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JEMC on 02 May 2025
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It’s time for the Friday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

You can get 74 indie games for a scant $16 in this eSims for Gaza Itch.io bundle
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/you-can-get-74-indie-games-for-a-scant-usd16-in-this-esims-for-gaza-itch-io-bundle/
As the games industry marches towards ever-higher game prices and $80 Mario Karts, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal than getting a pile of games that'll only cost you around 22 cents each. Over at Itch.io, you can pick up the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle, which'll get you 74 indie games for less than 20 bucks—all the proceeds of which will go to a good cause.

Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/rusty-lake-celebrates-10-years-of-strangeness-with-a-free-game-a-new-game-announcement-a-short-film-and-a-big-sale/
Rusty Lake is celebrating 10 years of creepy weirdness with a free new game, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, along with an appropriately weird short film and announcement of a brand new premium game called Servant of the Lake.
I've been a fan of the Rusty Lake series since Rusty Lake Hotel, a deliciously bizarre puzzle adventure about a group of sharply dressed animals at a swanky dinner party. More strangeness followed in Rusty Lake Roots, Rusty Lake Paradise, The White Door, The Past Within, and Underground Blossom, each of them filled with unexpected twists, secrets, and a deeply grim lore. Despite their strange, surreal nature, Rusty Lake games regularly draw thousands of players and enviable user reviews on Steam.
The new game, The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show, is a bit more straightforward than most of the other games in the series, at least on the surface, but it still goes to some unexpected places, which I will not spoil here. The majority of the puzzles are quite simple, but there are a few that tested me: A music puzzle near the end of the magic show had me absolutely baffled until, after about 15 minutes of trying (and failing) to brute-force it, I realized what I was looking at, and the pieces fell into place.
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If you haven't yet sampled the bizarre delights of Rusty Lake, there's one more bit of good news: The entire series, including the Cube Escape games that started it all, is on sale on Steam and Itch.io for 66% off. Just in case I left any doubt, yes, I recommend them all.

Yesterday, the Epic Store started giving away for free the game Super Space Club: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/super-space-club-20adbe.
Next week, they’ll give away Deadtime Defenders and Touch Type Tale.

There are three new deals at Humble:

And Fanatical

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 576.28 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-576-28

FIXED ISSUES
Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • [RTX 50 series] [Black Myth]: The game will randomly crash when Wukong transforms [5231902]
  • [RTX 50 series] [Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes shortly after starting in DX12 mode. No issue in Vulkan mode [5137042]
  • [RTX 50 series] [Horizon Forbidden West]: The game freezes after loading a save game [5227554]
  • [RTX 50 series] Grey screen crashes with multiple monitors [5239138]
  • [RTX 50 series] [Dead Island 2]: The game crash after updating to GRD 576.02 [5238676]
  • [RTX 50 series] [Resident Evil 4 Remake]: Flickering background textures [5227655]
  • [RTX 50 series] Some games may display shadow flicker/corruption after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]
  • [RTX 50 series] Some games may crash while compiling shaders after updating to GRD 576.02 [5230492]
  • [Forza Horizon 5]: Lights flicker at nighttime [5038335]
  • [Forza Motorsport]: Track corruption occurs in benchmark or night races. [5201811]

Fixed General Bugs

  • [RTX 50 series] Lower idle GPU clock speeds after updating to GRD 576.02 [5232414]
  • [RTX 50 series] Momentary display flicker occurs when running in DisplayPort2.1 mode with a high refresh rate [5009200]
  • Lumion 2024 crashes on GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card when entering render mode [5232345]
  • GPU monitoring utilities may stop reporting the GPU temperature after PC wakes from sleep [5231307]
  • [RTX 50 series] [LG 27GX790A/45GX950A/32GX870A/40WT95UF/27G850A]: Display blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5080789]
  • [RTX 50 series notebook] Resume from Modern Standy can result in black screen [5204385]
  • [RTX 50 series] SteamVR may display random V-SYNC micro-stutters when using multiple displays [5152246]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Mod Makes Dodge/Parry Easier/Harder
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/clair-obscur-expedition-33-mod-makes-dodge-parry-easier-harder/
Modder ‘Caites’ has released a pretty cool mod for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that makes dodge and parry easier or harder. This mod will be ideal for those who have trouble with the game, as well as for those who want some extra challenge.
Going into more details, this mod has five “difficulty” versions. These are Slightly Easier, Easier, Even Easier, Disgustingly Easy and True Expert.
To give you an idea, the vanilla settings for Dodge are 0.35/0.22/0.22 and for Parry are 0.25/0.15/0.15. In Easier Mode, we have 0.4/0.35/0.3 and 0.3/0.25/0.2 for Dodge and Parry, respectively.
True Expert makes the game even harder than its Expert Mode. With it, Expert has less i-frames than before. So, use that only if you have mastered the game and want a new extra challenge.
I’ve finished the game and I have to say the vanilla Dodge and Parry on Normal are quite good. Yes, at the beginning I had some trouble with them. Some enemies, especially toward Act 3, are really hard to predict. However, you will be able to memorize their attack patterns after one or two fights. Still, if your reflexes are not as sharp as they used to, you can use this mod so that you can enjoy the game.
>> There’s no media about this mod.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Tamriel Rebuilt V25.05 Released
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-iii-morrowind-tamriel-rebuilt-v25-05-released/
As promised, the team behind Tamriel Rebuilt has released a new version of it. Version 25.05 features the new Grasping Fortune Update, which brings new content to it. So, if you are a fan of Morrowind, I highly recommend trying it.
For those who don’t know, Tamriel Rebuilt is a mod for TES III: Morrowind that adds the mainland of the province to the game. To date, over half of the mainland has been created.
Grasping Fortune adds a massive new landmass in the south. It will also bring over 140 handcrafted dungeons to explore, as well as more than 270 new quests.
Do note that Tamriel Rebuilt is not part of Project Tamriel. Tamriel Rebuilt is a province mod that focuses on bringing the Morrowind mainland to TES III. It also houses the small province mod Eye of Argonia. On the other hand, Project Tamriel is an umbrella for several other province mods. These are Project Cyrodiil, Skyrim: Home of the Nords, High Rock 427, Project Hammerfell, and Elsweyr: Paradise Sugar can be found there.
Needless to say, this is an incredible mod for all Morrowind fans out there. You can go ahead and download it from this link. Also note that Tamriel Rebuilt doesn’t contain its own asset files. Thus, you’ll need to download Tamriel_Data.
>> The article has two videos.

First Unofficial Patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/first-unofficial-patch-for-the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered/
The Unofficial Patch Project Team has just released the first Unofficial Patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. This patch aims to fix a lot of issues that currently plague the game. So, let’s take a closer look at it.
For those unaware, the Unofficial Patch for TES IV: Oblivion packed hundreds of script, quest, NPC, object, item, dialogue and other bug fixes. This was a must-have mod for all Oblivion players. So, naturally, the team is now working on a version of it for the remastered version.
This first version of the Unofficial Patch merges all relevant fixes from the previous UOP, USIP, and UODP. This covers all of the base game content provided by the remaster. Moreover, all scripts have been reconciled with fixes provided by the base game.
From what I can see, this first release does not have a lot of bug fixes. So, don’t expect a lot from it. Still, this is the first necessary step for such a massive project.
For instance, right now, the Unofficial Patch fixes the Skingrad city sign markers so they display the city name correctly. It also updates the journal entries so that they now work for the “A Brush With Death” quest. Plus, it readds the fix for the missing map marker at Vanua, as well as the fix for the missing map marker at Dunbarrow Cave.
>> This article doesn’t have any media either. Also, this unofficial patch has made a lot of people angry.

Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/bethesda-gives-full-throated-shout-out-to-skyblivion-fan-remake-after-giving-the-whole-dev-team-free-oblivion-remastered-keys-i-think-what-theyre-doing-is-very-special/
I'll be honest, before the release of Oblivion Remastered, I thought it and Skyblivion—the fan mod that rebuilds Oblivion in Skyrim Special Edition—were diametrically opposed. This was zero-sum game territory, surely? If one gets mega-popular it can only be to the detriment of the other. Winner takes all. Only one leaves alive.
Well don't I feel like a fool? Not only did the Skyblivion team send "all love and no hate" to Bethesda and Virtuos' official remaster just before it finally released, but Bethesda then gave them all keys for the game for free. In a world of litigious megacorps sending the lawyers after their most passionate fans for daring to touch their IP, it's behaviour that's been a real credit to Bethesda and the Skyblivion team both.
And it doesn't stop there. In a just-released developer spotlight with art and development lead Dan Lee, Bethesda gave yet another shout-out to the Skyblivion team. "Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered," said Lee, "I'm still excited for Skyblivion." Bethesda even played some footage of the mod while Lee waxed lyrical about it. It still looks great, if you're wondering.

Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/mod-adds-dark-souls-style-player-messages-to-oblivion-remastered-so-you-can-write-try-finger-but-hole-in-front-of-patrick-stewart/
The thing that makes FromSoft games great isn't the tightly honed boss fights, the layered lore, or the quiet tragedy of their antagonists. It's the ability to write 'Don't give up skeleton' and 'Try finger but hole' across every inch of the game and subject players around the world to it.
Every game should have that and now, thanks to enterprising modders, we're one step closer to a world where that's true. Ghosts of Tamriel is a mod for Oblivion Remastered (via VG247) that lets you leave little messages for your fellow Heroes of Kvatch, Dark Souls style.
The mod comes from authors yamashi and jay-jay, and lets you drop messages anywhere in Cyrodiil for other players (who have the mod, naturally) to read just by hitting CTRL on your keyboard. They take the form of floating Welkynd Stones—those glowing blue mana-restoring rocks you get in Ayleid ruins—and are a lot more flexible than FromSoft's collection of canned sentence structures and words that players manage to make absolutely filthy anyway.
In fact, the whole thing is dangerously, wonderfully open. The interface is just a text document that you can title and write anything you want in. This is a recipe for a terrible nightmare, of course: you can already picture the ASCII art, but there's also an upvoting and downvoting system to push back on stuff you'd prefer not to see. Messages have a 24-hour lifespan before they vanish forever, but that resets whenever they get an upvote. On the flipside, any message that accrues enough downvotes will get yoinked out of the system. There's a system to hide messages you don't want to see in your own world, too.
The mod requires an internet connection, of course, and will show your character's name in addition to the messages you leave, but apart from that it's all gloriously anonymous in a very old-internet sort of way, which is appropriate for a remaster of a game from '06. "None of the data sent to the server is logged," say the authors, "it only exists in memory for the lifetime of the message, after that it disappears forever."
>> The article has one screenshot of the mod.

GAMING NEWS

MotoGP 25 looks great, mainly thanks to Unreal Engine 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/motogp-25-looks-great-mainly-thanks-to-unreal-engine-5/
Milestone has just released MotoGP 25 on PC and consoles. Milestone has upgraded the game’s engine to Unreal Engine 5 and from the looks of it, it uses UE5’s Lumen. And, finally, this new MotoGP looks better than last year’s game.

Doom: The Dark Ages – First Path Tracing Graphics Comparison
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/doom-the-dark-ages-first-path-tracing-graphics-comparison/
id Software has shared the first comparison screenshot between the vanilla and the path-traced versions of Doom: The Dark Ages. This comparison will give you an idea of what you can expect from the Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing.

New Rise of the Ronin PC patch released to address stutters
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/new-rise-of-the-ronin-pc-patch-released-to-address-stutters/
KOEI Tecmo and Team Ninja have released a new patch for the PC version of Rise of the Ronin. According to the devs, the April 30th Update, also known as Patch 1.09.0.4, aims to reduce the stutters in the game.

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Patch 1.3 Released & Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-patch-1-3-released-detailed/
Nixxes has just released Patch 1.3 for the PC version of The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered and shared its complete changelog. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.



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