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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

This week, the Epic Store gives away Farming Simulator 22: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/farming-simulator-22.
The free game for next week is, once again, a mystery.

Steam has three new deals:

• Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster will be 80% off until the 29th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1413480/Shin_Megami_Tensei_III_Nocturne_HD_Remaster/
• Call of Juarez: Gunslinger gets a 90% discount until May, the 31st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger/
• And the MEGA FMV PACK, with 13 FMV games, is 79% off. There’s no mention of when the deal will end, but the individual games will also be on sale until the 5th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/22000/MEGA_FMV/

There are two new deals at Humble:

• At Humble Bundle there’s the Fully Loaded: Nightdive FPS Remasters Bundle, with up to 10 items to get during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/fully-loaded-nightdive-fps-remasters
• The Humble Store has the Plug In Digital Publisher Sale, with up to 88% discounts during 4 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/plug-in-digital-publisher-sale/

Fanatical has a new sale and bundle:

• The Warhammer Skulls Festival is live with up to at least 80% discounts. The length of the deals vary, with some lasting 7 and other 8 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/warhammer
• And the bundle is the BYO Premiere Bundle: Showcase Edition, with 14 games to choose from: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-premiere-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 is now a game-integrated tech and not an in-driver solution
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-radeon-anti-lag-2-is-now-a-game-integrated-tech-and-not-an-in-driver-solution/
AMD has just revealed new details about Anti-Lag 2. According to the red team, Anti-Lag 2 will now be a game-integrated tech and not an in-driver solution. As such, developers will have to manually include this tech in their games, much like they do with NVIDIA Reflex.
For those unaware, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 was meant to be an improved version of the company’s low-latency in-driver tech solution. However, when the red team first introduced it, it got a lot of AMD Radeon owners banned in CS2 and Apex Legends. This forced AMD to completely remove Anti-Lag 2 from its drivers.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake is already playable on PC at 60fps via Nintendo Switch emulators
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-remake-is-already-playable-on-pc-at-60fps-via-nintendo-switch-emulators/
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake comes out today on the Nintendo Switch. It looks like you can already play it on PC using Nintendo Switch emulators. Shocking, right?
In this game, players will explore a colorful paper world with charming characters in every fold. The remake comes with better graphics and an updated soundtrack. Moreover, it packs some gameplay additions like updated quick-travel pipes and a Partner Ring to swap characters in a jiffy.
Now what’s great here is that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake can run with 60fps on the latest version of Ryujinx. For comparison purposes, the official Nintendo Switch version is locked at 30fps. Given the game’s graphics, I don’t really know why the big N decided to lock its framerate. It doesn’t appear to be a graphical powerhouse. Surely the Nintendo Switch should be able to run it at 60fps, right? Anyway, the point is that PC gamers can enjoy the game at higher resolutions and higher framerates. This is huge.
>> The article has an almost 9 minutes video.

Hellblade 2 is now playable in first-person view with full 6DOF VR support
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/hellblade-2-first-person-full-6dof-vr/
Owners of VR headsets, get ready for a treat. From the looks of it, Praydog’s UEVR is fully compatible with Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, allowing to experience it in full 6DOF VR in both first-person and third-person perspectives.
For those unaware, Praydog’s UEVR is a project that allows PC gamers to experience over 11,000 UE games in 6DOF VR. This is a must-have for all VR gamers.
UEVR works on a universal level and out of the box and doesn’t contain any code about a specific game. For many games, you can just press “inject” and start playing. However, for more experienced VR gamers, there is a lot that you can tweak.
Since Hellblade 2 is powered by Unreal Engine 5, it’s already playable with UEVR. So, if you own a VR headset, I highly recommend downloading it from this link. Once you’ve installed it, you can head over here to download the VR profile for Hellblade 2.
>> There’s a 10 minutes video of the mod.

'Y'all killed it': Survive the Undead, a community-made PvE zombie mode, is bringing players back to Halo Infinite
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/yall-killed-it-survive-the-undead-a-community-made-pve-zombie-mode-is-bringing-players-back-to-halo-infinite/
A group of community developers and Halo Forge aficionados have created a new PvE mode for Halo Infinite: Survive the Undead, and it's won over old and new players alike.
"Survive the Undead meshes the Halo Firefight experience with the fan-favorite COD Zombies mode, resulting in fast-paced, intense, and sometimes spooky gameplay," dev team The Forge Falcons says in a blog post. "As we learned in Reach, the objective is to 'survive,' and you want to do that by any means necessary."
This mode is endless and round-based, so if you have the skills and superhuman reactions, you can theoretically keep going forever. The highest record so far has been set at 3,588 total kills lasting 1 hour 39 minutes, with a winning score of 34,090, according to a tweet from The Forge Falcons. Which is a ridiculously impressive feat, to say the least. 
There's also the possibility of more maps being added to Survive the Night. "This playlist allows us to test out new modes (BTB Heavies), new features (new networking model), and get feedback at scale before taking that information back and iterating on it," The Forge Falcons write. "From there, we can address issues and community feedback to get things ready for primetime matchmaking."
>> I know it’s not a mod per se, but it’s created by users. The article doesn’t have any media.

GAMING NEWS

Crime Boss: Rockay City will not have Denuvo on Steam
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crime-boss-rockay-city-will-not-have-denuvo-on-steam/
505 Games will release Crime Boss: Rockay City on Steam on June 18th. And, according to its database, the game will not be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech when it launches on Valve’s store.

First Ghost of Tsushima PC Update released, fixing issues with DLSS 3 and FSR 3.0
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/first-ghost-of-tsushima-pc-update-released-fixing-issues-with-dlss-3-and-fsr-3-0/
Nixxes has released the first PC update for Ghost of Tsushima. According to the release notes, patch v1053.0.0522.1042 brings fixes to both NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3.0. Additionally, it packs some stability improvements.