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The Wednesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

It’s Wednesday and GOG hasn’t launched any new deals, promos or sales yet. Even more, all of the current ones will end tomorrow. Add in the mix that it’s the 10th of December and that they usually launch their Winter/Xmas Sale before Steam and… well, you know where I’m going, right?

Steam has two new deals and 5 new sales/events:

• Layers of Fear is going to be 60% off until the 18th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1946700/Layers_of_Fear/
• The Past Within will have a 70% discount until Thursday, the 18th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1515210/The_Past_Within/
• These are the Sales/Events:
  • Frosty Mini 2025 comes to celebrate the games that come from Australia and New Zealand. It has lots of upcoming games, some demos and up to 50% discounts on some titles. The deals will end between the 14th and the 16th, except for the new games that will keep their deals until the 23rd: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45423962/sale/FrostyMini
  • Publisher Slitherine’s 25th Annivesrary Sale has games up to 90% off until the 16th of December: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4563585/sale/Slitherine25thAnniversaryGrandFinaleSale
  • Latin American Games Showcase – The Game Awards Edition also has upcoming games, some demos and games up to 50% off. The deals will end between the 15th amd the 18th, except for the new games that will keep their deals until the 23rd: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/LAGSTGA25
  • Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition has a lot of upcoming titles, some of them with demos: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35411526/sale/WholesomeSnack2025
  • Find Your Next Game 2026 Showcase is full of upcoming games, some with demos: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6866589/sale/Find-Your-Next-Game-2026

Humble has a couple of new deals:

• Humble Bundle presents the Wholesome Snack 2025 Showcase Bundle, featuring 9 games during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/wholesome-snack-2025-showcase-bundle
• Humble Store presents the Slitherine 25th Anniversary Grand Finale Sale, with games up to 90% off during 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/slitherine-25th-anniversary-grand-finale-sale/

Fanatical has these two deals:

• Publisher Slitherine also has a sale here, with up to 92% deals. Some of them are “flash Deals” that will end in 16h while others will last 13 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/slitherine-ltd
• BYO Holiday Bundle (2025) has 18 titles to choose from for your 1+, 5+ or 10+ game bundles during the next 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-holiday-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-25-12-1

HIGHLIGHTS
New Features

• Support for AMD FSR™ “Redstone” 

New Product Support

• AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9600D
• AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700S

FIXED ISSUES

• Radeon Anti-Lag 2 option may not be available while playing Counter-Strike 2 (DX11) with Radeon Anti-Lag 2 enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 9070 XT.
• Intermittent system crashes may be observed while using some high-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 displays during display standby.
• Intermittent application freeze when using the in-game Radeon™ Overlay.
• Intermittent application crash when playing ARC Raiders on the Blue Gate map on Radeon™ RX 9000 series products.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Somehow the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake continues to leak, thanks to a PEGI rating for something called Black Flag Resynced
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/somehow-the-assassins-creed-black-flag-remake-continues-to-leak-thanks-to-a-pegi-rating-for-something-called-black-flag-resynced/
I'm at the point now where I can't honestly say without checking whether the Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake has been officially revealed or not. It's happening, obviously, but has Ubisoft actually said so? Apparently it has not—yes, I checked—but it has, as PC Gamer wordsmith Joshua Wolens put it in September, reached "unprecedented levels of leaked." Yet somehow, it now is even more leaked.
The latest leakage comes by way of PEGI, the Pan European Game Information agency, which has helpfully provided an 18 rating for something called Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. There's little more to be gleaned from the rating at this point, except that the game has violence, bad language, and in-game purchases.

League of Legends just got WASD controls after 16 years, and you can probably guess how smoothly the rollout's going
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/league-of-legends-just-got-wasd-controls-after-16-years-and-you-can-probably-guess-how-smoothly-the-rollouts-going/
The League of Legends community is in an uproar following a recent patch that added alternative keyboard controls to the popular MOBA. Developer Riot Games released an update on December 3 that brought WASD support to certain game modes, echoing Path of Exile 2's embrace of more actiony controls in what has traditionally been a mouse-driven style of game.