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SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/crimson-deserts-less-than-ideal-launch-is-a-distant-memory-as-it-hits-the-4-million-sales-milestone/
Crimson Desert's moment is continuing. Pearl Abyss's open-world romp is obtuse and a bit divisive, but that doesn't seem to have been an obstacle. Today, the studio announced that it had hit another sales milestone.
In just shy of two weeks, Crimson Desert has sold 4 million copies—an impressive result for the studio's first singleplayer game.
"Crimson Desert has sold through 4 million copies worldwide," the official account shared on X. "Thank you to all the Greymanes who have been a part of this journey with us and for all of your incredible love and support."

My 5 favorite cozy games in Steam's House and Home sale
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/my-5-favorite-cozy-games-in-steams-house-and-home-sale/
I've been pretty good this year and avoided flooding my Steam library with more games I don't have time to play, but Steam's latest themed sale got me. From now until April 6, Steam is running House and Home Fest. It's basically seven days of homey, cozy games that feel specifically targeted at me.
I'm basically a videogame realtor, and all about anything that lets me build, organize, or clean some semblance of a house. I've scrubbed the dirt off of countless rooftops and walls in PowerWash Simulator, and who knows how many permutations I've created of my idealized working space in My Dream Setup. God forbid I apply that energy to cleaning my own house.
If that sounds like you, then I've got a few cozy game recommendations worth checking out in Steam's House and Home Fest.

Steam has three new deals and one festival:

• GRIME , that has a demo, will be 60% off until the 14th of April: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1123050/GRIME/
• ABZU will have a 75% discount until the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/384190/ABZU/
• Portal Knights is going to be 85% off until the same 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/374040/Portal_Knights/
• The new and NSFW Power & Pleasure Festival will last until the 8th of April and it’s full of upcoming releases,as well as some titles with up to 70% discounts. The deals will end between the 6th and the 15th of April: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44790310/sale/PowerPleasureFestival

Fanatical’s new Star Deal is Sniper Elite V2 Remastered , that will be 90% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/sniper-elite-v-2-remastered

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Skyblivion dev team is once again putting out a call for 'experienced mod authors and developers' to help get it finished, and it sure sounds like there's a lot left to do for a mod that's supposed to be out this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/skyblivion-dev-team-is-once-again-putting-out-a-call-for-experienced-mod-authors-and-developers-to-help-get-it-finished-and-it-sure-sounds-like-theres-a-lot-left-to-do-for-a-mod-thats-supposed-to-be-out-this-year/
Skyblivion, the massive mod that aims to rebuild all of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swanky new(er) tech of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition, is once again asking for help. A message posted on Nexus Mods (via RPS) says the dev team is "on the hunt for the final, vital members of their development team to bring this massive undertaking to life."
The team is looking for "experienced mod authors and developers" with "highly specialized skill set[s]" for roles in quest creation, navmesh, interior level design and QA, 3D art, sound design, and "implementation," which requires "a high level of expertise with NifSkope and Blender (specifically using the pyNifly plugin for this phase)."

I opened my own store in Stardew Valley so now Pierre has to buy my seeds. MY SEEDS
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/i-opened-my-own-store-in-stardew-valley-so-now-pierre-has-to-buy-my-seeds-my-seeds/
If you'd asked me yesterday how I felt about Pierre in Stardew Valley, I think I would have said "fine." I don't particularly like him but I don't have any specific gripes against him, either. My biggest issue is probably that he opens his store at 9 am and I'm up at 6 am every day, so if I head straight to his shop I have to hang around a while for him to open his doors. That can be a bit annoying.
But I was wrong. I clearly have some deep-seated seething hatred of Pierre, because when I saw that there's a mod that lets you open your own shop in Stardew Valley, my first thought was: revenge. I will fill my shop with my seeds and make Pierre come and buy them from me! Then we'll see who is shopping in whose store! Mwah-ha-ha-ha!
OK, it's not the most diabolical revenge plot in history—and may not even qualify as revenge at all—but the mod, called Merchant—Become a Shopkeeper is pretty cool anyway. You purchase a cash register from Robin, place it inside a building on your farm (shed, barn, etc), and that building becomes a shop. Set up tables and place items on top of them, then open your store and villagers will pop in to buy something.
It's genuinely delightful: for once, you're not the one running all over the place to find people, they're all coming to you, and seeing folks like the Wizard or the Bookseller (who will visit if you're selling books the day he's in town) show up in your store is really satisfying. Typically, only a few shoppers will visit at once, but there are special days where there's a big buying rush and you'll see a whole bunch of people come to your store on the same day.
There's a haggling minigame when someone buys something, so you can try to squeeze a few extra coins out of them, and another mod I installed, called Customer Add-On for Merchant, gives villagers' store-based dialogue a touch more personality. For instance, when I tried to jack up the price on a jar of honey for Robin, she said "What do you think this is, a house upgrade?" When the Wizard visited my shop, he said "Ah, Goat Cheese… I foresaw this transaction." Pretty cute.
Anything you can put on a table you can sell (no shade, but Pam immediately bought a bottle of wine) and there are a few things you can do to improve your profit margins. Decorating your shop will make it more appealing and you can purchase increasingly expensive marketing campaigns to drum up business. Your convenience store can be made quite convenient for you, too: one upgrade will re-stock your shelves with items you've placed in a chest, cutting down on some manual labor.
And yes, I eventually replaced everything in my shelves with blueberry seeds I'd generated from my own seed maker and lay in wait for Pierre. He eventually came in and bought a pack. He offered me 32, but I haggled him up to 35, then checked the wiki for what I already suspected: he sells them for 80 in his store. My revenge plot fizzled, sure, but it's still lots of fun to finally have my own store.
>> The article has a couple screenshots.

GAMING NEWS

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World of Warcraft secret hunters perform synchronized dance in a 40-player raid group to finally solve a year-old puzzle, proving they will do anything for a new outfit
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-secret-hunters-perform-synchronized-dance-in-a-40-player-raid-group-to-finally-solve-a-year-old-puzzle-proving-they-will-do-anything-for-a-new-outfit/

France's 'leading consumer association,' backed by Stop Killing Games, sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/frances-leading-consumer-association-backed-by-stop-killing-games-sues-ubisoft-over-the-crew-shutdown/

Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/nightdives-larry-kuperman-retires-after-25-year-career-in-games-we-never-looked-at-games-as-products/

WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wows-latest-raid-cinematic-could-be-the-start-of-a-massive-story-retcon-for-its-worst-expansion/