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SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

You can pick up literally 382 games for $8 on Itch right now, with proceeds going 'directly to Palestine aid and relief'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/you-can-pick-up-literally-382-games-for-usd8-on-itch-right-now-with-proceeds-going-directly-to-palestine-aid-and-relief/
If you're anything like me, your myriad social media feeds have become a rolling timeline of atrocities to which you feel compelled, uselessly, to bear witness. But here's an opportunity to do something, however small:
Itch.io is currently hosting Play for Peace – Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle, an enormous 382-game pack that you can pick up for a tiny $8, with proceeds going "directly to Palestine aid and relief."
The games are, well, literally too many to list here, but would regularly retail for $1,177 altogether. A lot of them are small indie projects you might never have heard of (which isn't to say they don't look cool), but there are a few heavy hitters in there.

Steam has three new deals and also three new sales/events:

• Above Snakes will be 75% off until the 9th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1589120/Above_Snakes
• Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus gets an 80% discount until September 9: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673880/Warhammer_40000_Mechanicus
• Drug Dealer Simulator , that has a demo, is going to be 90% off until the same 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/682990/Drug_Dealer_Simulator
• These are the sales/events:
  • Clemmy's Best Indie Games Fall Showcase has lots and lots of upcoming games and a select few deals. The showcase will last until the 9th of September, the deals are another story: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26397247/sale/BIGFallShowcase2025
  • Publisher/Developer aNCHOR Inc. Presents The Muv-Luv Memories Sale, with up to 60% discounts until the 17th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36850264/sale/Muv-LuvMemoriesSale
  • The Aichi Game Castle 2 Indie Expo is here… in an odd way. The page states that it will run between the 6th and the 21st of September, and of all the games listed, only one is on sale, but for only 24 hours: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45345412/sale/AichiGameCastle2

Humble Store presents the The Crew Spotlight Sale, with up to 75% discounts during 4 days. All the keys are for UbiConnect: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/the-crew-spotlight-sale.

Fanatical has the Aspyr Publisher Sale, with games up to 95% off during the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/aspyr.

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

San Francisco Rush 2049 Gets Arcade-Perfect Fan Port on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/san-francisco-rush-2049-gets-arcade-perfect-fan-port-on-pc
San Francisco Rush 2049 is an arcade racing game that never came out on PC. And while MAME can emulate it, it’s not the best way to experience it on PC. That’s because a team has released an unofficial native PC port of both San Francisco Rush 2049 and San Francisco Rush: The Rock.
Titled Project R, this is an unofficial, native port of the arcade games San Francisco Rush: The Rock and San Francisco Rush 2049 to Windows, macOS, and Linux.
To play Project R, you’ll need its ROM file. In other words, Project R does not include any of the game’s assets. So, this project is similar to the unofficial PC ports of Super Mario 64, Crash Team Racing, Sonic Unleashed, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Perfect Dark, and Jak & Daxter.
To run it, you’ll need a dedicated or integrated GPU supporting Vulkan 1.2. You’ll also need a CPU supporting the x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level. As said, Project R will work on Windows, Mac and Linux. The game supports both gamepads and wheel with pedal setups. However, it does not support the keyboard and mouse.
Its latest version, V0.7.1, came out a couple of months. This version brings a lot of improvements and optimizations. For instance, it improves the world object render system to reduce the number of descriptor sets required. All texture conversion functions are at least 4x faster now due to its latest updates. Moreover, the models that make up the player’s car will now always be set to the highest level of detail (LOD) in SF2049.
>> There is a 10 minute video in the article.

The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/the-crew-is-set-to-spring-back-to-life-as-fan-made-server-emulator-project-prepares-to-launch-later-this-month/
The Crew, the Ubisoft street racing game that met an unfortunate end in 2024, may live again. The Crew Unlimited, a fan-made effort to revive the game through a "custom server emulator," says the work is just about complete and will be ready to launch on September 15.
The server emulator is now "feature complete," according to a message on the newly launched Crew Unlimited website (via RPS) states. "All that is left to do is to thoroughly test and validate the software, then prepare the release."
"A lot of our time and effort has been put into the project, and it's finally coming to fruition," project lead whammy4 wrote. "We are as excited as you are. Thank you all for your patience, understanding and support."
The project is a reaction to Ubisoft's 2024 decision to close The Crew's servers, rendering the game unplayable as of April 1, 2024. Making matters worse, Ubisoft began revoking game licenses shortly after the servers went offline, a big step beyond simply delisting a game that seemed intended to make double-extra-sure that nobody would be able to play the game again in the future. The Crew Unlimited project member ChemicalFlood said at the time that the team was "deeply saddened by Ubisoft's choice to start revoking licences to this game when people have paid hard-earned cash for it," but added that the project would be able to bypass that restriction without having to modify any game files, "so the project is still on track."
The Crew Unlimited will be available for download from the TCU website, but The Crew itself will not: You'll need to own the game if you want to play, although the dev team noted in an FAQ that "as long as you manage to run the game files, we have absolutely no way to tell a legit copy from a non-legit one, so we just have to let you in."
The emulator will currently only work with PC versions of the game, but the TCU team says it might be possible to implement console support in the future. Mod support will be wide open in offline modes, but only cosmetic mods will be allowed when playing online.
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GAMING NEWS

Here are the PC requirements for Dying Light: The Beast
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-requirements-for-dying-light-the-beast
Techland has released the official PC system requirements for Dying Light: The Beast. Dying Light: The Beast will be a standalone new game set in the Dying Light universe. So, let’s see what PC you’ll need in order to run it.

Watch 12 Minutes of Gameplay from Human Head Studios’ Canceled Prey 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/watch-12-minutes-of-gameplay-from-human-head-studios-canceled-prey-2
It looks like David Halsted, a former developer at Human Head Studios, has shared some videos from the canceled version of Prey 2. The first three videos are just early prototypes and don’t show much. But the other two are the ones that will really interest Prey fans.