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The Tuesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

(Click here for the Top 100)

Humble Store has four sales:

• Playstation Autumn Sale Part 2 expands the number of games on sale and the discounts, that now reach up to 60% during the remaining 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/playstation-autumn-sale-part-2
• Bandai Namco Fall Sale will have games up to 90% off during 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/bandai-namco-fall-sale
• Bethesda Autumn Sale also features up to 90% discounts during 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/bethesda-autumn-sale
• And the Maximum Games Publisher Sale will have games up to 85% off during 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/maximum-games-publisher-sale

Fanatical has three new deals:

• The Playstation PC LLC Games Sale has games up to 82% off during 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/playstation-pc-llc
• Batman: Arkham Collection is here again, with the same 3 games and the same 88% discount during 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/batman-arkham-collection
• BYO FMV Adventures Bundle Redux has 15 games for your 3+ or 5+ bundles during 37 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-fmv-adventures-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA Releases GeForce 581.42 WHQL Game Ready Drivers
https://www.techpowerup.com/341499/nvidia-releases-geforce-581-42-whql-game-ready-drivers

HIGHLIGHTS
Game Ready

• Battlefield 6
• FBC: Firebreak

Project G-Assist

• Added laptop controls support

FIXED ISSUES

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• Battlefield 2042: Increased GPU Crashing when calling CDXGISwapChain::Present() [5446395]
• Forza Horizon 4: light flickering on RTX 50 series [5404555]
• Planet Coaster 2: crashes after driver update [5447412]
• FPS significantly drops when using Smooth Motion with RivaTuner FPS cap [5476266]
• R580 drivers causing stuttering in games using GODOT engine [5466820]

Fixed General Bugs

• Adobe After Effects / Premiere Pro: crash on launch when Smooth Motion is enabled globally [5515256]
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Some system configurations can freeze during export using hardware encoding [5431822]
• When Video Noise Reduction is enabled the chroma is grayscale [5401959]

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Play Five Super Mario 3D Games on PC With Ease
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/play-five-super-mario-3d-games-on-pc-with-ease
Super Mario fans, here is something for you today. YouTube’s ‘Largefriendly Lop’ has released Super Mario 3D All-Stars DELUXE, a project that allows you to play five Super Mario 3D games on PC with ease. This is a must-have for those who want to experience some of the modern-day Super Mario 3D games on PC.
Super Mario 3D All-Stars DELUXE is basically a pre-configured Dolphin emulator. What’s really great here is that the launcher makes it really easy to run these games on PC. All you have to do is drag and drop the ROM files of the Super Mario 3D games into the ROM folder. And that’s it. As soon as you do this, you will be able to run the launcher and load your favourite game.
Right now, Super Mario 3D All-Stars DELUXE supports five Super Mario 3D games. These are: Super Mario 64, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
For those wondering, this project is not as advanced as Super Mario Bros. Remastered. Super Mario Bros. Remastered made a lot of changes to the classic 2D Super Mario games. At the same time, it did not feel like launching an emulator. Here, it’s obvious that we’re dealing with a Dolphin emulator. Not that this is a bad thing. Just make sure to keep your expectations in check.
You can go ahead and download Super Mario 3D All-Stars DELUXE from this link. Do note that this is only the launcher. You’ll also need the ROM files for the games. These are not included in Super Mario 3D All-Stars DELUXE.
>> The article has a couple of videos.

Morrowind gets way easier to play on your Steam Deck or sofa thanks to a new OpenMW release candidate that's all about gamepads, baby
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/morrowind-gets-way-easier-to-play-on-your-steam-deck-or-sofa-thanks-to-a-new-openmw-release-candidate-thats-all-about-gamepads-baby/
Think fast, hotshot: after spending three years lovingly crafting July's 0.49 update, which dramatically buffed up its capacity to handle all-powerful lua modding, the crew at OpenMW have already turned around and put out their first candidate for its 0.50 release. In mod project timelines, this is basically a nanosecond turnaround.
If you're not familiar, OpenMW is an open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you run it on modern Windows, Linux, and macOS with a minimum of fuss and at modern resolutions. It's undoubtedly my go-to way to play these days, especially now this 0.50 release candidate has made the game way easier to play on a gamepad.
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"Despite the nice round number, 0.50.0 is a focused release," writes OpenMW's capo (that's their name, not their rank), "its core highlight is the improved gamepad support and optional gamepad-tailored UI (which you can enable in the launcher)." Alongside the gamepad additions, 0.50 also brings a "variety of UI fixes and game mechanics fixes" that even "a hard-boiled mouse and keyboard enthusiast" should appreciate.
"Our intention for the [release candidate] period is to have you break it—run into any uncaught crashes, freezes, regressions, or other unexpected issues, and report them to us on our issue tracker," says the team. "You may also suggest improvements to the gamepad UI, and some of your ideas may end up in the final release."
I've mucked around a little with OpenMW 0.50 RC1 and I'm already impressed. The UI—which still hews closer to Morrowind's PC UI than its Xbox variant—is pretty easy to navigate at the tap of a bumper or the swish of a stick, and the simple act of actually getting around Vvardenfell seems easier on a controller than ever before. I've tried using a gamepad with OpenMW before, alongside projects like Deckwind, but it's never felt this natural.
>> There are a couple of screenshots, but only one from the mod.

GAMING NEWS

Terminator 2D: NO FATE has been delayed by almost a month due to US tariffs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/terminator-2d-no-fate-has-been-delayed-almost-a-month-due-to-us-tariffs
Reef Entertainment has announced that Terminator 2D: NO FATE has been delayed by almost a month. According to the team, this delay is due to the recent US tariffs.
As Reef Entertainment stated, the ongoing global trade and tariff changes that delayed shipment of the components for the Day One and Collector’s Editions. Thus, the publisher decided to delay both the digital and physical versions. In other words, this delay has nothing to do with the game itself.

Here are the PC requirements for the Gungrave GORE Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-requirements-for-the-gungrave-gore-remake
IGGYMOB has shared the official PC requirements for the remake of Gungrave GORE, Gungrave GORE Blood Heat. So, let’s see what kind of PC system you’ll need to run it.