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The Tuesday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

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GOG has four new sales:

• The Metro Franchise is on sale, with the games up to 85% off during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250414_metro_franchise_sale
• Devolver Digital puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250415_devolver_publisher_sale
• The Action Games Promo has games up to 92% off during the next 10 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250415_action_games_promo
• Finally, there’s the Anshar Publishing Publisher Sale, with up to 70% discounts during 13 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250414_anshar_publisher_sale

Steam has these deals and sales:

• MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics will be 20% off until the 28th of April: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634890/MARVEL_vs_CAPCOM_Fighting_Collection_Arcade_Classics/
• Clothing Store Simulator, still in Early Access, will have a 35% discount until the 28th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2923390/Clothing_Store_Simulator/
• Frontline Crisis is going to be 40% off until April 28: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139620/Frontline_Crisis/
• These are the sales/events:
  • The Moving Out franchise is on sale with up to 80% discounts until next Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/movingoutfranchise25
  • The Metro franchise celebrates its 15th anniversary with up to 85% discounts until April, the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4283115/sale/Metro15Anniversary
  • Publisher Dharker Studios puts its games (visual novels, be careful) up to 90% off until April 21: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33021098/sale/DharkerStudiosPublisherSale
  • In the Lovecraftian Days 2025 you’ll find games with up to 90% discounts until, in theory, the 21st: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/LovecraftianDays2025
  • The Anshar Publishing Sale is also on Steam, but with up to 80% discounts and until the 28th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41215820/sale/springsale2025
  • Publisher Good Sheperd Entertainment puts its games up to 90% off until the 28th of April: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33772096/sale/GSE_Publisher_Sale_2025
  • Publisher Daedalic will also put its games up to 90% off until the same April 28: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/1738300/sale/AprilSale
• And we can’t forget about the Weeklong deals

Humble Bundle presents the Train Sim World 5: Route Remix Bundle, featuring up to 10 items during the next 17 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/train-sim-world-5-route-remix-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/
There's a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can't tell you how precisely much you've actually spent on Valve's wallet-plundering platform, microtransactions and all.
That potentially startling number is buried in Steam's help menus.
The relevant Steam help page was pointed out recently on Reddit by user trotski94. You can find it in the Steam client by navigating to: Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used.
>> For my own sake, I won’t check it out, but you’re free to it at your own risk.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Mod Adds Reshade Ray Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-mod-adds-reshade-ray-tracing/
BeyondDreams has released a custom reshade preset that adds support for Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion and Ray Tracing Global Illumination to The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. This mod aims to significantly improve the graphics of the game, so make sure to check it out.
Going into more details, this mod is based on Complete RT and eLITE RT. And, to be more precise, it will improve the in-game sky lighting, global illumination and ambient occlusion. All these improvements are also thanks to Reshade’s Ray Tracing. And, since the game did not support RT, it’s a pleasant welcome.
Complete RT is one of the best Ray Tracing Reshades. This mod has one of the most advanced screen-space Ray Tracing Shaders, letting you add GI, AO, Matte, and Glossy Reflections to your games. It also offers Color Grading, dynamic Depth of Field, and an immersive Camera Mod.
As I’ve said, Ray Tracing via Reshade is not as good as native RT. Reshade Ray Tracing is using depth information available in screen space in order to provide its “ray tracing” effects. As such, these Ray Tracing effects are not as accurate as the native RT effects that most modern-day games support. With that said, this is still a form of RT. Plus, it can improve a game’s visuals.
To showcase the mod, BeyondDreams shared the following video. At the beginning, we get to see some comparison scenes. These will give you a pretty good idea of all the visual improvements I described above.

GAMING NEWS

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Patch 1.1 Released, Improves Performance With Resizable BAR
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-patch-1-1-released-improves-performance-with-resizable-bar/
Nixxes has just released Patch 1.1 Hotfix for the PC version of The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. According to the team, this patch improves performance on PC when using Resizable BAR. So, let’s see whether those claims are true.

The Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 remake is now rumored to release during the week of April 21st
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-oblivion-unreal-engine-5-remake-is-now-rumored-to-release-during-the-week-of-april-21st/
It appears that the Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 Remake is nearing release. According to Jeff Grub, this official remake will be shadowdropped the week of April 21st. In other words, we should expect it at the end of April.
Do note that Grub specifically said “Week of April 21st”, and not “April 21st”. This means that it will come out sometime between April 21st and April 25th.
Both Jeff Grub and NateTheHate are credible sources for leaks. They have not been 100% accurate, but they are still credible for most leaks and rumors. This is why I’ve decided to share this latest leak.
>> The remaster is real, as developer Virtuos has done an oopsie.

Dune Awakening delayed to June 10th, gets final PC requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dune-awakening-delayed-to-june-10th-gets-final-pc-requirements/
Funcom has announced that Dune: Awakening has been delayed until June 10th. The game was originally meant to come out on PC on May 20th. So, we’re looking at a one-month delay.
>> But there’ll be a beta weekend next month.