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The Thursday news are here:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Civilization 6 still has more daily Steam players than Civilization 7
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/civilization-6-still-has-more-daily-steam-players-than-civilization-7/
The last two Civilization games are still very popular, which is a testament both to how good they are and to how good they are at becoming the default time-killing activity for those they get their hooks into. The just-released Civilization 7 also has some good qualities, but it looks like it'll need to evolve if it's going to attain the same legendary status, because its Steam player count isn't consistently surpassing those of its older siblings.
Both Civ 5 and Civ 6 have hit higher peak concurrent player counts on Steam: 91,363 and 162,657 respectively, according to data from SteamDB, with Civ 7 so far managing 84,558 following its full launch last week. And Civ 5 managed to hit that 91,363 peak over 11 years ago, when Steam had fewer users.
On Steam's top concurrents chart, which shows which games the most people are playing right now, Civ 7 isn't always the winner of the three. As I write, Civ 7 does have a slight edge, sitting at #27 while Civ 6 is a few doors down at #33. But when I checked earlier this week, both Civ 6 and Civ 5 were sitting above Civ 7. On the more stable daily players chart, which compares total players across 24 hours, Civ 6 is currently beating Civ 7 by a few places.
We saw a similar, though much more acute, situation play out with the launch of Payday 3. Many players who'd spent a decade with Payday 2 were just not interested in switching to a new game that felt smaller and less complete than the game they were used to, and it didn't help that Payday 3 hit some big snarls at launch.
The Civ 7 reception hasn't been nearly that dire. We gave it a 76% in our review, which for us means it's a good game that we recommend. But it's not the unreserved praise we awarded the past two games: 93% for Civ 5 and another 93% for Civ 6.

The survival game with the best car ever has sold over a million copies in a year, and is now 40% off on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/the-survival-game-with-the-best-car-ever-has-sold-over-a-million-copies-in-a-year-and-is-now-40-percent-off-on-steam/
Time flies when you're driving. It's somehow already been a year since Pacific Drive launched and became my favorite survival game of 2024. And in those 12 months a whole lotta people have gotten behind the wheel: according to publisher Kepler Interactive, the driving survival game has sold over a million copies.
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Yeah, great game, great car, so I'm not surprised to learn a million people have taken Pacific Drive for a spin. And it's a great time to hit that milestone, almost exactly a year after its launch, because there's a nice bonus for those who haven't played it yet: Pacific Drive is currently 40% off.
That means it's only $18 on Steam, though that discount is gonna expire in about 17 hours from the time I'm writing this. So, if the time you're reading this is 16 hours and 59 minutes after that, that means you have only one minute left to buy it on sale. Hurry! Don't even read the rest of this sentence. Or this one! There's no time. Here's Pacific Drive on Steam.
>> The deal ends with today’s refresh so yeah, you may not be able to take advantage of it.

This week, the Epic Store gives away two titles

Next week, they’ll give away Mages of Mystralia.

Steam has three deals:

Humble Bundle presents the House Flipper and Friends Bundle, with up to 10 items to get during the next 12 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/house-flipper-and-friends-bundle.

And Fanatical has two new deals:

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 572.47 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-572-47
Highlights
Game Ready for GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and Marvel Rivals
This new Game Ready Driver supports the new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU and provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Marvel Rivals

Fixed Isses

  • Driver stability issues when waking up monitor from extended sleep time [5089560]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Delta Force – Black Hawk Down will be free, gets PC requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/delta-force-black-hawk-down-will-be-free-gets-pc-requirements/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. When TiMi Studio Group and Team Jade announced Black Hawk Down, I assumed it would be a paid expansion for the F2P Delta Force. However, it appears that this single-player campaign will be free to everyone.

Avowed Update 1.2.2 Released, Is 66GB in Size, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/avowed-update-1-2-2-released-is-66gb-in-size-full-patch-notes/
Obsidian has released the first major update for its latest RPG, Avowed. Title Update 1.2.2 is 66GB in size and brings a lot of tweaks, fixes and improvements. So, let’s see in more detail what this patch brings to the table.

Black Myth: Wukong February 20th Patch Released & Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/black-myth-wukong-february-20th-patch-released-detailed/
Game Science has just released Title Update 1.0.14.17737 which is 1.9GB in size on PC, and shared its full patch notes. This patch brings a number of fixes for Quests, Legels, Protagonist and Interaction. So, let’s take a closer look at them.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Patch 3 Released & Fully Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/marvels-spider-man-2-patch-3-released-fully-detailed/
Nixxes has just released Patch 3 for the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and shared its complete changelog. This new update includes stability improvements and bug fixes based on player feedback. So, let’s take a closer look at it.



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