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The Thursday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/poppy-playtime-becomes-steams-global-top-seller-and-doubles-its-all-time-peak-player-count-record/
Are you ready to step back inside the abandoned toy factory at Playtime Co.? Sure, it's creepy down there, but what's the worst that could happen? It's not like the toys are going to come to life and hug you to death, right? Ha ha! Ha ha ha. Ha.
It sure looks like a lot of people are turning down the lights and carefully tiptoeing into the latest chapter of Poppy Playtime. With the launch of Chapter 5 today, the first-person horror puzzle adventure has become Steam's global top seller and smashed its own peak player count record.
According to SteamDB, the release of Chapter 4 in January 2025 drew a peak of 25,128 terrified players, but Chapter 5 more than doubled that today with 52,866 concurrents. That's a lot of people having the bejeebers scared out of them by Poppy Playtime's creepy cast of characters, which includes the Prototype, a dark and deadly doll made of both organic and mechanical parts, last seen (or glimpsed, at least) in Chapter 4.
As for the horror game screeching to the top of the Steam global sellers list, that's probably partly because there's a big cuddly Poppy Playtime Toybox Bundle, where you can buy Chapters 2, 3, and 4 at 50% off. (Chapter 1 is free—that's how they get ya hooked.) The new Chapter 5, meanwhile, is $19.99.

During the next 7 days, the Epic Store will give away

• Return To Ash: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/return-to-ash-dee3ff
• STALCRAFT: X Starter Edition: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/stalcraft-x-stalcraft-x-starter-edition-0b06d4

Next week, the free games will be Boxes: Lost Fragments and My Night Job .

Steam has one new deals and three sales/events:

• Dawnfolk has a demo and a 50% discount until February 25: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308630/Dawnfolk/
• And these are the sales:
  • 505 Games Lunar New Year Sale will have games up to 90% off until February 24: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33027220/sale/LNYSale
  • Developer/Publisher Big Cheese Studio puts its games and DLCs up to 75% off until the 4th of March: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38801340/sale/BigCheeseStudioPublisherSale
  • Sherlock Holmes Franchise Sale features up to 90% discounts until the same 4th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/SherlockHolmesFranchiseSale

Humble Bundle has two new collections for us:

• Humble 15 Time Capsule Bundle features up to 10 items (9 games plus one coupon) to get during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/humble-15-time-capsule
• Best of Humble Bundle: Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters Bundle has up to 12 games to get during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/beamdog-owlcat-rpg-masters-2026

And Fanatical's new Star Deal is DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS , with a 40% discount during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/dynasty-warriors-origins

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

You can now play Jak and Daxter in first-person as Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/you-can-now-play-jak-and-daxter-in-first-person-as-half-lifes-gordon-freeman/
Now here is something truly amazing. Modder ‘MFO’ has released a mod that lets you play Jak and Daxter in first-person mode as Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman. This mod will completely change how you experience this classic PS2 game. So, let’s take a closer look at it.
For those who did not know, a team of modders brought the classic Jak and Daxter PS2 game to the PC in July 2022. Now, after 3 years, it is fully playable, from start to finish. On top of that, their project, OpenGOAL, can also run Jak II. Now, what this new mod does is completely transform the game into a first-person shooter, inspired by Half-Life. Jak will now move and have access to all the weapons of Gordon Freeman. In other words, you can play as Gordon Freeman and shoot your enemies in Jak and Daxter.
What’s crazy here is that everything appears to be working flawlessly. Although Jak and Daxter did not have any shooting mechanics, all of the imported guns seem to work properly. I don’t know how this is possible, but this is one of the coolest mods I’ve seen.
So, if you’ve always wanted to experience Jak and Daxter as a first-person shooter, you can go ahead and download OpenGOAL from here. To find the mod, head over to the “Mods” section. Then, search for Gordan & Daxter.
>> The article has an almost 20 minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Lords of the Fallen 2 Gets Official PC System Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/lords-of-the-fallen-2-gets-official-pc-system-requirements/
CI Games has revealed the official PC system requirements for Lords of the Fallen 2, which will come to PC via Epic Games Store. So, let’s see what PC system you’ll need to run it.