This part cracks me up:

“Actually from the top we knew we were developing the game for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.  And we started the process of optimization right at the start. So that’s probably what you see running the demo is a PC with like an i7 and 1080TI, so it’s not astronomical specs."

Yes, they are astronomical specs - compared to Xbox One - that's some 8x, which is generational leap.

And sadly, that which they played with PC parts wise isn't going to show for it at all, besides a res difference and maybe the odd shadows/rendering objects, but definitely nothing that makes it a night and day difference.

Another great month for HMB subscribers (Humble Monthly Bundle)

Early Unlocks are Hollow Knight, Hitman: Complete First Season and 7 Days to Die.

Agreed. They are astronomical. AMD doesn't even have a GPU that's as fast as the Geforce 1080Ti... And they have had a year and a half.
But... It should come down lower, they are still optimizing... Or it could end up being the next Crysis.

I would peg the 1080Ti at more than an 8x increase... A DDR3 Radeon 7770 isn't setting records. Hahaha

Most likely, since I was fairly conservative - I couldn't find direct 108Ti vs 7770 comparison, so I extrapolated from 1080ti vs 7850 and 7850 vs 7770 on Anandtech - it's more likely to be around 10x, or even more.

If this helps you both, TechPowerUp's database has the mobile version of the 7770, with GDDR5 and the 1080Ti. And if the 7770M is 100%, the 1080Ti is 1192%...

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7770m.c1204

The desktop version, also with GDDR5 and a 1,000 MHz GPU clock, would reduce that to "only" 785%: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7770-ghz-edition.c308

Good watch.

Let's go once again with the news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
2. Monster Hunter: World
3. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
4. Total War: WARHAMMER II
5. Grand Theft Auto V
6. Rocket League
7. Total War: WARHAMMER
8. NBA 2K19
9. MapleStory 2
10. Black Desert Online

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey appears to be selling well on Steam, surpassed Origins concurrent players
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-odyssey-appears-to-be-selling-well-on-steam-surpassed-origins-concurrent-players/
It appears that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is selling well on the PC platform. According to Steam’s statistics, its highest concurrent player number has already surpassed the one for Origins, hinting at a better overall launch.
Going into slightly more details, the all-time peak number of concurrent players for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is currently 61,984 whereas the all-time peak number of concurrent players for Assassin’s Creed Origins was 41,541. In other words, we are looking at a 51% increase in concurrent players.

Let's start to check the available deals at GOG. I have to say, tho, that I'm still not used to the new layout, and I can't see whether there's a daily deal or not. What GOG does have is a new weekly sale named Quality Time and with up to 75% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20181008_weekly_sale

Steam's daily deal is Super Mega Baseball 2, 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/414870/Super_Mega_Baseball_2/

At Fanatical, the Star Deal is Observer, 63% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/observer

SOFTWARE

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MODS/EMULATORS

GoldenEye 25 is a remake of the classic GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 game in Unreal Engine 4, first videos
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/goldeneye-25-is-a-remake-of-the-classic-goldeneye-007-nintendo-64-game-in-unreal-engine-4-first-videos/
GoldenZen and a team of modders are currently working on a fan remake of the classic GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 game in Unreal Engine 4, and released the first videos from it. This upcoming fan remake is called GoldenEye 25, and the following videos will give you an idea of what the team aims to achieve.

Skyrim High-Quality Textures Pack 2018 available for download, improves numerous textures
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/skyrim-high-quality-textures-pack-2018-available-for-download-improves-numerous-textures/
Modder ‘Pfuscher’ has released a brand new version of his high quality texture pack for Skyrim Special Edition. This 2018 high quality texture pack replaces numerous textures with better ones, and adds cubemaps to metallic objects.
Do note that this mod requires Brumbek’s SMIM – Static Mesh Improvement Mod as well as LucidAP’s high poly project. The modder also recommends using Gamwich’s Rustic Clothing mod.
Going into slightly more details, this texture pack adds new textures and cubemaps for Goat, Highlandcow, Farmhouse, Markarth, Riften, Solitude, Tents, Whiterun, Windhelm, Winterhold and more.
Those interested can download this 2018 Texture Pack for Skyrim from here.

Halfquake Trilogy, three Half-Life modifications with 15 hours of gameplay, available for free on Steam
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/halfquake-trilogy-three-half-life-modifications-with-15-hours-of-gameplay-available-for-free-on-steam/
Philipp Lehner has released Halfquake Trilogy on Steam. This combilation of the three Halfquake modifications for Half-Life is available for free to everyone, and comes with roughly 15 hours of gameplay.
As its creator noted, in Halfquake your purpose is to get killed in the most ridiculous ways for the sole purpose of entertaining your spectators. You might get weapons to fight your way through, but you will never be able to escape. Or at least not until you memorise the entire levels and their traps.

>>Available, obviously, from Steam.

This Stardew Valley mod helps you manage the pesky museum and library
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-stardew-valley-mod-helps-you-manage-the-pesky-museum-and-library/
I think we can all agree* that the town museum-cum-library is the worst part of Stardew Valley to interact with. You have to donate a new object to rearrange it. You have to save room in your inventory for the junky books you find, maybe even throw out something you desperately need—obnoxious when the books are spawned randomly. There’s a mod that fixes these problems: The very pragmatically named Archaeology House Content Management Helper.

Fallout 4 'Echo' mod turns the wasteland into a musical about employment
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-echo-mod-turns-the-wasteland-into-a-musical-about-employment/
The best Fallout 4 mods let you customise the wasteland. Be that through settlements and crafting, visual improvements and weather, or new locations and adventures there's pretty much something for everyone. With 510 lines of dialogue and four sing-a-longs, Kilosandwich's Echo transforms the Boston Commonwealth into musical about employment. I've no idea which category that best fits.

GAMING NEWS

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout will support 120fps at launch, uncapped framerate for Zombies & Multiplayer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-blackout-will-support-120fps-at-launch-uncapped-framerate-for-zombies-multiplayer/
Treyarch and Beenox have revealed some new information about the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. According to the developers, the game’s battle royale mode will be capped at 120fps at launch, whereas the Zombies and Multiplayer modes will support uncapped framerates.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 may support mods, Treyarch will look at adding support post-launch
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-may-support-mods-treyarch-will-look-at-adding-support-post-launch/
Treyarch has announced that while Call of Duty Black Ops 4 will not support mods at launch, it will be looking at adding support after the game’s release. Treyarch claimed that it really values the mod community, though it has not 100% confirmed yet whether Black Ops 4 will indeed support mods or not.

Alpha version of System Shock Remake available to backers, new in-game video released
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/alpha-version-of-system-shock-remake-available-to-backers-new-in-game-video-released/
Nightdive Studios has announced that an alpha version of its System Shock Remake is available to a select number of its Kickstarter backers. Also, and in order to give everyone else a glimpse at what the game currently looks like, the team has released a new in-game video that you can find below.

Next Monster Hunter World update will address low-resolution textures, will improve keyboard controls
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/next-monster-hunter-world-update-will-address-low-resolution-textures-will-improve-keyboard-controls/
Capcom has finally acknowledged the low-resolution texture issues that occur in the PC version of Monster Hunter World and stated that its next patch will fix it. In case you weren’t aware of, during character creation and in-game cutscenes some textures weren’t always loading the most optimal quality settings, resulting in some really blurry results.

New Just Cause 4 trailer focuses on the private militia, the Black Hand
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-just-cause-4-trailer-focuses-on-the-private-militia-the-black-hand/
Square Enix has released a new trailer for Just Cause 4 that focuses on the private militia within the game’s homeland of Solis; The Black Hand. Lead by the ruthless and determined Gabriela Morales, the Black Hand will be Rico’s toughest opponents so far.

Trails of Tenere is a new physics-based desert motorcycle game, alpha version available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/trails-of-tenere-is-a-new-physics-based-desert-motorcycle-game-alpha-version-available-for-download/
Developer nothke is currently working on a physics-based desert motorcycle game that is inspired by Thierry Sabine’s story of getting lost in the desert during the 1977 Abidjan-Nice rally, called Trails of Tenere. This motorcycle game features fully physics-based riding simulation, and its alpha version is available for download.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will not work on CPUs that do not support AVX [UPDATE]
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-odyssey-will-not-work-on-cpus-that-do-not-support-avx/
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been officially released, however it appears that this latest open-world game from Ubisoft will not work on CPUs that do not support AVX. This basically means that the game will not launch at all if you are using an older Intel or AMD CPU that does not support it.
UPDATE: Ubisoft has issued an update on this issue, claiming that it is currently looking into extending the supported CPUs for those that do not support AVX (thanks 7thGuest2.0).

Skybound Games will develop the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/skybound-games-will-develop-the-remaining-episodes-of-the-walking-dead-the-final-season/
Skybound Games has announced that it has reached a deal with Telltale Games in order to finish all the remaining episodes for The Walking Dead: The Final Season. This is great news for all The Walking Dead fans as they will at least get a proper closure.

>>Interestingly, that's the studio that founded the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman.

Shenmue 1 & 2 Remaster beta patch 5 available, fixes lip syncing, improves controls and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/shenmue-1-2-remaster-beta-patch-5-available-fixes-lip-syncing-improves-controls-and-more/
SEGA has released a brand new beta patch for Shenmue 1 & 2 Remaster. According to the release notes, this fifth beta patch improves the MIDI playback for various instances of background music, improves the controls while playing HangOn and Afterburner II, and fixes various issues with lip syncing.

Official Resident Evil 2 Remake video showcases 30 minutes of gameplay footage
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/official-resident-evil-2-remake-video-showcases-30-minutes-of-gameplay-footage/
Capcom has released a new official video, showing 30 minutes of new gameplay footage from Resident Evil 2 Remake. This video focuses on Claire Redfield and it will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.

Here is more than an hour of gameplay footage from Fallout 76
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-is-more-than-an-hour-of-gameplay-footage-from-fallout-76/
The embargo for Fallout 76’s gameplay impressions has been lifted and Gamespot, Playstation Lifestyle and Polygon have released videos showing the game in action. These three videos feature more than one hour of gameplay footage, showing PVP, trading, VATS, leveling and more.

The second part of today's news:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 'The Forge' DLC pits Lara against lava
https://www.pcgamer.com/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-the-forge-dlc-pits-lara-against-lava/
The Forge is the first of seven DLC packs coming down the pipe for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The Forge adds a challenge tomb playable solo and co-op. Completing the DLC will unlock a 'grenadier' skill, an outfit and the Umbrage 3-80 weapon.

Rust gets a big boat filled with toys in the Cargo Ship update
https://www.pcgamer.com/rust-get-a-big-boat-filled-with-toys-in-the-cargo-ship-update/
The Cargo Ship Update has brought a big, noisy boat to the shores of Rust, and it's filled with useful loot and heavily-armed scientists who'd really rather you kept your hands off of it.
The ship, the CCSC Lazarus, will appear as a "periodic server event" that occurs every 2-to-4 in-game days. It will approach the island to a distance of about 200 meters, at which point you can ride out to it on a boat of your own and climb aboard via one of the ladders hanging down its side. At that point, you'll have to clear the defenders, hack two locked crates, and defend the ship while you're waiting for them to pop.

Bungie discusses the creation of Last Wish and Destiny 2's colossal raid boss
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-discusses-the-creation-of-last-wish-and-destiny-2s-colossal-raid-boss/
Bungie has peeled back the curtain on the creation of Destiny 2: Forsaken's raid, Last Wish. Over on our sister site GamesRadar+ Tim quizzed raid team lead Joe Blackburn about the raid's inception and the design of the awesomely huge final boss.

Here's what's coming up in Destiny 2's October updates
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-coming-up-in-destiny-2s-october-updates/
Another week, another This Week at Bungie update.
This time, Bungie breaks down what's coming up in the next couple of patches, plus it confirms the Festival of the Lost will kick off on October 16, 2018, "with a celebration of lost heroes and a new challenge to tackle".

Scammers are targeting Fortnite cheaters with data-stealing malware
https://www.pcgamer.com/scammers-are-targeting-fortnite-players-with-data-stealing-malware/
Fortnite is an extraordinarily popular game, and because of that, scammers and con artists are (again, still) using it to distribute malware. A new report by Malwarebyte Labs says that the most recent round of scams goes beyond "typical low-level surveys and downloads that never actually materialize" by delivering software that can actually steal your data.

>>Meanwhile, Epic has launched a program to let users fund "content creators".

Ubisoft resolves DDoS attack but connectivity issues persist for some Assassin's Creed Odyssey players
https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-resolves-ddos-attack-but-connectivity-issues-persist-for-some-assassins-creed-odyssey-players/
Following "a series of DDoS attacks" on the day of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's launch, Ubisoft is continuing to experience issues with its online services.
Yesterday, Ubisoft announced via its official forum it was "currently experiencing a series of DDoS attacks, which unfortunately are a common occurrence for almost all online service providers".

No Man's Sky's latest update focuses on 'improving and extending' planetary exocraft
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-skys-latest-update-focuses-on-improving-and-extending-planetary-exocraft/
Hello Games has deployed a new update for No Man's Sky across all platforms.
Update 1.63—"a large update focused on improving and extending planetary exocraft", according to the developer—has now rolled out, and includes the "rugged, fast-moving" new exocraft, Pilgrim.

The Soulcalibur 6 community designed its own character and here's the monstrous result
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-soulcalibur-6-community-designed-its-own-character-and-heres-the-monstrous-result/
Bandai Namco has revealed the Soulcalibur 6 character created by its own community.
Across its various social media channels, Bandai invited the community to vote on several aspects of the character's features to show off Soulcalibur 6's character creation system.

Vampire RPG Nighthawks has been funded
https://www.pcgamer.com/vampire-rpg-nighthawks-has-been-funded/
In good news for anyone who loved Troika's classic RPG Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines and especially that one dude keeps trying to shoehorn it into the PC Gamer Top 100 every year (hi!), Nighthawks has hit its Kickstarter goal. Nighthawks is a modern-day, text-heavy game about vampires that is explicitly inspired by Bloodlines and also Sunless Sea, which this week managed to beat its crowdfunding goal of $125,000, raising $136,128 in the end.

Space crash management sim RimWorld releases October 17th
https://www.pcgamer.com/space-crash-management-sim-rimworld-releases-october-17th/
After five and a half years, Ludeon Studios will finally release the 1.0 version of RimWorld on October 17th. Originally scheduled for much earlier this year, version 1.0 saw delays based on what the developer called “the 90/10 principle, where the first 90% of development takes 90% of the time, and the final 10% takes another 90% of the time.” The developer has not committed to further updates for the game other than supporting fan translations and a bug-fixing patch. However, the announcement post does say that they can think of “a variety of interesting directions to go with the game.”

Monster Hunter: World’s Autumn Harvest event comes to PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-hunter-worlds-autumn-harvest-event-comes-to-pc/
Monster Hunter: World is getting delightfully spoopy with its Autumn Harvest in-game event, bringing catty little jack o’ lanterns and witchy, warlocky new hunting garb. Those that log in during the festival will get extra rewards—most notably doubled lucky vouchers for quest rewards, a character change voucher, and Autumn Harvest tickets for seasonal armor. All the seasonal armor for this event is layered armor, meaning you can use it as an appearance over your regular sets for the perfect blend of fashion and stats. Autumn Harvest started on Friday, October 5th and wraps up on Thursday, October 18th at 23:59 UTC.

Warcraft 3’s Mal’Ganis the dreadlord could be Heroes of the Storm’s next character
https://www.pcgamer.com/warcraft-3s-malganis-the-dreadlord-could-be-heroes-of-the-storms-next-character/
After a few days of tweeting cryptic gifs, the Heroes of the Storm Twitter account has put out an image of a full-on Warcraft Nathrezim Dreadlord. Yesterday, it tweeted a gif a lot like some people getting destroyed by the dreadlord ability Carrion Swarm, and today, voila: a full body shot of a bat-winged corruption demon. It’s about time for the game to get a new character, so we’re expecting that this big demon is it, and it seems like the demon may well be Mal’Ganis. An exciting prospect if you’ve played Warcraft 3, since Mal’Ganis is so pivotal to that game’s plot.

Anime shooter Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete Edition coming January 2019
https://www.pcgamer.com/anime-shooter-sword-art-online-fatal-bullet-complete-edition-coming-january-2019/
Japanese light novel series about videogames, becomes anime, becomes videogames. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet has a complete edition coming to PC January 18th, 2019, says publisher Bandai Namco on Twitter.

Arena RTS The Maestros is all about mutating your troops to victory
https://www.pcgamer.com/arena-rts-the-maestros-is-all-about-mutating-your-troops-to-victory/
An interesting-looking new strategy game popped up on Steam in the last few days: The Maestros. It’s an RTS that focuses on using a single hero and a handful of troops to get victory in an arena map with other players and NPCs. It’s currently in a promising Early Access state, and feels like a match of Warcraft 3 where you didn’t have to build a base and you’re painfully limited on what troops you can get before the real fighting actually begins.

Devil May Cry 5 footage shows Dante using his hat as a weapon
https://www.pcgamer.com/devil-may-cry-5-footage-shows-dante-using-his-hat-as-a-weapon/
Recorded at the weekend's New York Comic-Con (via Eurogamer), Dante is seen wearing the Faust Hat, which gives the star man a host of superhuman powers. The hat itself looks like a nod to Devil May Cry 4's hat-donning Faust—a lower-level demon who was considered a relative of the Mephisto.

Here's 30 minutes of Fallout 76 gameplay
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-gameplay/
Two of us got to play Fallout 76 at an event held by Bethesda in West Virginia last week, and we've got the footage to prove it! Unfortunately it wasn't the PC version of the game, it was a build on Xbox One, but we still got a few hours of playtime with Bethesda's online Fallout game. It began with us creating a character, leaving Vault 76, and exploring The Forest, one of the six different regions of Fallout 76. You can see 30 minutes of captured footage from our session above.

Fallout 76 has Red Dead-style treasure maps
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-has-red-dead-style-treasure-maps/
There are dozens of treasure maps hidden in Fallout 76 which bear an uncanny resemblance to the ones found in Red Dead Redemption. Each map depicts some crudely drawn scenery complete with an all-important X, and that's basically it. You have to rely on your eyes and memory to find the treasure, so spelunking in the Appalachian frontier is just as fun as it was in the Wild West.

Well, I don't really need a 17-minute-video to realize that the RTX series is overpriced and the performance gains aren't worth the price increase (in games that don't or can't take advantage of the new features... so over 99.9% of my games).

But have no problem to skip this GPU gen, since all games so far are running good on my system and I don't see that changing before the first PS5/Xbox2/PC multiplatform games arrive. And when the new consoles arrive, prices for PC graphic cards will probably also go down decisively due to the added competition.

PC gaming ain't in a bubble. Indirect competition (PS5/Xbox2) will have lesser impact than direct competition (Radeon graphic cards and hopefully Intel graphic cards), but they will have some impact on the prices.