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The Wednesday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Major performance issues aside, over half of Monster Hunter Wilds’ sales are from Steam alone
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/major-performance-issues-aside-over-half-of-monster-hunter-wilds-sales-are-from-steam-alone/
I remember a time when the only place I saw Monster Hunter games was the 3DS eShop. Those days are well and truly over, because the eShop is fully defunct and Monster Hunter Wilds is effortlessly pulling in over 400,000 players a day on Steam alone, according to Steam Charts and SteamDB.
To give you a sense of scale, Circana’s executive director Mat Piscatella took to socials and reported that Monster Hunter Wilds—February’s best selling game across each platform it’s on—got more than half its total sales from Steam. These launch numbers are double what Monster Hunter Rise pulled off back when it was a Switch exclusive, according to the same report, which called Monster Hunter Wilds the best-selling game of 2025 so far.

Surprise, surprise! GOG has launched its Spring Sale, with over 7500 skus on sale with up to 95% discounts until the 2nd of April: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2025_spring_sale.

One comes and one goes. The Steam Spring Sale will end in 26 hours. You don’t have much time left to decide new purchases: https://store.steampowered.com.

And Fanatical only has a new bundle: the BYO Spring Bundle, with 18 games to choose from for your bundles of 1+, 5+ or 10+ during 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-spring-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 572.83 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-572-83

Highlights
Game Ready for Half-Life 2 RTX Demo and inZOI
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 the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Further support for titles leveraging DLSS technology includes Assassin’s Creed Shadows, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and the enhanced update for Control. In addition, this driver supports inZOI which features the first integration of NVIDIA ACE technology.

Gaming Technology

• Adds support for GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti notebooks

DLSS Override update

• *** a long list of games I’m too lazy to copy ***

Fixed Issues
Fixed General Bugs

• [GeForce RTX 5080/5090] Graphics cards may not run at full speeds on system reboot when overclocked [5088034]
• [GeForce RTX 50 series] GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs crashes with black screen [5120886]
• Some NVIDIA Control Panel / NVIDIA App settings changes immediately get reset or give error [5160516]
• PC may bugcheck IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0xa during gameplay with HDR enabled [5091576]
• [VRED 2026] Optix compile error with R570 branch drivers [5122360]
• [Derivative TouchDesigner ] Application stability issues [4606316]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Assassin’s Creed Shadows suffers from major optimization issues on NVIDIA GPUs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-shadows-suffers-from-major-optimization-issues-on-nvidia-gpus/
Ubisoft has lifted the review embargo for Assassin’s Creed Shadows and it appears that this new AC game suffers from major optimization issues on PC. The game does not currently appear to be able to take advantage of modern-day CPUs and GPUs. And, like most of the previous AC games, it runs horribly on NVIDIA’s hardware.
>> Just what the game needed.

STALKER 2 Patch 1.3 released, packing over 1200 fixes & tweaks
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/stalker-2-patch-1-3-released-packing-over-1200-fixes-tweaks/
GSC GameWorld has released Patch 1.3 for STALKER 2, packing over 1200 fixes, tweaks, improvements and changes. So, let’s take a closer look at it, shall we?

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will support DLSS 4 & Multi-Frame Gen at launch
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-will-support-dlss-4-multi-frame-gen-at-launch/
NVIDIA has just announced that The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will support DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Gen at launch. This will be possible via the NVIDIA App, which will allow you to enable DLSS 4 for this title.

Croc Legend of the Gobbos Remaster releases on April 2nd
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/croc-legend-of-the-gobbos-remaster-releases-on-april-2nd/
Argonaut Games has announced that the official remaster for Croc Legend of the Gobbos will be released on April 2nd. To celebrate the announcement, the team has also shared a new trailer that you can find below.

Resident Evil/Silent Hill-inspired game, Post Trauma, gets final PC requirements and launch trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-silent-hill-inspired-game-post-trauma-gets-final-pc-requirements-and-launch-trailer/
Raw Fury has released the launch trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil/Silent Hill-inspired game, Post Trauma. Moreover, RED SOUL GAMES shared the final PC requirements for this new horror game. So, let’s take a closer look at them.

PHASE ZERO is a tribute to the classic 32-bit Resident Evil games
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/phase-zero-is-a-tribute-to-the-classic-32-bit-resident-evil-games/
SPINA Studio has just announced PHASE ZERO, a game with 32-bit graphics and fixed camera angles that is a tribute to the classic Resident Evil games. This will put a smile on the face of a lot of old-school fans. So, if you are one of them, you should definitely check it out.