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The Thursday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away two games:

• Botany Manor: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/botany-manor-e7c456
• Poison Retro Set: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/pixel-gun-3d-poison-retro-set-55a7dd

Next week, the free games will be Nobody Wants to Die and The Darkside Detective A Fumble in the Dark .

GOG has launched the sale that was missing from yesterday, the new Weekly Deals, featuring up t o95% discounts during 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260204_weekly_deals_1_february

Steam has one new deal and four sales/events:

• Guns of Fury will be 35% off until February 11: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099000/Guns_of_Fury/
• And these are the sales/events:
  • Oublisher/developer Creepy Jar puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts until the 10th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44186271/sale/CreepyJarPublisherSale26
  • The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards, about games that make you think, has revealed its winners and has some games on sale with up to 85% discounts until the 11th of February: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/3rdThinkyAwards
  • Avalanche Studios presents the Spring Festival Sale (a bit too soon, imho), with games and DLCs up to 70% off until the 19th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/1080307/sale/AvalancheSpringFestival
  • Dyring Light Franchise celebrates its 11th anniversary with a Sale. Sadly, it launches today and the discounts aren’t active yet: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33025758/sale/techlandanniversaryfranchisesale

Fanatical has two new deals:

• Arc System Works puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts during the next 12 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/arc-system-works
• Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle (February 2026) has 18 titles to choose from for your 3+, 5+ or 7+ game bundles. It will last 27 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

The total conversion mod remaking the lost Fallout 3 in Fallout: New Vegas got its first trailer and a new name
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fallout/the-total-conversion-mod-remaking-the-lost-fallout-3-in-fallout-new-vegas-got-its-first-trailer-and-a-new-name/
The sequel to Fallout 2 being developed by Black Isle Studios in the early 2000s was codenamed Van Buren, and when it was shut down in 2003—after which Bethesda picked up the ball, but made a completely different game—it became a kind of lost relic for Fallout tragics.
Van Buren's the mythic could-have-been that almost-was, a Fallout RPG that would have had everything we loved about the first two games in it and none of the stuff we didn't love about the Fallout 3 we eventually got. Because it never got made it can stay perfect in our imaginations, never having to live up to reality.
That doesn't stop modders from wanting to make it real in their own ways, though. There's a mod to recreate Van Buren in Fallout 2's engine called Fallout Yesterday, and a project that's supposedly remaking the whole game as it would have been. However, since a bunch of ideas from Van Buren were eventually re-used in Fallout: New Vegas—like Caesar's Legion, the Big MT, and Joshua Graham—you can see why there would be an advantage in remaking Van Buren as a mod for the game that already has some of the relevant assets.
If this sounds familiar you may remember when the project was called Revelation Blues, the name under which it released a demo last year. It's now been renamed The New West, and the teaser trailer above released conveniently after the climax of Fallout Season 2, when interest in New Vegas is the highest it's been in years. Not that you'd know it from Bethesda's silence on the remaster front.
The trailer feels like classic Fallout and sets up the plot of Van Buren—there's a prison run by an AI called Odysseus, which you're set to escape from in the opening, and a New Plague out there in the wasteland. Half of this is soundtracked by Johnny Cash singing Wayfaring Stranger, which would make a great nickname for The New West's equivalent of The Lone Wanderer.
You can keep up with the progress of Fallout: The New West on its website, and the demo from back when it was called Revelation Blues is still up on Nexus Mods.
>> The trailer is a bit over 3 minutes long.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 12 minutes of new gameplay from Mouse: P.I. for Hire
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-12-minutes-of-new-gameplay-from-mouse-p-i-for-hire/
IGN has shared a new video, showcasing 12 minutes of brand new gameplay footage from Mouse: P.I. For Hire. This gameplay is from Vaudeville, the second mission of the campaign, and the first case Jack gets assigned.

Here’s the official story trailer for Styx: Blades of Greed
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/heres-the-official-story-trailer-for-styx-blades-of-greed/
NACON has released the official story trailer for its upcoming Styx game, Styx: Blades of Greed. This story trailer revisits the key events of Styx: Master of Shadows and Styx: Shards of Darkness.

MindsEye Title Update 7 Released – Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/mindseye-title-update-7-released-full-patch-notes/
Build A Rocket Boy has just released Title Update 7 for MindsEye and shared its full patch notes. So, let’s see what this new patch brings to the table.