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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away Sail Forth: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sail-forth-51847e.
Next week, they'll give away LOVE.

Steam has one new deal: Roots of Pacha will be 30% off until the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245560/Roots_of_Pacha/.

And at Fanatical the Star Wars Collection makes a comeback, with a 79% discount during 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/star-wars-collection.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

INTEL Arc Graphics 31.0.101.5085/5122 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/intel-arc-graphics-31-0-101-5085-5122
Highlights

• Support for 14th Gen Intel ® Core™ S/HX-Series processors.

Gaming Highlights

• Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
  • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Valve has taken down Portal 64 and Team Fortress: Source 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/valve-has-taken-down-portal-64-and-team-fortress-source-2/
Valve has just taken down two amazing projects, Portal 64 and Team Fortress: Source 2. This is a bit shocking as Valve has always supported modders.
Team Fortress: Source 2 aimed to to remake, improve, iterate, and create a new Team Fortress experience on Source 2 engine. On the other hand, Portal 64 aimed to demake the first Portal game for the Nintendo 64.
According to the DMCA letters, Team Fortress 2: Source had assets from Team Fortress 2 being ported to Source 2 without permission. Plus, these assets were being redistributed by Amper Software in a game mode for Facepunch’s S@box. So, this takedown notice does make sense. Amper Software could have easily avoided it by simply removing all the original assets of TF2.
About Portal 64, Valve said the project was using Nintendo’s proprietary libraries, and that’s a no-go. I’m not sure why, but that’s the reason Valve gave.

Play the classic Doom 2 with Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/play-the-classic-doom-2-with-full-ray-tracing-path-tracing/
January has been a slow month without any major new releases. Or at least the first half. As such, I’ve decided to revisit the classic Doom games. Now as you may have know, in 2022 we got a Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing Mod for the first Doom game. However, that mod wasn’t compatible with Doom 2. Thankfully, though, there is a mod that fixes that.
But let’s take things from the beginning. In 2022, sultim-t, the man behind the amazing ray tracing/path tracing mods for Serious Sam, Quake, and Half-Life, released an RTX Mod for the first Doom game. That mod added full ray tracing/path tracing effects to id Software’s classic game. However, it was not compatible with Doom 2. While you could load the Doom2.wad, the maps did not have any static lights. And that’s where the following mod comes in.
Created by ‘rellik66’, this mod adds lights for PrBoom+Raytracing. Thus, you can now enjoy Doom 2 with Path Tracing.
What’s cool here is that Doom 2 with Path Tracing can feel like a horror game. Since there aren’t a lot of “fake” lights, the game is darker than before. And, in a really weird way, it may remind you of Doom 64’s atmosphere.
Now the downside is that since the game is darker, you might end up getting lost in its maps. Thankfully, the game has a flashlight that you can enable. And trust me, you’ll need it.
>> The article has some screenshots and a 10 minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Elden Ring Title Update 1.10.1 Released, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/elden-ring-title-update-1-10-1-released-full-patch-notes/
A few hours ago, the Steam servers underwent maintenance to deploy a system update. And now that the servers are back online, FromSoftware shared the patch notes for Title Update 1.10.1.