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SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam has four new deals and two sales/events:

• Sunset Motel is going to be 25% off until the 22nd of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2616140/Sunset_Motel
• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom , that has a demo, also features a 60% discount until the 23rd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2011780/Yellow_Taxi_Goes_Vroom
• POSTAL Brain Damaged also has a demo, but it will be 75% off until September 23: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1359980/POSTAL_Brain_Damaged
• Ship Graveyard Simulator also has a dmo, but you’ll likely be more interested in the game being free to try until the 15th while having a 93% discount until the 23rd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286880/Ship_Graveyard_Simulator
• Sales/Events:
  • The Destiny 2 franchise has its DLCs on sale, up to 90% off until September, the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42567202/sale/Destiny2Sale
  • Yuri Game Festival has games with up to 75% discount until the 20th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42156664/sale/2025YuriGameFestival

Fanatical has launched the new Star Deal yet, but they have a new bundle: the BYO Simulator Bundle (BundleFest 2025), with 14 titles to choose for your 2+, 3+ or 5+ game bundles during 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-simulator-collection.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 581.29 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-581-29

HIGHLIGHTS
Game Ready for Borderlands 4 and Dying Light: The Beast
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Borderlands 4 and Dying Light: The Beast

FIXED ISSUES

• Marvel Rivals: Negative performance impact when using some 581.xx drivers [5444816]

Steam mega-update ends our long national game-sorting nightmare, adds CPU temp measuring, and a gajillion other bullet points
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-mega-update-ends-our-long-national-game-sorting-nightmare-adds-cpu-temp-measuring-and-a-gajillion-other-bullet-points/
Of the many challenges facing our home, the good ship planet Earth, surely none is greater than the fact our Steam libraries won't organise themselves properly. If you own the Assassin's Creed or Yakuza games, you know what I'm talking about: Steam's rigid alphabetisation of your library means that series are presented out of order. For instance, Yakuza Kiwami (which is Yakuza 1) comes after Yakuza 6, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey comes before AC Origins.
Psychological torture. But our long national nightmare is over: as of September 9th's Steam mega-update, the client has a new feature to put an end to it. "Added a Customization tab to game properties," read the patch notes. "The Customization tab allows users to view and set custom artwork for the game and set a custom sort title that will be used instead of the actual title when sorting games in the library."
In other words, you can now set what is effectively a hidden name for all your games that Steam will use to sort them. So I could label the 12 Assassin's Creed games in my library as Assassin's Creed 1 through 12 to have them display in proper release order*, but the display names of the games themselves in my library wouldn't change—they'd still be called Odyssey, Origins, and what-have-you.
Look, I don't doubt that a lot of you don't see the big deal here, but for a certain kind of deeply unwell person, this is the biggest thing to happen all year.
Fevered convolutions of my brain aside, the September 9 Steam update brings a lot more changes than just the game-ordering stuff. That Steam performance overlay CPU temp measurer (the one that needs a kernel-mode driver on Windows to work, which you can opt out of) is now out of beta, for instance. So too is the fix that makes the performance overlay not get stumped by DLSS frame-gen. That aside, shoutout to everyone who can now filter their private games into dynamic collections or filtered views in their library. Now you can better organise all those games you're deeply ashamed of (Deus Ex: The Fall and whatnot, I assume). You can find a full list of changes below; I've bolded the stuff that leaps out to me as worth caring about.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Red Dead Redemption 2 modder says to hell with your realistic western cowboy fantasy, get horse girl pilled instead
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/red-dead-redemption-2-modder-says-to-hell-with-your-realistic-western-cowboy-fantasy-get-horse-girl-pilled-instead/
Red Dead Redemption 2 put an absurd amount of work into making its horses as realistic as possible—thousands of animations, tons of research, testicle physics—and I'm about to undo all of that by turning them into Umamusume: Pretty Derby anime horse girls.
That's thanks to the (frankly heroic) work of JohnTanner1899, who's been slowly trickling in a number of mods over the last several months, turning everything from noble steeds to NPCs into some of Tracen Academy's finest racers.
JohnTanner1899 was even ahead of the global Umamusume sweep, publishing a mod that replaces a male NPC with Tamamo Cross back at the beginning of March. Since then, they've also created mods for the likes of Aston Machan, which replaces the model for Mary-Beth Gaskill, Almond Eye who takes the spot of Sadie Adler, and Taiki Shuttle who becomes the very horse itself.
Kitasan Black is also available—though I literally cannot figure out if or what she's supposed to replace—while if your fishing rod isn't quite umapyoi enough for your liking, it looks like you can simply straight up swap it out for Cheval Grand instead.
Why? I honestly have no idea. Why do modders do anything? JohnTanner1899 doesn't really offer up any reason—in fact, their mod descriptions are so brief half of them don't even mention what they actually do—but I do find it slightly funny that a machine translation of the Cheval Grand mod notes that they prefer the "old Italian Western style of Redemption 1 to the Yellowstone style of Redemption 2." I'm not sure chucking anime versions of real-life Japanese racehorses in there will do anything to help that.
>> The article has two screenshots, more than enough to see how weird this mod makes the game.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 19 minutes of new gameplay footage from Nioh 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-19-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-nioh-3
IGN has shared a video showcasing 19 minutes of gameplay footage from Nioh 3. This video highlights one of the new open-ended levels and some of the activities and optional bosses you can find while exploring. So, if you are a Nioh fan, you should definitely check it out.

PUBG Title Update 37.2 Available for Download – Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/pubg-title-update-37-2-available-for-download-full-patch-notes
PUBG Corporation has just released Title Update 37.2 for PUBG: Battlegrounds on PC and shared its full patch notes. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.