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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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Capcom has sold more units on PC in the first half of FY25 than on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox combined
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/capcom-has-sold-more-units-on-pc-in-the-first-half-of-fy25-than-on-nintendo-switch-playstation-and-xbox-combined/
Capcom has shared its sales for the first half of FY25, and it appears that the big winner here was the PC platform. According to the official graph, Capcom has sold more units on PC than on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles.
To be more precise, Capcom has sold 20,025M units so far this fiscal year. From those sales, 54% of them were on PC, whereas 40% were on consoles. Again, the console percentage includes all main three consoles.
Compared to the previous fiscal year, PC digital sales have grown from 48% to 54%. This right here shows how profitable the PC platform actually is for the Japanese company.

After more than 10 years on Steam, DayZ sets another new concurrent player record
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/after-more-than-10-years-on-steam-dayz-sets-another-new-concurrent-player-record/
DayZ has been around a long time, first as an Arma 2 mod, then as a standalone survival game that launched into early access in 2013 with a full release in 2018. Somehow, all these years later, the player numbers keep going up: Developer Bohemia Interactive announced last week that the launch of the Frostline expansion prompted a new record for daily active users of 501,522 across all platforms.
Nearly half of those players—235,618—came from Steam, followed by 152,037 on Xbox One and 113,897 PlayStation 4. The Frostline expansion also brought in new records for peak concurrent players: 78,937 on Steam, 36,000 on Xbox, and 33,000 on PlayStation, which are less precise because unfortunately SteamDB doesn't work on consoles.

Maybe it happened because it was Monday, or because the Halloween Sale blinded me, but I missed two new LTOs at GOG:

• else Heart.Break() will be 80% off during 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/else_heartbreak
• Niffelheim also has an 80% discount until tomorrow’s refresh: https://www.gog.com/en/game/niffelheim

Steam has a few deals and sales, including new weeklong deals

• Men of War II is going to be 25% off until next Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128860/Men_of_War_II/
• Transport Fever 2 gets a 70% discount until November, 4th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/Transport_Fever_2/
• Unrailed! will be 80% off until Monday, the 4th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016920/Unrailed/
• tinyBuild’s Everything Must Go Sale has up to 80% discounts and will last until the 4th: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/tinybuild/sale/everything
• And the Difficult Games Bash is full of games up to 90% off. The length of the discounts vary, some will end this Sunday, other will last a bit more, until the 5th, and there’s at least one that will run until November 11. So, be sure to double check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/DifficultGamesBash
• This week there aren’t many Weeklong Deals, and so I’ll leave it to you to check them out.

And Fanatical has a new Star Deal and a bundle:

• The new Star Deal is V Rising, with a 43% discount during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/v-rising
• The BYO Tabletop Wargame Bundle launches with 26 items (games and DLCs) to build your 4+, 7+ or 10+ bundles: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-tabletop-wargame-bundle

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

New Skyrim DLC-sized Mod adds new island/world with a questline
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/new-skyrim-dlc-sized-mod-adds-new-island-world-with-a-questline/
Skyrim fans, here is something for you today. Modder ‘Nevah’ has released a DLC-sized mod for Skyrim Special Edition that adds a new island/world with a questline to the game. And, since this mod brings new free content to the game, we highly recommend giving it a go.
Going into more details, Nevah’s Isle Redux adds a new island/world to the game. In this mod, you’ll find a ghost village and a player home. Then, if you follow the questline, you will be able to restore the village to its former glory.
The island once restored has no more cobwebs or decay or overgrowth, and fully functioning NPC merchants with their own AI Packages that live inside of fully furnished interiors. There are Bosmer Guards that patrol day and night to make you feel safe. Once restored, there are two ways by ship back to Skyrim.
>> The article has an over 20 minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Gearbox has removed Denuvo from Homeworld 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/gearbox-has-removed-denuvo-from-homeworld-3/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. Gearbox has just removed the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Homeworld 3. Homeworld 3 came out on PC in May 2024. This means that it took Gearbox around five-six months to remove it.