Friday news, part two:

Sea of Thieves outlines its summer events, ahead of September's content update
https://www.pcgamer.com/sea-of-thieves-outlines-its-summer-events-ahead-of-septembers-content-update/
Due to working from home, the Sea of Thieves team struggled to meet their content goals for the August update, according to the latest blog post by executive producer Joe Neate. "Since we started working from home, we've definitely had to be a bit more flexible with our plans for each month, and as such we've decided to move our key planned features back to our September release," he writes. Instead of the usual monthly content update, the game's August patch brought some bug fixes and performance upgrades, as well as a number of limited-time summer events.

Australia is coming to Planet Zoo, mate
https://www.pcgamer.com/australia-is-coming-to-planet-zoo-mate/
Planet Zoo is going down under next with an Australia Pack that will introduce new animals like kangaroos, koalas, dingoes, cassowaries, and the eastern blue-tongued lizard. The Australia Pack for Planet Zoo will arrive on August 25—peep the brief trailer above.

Final Fantasy 14 will get more housing to deal with its rising player population
https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-14-will-get-more-housing-to-deal-with-its-rising-player-population/
Following the release of patch 5.3, game director Naoki Yoshida posted a blog outlining what's next on the agenda for Final Fantasy 14. With version 5.3, the game's free trial has been substantially expanded to include all of Heavensward. As a result of this, as well as players staying at home and playing more throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, space on Hydaelyn is getting tight, prompting the need for more in-game housing.

Fall Guys patch notes: No more back-to-back team games
https://www.pcgamer.com/fall-guys-patch-notes/
A new Fall Guys patch was released today, and while the patch notes list is extremely short it still makes a couple of considerable changes to Mediatonic's popular party royale game.
>> And here's a bit of the origin story behind the game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War art is surprisingly bright and colorful
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-art-is-surprisingly-bright-and-colorful/
Activision finally confirmed yesterday that the next game in the Call of Duty series is, as we've long known, Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War. That's all it confirmed at the time, unfortunately, as the full reveal won't happen until next week. But the teasing isn't finished just yet.

Sci-fi flying sim Exo One gets a free prologue on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/sci-fi-flying-sim-exo-one-gets-a-free-prologue-on-steam/
A few months ago, Exo One, Kickstarted back in 2017, resurfaced with a gameplay trailer and a demo at the Steam Summer Games Festival. If you've missed the demo or simply feel like having a relaxing time flying a disc-shaped spaceship around, you can now do so with the free prologue, available on Steam from today.

And these are the weekend deals at GOG and Steam:

+GOG

• The first one is the weekly sale with its up to 90% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200817_weekly_sale
• The Midweek sale with the games choosen by Youtubers up to 90% off will last another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200819_midweek_sale
• And the weekend sale features games with permadeath up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20200821_weekend_sale

+Steam

• The new daily deal is Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, 67% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/204880/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_Rebellion/
• The first of the weekend deals is Minion Masters. The free to play game is giving away for free the Nightmares content: https://store.steampowered.com/app/489520/Minion_Masters/
• The game Astellia is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1185560/Astellia/
• The The Escapists franchise is up to 77% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TheEscapists
• Developer Respawn Entertainment puts its games up to 67% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/respawngamesweekenddeal
• The DC Fandome sale brings between 40 and 80% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/dcfandome2020
• There's a 0451 weekend sale with up to 80% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/0451sale
• Publisher Degica Games has its games up to 90% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/degica_publisher_weekend
• And last, but not least, there's also the weeklong deals.

And just like that, another week of news has come to an end. Until next time, have a happy and gaming weekend.

Great build!

Oh, my. How times have changed!

quite sure that number is just from fried GPU's and doesn't include other peripherals

Nah, I'm just not gonna buy it. I never buy any games that get tainted by that rat boy's store. Don't wanna reward devs with the message "yes, fuck me harder next time daddy, leave me dead last!".

I'd rather buy some other game, but the jadedness just builds up from there. I think gaming for me as a whole within the past 5-6 years has just been shit for me. My fave genres being dead or neglected, games I love being either in early access, botched port jobs or made exclusive to a shitty client I'll never use... I just can't win, nor get what I even want out of the hobby anymore. 

Here, if you want to get extra geeky and also want a panic button, a real escape key (as in, the escape pictogram), a big red button or blue and orange portal keys to send some command from one key to the other:

https://www.getdigital.eu/Keys-for-Mechanical-Keyboards-Single-Keys.html

jfc thats the most depressing comment i have heard in some time...
while im playing WoW so i see a lot of depressed comments

The funny thing about this port is that it's most likely similar to the switch version where they took the 2011 console version, restored the original 2007 PC graphics and now they are gonna port it back to PC with "enhancements" like 8k textures and Ray Traced Reflections cause they are a bunch of pussies to do Path Tracing.

Heck, the fact that they said "Crytek game will feature ray tracing on Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro," I doubt this will ever require much to run unless they do a terrible job at porting. If anything, this is similar to Crysis 2 than the original Crysis. I doubt there's even gonna be manual Nano Suit controls.

All in all though, solid Skip since this isn't the balls of steel Crysis remaster. It's just the yawn worthy pussified version. Great for console people though.

Flight Sim is the Crysis of this generation.

So PC Gamer releases these articles...

Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise

https://www.pcgamer.com/ray-tracing-has-failed-to-deliver-on-its-promise/

Actually, ray tracing is just getting started

https://www.pcgamer.com/actually-ray-tracing-is-just-getting-started/

Lol. Dual takes on the subject. Pretty weird. But yeah, you have to start somewhere and first generation is always the one to skip if you want performance for a certain new feature. I still think the 2K series was a bust overall since very few games supported RT and DLSS and its performance hit when using RT.

And its a shame both next gen consoles are going to be the limiting factor again. Since it RT performance from SX and PS5 is very much like current gen (Turing).. most games will most likely use it as a fluff piece. Just look at WoW and how its FPS halved with RT shadows enabled, with a tiny improvement in visuals. We probably won't see much push for RT outside selective use of RT shadows and reflections.

I'm hoping for PC exclusives to push these cards to the limit.

They're nice, but I'll keep my keyborad with the letters, thanks.

Funny that you say that, because DSOGaming thinks the same way: https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/microsoft-flight-simulator-is-the-new-crysis-current-gen-cpus-unable-to-offer-60fps-on-high-ultra/

Captain_Yuri said: So PC Gamer releases these articles... Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise https://www.pcgamer.com/ray-tracing-has-failed-to-deliver-on-its-promise/ Actually, ray tracing is just getting started https://www.pcgamer.com/actually-ray-tracing-is-just-getting-started/

If you make articles for both sides you'll get twice the clicks. It's great for business, not so much for credibility.