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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

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GOG has added another Deal of the Day to the other two I posted yesterday: The Whispering Valley will be 25% off during another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_whispering_valley.

Steam has some sales and new weeklong deals:

• Publisher ASHGAMES puts its games on sale with up to 75% discounts until the 31st of August: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ASHGAMESPublisherSale2023
• The Made in New Zealand 2023 Sale comes back with up to 75% discounts until the 4th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/NZGames2023
• Black Desert will be 70% off until September, 7th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert/
• PGA TOUR 2K23 will be 67% off until the 11th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588010/PGA_TOUR_2K23/
• And here's a small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • Astro Colony, still in Early Access, is 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614550/Astro_Colony/
  • Volcanoids, also in Early Access, gets a 30% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/951440/Volcanoids/
  • Aquatico gets a 44% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812300/Aquatico/
  • Heavy Rain, that has a demo, gets a 60% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/960910/Heavy_Rain/
  • Patron is 70% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1538570/Patron/
  • And the last one is In Sound Mind, with an 89% deal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119980/In_Sound_Mind/

Fanatical has launched the CI Games Publisher Sale, with up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/ci-games.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Take a look at Dark Messiah with Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/take-a-look-at-dark-messiah-with-full-ray-tracing-path-tracing/
wiltOS Technologies has shared some screenshots and a video, showcasing Dark Messiah with full ray tracing/path tracing via RTX Remix.
In order to implement RTX Remix, KingDavidW made the game work with the DX7 API. What’s also interesting is that the modder has released the toolkit for the RTX Remix build so that others can make and dedicate themselves to a true RTX mod of Dark Messiah.
Going into more details, it took KingDavidW about 5 months to get everything in a decent state. Additionally, he has added a bunch of fixes and modifications to give the RTX modules a little more to work with, such as light rendering hacks and culling fixes.
>> We'll see if there's someone that takes the challenge to make this a reality. The video, embedded in the article, is almost 7 minutes long.

This GTA5 Mod brings multiplayer experience to its story mode
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-gta5-mod-brings-multiplayer-experience-to-its-story-mode/
Sardelka and EntenKoeniq have released a mod for Grand Theft Auto 5 on NexusMods that brings multiplayer to the game’s story mode. This mod originally came out in 2022, but it became available on NexusMods just a few days ago. Not only that, but its latest version, V1.5.4, came out in July 2023 (and its Nightly Build came out a few days ago).
Going into more details, RAGECOOP brings multiplayer experience to the story mode of GTA5, allowing players to complete missions together with their friends. Furthermore, RAGECOOP allows you to use mods without any restriction or fear of getting banned.
This GTA5 Multiplayer Mod features synchronized bullets, vehicle/player/NPC, projectiles, and it also sports a simple ragdoll sync. Moreover, it’s optimized for high-ping conditions, meaning that it will allow you to play with your friends around the world. RAGECOOP also has decent compatibility with other mods. As such, you can set up a private modded server to have some fun with your friends.
>> There's a short video in the article.

Fallout 4 gets a full creature and ecosystem overhaul mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/fallout-4-gets-a-full-creature-and-ecosystem-overhaul-mod/
Modder ‘StamperDoesMods’ has released Mutant Menagerie – Life Finds A Way, a full creature and ecosystem overhaul mod for Fallout 4 and its expansions.
Going into more details, this mod adds 60+ all-new mutants, 30+ new herbs and plants, and 50+ species of fish. Furthermore, it adds new perks that players can earn through gameplay, hundreds of new recipes and workshop objects that players can craft, and much more.
This Fallout 4 Mod aims to make the game more difficult, but also more rewarding and engaging in ways that are streamlined, largely optional, and that don’t introduce an overbearing amount of tedium. Since this mod makes numerous changes to the game’s ecosystem, we suggest using it in your second playthrogh.
>> The article doesn't have a video of the mod, but has an almost 10 minutes long video showing 12 "Must Have" mods for Fallout 4 that have launched this August.

Wipeout's now remastered and playable in a browser, coder tells Sony to 'either let it be, or get a real remaster going'
https://www.pcgamer.com/wipeouts-now-remastered-and-playable-in-a-browser-coder-tells-sony-to-either-let-it-be-or-get-a-real-remaster-going/
Just over a month ago we reported on the sudden re-emergence of a shined-up PC version of 1995's Wipeout, a launch title for Sony's first PlayStation and a game that set the tone for the entire platform: cool, slick, and fast as hell. It came from an anonymous hero who, under the Github account Wipeout Phantom Edition, released an enhanced PC source port of the original Wipeout under that subtitle of Phantom Edition: "It uses game data from the PlayStation version and is much more comparable to the PlayStation version than the official PC port" (which I haven't played but is apparently not a great port).
This was based on a 2022 leak of the original game's source code from Forest of Illusion, and the Phantom Edition modder wasn't the only person with their eye on it. Where Phantom Edition required some work to be playable, one Dominic Szablewski has now used that source leak to rewrite the entire game (or as he puts it, "everything everywhere"), document the process, release it on Github and, for good measure, make it playable in a browser.
"Neither the Phantom Edition nor XProger's version [another Wipetout remaster project] come with the source code," says Szablewski. "Understandably so. The legality of re-distributing the leaked source is questionable at best. So let's just pretend that the leak was intentional, a rewrite of the source falls under fair use and the whole thing is abandonware anyway."

GAMING NEWS

Starfield reportedly runs with 45-60fps at 1440p/High Settings on NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/starfield-reportedly-runs-with-45-60fps-in-1440p-high-settings-on-nvidia-rtx-2080ti/
Starfield releases soon and it appears that we finally have some leaks regarding its performance on PC. Moreover, we get to see a part of the PC graphics settings which basically confirm what we already knew. Starfield won’t support Ray Tracing or FSR 3.0 on PC (at least at launch).