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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Saints Row Reboot has apparently sold 1.7 million units
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/saints-row-reboot-has-apparently-sold-1-7-million-units/
Volition’s Community and Social Media Manager, Tyrin Stevenson, has shared some sales figures for Saints Row. According to Stevenson, the 2022 reboot of Saints Row has sold 1.7 million units, and attracted 1 million players on all platforms.
Now some of you may be wondering how these numbers are possible. Surely the sales should be higher than the amount of people that have played it, right? Well, I don’t have an answer to this. Perhaps there are people that have bought the game but never played it? Or perhaps the sales numbers include the free units that Epic Games offered in December 2023?
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For comparison purposes, the first Saints Row game sold 2 million. Then, its sequel, Saints Row 2 sold 3.4 million. Saints Row The Third was also a big hit as it sold 5.5 million. And while we don’t have any sales numbers for Saints Row 4, we do know that it sold 1 million copies in its first week.
>> Wow, that’s lame.

GOG brings us four new DotD and a new sale:

• These are the Deals of the Day, that will last 46 hours:
  • The first one is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, 33% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/shattered_pixel_dungeon
  • Prodeus will be 40% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/prodeus
  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition gets an 85% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/sleeping_dogs_definitive_edition
  • Space Hack also gets an 85% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/space_hack
• The Hack 'n' Slash Sale features up to 92% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20240515_hack_slash_sale

Steam only has one new deal: Trombone Champ will be 60% off until the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/Trombone_Champ/.

Fanatical’s May Madness sale has entered its Encore stage, and it brings three new 24h Flash Deals with it:

• Hogwarts Legacy Digital Deluxe Edition has a 57% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/hogwarts-legacy-digital-deluxe-edition
• Shantae and the Seven Sirens is 66% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/shantae-and-the-seven-sirens
• The Ascent: Cyber Edition Bundle gets an 85% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-ascent-cyber-edition-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Mod for Minecraft attempts to recreate the whole world from Fallout: New Vegas with immersive gunplay mechanics
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-mod-for-minecraft-attempts-to-recreate-1-to-1-the-whole-world-from-fallout-new-vegas-with-immersive-gunplay-mechanics/
Now here is something really cool. ProjectMCNV has released a new beta version of their ambitious Minecraft: New Vegas project. Minecraft: New Vegas features a 1-to-1 recreation of the Fallout New Vegas map with immersive gunplay. It looks incredible, so don’t sleep on it.
Minecraft: New Vegas attempts to combine the detailed missions and decisions of Fallout with the unexpected twists of a multiplayer world. All of this is enhanced by a hardcore environment where the weak can perish from wildlife, and the brutish can enslave towns. It’s a really cool total conversion mod. So, if you want to experience Minecraft in a completely different way, you should definitely get it.
Minecraft: New Vegas allows you to live within the world of Fallout in a way no other media does. You build your character up from nothing, and can become whatever you want. In this mod, you have the ability to take the life of anyone, or anything you see. You can barter and steal any item you find. This has D&D levels of detail, but with all the benefits of an online game, and without the drawbacks.
>> There’s an over 2 minutes trailer.

Modding and warfare peak with mod that imposes 1% chance of a Five Nights at Freddy's jumpscare in WW2 strategy sim Hearts of Iron 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/modding-and-warfare-peak-with-mod-that-imposes-1-chance-of-a-five-nights-at-freddys-jumpscare-in-ww2-strategy-sim-hearts-of-iron-4/
War is hell: The scent of cordite, the clamour of artillery fire, the blood and the smoke and the guys from Five Nights at Freddy's popping up randomly to scare you. It's a nightmare made flesh, and something we ought to have grown past as a society, but which remains as a sad holdover from another age (2014, release year of Five Nights at Freddy's).
Or, at least, that's the case in Five Nights at Hearts of Iron 4, a mod/crime from an author named Krumtum that you can currently find over at the Hearts of Iron 4 Steam Workshop page. It does exactly what it sounds like: Mashing up the characters of FNAF and the unrivalled destruction of the greatest conflict in human history in a real peanut butter/chocolate-style combo.
"Have you always wanted HOI 4 to be more scary?" asks our author, "No? Now you can make it with this mod!" Once you've subscribed, "Every day you've got 1% chance for a jumpscare," in which one of FNAF's many animatronic horrors will appear atop a devastated continent to howl blue murder at you. In times of war, the law falls silent, but Freddy Fazbear speaks up.
>> The article only has one screenshot, the headline pic.

GAMING NEWS

Diablo 4’s biggest gameplay update, Loot Reborn, is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/diablo-4s-biggest-gameplay-update-loot-reborn-is-now-available-for-download/
Blizzard has just released the biggest gameplay update for Diablo 4, which is called Loot Reborn. To celebrate this release, the team has also shared a new trailer dedicated to it. This trailer will give you a glimpse at some of its key features.
>> And if you’re having crashes, it may be because of Nvidia’s frame gen.