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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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Dead Cells sells over 10 million
https://www.pcgamer.com/dead-cells-sells-over-10-million/
Dead Cells launched in early access in 2017, and developer Motion Twin's brilliant mashup of roguelite and Metroidvania quickly found an audience. It was an excellent game when it launched, but its subsequent support through the early access period and beyond has been exceptional, and mostly free to boot. Most recently we were treated to the wonderful Castlevania DLC and there's no sign of slowing down with its current developer Evil Empire.
That studio has now announced that Dead Cells has sold over 10 million copies, which is a remarkable milestone for an indie title like this to hit. That's not all on PC of course, with the the game being ported to consoles and mobile, but it says everything about the quality of Dead Cells and its multitude of free and paid updates. I still load this up every so often and every time have a blast, and there's now so much stuff in there it's a delight to see what wacky combinations of buffs and weapons each run turns up.

GOG has a couple of new deals for us:

• To celebrate the launch of Amnesia: The Bunker, there's a GIVEAWAY: Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs will be free to get during the next 64 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/amnesia_a_machine_for_pigs
• And, for Pride Month, GOG has launched a page with all the games with inclusive elements. Note that not all the games are on sale: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_gog_pride_month_collection

Steam has new sales and weeklong deals for us:

• The Monument Valley: Panoramic Collection, with the two games, will be 40% off until next Monday. The individual games are also on sale, 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/25548/Monument_Valley_Panoramic_Collection/
• The Orcs Must Die! franchise is on sale, with up to 80% discounts until June, 12th. Check it out over here
• Inkulinati, still in Early Access, will be 30% off until the 19th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/957960/Inkulinati/
• No Man's Sky, that has launched for Mac, is going to have a 50% discount until Monday, June, 19th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/
• And here's a small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • Unusual Findings, that has a demo, will be 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605320/Unusual_Findings/
  • Builder Simulator gets a 30% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120320/Builder_Simulator/
  • The Signal State, that also has a demo, is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577620/The_Signal_State/
  • Operation Thunderstorm features a 60% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/837590/Operation_Thunderstorm/
  • Ghost 1.0 is going to be 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/463270/Ghost_10/
  • And the last one, Agent A: A puzzle in disguise, that also has a demo, brings a 90% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/801480/Agent_A_A_puzzle_in_disguise/

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Bing in Wonderland, 20% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/bing-in-wonderland
• The Far Cry franchise is on sale with up to 86% discounts during the next 5 days. The keys are for UbiConnect: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/far-cry

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion gets a new 8K Texture Pack
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-gets-a-new-8k-texture-pack/
Modder ‘Arthas’ has released a new 8K Texture Pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that overhauls the game’s sewers. This pack is 760MB in size, and you can also find below a video that showcases its new highly detailed textures.
Going into more details, this pack has 13 diffuse maps and 13 alpha normal maps. In order to create these textures, Arthas used Gigapixel AI and Adobe Photoshop. In other words, the modder has upscaled the original textures, which means that these new textures retain the art style of their original versions.
>> The video is a bit over 3 minutes long.

GAMING NEWS

Yikes, the new Robocop shooter does not look very good
https://www.pcgamer.com/yikes-the-new-robocop-shooter-does-not-look-very-good/
IGN has shared a 10-minute preview of the upcoming future-of-law-enforcement FPS Robocop: Rogue City, and I'm sorry to say that despite our 2022 optimism, it really doesn't look very good.

Astonished Diablo 4 players discover they've been moving their horses wrong this whole time
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-horse-speed-slow-pc-mouse-controls/
Has this ever happened to you: You're an up-and-coming necromancer, 100% on his grind, and you mount your noble Friesian or Clydesdale expecting to break out into a vigorous trot, only to find it hobbling along like a gotdamn bob-tail nag? Assuming this is happening to you in Diablo 4, you may just be holding your mouse too close to your filly.

Diablo 4 is finally, officially live
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-is-finally-officially-live/
After beta tests, server slams, and a pre-order early access period, this is it: the full, official, no-takes-backsies launch of Diablo 4. The game is now live as of 4 pm PST on Monday, June 5.

Diablo 4 servers finally start to buckle under launch strain, Blizzard's working on it
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-server-issues-queue-launch/
For a minute there, I thought Blizzard was going to do the impossible: launch an online game without any significant server problems. I should've known better!
At about 8 pm Pacific on Monday, Blizzard said on Twitter that it's "currently investigating an issue" that's causing "failed or slow login attempts."
Update (11:30 pm PT): Blizzard said on Twitter that the previous login issues have been resolved, but when I tried to play Diablo 4 just now, I got a timeout error: code 300008. (See screenshot above.) We'll update this story when we learn more.

Jurassic Park management game marks the film's 30th anniversary by adding nostalgic set dressing and literal poop
https://www.pcgamer.com/jurassic-park-management-game-marks-the-films-30th-anniversary-by-adding-nostalgic-set-dressing-and-literal-poop/
Frontier's dino-wrangling management game and cautionary tale about the hubris of man, Jurassic World Evolution 2, is getting a special update to mark the series' 30th anniversary (the original Jurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993). It brings along all sorts of memorable landmarks and knick-knacks from the original film, it releases June 8, and it's free.

Fans despair about 'putting your hope in Epic' as the publisher purges all mention of Unreal Tournament game it accidentally announced last year
https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-despair-about-putting-your-hope-in-epic-as-the-publisher-purges-all-mention-of-unreal-tournament-game-it-accidentally-announced-last-year/
Remember late last year when Epic took a scythe to its back-catalogue, delisting almost every single Unreal game? At the time, the blow was softened by the news that Unreal Tournament 3 would become Unreal Tournament 3 X, a free version of the classic with full crossplay between PC storefronts, zero microtransactions, and "no strings attached".
It was never really announced by Epic, mind you. Fans got wind of it thanks to the Steam description for UT3 (visible in this https://store.steampowered.com/app/13210/Unreal_Tournament_3_X/">archived version), which was updated around the time Epic was going on its delist spree to include a full description of the new version. I guess there was a reason Epic never made a big splash about it, though, because it now appears to have been memory-holed.