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The Wednesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

GOG has a bunch of new sales/promos:

• Tactical Promo has games up to 90% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260311_tactical_promo
• Weekly Deals feature games wit hup to 92% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260311_weekly_deals_3_march
• Feel The Atmosphere Promo will have games up to 95% of during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260311_feel_the_atmosphere_promo
• Git Gud Promo will also have games with up to 95% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260311_git_gud_promo
• And Treasure Chest Promo will also have games up to 95% off during the same 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260311_treasure_chest_promo

Steam has two new deals and one sale:

• SYNTHETIK 2 , still in Early Access, has a 30% discount that will last until the 19th of March: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1471410/SYNTHETIK_2/
• Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms will be 50% off until the same 19th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/919360/Alaloth_Champions_of_The_Four_Kingdoms/
• And the One Piece Franchise Sale has ganes up the franchise on sale with up to 90% discounts until March 19: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/OnePieceFranchiseSale2026

The Humble Store has four new sales:

• Devolver Digital has its games up to 90% off during 8 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/devolver-publisher-sale/
• Team17 Publisher Sale features up to 90% discounts during the same 8 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/team17-publisher-sale/
• One Piece Franchise Sale has games up to 90% off during 12 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/one-piece-sale/
• And Focus Entertainment puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts during 15 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/focus-spring-sale-2026/

And Fanatical has three new 24h Flash Deals:

• Shelldiver is 30% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/shelldiver
• Death Howl has a 440% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/death-howl
• And Age of Mythology: Retold Premium Edition is 58% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/age-of-mythology-retold-premium-edition

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Resident Evil 2 Remake descends into kaizo chaos in Resurgence of the Dead Shadows
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/resident-evil/resident-evil-2-remake-descends-into-kaizo-chaos-in-resurgence-of-the-dead-shadows/
We just can't get beyond Raccoon City, can we? From Biorand's screwball silliness to Requiem's post-apocalyptic return tour, it's all gotten a bit familiar. A bit… safe.
But no longer: Now is the age of sickos, and thanks to Resident Evil 2 Remake's slightly barmy Chinese modding scene, the most popular game in the series has become a rich ground for one-upsmanship and sharing of challenge mods. Resurgence Of The Dead Shadows is one of the newer big releases, one of the most actively updated, and it WILL kill you and laugh about your demise.
So why would you want to play a Kaizo-style Resident Evil 2? Because it's a fun challenge and frequently very funny. Right off the bat, this mod dials up the shenanigans to 11. I couldn't stop laughing on my first run through the prologue area at the gas station. My first discovery is that I needed some C4 to blast open the door, and my second surprise is that the bomb's beside the Raccoon City road-sign… and Mr X.
So, I grab that, run like hell, plant the bomb and oh no—Mr X brought the family.
Mr Y, Z and the rest of the alphabet gang joined the party, along with a half-dozen zombies, and I can't even draw my gun yet. And just when I thought I'd got it all right, the bomb went off just as I was passing it after a panicked lap around the forecourt. Game Over. And I'm just one minute into an extended 10+ hour campaign. And if you can't laugh about that, this might not be the mod for you.
But if that does sound like fun (in a perverse sorta way), setting up this mod is similar to Berserker for RE4R, but with a couple extra steps, as Capcom's update adding ray tracing to RE2R broke a lot of mod support.
>> Besides the instructions to install the mod, the article has some screenshots and an almost 1 hour long video.

Dark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/dark-messiah-modders-given-blank-check-from-ubisoft-to-develop-toolkit-are-now-releasing-a-community-edition-of-arkanes-classic/
Six years prior to releasing Dishonored, Arkane studio made a game about booting orcs from cliffs. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic had other things going for it, obviously, but it was mainly about the booting. What originally started as an effort by modder Dave Wiltos and a team of others to add co-op to the game eventually resulted in "blank check" from Ubisoft to develop an SDK. "To quote Ubisoft, they 'don't want to impose any sort of restrictions so that the community can really appreciate the full value of the work that's being put in here,'" wrote Wiltos on ModDB in 2023 (via RPS). Since then, they've been working on projects to add RTX and a dungeon generator, alongside co-op.
Now, Wiltos and the team have announced that, following a trip to Ubisoft Montreal in which he got "[console port] Dark Messiah Elements to work on PC", they're working on a Community Edition of Dark Messiah "with approval from Ubisoft and support from Valve" (via RPS). Elements, released on the Xbox 360, expanded and tweaked features from the original PC release, including a new prologue.

GAMING NEWS

Crimson Desert Gets Detailed Final PC Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crimson-desert-gets-detailed-final-pc-requirements/
Pearl Abyss has just released the final PC system requirements for its upcoming game, Crimson Desert. So, let’s see what PC system you’ll need to game with 60FPS at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K.

007 First Light, CONTROL Resonant, and Tides of Annihilation will have Path Tracing on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/007-first-light-control-resonant-and-tides-of-annihilation-will-have-path-tracing-on-pc/
The list of the path-traced games on PC gets bigger and bigger. Last month, Capcom released Resident Evil Requiem, which supported Path Tracing on PC. In April 2026, the team will also release PRAGMATA, which will also have Path Tracing on PC. And now, we get three more titles that will come out in 2026 with support for Path Tracing on PC.
These three new games are 007 First Light, CONTROL Resonant, and Tides of Annihilation. All of these games will support Path Tracing on PC, as well as NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 tech.

Samson and The Vernyhorn will have Ray Tracing on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/samson-and-the-vernyhorn-will-have-ray-tracing-on-pc/
NVIDIA has announced that both Samson and The Vernyhorn will support Ray Tracing and DLSS 4.5 on PC when they launch. To celebrate this announcement, the green team shared a new trailer for both of them that you can find below.