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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

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Steam has several deals and new weeklong deals:

• Sifu will be 25% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2138710/Sifu/
• Ship of Fools gets a 35% discount until the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286580/Ship_of_Fools/
• Dark Deity is going to be 75% off until Thursday, 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374840/Dark_Deity/
• The Sinking City features an 85% discount until June, 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/750130/The_Sinking_City/
• The Koei Tecmo Summer Sale features up to 75% discounts until the 13th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/KoeiTecmoSummer2023
• There's also Wingspan, 50% off, but there's no info about how long it will last: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054490/WINGSPAN/
• Unsurprisingly given that Steam's Summer Sale starts this Thursday, there are vfery few weeklong deals. Therefore, you'll be better checking the link above.

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• The Pixelation Power Sale features up to 90% discounts during 6 days. There are keys for Steam and GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/pixelation-power-sale/
• And the Koei Tecmo Summer Spotlight Sale comes with up to 75% discounts during 16 days. The keys are all for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/koei-tecmo-summer-spotlight/

Fanatical has a new Star Deal is Tales Of Arise - Ultimate Edition, 66% off during ... 32 hours? That's weird: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/tales-of-arise-ultimate-edition.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Classic shooter Descent gets an amazing Ray Tracing Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/classic-shooter-descent-gets-a-ray-tracing-mod/
Descent is a classic shooter game for PC that came out in 1995. And, as we saw with Doom and Quake, this classic shooter has just gotten an amazing Ray Tracing mod that overhauls its entire lighting system.
Going into more details, DXX Raytracer is a fork of the DXX Retro project for Windows. DXX Raytracer uses modern raytracing techniques to update the graphics of the beloved retro game known as Descent.
DXX Raytracer feature physically-based rendering, as well as soft shadows and path-traced global illumination. Furthermore, players can expect bloom and motion blur effects, as well as support for TAA.
From what we know, Descent RTX (that’s what we’ll be calling it) does not support any upscaling techniques like DLSS 2/3 or FSR 2.0. As such, you may need a powerful GPU in order to run it at resolutions higher than 1080p, even though this is a really old PC game.
>> There's a less than one minute trailer of the mod.

Max Payne 3 gets a 3.5GB 4K Texture Pack
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/max-payne-3-gets-a-3-5gb-4k-texture-pack/
Max Payne 3 is considered by many as one of the best third-person shooter games. Developed by Rockstar, this third part in the Max Payne series featured amazing shooting mechanics. And today, we bring you a 4K Texture Pack for it.
This 4K pack is 3.5GB in size and upscales all the 3D models for Max Payne. In other words, this pack only overhauls the main character and not the game’s environments. The modder has not shared a comparison video, though we have the following three screenshots that you can view.

Fallout New Vegas gets new DLC-sized Mod, featuring 6 new quests, 17 new weapons and 800+ lines of dialogue
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/fallout-new-vegas-gets-new-dlc-sized-mod-featuring-6-new-quests-17-new-weapons-and-800-lines-of-dialogue/
Modder ‘NKFC’ has released a new DLC-sized mod for Fallout New Vegas, called Out of Bounds. This mod is based off of the Backrooms, and comes with new content, quests and dialogue lines.
In this mod you get all your stuff taken away forcing you to scavenge for resources in order to make weapons to fight the many entities of the Backrooms.
According to the modder, Fallout New Vegas: Out of Bounds features 6 new quests, 17 new weapons and 4 new settlements to explore. Players can also expect 40+ new voice-acted characters, and 800+ lines of dialogue.
>> There's a short trailer of the mod.

This mod mashes up five factions from Command and Conquer's past into one giant brawl
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-mod-mashes-up-five-factions-from-command-and-conquers-past-into-one-giant-brawl/
Soviets, Allies, GDI, Nod, and the Scrin: Five factions from the history of Command & Conquer that franchise fans can't help but recognize. There's one problem: They're spread across two different series—the Red Alert games and the Tiberian universe. Since 2018, one mod has sought to do the unthinkable: Smash 'em all together into one big, vicious brawl.
Command & Conquer: Combined Arms is just that mod. Complete with singleplayer missions, cooperative multiplayer missions, and the crown jewel of C&C, multiplayer skirmish, Combined Arms uses the OpenRA engine to recreate factions and units from the spectrum of C&C titles in stretching all the way to Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. Soviet Kirovs? Absolutely. GDI Titan mechs? Yes. The Grand Cannon? For sure. It also updates the original Command & Conquer timeline factions with the upgrade trees that the Red Alert games introduced—stuff like Tech Centers, Support powers, and Navies.
Combined Arms released an update just last week that adds a whole pile of new features, artworks, and sounds. It's frankly glorious stuff if you grew up on the pixelated tanks and FMV era of RTS games, watching units from games separated by years of time . They've also integrated an entire unit update system to enable you to retrofit existing units
>> There's a 2 minutes video of the mod.

GAMING NEWS

Atomic Heart Patch 1.8.0.0 released, adds New Game+ Mode
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/atomic-heart-patch-1-8-0-0-released-adds-new-game-mode/
Mundfish has just released patch 1.8.0.0 for Atomic Heart which adds a New Game+ Mode to this first-person shooter. In this mode, enemies have new abilities, such as immunity to certain attacks of the player or new attack effects against the player.

Starfield’s PC physical copies will only have a code, no game disc
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/starfields-pc-physical-copies-will-only-have-a-code-no-game-disc/
Starfield is currently one of the most highly anticipated games on PC. However, it appears that the PC physical copies will not have any game discs. Instead, all PC physical copies, including the premium versions, will have a game code.
>> Shame.

GlitchStorm is a new classic arena shooter in Unreal Engine 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/glitchstorm-is-a-new-classic-arena-shooter-in-unreal-engine-5/
Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament fans, rejoice. GreyArea Games is currently working on a classic arena shooter in Unreal Engine 5, called GlitchStorm.

Platforms revealed for IO Interactive’s fantasy game, Project Dragon
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/platforms-revealed-for-io-interactives-fantasy-game-project-dragon/
Project Dragon is a new online fantasy RPG from IO Interactive, the makers of the Hitman series. And, thanks to emails published by the FTC Discovery, we finally know the platforms on which this new game will come out.

AMD announced that it will be Starfield’s exclusive PC partner
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-announced-that-it-will-be-starfields-exclusive-pc-partner/
AMD has just announced that it will be Starfield’s exclusive PC partner, and shared an announcement video. In this video, Todd Howard confirms that Starfield will be using Creation Engine 2; an enhanced version of the engine used in Bethesda’s previous games.
>> I guess that means no DLSS for the game.