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The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG has two new Deals of the Day and two new sales:

• These are the two DotD, that will last until Friday:
  • Myst gets a 35% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst
  • Jagged Alliance 2 is 80% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/jagged_alliance_2
• Tate Multimedia puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_tate_multimedia
• And Paradox Interactive puts its games up to 80% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_paradox_interactive_sale

Steam has two new deals:

• Publisher Skybound Games puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts until Monday, the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/skyboundgames/sale/skybound2023
• And Gungrave G.O.R.E will be 80% off until Tuesday, 15th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1630110/Gungrave_GORE/

Fanatical has forgot to add a new Flash Deal, for now, but there's a new bundle: the Action Mystery Bundle with 5 unknown games: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/action-mystery-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 536.99
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-536-99
Highlights
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 2 technology including Baldur’s Gate 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Gord.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed Gaming Bugs
  • [Control][DX12] Cut scenes and videos show tearing and partial jitter [4084000]
  • [Battlefield 2042] Game stability can decrease when applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters. [4170804]
  • [GeForce Experience] Game stability can decrease when applying a GeForce Experience Freestyle filter in certain games while using DLSS 3 Frame Generation [4171660]
  • [Dead Space] Game stability issues [4140545]
• Fixed General Bugs
  • [Elgato Wave Link] Potential audio issues with NVIDIA Broadcast effects [3752618]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Here’s Gears of War: Judgment running on PC via the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/heres-gears-of-war-judgment-running-on-pc-via-the-xbox-360-emulator-xenia/
YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared a video, showcasing Gears of War: Judgment running on PC via the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia. The YouTuber used Xenia’ latest Canary version which came out last month, so this will give you an idea of how the game currently runs with this emulator.
In order to capture the following gameplay footage, reznoire used an Intel Core i9-12900k with an ASUS ROG Strix 3080 White Edition and 32GB of DDR5 5200Mhz RAM.
Now as we can see, Xenia is still unable to emulate Gears of War: Judgment with constant 60fps on PC. From the looks of it, both the CPU and the GPU are underused. As such, there is a bottleneck somewhere else (most likely a code issue) that prevents the emulator from offering a smooth gaming experience.
>> The video is a bit over 4 minutes long.

This Fallout 4 Mod fixes the game’s long loading times
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-fallout-4-mod-fixes-the-games-long-loading-times/
Modder ‘Antonix35’ has released a must-have mod for Fallout 4, that fixes the game’s annoying long loading times. According to the modders, this was achieved by speeding up slow locations in the game code that were slowing down other loading threads.
This F4SE plugin also reduces time when moving between locations using an elevator. It also reduces the loading time when revisiting recently visited locations. Additionally, it speeds up the transition animation to the loading screen and out, allows players to select loading screens, and fixes the in-game vertical sync for high frame rate monitors.
>> There's a less than 2 minutes video that shows the new loading times.

Consider getting this Baldur's Gate 3 mod that makes Wizarding less annoying early on
https://www.pcgamer.com/consider-getting-this-baldurs-gate-3-mod-that-makes-wizarding-less-annoying-early-on/
I gotta respect Baldur's Gate 3 for so faithfully translating D&D 5e rules into videogame form, but honestly, some of those rules kinda suck.
Take low-level magic for instance: at the beginning of Baldur's Gate 3, most spellcasters can cast only two level 1 spells before they get tuckered out and need a long rest. I get why that's the case—spellcasters get way more powerful after reaching level 4 and beyond—but in those crucial beginning hours, when you're still getting a feel for combat and you have fewer health points than fingers, running out of gas after every combat can be more annoying than tactically interesting. Not to mention the waste of burning 40 camp supplies on long rests when most of your party is still healthy.
If you're running a party of mostly spellcasters and tedious long resting is bringing you down, consider giving this mod a test drive: "Short rest refreshes spells and some more" by Nexus Mods user kaijuu12345 makes it possible to completely restore your spell slots after a short rest.
It's essentially a supercharged version of the Wizard skill Arcane Recovery—which restores some spell slots on short rest once per day—except it also restores Rage slots for Barbarians and Bardic Inspiration, two other skill charges usually dependent on long rests.
>> No screenshots nor videos.

GAMING NEWS

Tekken 8 will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech [UPDATE: Or perhaps not]
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tekken-8-will-be-using-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/
Bandai Namco has updated the Tekken 8 EULA on Steam, revealing that the game will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. This of course does not surprise us as its predecessor, Tekken 7, also used Denuvo when it launched.
UPDATE: According to Katsuhiro Harada, the EULA is most likely a copy/paste of the Tekken 7 EULA. Additionally, Harada said that he has no plans to introduce Denuvo to the game!
>> So, who do we believe, the director of the game or the company that put that EULA? We only have to see if Namco removes that part from the Steam page or not.