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The Tuesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

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GOG has two more promos for us:

• The PostApo Promo has games up to 90% off during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250527_postapo_promo
• The Turn Based Games Promo features up to 92% discounts during the same 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20250527_turn_based_promo

Steam has a few new deals and sales/events:

• Sniper Elite 5 is going to be 80% off until this Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029690/Sniper_Elite_5/
• Mad Experiments: Escape Room, that has a demo, features a 62% discount until the 9th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1201550/Mad_Experiments_Escape_Room/
• Insurgency: Sandstorm will be 67% off until June 9: https://store.steampowered.com/app/581320/Insurgency_Sandstorm/
• These are the new sales/events:
  • Publisher Smilegate will have its games on sale with up to 70% discounts until the 2nd of June: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44860621/sale/PublisherSaleMay
  • Publisher tinyBuild also puts its games on sale until June 2, but the games will be up to 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tinybuild
  • Square Enix puts the Dragon Quest franchise on sale with up to 60% discounts until the 3rd of June: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/1012195/sale/dragonquestsale2025
  • The Sticky Business franchise is on sale, up to 50% off until June, the 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33038208/sale/stickybusinessfranchise
• And, of course, there’s also the weeklong deals

And Fanatical has three new 24h Flash Deals:

• Dark Deity 2 has a 37% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/dark-deity-2
• SILENT HILL 2 is 49% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/silent-hill-2
• And Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition gets a 92% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/frostpunk-game-of-the-year-edition

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/byond-game-engine-suffers-a-weeks-long-ddos-attack-apparently-because-a-wanna-be-bond-villain-is-trying-to-force-it-to-go-open-source-attacks-on-byond-servers-are-a-symptom-of-your-obstinance/
Byond is an old, free game engine that's been around since at least the early 2000s in games like Space Station 13, to cite one we've talked about recently. It's also been the subject of a sustained DDoS attack, according to a MassivelyOP report, that's now into at least it's third week.
And why, exactly, would someone launch a DDoS attack against an obscure game engine, and keep it up for this long? According to a now-deleted Reddit post, available via the https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/comments/1klfusd/where_were_you_during_the_byond_revolution/">Wayback Machine, a group calling itself "the international free and open-source software community" is doing it to pressure Byond creator LummoxJR into making the software open source.
"Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance," the extremely talking-like-Sephiroth message states. "They will persist as long as you ignore the voices of those who keep your platform afloat. We demand you voluntarily side with progress.
"Choose: Let Byond die as a proprietary relic, or let it rise as a free project. Time is running out."
Whether or not that's a legitimate claim, I cannot say. It certainly doesn't sound like a good reason to throw up a sustained DDoS attack, but I've been on the internet long enough to know that 'this sounds too stupid to be true' is at best 50/50 when it comes to predicting whether something actually is true.

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GAMING NEWS

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Title Update 1.0.5 releases tomorrow and here are its full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/assassins-creed-shadows-title-update-1-0-5-releases-tomorrow-and-here-are-its-full-patch-notes/
Ubisoft has announced that Title Update 1.0.5 for Assassin’s Creed: Shadows will come out tomorrow and shared its full patch notes. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.
>> That tomorrow is today.

MindsEye Gets Official Gameplay Overview Trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/mindseye-gets-official-gameplay-overview-trailer/
Build A Rocket Boy has released the official gameplay overview trailer for MindsEye. MindsEye is a new single-player action-adventure thriller that focuses on story, mystery, and high-stakes missions. This trailer packs 6 minutes of gameplay footage from it. So, make sure to watch it.