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It’s time for the Friday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Fanatical’s new Star Deal is Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG, with a 95% deal during “24 hours”: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/encased-a-sci-fi-post-apocalyptic-rpg.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Mod Restores Content From Dying Light 2’s E3 2019 Demo
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-mod-restores-content-from-dying-light-2-e3-2019-demo/
Dying Light 2 fans, here is something for you today. Long Jump Collective has released a demo for its project that attempts to restore content from Dying Light 2’s E3 2019 demo. By using this mod, you can finally get a taste of the E3 2019 demo, something that a lot will find cool.
According to the modding team, this mod packs big changes in graphics/postprocessing, gameplay, and weather. It also includes UI/UX, NPC models, parkour, and textures that were present in the E3 2019 demo.
Do note that this demo does NOT include map edits, story, or lore elements. However, the modding team claimed that these features are still under intense development. So, we might one day get the ultimate E3 2019 Demo, complete with story and lore elements.
You can go ahead and download the mod from this link. Do note that this mod is only compatible with the game’s DX11 version. It will not work with DX12 and Ray Tracing. So, make sure to set your API to DX11, and to turn off AsyncCompute. This demo is basically a WIP beta build. Thus, you will most likely experience a number of bugs and glitches.
>> The article has a less than 5 minutes video.

If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/if-you-missed-it-over-the-holidays-this-noir-half-life-2-mod-turns-you-into-a-hardboiled-detective-in-prohibition-era-chicago/
Hear me out. Let's say instead of violent nerd Gordon Freeman wasting alien invaders in City 17, Half-Life 2 was actually about a gritty hardboiled detective fighting corruption in Prohibition-era Chicago. That's the concept behind The Burton Equation, a Half-Life 2 mod you may have missed because it came out on Steam between Christmas and New Year's.
Don't worry, though: Burton does just as much shooting as Gordon Freeman does, only he gets to use a weapon even cooler than the gravity gun: the drum-fed Thompson submachine gun, otherwise known as the Tommy gun. You haven't lived until you've stood in the headlights of a Model T and chewed up a handful of Metro cops with a Tommy gun.
So, what are the Combine doing in Chicago in the 1920s? Don't worry about the finer details of the plot, okay? A crime boss named Fabreen is running the city, and his Combine Metro cops act more like a gang than interdimensional invaders, strolling around the city in fedoras and trench coats. Detective Zachary Burton (that's you) has had enough of Fabreen's corruption, and after a visit from a mysterious dame, decides to do something about it.
Burton's plan is not all that complicated: Half-Life 2 is a shooter, after all, so Burton just starts shooting. In lovely black and white, accompanied by Burton's gritty narration, you make your way through the gloom and rain of gangland Chicago, icing every Combine you see.
But Half-Life 2 isn't just a shooter, it's a sci-fi shooter, and there's a few subtle bits of sci-fi woven into Burton's hardboiled, lead-filled quest for justice. Such as, well, time travel. Fabreen is one slippery gangster, and once you've back him into a corner he starts jumping through time, leading Burton on a merry chase through the trenches of World War 2, the neon-soaked streets of 1980s Miami, and eventually into Gordon Freeman's future where the actual Combine invasion of Earth is under way.
Is it the most logical alternative history I've encountered in games? No. It's not the most ridiculous by a longshot, though, either, and like I said, you get to pick up a Tommy gun and mow down Civil Protection while listening to a detective growl narration. You can untangle The Burton Equation on Steam.
>> There are a couple of screenshots in the article.

GAMING NEWS

Early Gameplay Video for Transformers Reactivate Leaks Online
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/early-gameplay-video-for-transformers-reactivate-leaks-online/
Yesterday, Splash Damage announced that it has canceled its upcoming Transformers game, Transformers Reactivate. And today, an early WIP gameplay video for it was leaked online. So, you can see what the game looked like in its early development stage.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed until March 20th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-shadows-has-been-delayed-until-march-20th/
Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin’s Creed: Shadows has been delayed until March 20th. The game was meant to come out on February 14th. So, we’re basically talking about a one-month delay.