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The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Helldivers 2's latest update looks like it's gone down smooth, with player counts not seen since June—from a balance patch, no less
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-s-latest-update-looks-like-it-s-gone-down-smooth-with-player-counts-not-seen-since-june-from-a-balance-patch-no-less/
Helldivers 2's latest patch has, pretty comprehensively, overhauled the game's approach to difficulty, weapon balancing, and loadout variety—and it looks like it's working out pretty well for ol' Arrowhead.
While every major patch brings its own concurrent user jump, I think it's pretty notable here that this patch, as per SteamDB, has seen 24-hour peak player numbers not spied since June—over 68,000 players, which is a heck of a lot for a Tuesday night. It's since dipped back down to 25,000, though I'm willing to bet that's because people need to, y'know, sleep and/or go to work.

GOG has three Limited Time Offers, that will last until Friday:

• Crookz - The Big Heist will be 60% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/crookz_the_big_heist
• The NSFW title Dark Fantasy: Jigsaw Puzzle gets a 70% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/dark_fantasy_jigsaw_puzzle
• And Volley Pals gets a 70% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/volley_pals

Steam has two new deals:

• EMPTY SHELL is going to be 25% off until September 24: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243110/EMPTY_SHELL/
• And ONE PIECE ODYSSEY gets a 50% discount until the same 24th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/814000/ONE_PIECE_ODYSSEY/

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is INDIKA, with a 40% discount during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/indika
• And Focus Entertainments puts its games up to 77% off during 11 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/focus-entertainment

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

INTEL Arc Graphics 32.0.101.6077 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/intel-arc-graphics-32-0-101-6077
Highlights
Gaming Highlights:
Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel® Core™ Ultra with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs for:

• Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Frostpunk 2
• God of War Ragnarok

Fixed Issues
Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

• The Last of Us Part I (DX12) may experience corruption on certain reflective surfaces during gameplay.
• Age of Empires IV (DX12) may experience corrupted lines on certain textures during gameplay.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

God of War: Ragnarok reportedly runs with 100fps at Native 4K/Max Settings on the NVIDIA RTX 4090
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/god-of-war-ragnarok-reportedly-runs-with-100fps-at-native-4k-max-settings-on-nvidia-rtx-4090/
God of War: Ragnarok releases tomorrow on PC and NVIDIA has shared some benchmarks for it. According to the green team, this new GoW game runs with 100fps at Native 4K/Max Settings on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
It’s worth noting that we don’t know the scene that NVIDIA used for its benchmarks. So, there might be some other more demanding locations in the game. Still, these benchmarks should give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect from it.

Here’s an hour of gameplay from Empire of the Ants
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/heres-an-hour-of-gameplay-from-empire-of-the-ants/
YouTube’s ‘Punish’ has shared a video, showcasing an hour of gameplay footage from the latest preview build of Empires of the Ants. This video will give you a pretty good idea of how the game plays. Thus, you should check it out if you are interested in it.