3 has now been purchased by over 50 million gamers". Nielubowicz further states this puts the studio's seminal RPG "among the top ten best-selling video games in history" a stat which is "based upon publicly available data".

GOG has a new cyberpunk themed sale: the Neon Dreams Sale features up to 90% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_neon_dreams_redux.

Steam has several new deals and new weeklong deals:

• Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 will be 15% off until June 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1964040/Do_Not_Feed_the_Monkeys_2099/
• The Hello Neighbor Franchise Sale features up to 80% discounts until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/neighborfranchise
• Town of Salem 2, still in Early Access, is going to be 10% off until the 2nd of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2140510/Town_of_Salem_2/
• Chucklefish celebrates its 12th anniversary with a sale featuring up to 80% discounts until June, the 5th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/chucklefish2023
• Timberborn will be 20% off until the 7th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/
• AER gets a 90% discount until June, 12th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/331870/AER_Memories_of_Old/
• And these are some of the weeklong deals:
  • Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons gets a 25% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812060/Yokai_Art_Night_Parade_of_One_Hundred_Demons/
  • Final Upgrade will be 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/919260/Final_Upgrade/
  • STASIS is half its price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/380150/STASIS/
  • Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town, that has a demo, gets a 60% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097110/Willy_Morgan_and_the_Curse_of_Bone_Town/
  • This Is the Police is going to be 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/443810/This_Is_the_Police/
  • And the last one is Pro Cycling Manager 2018, with an 85% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/704230/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2018/

And Fanatical has launched several new bundles, including six game bundles (that I'm not going to list). Check them out here.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 535.98
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-535-98
Highlights

Game Ready for Diablo IV

What’s New in Release 535

• Support for CUDA 12.2.
• Adds the latest performance improvements, bug fixes, and driver enhancements.

Fixed Issues

• Applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters cause games to crash [4008945]
• Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
• [SOLIDWORKS 2023] rendering issues when Enhanced Graphics Performance is enabled [4050712]
• [MAGIX Vegas Pro] Preview not working properly on some notebooks [4067005]
• [TouchDesigner] Degraded performance using Vulkan [3952439]
• [Nsight Tools] Abnormal termination that previously required a reboot [4056470]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Mass Effect Legendary Edition Community Patch 1.5.1 Released
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/mass-effect-legendary-edition-community-patch-1-5-1-released/
The Mass Effect Community Patch Team has released a new Community Patch for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. This Community Patch is only for the first ME LE game, and below you can find its complete changelog.
>> It's a long changelog.

GAMING NEWS

Silent Hill: Ascension gets a cinematic story trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/silent-hill-ascension-gets-a-cinematic-story-trailer/
Konami has released a cinematic story trailer for Silent Hill: Ascension. Silent Hill: Ascension is a Silent Hill spin-off that is developed by Genvid Technologies, Bad Robot Games, Behaviour Interactive, and DJ2 Entertainment.

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Dev Builds Leaked Online
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-dev-builds-leaked-online/
It appears that two dev builds of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl have been leaked online. According to the logs, each of these dev builds is around 190GB in size, and they are most likely playable.