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The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The eleven-year-old Arma 3 has sold over half a million copies during Steam Summer Sale 2024
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-eleven-year-old-arma-3-has-apparently-sold-half-a-million-copies-during-steam-summer-sale-2024/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. Bohemia Interactive has announced that its massive military sandbox, Arma 3, has sold over half a million units during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.
Arma 3 is like no other game. So, it’s pretty great to see the game still selling well. Seriously, Arma 3 originally came out in 2013. That’s over a decade. And, in a time when a lot of games struggle to come close to 500K sales, this old title has managed to exceed that figure.
Bohemia claimed that the game sold around 100K copies on the sale’s first day. As the team noted, that’s the highest number of copies sold in a single day dating all the way back to the initial Arma 3 Alpha release in March 2013.

GOG has a new sale, sorry, promo and three Limited Time Offers, instead of the Deals of the Day:

• Shadow Warrior 3: Deluxe Definitive Edition has a 50% discount during the next 31 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/shadow_warrior_3_deluxe_edition
• Tomb Raider GOTY will be 80% off during the same 31 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/tomb_raider_goty
• Fossil Echo is going to be 90% off during 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/fossil_echo
• And the Journal of Stories Promo features up to 95% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2024_journal_of_stories

Steam has three new sales:

• The Monster Prom franchise is on sale, up to 75% off until July 23: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/monsterpromfranchise
• HypeTrain doesn’t have enough with the sale I posted yesterday and also has its own Summer Sale, with up to 85% deal until July 29: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/HypeTrainDigital/sale/summersale
• And the Merge Games/ Maximum Entertainment Publisher Sale has up to 85% discounts. Despite being the same publisher, the length of the deals vary, with some ending as soon as the 22nd while others will last until the 30th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/maximumentertainmentpubsale

Fanatical’s new bundle is the BYO Platformania Bundle, with 16 games to choose for your 3+, 5+ or 7+ bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-platformania-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This mod brings 2B and 2P from NieR: Automata to Elden Ring with their classic outfits, as well as with hair and cloth physics
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/this-mod-brings-2b-and-2p-from-nier-automata-to-elden-ring-with-their-classic-outfits-as-well-as-with-hair-and-cloth-physics/
Elden Ring and NieR Automata fans, here is something special for you today. Modder ‘shintheweapon’ has released a mod that allows you to play the base game and the latest DLC of Elden Ring as 2B or 2P from NieR Automata.
This mod has the classic outfits of 2B and 2P, and it has full hair and cloth physics. It also comes with 3 great katanas, 1 straight sword, 1 great sword, 1 great shield and 1 medium shield.
From what I can tell, this is an expanded version of the 2B Mod that shintheweapon released in February 2024. If you are still using that mod, you can skip this one. After all, the modder has already released a new version that made it compatible with the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
In short, this is just a character swap mod. So, don’t expect any custom movesets for 2B or 2P. Still, the 3D models look great, so this is something that some of you may find interesting.
>> The article has some screenshots and a gif.

GAMING NEWS

Crestfallen: Medieval Survival is the first game that recommends an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, and it looks kind of mediocre
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/crestfallen-medieval-survival-is-the-first-game-that-recommends-an-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-and-it-looks-kind-of-mediocre/
Bloodbath Studios has released its medieval open world RPG, Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, on Steam Early Access. And, from the looks of it, this is the first PC game that has the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 listed as its recommended GPU.
>> Optimization? Never heard of it. And yeah, the game looks like a PS3 title.

Still Wakes the Deep Patch 1.3 adds support for NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS to the Game Pass version
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/still-wakes-the-deep-patch-1-3-adds-support-for-nvidia-dlss-amd-fsr-and-intel-xess-to-the-game-pass-version/
A lot of Game Pass PC players were disappointed with Still Wakes the Deep. You see, this new UE5 adventure game did not support NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS at launch. However, The Chinese Room released yesterday a patch to fix this.