The Tuesday news, the second part:

Lead the resistance against the Nazis in Through the Darkest of Times
https://www.pcgamer.com/lead-the-resistance-against-the-nazis-in-through-the-darkest-of-times/
Games have let players beat the Nazis in countless ways, from organising the entire Allied advance through Europe to shooting Hitler in the testicles. There has yet to be a game that explores the German people’s own efforts to dismantle the Nazi regime from within, however, and that’s the gap which Through the Darkest of Times aims to fill (presumably with explosives).

Hitman 2 studio 'had to let a lot of people go' following split with Square Enix
https://www.pcgamer.com/hitman-2-studio-had-to-let-a-lot-of-people-go-following-split-with-square-enix/
Io Interactive has spoken with Gamespot about its split from Square Enix last year, which "decided to withdraw from the business" despite the studio's success with Hitman. Associate director Eskil Mohl told the site that "it's sort of a miracle" that Io is still around, but said that the layoffs it was forced to undergo as a result of its unexpected independence has helped the remaining team members pull together.

Graveyard Keeper update lets you raise the dead and make them do your boring chores
https://www.pcgamer.com/graveyard-keeper-update-lets-you-raise-the-dead-and-make-them-do-your-boring-chores/
On Halloween there are tricks and there are treats, but this free update to Graveyard Keeper is most definitely a treat. Not only can you now resurrect the dead with a new crafting table, but you can put your zombies to work, doing all the boring shit you got tired of doing almost immediately: chopping wood, mining stone, tending your garden, and even crafting and selling items. You can watch the trailer for the Breaking Dead update above, perhaps with tears in your eyes at the thought of someone else doing your neverending busywork.

Monster Hunter: World's raid boss, Kulve Taroth, is coming to PC November 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-hunter-world-kulve-taroth-pc/
If you're a Monster Hunter: World veteran, you've likely been waiting a long time for Kulve Taroth to appear in the PC version. This golden Elder Dragon first stomped onto consoles back in April, before the PC version was even released, and hasn't returned since. Requiring a full team of 16 hunters to fight, Kulve Taroth is a boss unlike anything else in Monster Hunter: World. And, until recently, PC players had no clue when they'd get the chance to fight Kulve Taroth.
Thanks to a post on Monster Hunter: World's Steam blog by Capcom, we now know that the Kulve Taroth Siege quest will be available to fight for a limited time on PC starting November 2 at 5PM PT until November 15 at 4:59PM PT.

Blizzard is giving away free Hearthstone cards during BlizzCon
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-is-giving-away-free-hearthstone-cards-during-blizzcon/
Log into the game on November 2—BlizzCon Day 1—and you'll be given a free golden Star Aligner card, and a golden Secret Plans card. Jump in on November 3, the second and last day of this year's BlizzCon, and you'll also get a free Boomsday Project card pack. The freebies are completely separate from BlizzCon itself, so you don't need to worry about springing for a virtual ticket or anything—just log into the game at the appropriate times, and the cards are yours.

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, a grisly Japanese slasher game, is now on Steam and GOG
https://www.pcgamer.com/corpse-party-book-of-shadows-a-grisly-japanese-slasher-game-is-now-on-steam-and-gog/
Corpse Party, "a grisly horror game set in a ghost-infested Japanese high school, with a branching story and lots of ways to end up dead," officially came to PC a couple years ago. The platform transition was a little confusing—not even publisher Xseed seemed entirely certain about what it would and would not include—but owners on Steam and GOG seem pretty happy with it.
>> Here are the links to Steam and GOG.

EA promises no 'pay to win' Battlefield 5 progression systems
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-promises-no-pay-to-win-battlefield-5-progression-systems/
Electronic Arts has detailed Battlefield 5's progression system and in-game economy, which will feature two types of currency, one earned through gameplay and the other purchased with real money. Despite the presence of premium currency, it emphasized that the game is intended to reward how often and how well you play, promising that players will never be able to purchase anything that gives them an "unfair gameplay advantage."

New Chasm DLC provides a hardcore new mode with leaderboard support
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-chasm-dlc-provides-a-hardcore-new-mode-with-leaderboard-support/
The first free DLC has just launched for Chasm, adding a new mode with a bizarre new twist on the game's procedurally generated maps. In the core game, each full playthrough carried out in the same, procedurally generated game world. In the new Arcade Mode, the map will re-generate every time a room is exited and returned to. In other words, there's no way to learn the lay of the land.

General Grievous joins Star Wars: Battlefront 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/general-grievous-joins-star-wars-battlefront-2/
DICE has added General Grievous as a playable Hero in Battlefront II, letting players assume the role of the quadruple lightsaber-wielding droid, defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith.
In a community update, DICE’s Dennis Brännvall discussed some of the details behind the General’s design and abilities. Described by Brännvall as a “big guy”, he goes on to explain that DICE has “designed him to bring about fear, and feel like an overwhelming opponent in the game.”

Undertale tweets make cryptic tease for tomorrow
https://www.pcgamer.com/undertale-tweets-make-cryptic-tease-for-tomorrow/
Something’s afoot with the creators of Undertale. Earlier today, the Undertale Twitter account began tweeting out a cryptic thread of tweets that hint at a larger reveal happening tomorrow.

It's already Wednesday, and these are the news:

SALES & DEALS

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey sales above expectation, The Division 2 expected to sell more than Far Cry 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/assassins-creed-odyssey-sales-above-expectation-the-division-2-expected-to-sell-more-than-far-cry-5/
Ubisoft has shared its earnings results of H1 FY2018, revealing that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is selling relatively well. Although the company did not reveal whether this new AC game has surpassed the sales of Origins, it did claim that its sales are above expectations and that 45% of those sales are coming from digital.
Ubisoft has also revealed that The Division 2 has set a new record for beta sign-ups and that it is expected to sell more than Far Cry 5. Far Cry 5 is one of the best selling titles for Ubisoft and outperformed Far Cry 4, meaning that the French team expects this upcoming title to perform even better than Odyssey.
Ubisoft has also stated that Rainbow Six Siege saw its second strongest activity ever with over 40 million players, and For Honor surpassed 15 million total players.

Steam continues with their usual deals, both the daily and the 4 Midweek Madness deals:

• The daily deal is the Early Access title Witch It, 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/559650/Witch_It/
• The Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1+2 Bundle is on sale, 25% off: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6634/Mega_Man_X_Legacy_Collection_12_Bundle__X___12/
• FOR HONOR is on sale, 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/
• The Spellforce franchise is on sale, from 50 to 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/spellforcefranchise/
• And, as announced, Battlerite Royale is free to try for the next 4 days, and 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/879160/Battlerite_Royale/

And at Fanatical, the new Star Deal is This War of Mine, 77% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/this-war-of-mine

SOFTWARE

EA reveals Project Atlas, a game platform built on AI and cloud computing
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-reveals-project-atlas-a-game-platform-built-on-ai-and-cloud-computing/
Electronic Arts chief technology officer Ken Moss has shared some interesting, far-looking insights into Project Atlas, an integrated "engine + services game development platform" that he described in a lengthy Medium post as " a vision for a cloud-native gaming future."
"We’re at an inflection point where major, complementary tech disruptors are falling into place. As an industry, we’ve made remarkable technological advancements in AI, cloud, distributed computing, social features, and engines," writes Moss.
(...)
The idea is to combine game engines and online services in ways that haven't previously been done by leveraging cloud-based computing: Players will install a "thin client" and then log into games that are running remotely on EA servers. On its own, that sounds quite a bit like existing cloud-based gaming services, but EA plans to use new tech to "enable deeper personalization, and to eventually create a world full of user generated content—blurring the lines between the discrete domains of game engines and game services."

MODS/EMULATORS

Brutal Doom Version 21 RC2-B beta available for download, full release notes revealed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/brutal-doom-version-21-rc2-b-beta-available-for-download-full-release-notes-revealed/
Modder ‘Sergeant_Mark_IV’ has released a new version of Brutal Doom. According to the release notes, Brutal Doom Version 21 RC2-B beta reverts aiming mode to toggle mode, fixes missing texture error messages as well as a bug that caused the Revenant Mode to not fire any weapons.
It’s worth noting that the modder has released another beta build of Brutal Doom V21 one day prior to this latest version. The previous patch introduced a complete version of the Map Enhancement System for Doom 1, added new Assault Shotgun sprites, new brightmaps and better light effects for all firearm, and improved the footstep system to make sounds be played closer to the player.
>> The mod is available from ModDB.

GAMING NEWS

Agony UNRATED has been released and is available for free to all owners of the basic/original game
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/agony-unrated-has-been-released-and-is-available-for-free-to-all-owners-of-the-basic-original-game/
Madmind Studio announced that the uncensored version of Agony, Agony Unrated, has been released on Steam. Moreover, the team claimed that this uncensored version is completely free for any user who already has the basic version of Agony in his Steam library – regardless of when he or she bought it.

Here is your first look at 3D Realms’ upcoming FPS that is powered by the Quake Engine
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-is-your-first-look-at-3d-realms-upcoming-fps-that-is-powered-by-the-quake-engine/
3D Realms has released a GIF, showing for the first time its upcoming first-person shooter that will be powered by the Quake Engine. Unfortunately we don’t have enough information about this game, other than it will be published by 1C Entertainment.

3D Realms’ Ion Maiden will receive 3D Voxels support
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/3d-realms-ion-maiden-will-receive-3d-voxels-support/
Man, 3D Realms appears to be doing some really clever moves these days. Following the teaser GIF of its upcoming first-person shooter, the team has also announced that Ion Maiden will receive support for 3D voxels.

Fallout 76 does not feature FOV slider or support 16:10/21:9 monitors, game speed tied to framerate
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fallout-76-does-not-feature-fov-slider-or-support-1610-219-monitors-game-speed-tied-to-framerate/
The PC beta for Fallout 76 has been launched and things are not looking good for PC gamers. According to reports, the game does not feature any FOV slider and there isn’t any way that you can increase or decrease it via its config files. And since Bethesda has announced that the game will not support mods, we may not see a FOV slider anytime soon.
>> Bethesda used to be a PC developer, right? Looks like those times are long gone. Anyway, looks like there's troubles with the launcher too.

Bubsy: Paws on Fire announced, gets a teaser trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bubsy-paws-on-fire-announced-gets-a-teaser-trailer/
Accolade has just announced a new Bubsy game, Bubsy: Paws on Fire. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has released a teaser trailer that you can find below.
According to its description, Bubsy is back in his greatest adventure yet. Featuring four playable characters with their own unique playstyles, new moves never before seen in a Bubsy title, and over 100 levels, Paws on Fire promises to be a game for Bubsy lovers and haters alike.
>> Well, at least it looks better than the last abomination game.

MechWarrior: Living Legends gets a major new update that adds a new tank, two new maps and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mechwarrior-living-legends-gets-a-major-new-update-that-adds-a-new-tank-two-new-maps-and-more/
MWLL Community Development Team has released a new major update for MechWarrior: Living Legends. According to the release notes, this patch adds a new tank, two new maps, new Battle Armor weapons and brings a new Battle Armor platform from scratch.

Second Monster Hunter World PC patch released, fixes low-res texture and various bug issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/second-monster-hunter-world-pc-patch-released-fixes-low-res-texture-and-various-bug-issues/
Capcom has released the second PC patch for Monster Hunter World. According to the release notes, this update resolves a bug that prevented certain textures from being loaded optimally during character creation and cutscenes as well as a bug preventing 43 titles that were available in the console versions from unlocking in the Steam version.

Resident Evil 2 Remake will feature free in-game unlockable classic costumes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-2-remake-will-feature-free-in-game-unlockable-classic-costumes/
Capcom has announced that its upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2 will feature the classic costumes for both Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield. These costumes will be available for free and players will be able to unlock them in-game.

Part two of the news:

Management sim Project Hospital launches with new video
https://www.pcgamer.com/management-sim-project-hospital-launches-with-new-video/
Oxymoron Games has released a new launch trailer for its management sim Project Hospital, which is available now.
The minute-long video provides a brief but informative overview of the game, showing off rooms being laid-out and hospital equipment added, as well as mechanics for staff management and patient diagnosis.
>> It's nothing like Theme/Two Point Hospital.

Scum is apparently getting naked butts and other bits
https://www.pcgamer.com/scum-is-apparently-getting-naked-butts-and-other-bits/
Butts are big in Fortnite (and James likes them, he cannot lie) but it's not the only game to see glory in the glutes. Scum, the survival game that's getting a heart attack mechanic to deal with a guy who just won't stop stuffing his face, will also soon embrace the power of the posterior.

GTA Online's Halloween event features murder, mayhem, and free t-shirts
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-onlines-halloween-event-features-murder-mayhem-and-free-t-shirts/
Six Adversary Modes will offer double RP and GTA during the event, including: e fun-filled festival of costumes and junk food that we're used to. Tricks definitely lead the way in the GTA Online's Halloween event, and by "tricks" I mean even more murder than usual.

Ultima-inspired MMO Shroud of the Avatar goes free-to-play
https://www.pcgamer.com/ultima-inspired-mmo-shroud-of-the-avatar-goes-free-to-play/
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, the Ultima-inspired MMO developed by Richard Garriott's Portalarium, has gone fully free-to-play. The change comes just seven months after the game entered full release, and four years since it first became available as an Early Access game on Steam.

Devolver Digital co-founder talks about how crunch affects indie studios
https://www.pcgamer.com/devolver-digital-co-founder-talks-about-how-crunch-affects-indie-studios/
The culture of crunch doesn't just affect big-budget studios. Speaking to PC Gamer at PAX Australia, Graeme Struthers said that he and his colleagues at indie publishing label Devolver Digital (which he co-founded) have been discussing the issue as well.

Following PC beta woes, Fallout 76 will get a lengthier session later this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/following-pc-beta-woes-fallout-76-will-get-a-lengthier-session-later-this-week/
The highly anticipated PC beta for Fallout 76 just wrapped up, but it didn't exactly go smoothly: chief among the problems was the loss of the game files thanks to a Bethesda Launcher bug, and many (including PCG's Fallout 76 expert Chris) were forced to re-download the whole game. Depending on your connection speed, this could dramatically affect your ability to get any meaningful time with the beta.
To make amends, Bethesda has made an adjustment to this Thursday's beta session – it'll now go four hours longer than planned.

Bethesda elaborates on Fallout 76's microtransactions and Atoms currency
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-microtransactions/
We've known for a while that Fallout 76's microtransactions will focus on cosmetics and not any pay-to-win nonsense, and Bethesda's Pete Hines has discussed how the game's Atoms currency pays out in Fallout 76 in more detail.
"If you don't want to spend money in the Atomic shop for cosmetic stuff you don't have to. We give you a shitload of Atoms just for playing the game," Hines told Gamespot at PAX Australia. "Folks that want to spend money on whatever the hell it is because they don't have enough Atoms, they can, but it's not, 'I'm now better playing against other players because I spent money.' It's not pay-to-win. And it's not loot crates."

The Blackout Club awakens suddenly into Early Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-blackout-club-awakens-suddenly-into-early-access/
The Blackout Club, a cooperative horror game about a group of teens trying to save their hometown from a mysterious force lurking beneath it, has launched into Early Access.
The surprise announcement was made yesterday via Twitter, with the Blackout Club’s official Twitter account writing “The Blackout Club is 4 player co-op Horror, available now for Early Access on Steam.” It was accompanied by a new Early Access trailer which you can view above. It shows plenty of footage of the game in action, while also providing a stronger framing of the game's narrative element.

Undertale creator releases mysterious new, free game
https://www.pcgamer.com/undertale-creator-releases-new-free-game/
Following yesterday's teases, Undertale creator Toby Fox has released a free game on a website called Deltarune that you can download right now. As pointed out by numerous users on Twitter, Deltarune is an anagram of Undertale—and when you get past the initial, creepy two-minute intro, you get into something that looks familiarly Undertale-y.

Titanfall dev is releasing multiple games next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/titanfall-dev-is-releasing-multiple-games-next-year/
In an EA earnings call yesterday execs coyly let slip that Respawn Entertainment is releasing multiple games in 2019, and it sounds like not all of them have been announced yet.
In EA's opening statement. via Seeking Alpha, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said "across multiple studios, we have new projects underway, including games from Respawn that are slated to launch by next holiday season."

It's a shame the changes steam made to privacy made steamspy completely unreliable, it's really hard to track sales of PC games now. But MHW definitely hasn't sold 5m on PC.

The game had shipped 8.3m one week before PC launch. https://gematsu.com/2018/07/monster-hunter-world-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-8-3-million

So at 10.9m shipped now. PC sales can't be anywhere close to 5m. Steamspy is just bad now.

Realistically it's anywhere from 1.7m-2.3m

Thanks for sharing! It's a real shame the changes that Valve made and how they affected SteamSpy.

By the way, they have updated the article since I posted it here:

UPDATE: Back in June 2018, Capcom stated that the game had shipped 8 million copies. Now while there is a difference between shipped and sold copies, we can assume that the game has sold somewhere around 7 million (at least). What this ultimately means is that there have been almost 4 million sold copies since then (in total). We all know that most console games sell well during their launch period. As such, and by excluding one million copies, we may come close to the real PC sales numbers. At this point we are merely guessing here as Capcom has not provided any platform-specific numbers however Steamspy’s numbers could be really inaccurate in this case.

In any case, we can still say that the PC port has sold well, and that future instances are likely to come to PC again.

Eh, I'm trying to understand that articles update. They're claiming that the games sell-through was probably only 7 million, but it doesn't matter if it was sell-through or shipped, those shipped copies can't magically turn into PC versions? xD 

But yep, the PC version has done every well as I've always said it will. Any future multiplatform Monster Hunter will also come to the PC.

Hi! It's very, very likely that I won't be doing the news today. Meanwhile, if you still want something to think about, here's a couple rumors/gossip:

Unusual high failure rates for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti?
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/unusual-high-failure-rates-for-geforce-rtx-2080-ti.html
For a couple of days now there is quite a lot of chatter on the web with GeForce RTX 2080 Ti buyers having issues, problems even running up-to the level where the card is bricked. We've monitored the chatter on the usual channels for a few days to see what is going on, and yeah the Geforce forums are flooded with reports.

The problems reported are rather diverse, some have unexpected BSODs, other cards just die and other show artifacts. All this does not seem to be related towards tweaking and overclocking. The thing with forum reports, however, is difficult, only people that have an actual issue will report it, the ones that are happy would not visit any forums, so as to what extent this is becoming a valid issue that is higher than normal RMA wise we cannot tell just yet. But something does seem to be going on.

>>The problem may be overblown, as the happy consumers don't go to the internet to say that their card works well, and also because people with failed cards may be more angrier than usual given the high price of the 2080Ti.

AMD Could Solve Memory Bottlenecks of its MCM CPUs by Disintegrating the Northbridge
https://www.techpowerup.com/249108/amd-could-solve-memory-bottlenecks-of-its-mcm-cpus-by-disintegrating-the-northbridge
AMD sprung back to competitiveness in the datacenter market with its EPYC enterprise processors, which are multi-chip modules of up to four 8-core dies. Each die has its own integrated northbridge, which controls 2-channel DDR4 memory, and a 32-lane PCI-Express gen 3.0 root complex. In applications that can not only utilize more cores, but also that are memory bandwidth intensive, this approach to non-localized memory presents design bottlenecks. The Ryzen Threadripper WX family highlights many of these bottlenecks, where video encoding benchmarks that are memory-intensive see performance drops as dies without direct access to I/O are starved of memory bandwidth. AMD's solution to this problem is by designing CPU dies with a disabled northbridge (the part of the die with memory controllers and PCIe root complex). This solution could be implemented in its upcoming 2nd generation EPYC processors, codenamed "Rome."

With its "Zen 2" generation, AMD could develop CPU dies in which the integrated northrbidge can be completely disabled (just like the "compute dies" on Threadripper WX processors, which don't have direct memory/PCIe access relying entirely on InfinityFabric). These dies talk to an external die called "System Controller" over a broader InfinityFabric interface. AMD's next-generation MCMs could see a centralized System Controller die that's surrounded by CPU dies, which could all be sitting on a silicon interposer, the same kind found on "Vega 10" and "Fiji" GPUs. An interposer is a silicon die that facilitates high-density microscopic wiring between dies in an MCM. These explosive speculative details and more were put out by Singapore-based @chiakokhua, aka The Retired Engineer, a retired VLSI engineer, who drew block diagrams himself.

The System Controller die serves as town-square for the entire processor, and packs a monolithic 8-channel DDR4 memory controller that can address up to 2 TB of ECC memory. Unlike current-generation EPYC processors, this memory interface is truly monolithic, much like Intel's implementation. The System Controller also features a PCI-Express gen 4.0 x96 root-complex, which can drive up to six graphics cards with x16 bandwidth, or up to twelve at x8. The die also integrates the southbridge, known as Server Controller Hub, which puts out common I/O interfaces such as SATA, USB, and other legacy low-bandwidth I/O, in addition to some more PCIe lanes. There could still be external "chipset" on the platform that puts out more connectivity.

>>This is just speculation, but it maybe it could work if not for Rome, for whatever is Zen3. Oh! And each die is supposed to feature 8-cores, so we're talking about a 64-core monster.

I started Fallout New California yesterday and played for 2 hours, it is pretty gud but I only reached the vault exit yet

New free Twitch games (if you have an Amazon Prime subscription):

AER: Memories of Old
Overcooked
The Pillars of the Earth
Overload

The descent-inspired "Overload" includes VR modes for different headsets. Works like a charm on my Rift!

I hope you like it! And, if you want, feel free to share with us how you find New California.