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The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

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GOG has two new sales:

• There’s a new Weekly Sale, with lots of games up to 95% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20240716_weekly_deals_2_july
• The Twisted Minds Sale also has up to 95% discounts and also during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2024_twisted_minds

Steam has a few deals, including new weeklong deals:

• Publisher/developer Facepunch celebrates 15 years putting its games on sale with a 50% discount until July, 22nd: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Facepunch15Birthday
• Publisher HypeTrain brings the Automation Games Sale, with games up to 90% off until the 22nd: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/automationgamessale
• Atomic Heart, that has a demo, will be 60% off until the 25th of July: https://store.steampowered.com/app/668580/Atomic_Heart/
• A Plague Tale: Requiem also gets a 60% discount until the same 25th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182900/A_Plague_Tale_Requiem/
• Enter the Gungeon gets a 70% discount until July 29: https://store.steampowered.com/app/311690/Enter_the_Gungeon/
• The Chant is going to be 80% off until the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577250/The_Chant/
• And here’s a very small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • Wildmender is 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599330/Wildmender/
  • 0°N 0°W gets a 40% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/670750/0N_0W/
  • Go Mecha Ball is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008510/Go_Mecha_Ball/
  • Lost in Play features a 60% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328840/Lost_in_Play/
  • Session: Skate Sim gets a 70% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/861650/Session_Skate_Sim/
  • And the last one, Curious Expedition, is going to be 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/358130/Curious_Expedition/

I haven’t included it in the list, but Frogwares has all its games and DLCs on sale until Monday, but it doesn’t seem to be a special sale or anything.

Fanatical has three new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Shantae and the Seven Sirens, 75% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/shantae-and-the-seven-sirens
• Publisher Slitherine Ltd. Games puts its titles on sale during 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/slitherine-ltd
• Today’s new bundle is the BYO Empire Bundle, with 13 games to choose for your 3+, 5+ or 6+ bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-empire-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 560.70 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-560-70

Highlights
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including Dungeonborne, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Stormgate.

Fixed Issues
Fixed General Bugs

• [NVENC] Quality and bitrate settings are ignored at 10-bit encoding [4697900]
• [OBS] Scaling 10-bit HVEC or AV1 content down below 50% in viewport shows corruption for some configurations [4496901]
• [Unity] Artifacts when rendering overlapped geometry on anti-aliased framebuffer [4616564]
• [Adobe Premiere] Visual corruption in Source and Program Monitor Previews when using 555.85 driver [4679207]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Dolphin emulator launches RetroAchievements support for more than 100 classic GameCube games, crashing its servers in the process
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/dolphin-emulator-launches-retroachievements-support-for-more-than-100-classic-gamecube-games-crashing-its-servers-in-the-process/
Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is having a big month. Just two weeks ago the Dolphin team announced that its development is now so rock solid they were doing away with the concept of "stable" builds entirely and moving to a rolling release cycle, taking the emulator out of the "5.0" build era that started back in 2016. Today it's adding a long-requested feature: integration with RetroAchievements, a community-driven project that adds Xbox- or Steam-style achievements to thousands of older games.
"RetroAchievements sets essentially amount to a list of tasks and goals that may go above and beyond simply beating the game," writes Dolphin blog author JMC4789. The integration currently supports more than 100 games from the GameCube library, though I'm not sure what's on the full list—the launch has seemingly overwhelmed RetroAchievements' servers, causing them to crash. 
"The servers on fire, everything is okay. Grandma will be by shortly to fix it. The hype is real," the Retroachievements account tweeted less than 10 minutes after launch.
>> This isn’t the kind of article with media in it.

'The cherry on the top' for Fallout: London is having the robotic Speaker of the House played by a former Speaker of the House
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-cherry-on-the-top-for-fallout-london-is-having-the-robotic-speaker-of-the-house-played-by-a-former-speaker-of-the-house/
Bethesda's "next gen" update for Fallout 4 didn't change much about the game itself, but it did manage to cause problems for pretty much every mod out there. The most high-profile casualty was the hotly anticipated Fallout: London, an enormous project that was initially set for release on April 23 (St George's day, of course), but was subsequently delayed while the team set about fixing things.
The good news there is that per the dev team "the end is in sight" (unless you're playing on Epic Games Store), with the mod set to release as soon as the devs and distributor GOG have done their due diligence on the release build. In the runup to release, project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has been revealing some of the features players can look forward to, and prime among them is a prominent UK politician that, during the Brexit years especially, went viral for his habit of shouting "order" in a manner that sounds more like "OR-DAH!"
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Well if you thought Brexit was bad, and Truss somehow worse, get ready for some order in the post-apocalypse. Prilladog has announced that Bercow will be the voice actor for Fallout: London's robotic speaker of the house, and even shared a little clip:
"Imagine being Fallout: London and feeling so lucky having all the talented voice actors on the team," writes Prilladog on the mod's Discord server (first spotted by VG247). "But then boosting it further with the fact that we have [two] Doctor Who actors as VAs... then Neil Newbon messages us and also wants a role.
"But the cherry on the top? Who better to represent our mod's version of the Speaker of the House, than a robot version. Voiced by John Bercow himself."
>> Other than a 3 minutes video with the “best” moments of Bercow, there’s no other media in it. The Epic Store bit relates to this other article.

GAMING NEWS

Official PC system requirements for Nobody Wants to Die
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/official-pc-system-requirements-for-nobody-wants-to-die/
Nobody Wants to Die will be released tomorrow, and it’s a game I’m really looking forward to. And, earlier today, Critical Hit Games revealed its official PC system requirements. So, let’s take a look at them.

A fully playable PC build for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 has been leaked online, and here are 15 minutes of gameplay from it
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/a-fully-playable-pc-build-for-warhammer-40k-space-marine-2-has-been-leaked-online-and-here-are-15-minutes-of-gameplay-from-it/
It appears that today is not a good day for Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment. A fully playable PC build for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 has been leaked online, almost two months before the game’s official release.

Neverness to Everness is a new supernatural urban open-world RPG in Unreal Engine 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/neverness-to-everness-is-a-new-supernatural-urban-open-world-rpg-in-unreal-engine-5/
Hotta Studio, the team behind Tower of Fantasy, has announced its latest game, called Neverness to Everness. Neverness to Everness is a new supernatural urban open-world RPG, powered by Unreal Engine 5.

Capcom has removed Denuvo from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/capcom-has-removed-denuvo-from-apollo-justice-ace-attorney-trilogy/
Capcom has released an update that removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy came out on PC on January 25th, meaning that it took Capcom around six months to remove it.