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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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Remnant 2 surpasses one million sales in a week
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/remnant-2-surpasses-one-million-sales-in-a-week/
Gearbox has announced that Gunfire’s Remnant 2 has surpassed one million sales on all platforms in its first week. As such, this new third-person shooter is already a big success.

Steam and new deals, as well as weeklong deals:

• Tribes of Midgard will be 66% off until August, 3rd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/858820/Tribes_of_Midgard/
• Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters gets a 50% discount until the 7th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1611910/Warhammer_40000_Chaos_Gate__Daemonhunters/
• The Demons Unleashed Sale brings up to 90% discounts until next Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/DemonsUnleashed
• The INDIE Live Expo Summer 2023 comes with up to 90% deals until Agust, 7th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/indieliveexpo2023summer
• The Wholesome Games 2023 Sale is full of games up to 90% off until Monday, the 7th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/WholesomeGames2023
• And these are some of the weeklong deals:
  • Fear Therapy, still in Early Access, will be 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1695840/Fear_Therapy/
  • Planetbase is half its usual price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/403190/Planetbase/
  • Cue Club 2: Pool & Snooker gets a 60% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/366690/Cue_Club_2_Pool__Snooker/
  • PictoQuest is goin to be 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1014040/PictoQuest/
  • And the last one is RIDE, with a 90% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/345660/RIDE/

The Humble Store has three new sales:

• The HypeTrain Digital Publisher Sale features up to 85% discounts during 6 days. There are keys for Steam, one for EGS and one download: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/hypetrain-digital-publisher-sale/
• If you like golf, the Go Golf Sale is perfect for you, with up to 85% discounts during 6 days. All the keys are for Steam, except for two that are also downloads: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/go-golf-sale/
• And the Roam the Rain Sale brings lots of games up to 90% off during 6 days. There are keys for Steam, two for GOG, one for EGS and some direct downloads: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/roam-the-realm-sale/

Fanatical has the new Train Simulator Classic Bundle, with the game and 17 DLCs split into three tiers of 6, 12 and 18 products and up to 99% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/train-simulator-classic-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

INTEL Arc & Iris Graphics 31.0.101.4577
https://videocardz.com/driver/intel-arc-iris-graphics-31-0-101-4577
Highlights

• Support for Intel® Arc™ A570M and A530M Graphics

Fixed Issues
Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:

• F1 23 (DX12) may experience an application crash on certain Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics notebooks

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Resident Evil 4 looks really cool as a 2D side-scrolling action game
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/resident-evil-4-looks-really-cool-as-a-2d-side-scrolling-action-game/
Modder ‘DooMero’ has shared two videos, showcasing what Resident Evil 4 could have looked like as a 2D side-scrolling action game.
In order to create this demake, DooMero used GZDoom. And, as you will see, the results are quite impressive. Okay okay, when I say impressive I mean retro-impressive. This doesn’t have any Ray Tracing effects or HD 2D sprites. This is exactly what you’d expect to see in a Game Boy Advance demake of Resident Evil 4, and I kind of love it.
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Unfortunately, this Resident Evil 4 demake in the GZDoom engine is not available for download yet. I also don’t know whether DooMero plans to release it to the public once he completes it. From what I read in the Doomworld forum, DooMero does plan to release this demo to the public someday. But anyway, until that happens, you can find below two videos, packing 40 minutes of gameplay footage from it.

Fallout: New Vegas mod replaces techbro antagonist with an AI-created Elon Musk
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-new-vegas-mod-replaces-techbro-antagonist-with-an-ai-created-elon-musk/
You don't really get much more on-the-nose than this, but a new mod for Fallout: New Vegas replaces the in-game character Mr. House with the real-world character Elon Musk. First spotted by Kotaku, the Elon House mod, created by NoUsernameSelected, takes some cues from a pre-existing New Vegas mod which pulled the same trick with Mark Zuckerberg back in 2020. There's one twist here though: the New Vegas Musk is an AI creation.
In the game Mr. House runs the Strip, one of the big New Vegas locations, and depending on your actions can be friend or foe: essentially do what he says and you're golden, refuse to be a good dog and he'll come for you. House is presented as a tech visionary and in a way one of humanity's hopes, but unfortunately believes his own hype to the extent of deciding the rebuilt civilisation must exist under his sole command. You also communicate with him entirely through looking at a screen.
>> The article has a 1:36 minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

PAYDAY 3 will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/payday-3-will-be-using-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/
Deep Silver and Starbreeze have revealed via the game’s Steam store page that PAYDAY 3 will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
From what we know, PAYDAY 3 will be always-online and will not offer an offline mode. Even during single-player missions, the game will require an internet connection. Not only that, but it will also require Starbreeze’s Nebula. So, why will Deep Silver use Denuvo in an always-online game? Don’t know but it seems kind of pointless.