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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Cities Skylines 2 has surpassed one million sales
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cities-skylines-2-has-surpassed-one-million-sales/
Paradox Interactive has just revealed that Cities Skylines has sold more than one million copies on PC. According to the company, it took around three months to hit its one million goal. For comparison purposes, the first Cities Skylines sold one million units in its first month.

GOG brings three new Deals of the Day that will last 46 hours:

• The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure is 10% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_legend_of_heroes_trails_to_azure
• Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate gets a 30% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/shotgun_king_the_final_checkmate
• And Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire features a 75% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/pillars_of_eternity_2_game

Steam has a new deal: Aces & Adventures is going to be 50% off until the 13th of February: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815570/Aces__Adventures/.

At the Humble Store we find a Koei Tecmo Spring Festival Sale, featuring up to 75% discounts during 12 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/koei-tecmo-spring-festival-sale/

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Here’s Need for Speed Most Wanted with RTX Remix Path Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/need-for-speed-most-wanted-with-rtx-remix-path-tracing-video/
YouTube’s ‘Cycu1’ has shared a new video, showcasing a WIP RTX Remix Path Tracing Mod for Need for Speed: Most Wanted. This video also compares this mod with the original version, so it can give you an idea of their graphical differences.
As with pretty much all of the RTX Remix Mods we’ve shared, this is in a very early development stage. In other words, it does not represent the quality of its final version. So, make sure to keep that in mind.
From what we can see, the RTX Remix Mod completely removes the colorgrading effects. As a result of that, the game looks completely different from its original version. Not only that but there are a lot of visual glitches and bugs. For instance, there are ghosting issues behind the car. The lighting does not also appear to affect the smoke effects.

Konami's barebones Metal Gear Solid collection gets further unofficial support, as modders enable a 'widescreen hack' for MGS 1
https://www.pcgamer.com/konamis-barebones-metal-gear-solid-collection-gets-further-unofficial-support-as-modders-enable-a-widescreen-hack-for-mgs-1/
Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection brought the classic series to PC much in the same way delivery service Yodel brings parcels to your door. Players were less than happy with the barebones package Konami kicked up the virtual driveway, and it was left to modders to unpack the publisher's soggy box and make the anthology play nicely on PC.
This they duly did, with mods like MGSResolution patch adding 4K support to the Master Collection mere hours after it launched. One of the stalwart unofficial patches for the collection, though, is Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Fix. Created by GitHub user nuggslet, the fix adds custom resolutions, analogue inputs, and mod support for the games. As of its latest update, v2.0, it also lets you play the original Metal Gear Solid in widescreen.
Uploaded yesterday, v2.0's primary addition is the ability to increase MGS1's internal render resolution, which sharpens up the game's crunchy PlayStation era pixels to a clean, hi-res look. Alongside this, however, nuggslet added a "separate option to toggle a widescreen hack" that expands the view from its standard 4:3 aspect ratio. This, apparently, "is configured by specifying the render height (rows) in pixels in MGSM2Fix.ini" while "render width is controlled using the in-game screen settings, allowing switching between 4:3 or widescreen while the game is running."
>> The article has a single native-modded screenshot.

Elden Ring just got a free NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/elden-ring-free-dlss-3-5-mod/
Modder ‘huutaiii’ has just released a free mod for Elden Ring that adds support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Super Resolution. By using this mod, owners of all RTX GPUs will be able to improve their performance in Elden Ring, especially when using RT Shadows.
Do note that this mod only adds support for Super Resolution. It does NOT add Frame Generation. Right now, the only mod that adds DLSS 3 Frame Generation to Elden Ring is the mod from PureDark.
>> The article has a four minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Unreal Engine 5-powered PVE open-world survival crafting game, Nightingale, will now hit Steam Early Access on February 20th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unreal-engine-5-powered-survival-crafting-game-nightingale-will-now-hit-steam-early-access-on-february-20th/
Inflexion Games has just announced that its upcoming survival crafting game, Nightingale, will hit Steam Early Access on February 20th. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared a new trailer that you can find below.

Outcast – A New Beginning suffers from major stuttering issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/outcast-a-new-beginning-suffers-from-major-stuttering-issues/
THQ Nordic has released a PC demo for Outcast – A New Beginning. And, since the game will come out in March, we’ve decided to give it a go, and share our initial tech impressions.