GALAX and Gainward release GeForce RTX 3090/3080/3070 and 3060 Ti BIOSes with ResizableBAR support

https://videocardz.com/newz/galax-and-gainward-release-geforce-rtx-3090-3080-3070-and-3060-ti-bioses-with-resizablebar-support

Hopefully the rest of the GPU manufacturers release their BIOSes soon as well. The 3060 typically saw 5% increase in performance in some games with it enabled and a huge 17% increase in rare games like BFV. But there are also some games that saw almost no increases. While there's only 8 games that support it on Nvidia's side, they are supposed to be adding in more games as well to the list.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-review?page=6


Nintendo Game Boy modded to mine Bitcoin (spoiler: it’s slow)

https://videocardz.com/newz/nintendo-game-boy-modded-to-mine-bitcoin-spoiler-its-slow


Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time cracked in just a day, despite its always-online DRM

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crash-bandicoot-4-its-about-time-cracked-in-just-a-day-despite-its-always-online-drm/

Now the funny thing is that the legit version is still having problems connecting to their servers from time to time. So legit buyers can sometimes not play this single player game due to the fact that the servers are arse while pirates get the best version. Not to mention it's stupid to have always online drm to begin with. So while I am not saying to yar it, I am saying to maybe wait for a sale if you do want to buy it on PC or buy it somewhere else.

Watch Acti blame the lacking sales on the crack, lol.

They get what they deserve tbh. They should have launched that game on all the storefronts for maximum reach and actual decent profit, instead of worrying way, way too much about the sodding store cut (which we all know Bobby loves to scrimp so hard). 

Welcome to the Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Last Week Steam's Top 10

1. Valheim
2. Subverse
3. Valve Index VR Kit
4. Half-Life: Alyx
5. Pre-purchase OUTRIDERS
6. Grand Theft Auto V
7. It Takes Two
8. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Broken Fang
9. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
10. Cyberpunk 2077

GOG's Spring Sale is still going on, and will last until April 5th.

The new Humble Burn Rubber Bundle comes with 15 games (only 1 in the first tier) during the next 11 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/burn-rubber

And Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Edition, 43% off during the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/pathfinder-kingmaker
• And the new Paradox BYOB comes with 16 games to make your 3, 4 or 5 games bundle during the next 13 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-paradox-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Here is The Witcher 3 running in 4K with more than 50 mods
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-is-the-witcher-3-running-in-4k-with-more-than-50-mods/
YouTube’s ‘Digital Dreams’ has shared a video, showcasing The Witcher 3 running in 4K with more than 50 mods on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
Thankfully, Digital Dreams has provided the full list of mods they used in this video. Thus, PC gamers can download these mods and make the game look just as good.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City BETA Edition 3.5.6 available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/grand-theft-auto-vice-city-beta-edition-3-5-6-available-for-download/
Modder ‘KalvinMDB ‘ has released a new version of his Vice City BETA Edition mod for Grand Theft Auto Vice City. As the title suggests, this mod aims to bring back to the game most, or if not all, the features that were cut during development.
The mod aims to restore buildings, dialogues, pedestrians, and the game’s initial atmosphere. Thus, PC gamers will be able to experience the most authentic experience.
Version 3.5.6 fixes numerous bugs from the previous releases and adds a few new things. Unfortunately, the modder did not provide any additional details. Furthermore, the mod now comes with its own installer.
>> Available from ModDB.

Valheim gets a 1.2GB HD Texture Pack, overhauling 255 textures
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/valheim-gets-a-1-2gb-hd-texture-pack-overhauling-255-textures/
Modder ‘aC0C0NUT’ has released a brand new HD Texture Pack for Valheim that overhauls around 255 textures. This mod is a must-have for all Valheim players, unless of course you fancy the game’s pixelated visuals.
Going into slightly more details, this mod comes with 255 textures, fixes the Forstner Mist, adds Rainy Stormy Fog and Portal Diffuse. Additionally, all the Custom Textures are 2K resolution.
>> You'll find it at Nexus Mods.

New screenshots from Dark Souls 2 Graphics Lighting Overhaul Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-screenshots-from-dark-souls-2-graphics-lighting-overhaul-mod/
Lighting Artist ‘Stayd‘ has shared a new set of screenshots for his upcoming Lighting Overhaul Mod for Dark Souls 2. This mod promises to overhaul the game’s lighting system, and looks absolutely incredible.
Alongside the new lighting system, Stayd may also enhance the game’s geometry, shadows, texture mapping, prop and clutter placement. Additionally, the modder aims to bring a number of gameplay tweaks and improvements.
Now the bad news is that this mod is nowhere close to completion yet. Moreover, there isn’t currently any ETA on when it will come out. Thus, you should not hold your breath as it may take even a year until you get your hands on it.

Here's Mario Kart in Halo
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-mario-kart-in-halo/
Sure, we don't have Mario Kart on PC (unless you emulate it). But we do have the next best thing, and I don't mean Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, although actually it does rule. I'm talking about Halo Kart, a mod by InfernoPlus that was released last year but is now in the public eye again thanks to a post on the Halo subreddit.
Halo Kart takes five tracks from the Nintendo 64 version of Mario Kart, tweaks them a little, and then lets Spartans squatting on top of miniature Warthogs loose to race around them. It even has power-ups, although of course they're Halo-themed rather than blue shells and banana peels.
>> Check the article to know what you need to make this mod run on your PC.

Here's the stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-the-stuck-suez-cargo-ship-in-microsoft-flight-simulator/
For a few days now, a cargo ship by the name of the Ever Given has been stuck in the Suez Canal. It's not really clear how it happened, with several explanations competing pending the results of an official investigation, but the thing that matters is this: It's a giant boat and it's stuck in a vital artery of global trade, threatening the stability of the world economy.
Also, it's become something of a meme here on the internet because while it's not funny, but it's definitely hilarious.
Naturally, therefore, somebody's put it in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Enterprising YouTube and TikTok poster donut_enforcement has obligingly shared a video of it in action. "What's cool about Microsoft flight sim 2020," said poster donut_enforcement in response to a comment, "is that you are able to add and create things such as modifications."
>> You can get it from here.

Here's World Of Warcraft's Northrend modded into Valheim
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-world-of-warcrafts-northrend-modded-into-valheim/
World Of Warcraft's frozen continent of Northrend has been recreated in Valheim—though don't expect many Lich Kings to be expressing their wrath in this modded facsimile of Azeroth's chilled ceiling.
Available over on Nexus mods and spotted by PCGamesN, modder Drakonman The Fox has broadly remapped the landscape of Northrend onto Valheim. It's somewhat fitting, too—Wrath Of The Lich King notably introduced the Vrykul, a race of giant vampiric Norsemen, into canon. If you want, you can pretend you're laying down their roots for the very first time.

GAMING NEWS

The Ascent gets a new 4K co-op gameplay trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/the-ascent-gets-a-new-4k-co-op-gameplay-trailer/
Curve Digital has released a brand new 4K co-op gameplay trailer for The Ascent. This trailer takes players into the world of this action-shooter RPG and showcases the game’s co-op capabilities, available from launch.

Free-to-play online FPS, EXOMECHA, gets an official gameplay trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/free-to-play-online-fps-exomecha-gets-an-official-gameplay-trailer/
TwistedRed has released the first official gameplay trailer for its upcoming free-to-play online FPS, EXOMECHA. This trailer will give you a glimpse at what you can expect from this new competitive game.

Astria Ascending is a brand new JRPG from Final Fantasy series veterans
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/astria-ascending-is-a-brand-new-jrpg-from-final-fantasy-series-veterans/
Artisan Studios has revealed the trailer for their newest project, a gorgeous hand-drawn JRPG, Astria Ascending. Astria Ascending promises to pack an epic adventure with the charm and pedigree of a classic JRPG. Furthermore, it will tell an expansive story of fate, sacrifice and new beginnings.

Death’s Door is a new fantasy action adventure, coming to PC in Summer 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/deaths-door-is-a-new-fantasy-action-adventure-coming-to-pc-in-summer-2021/
Acid Nerve and Devolver Digital have revealed Death’s Door; an offbeat fantasy action-adventure that will be coming to PC this Summer. In addition, the publisher released the game’s debut trailer that you can find below.

Microsoft Flight Simulator March 26th Update brings performance optimizations
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-march-26th-update-performance-optimizations/
Microsoft and Asobo Studio have released a new update for Microsoft Flight Simulator. According to the teams, the March 26th Update packs a number of performance optimizations.

New 12-minute gameplay video released for Oddworld: Soulstorm
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-12-minute-gameplay-video-released-for-oddworld-soulstorm/
Oddworld Inhabitants and IGN have released a new 12-minute gameplay video for Oddworld: Soulstorm. In this video, Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning walks us through a brand-new level in Oddworld: Soulstorm.

Evil Genius 2 Day-1 Patch Notes Revealed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/evil-genius-2-day-1-patch-notes-revealed/
Rebellion has revealed the full patch notes for the day-1 patch of Evil Genius 2: World Domination. This patch is already available (and will be applied automatically on the game when it comes out on March 30th).

Steam bans Super Seducer 3, available now exclusively via GamesPlanet
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/steam-bans-super-seducer-3-now-available-exclusively-via-gamesplanet/
Last week, Valve banned and removed Super Seducer 3 from Steam. However, this new controversial game is now available exclusively via GamesPlanet.

Unity GDC Showcase 2021 packs footage from Ferocious, Shining Girl, Morbid Metal & more
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/unity-gdc-showcase-2021-packs-footage-from-ferocious-shining-girl-morbid-metal-more/
Unity Technologies has released the full keynote of its GDC Showcase 2021. This showcase packs new footage from a number of games, including Ferocious, Shining Girl, Morbid Metal and Humankind.

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2 Release Notes pack more than 500 changes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-patch-1-2-release-notes-packs-more-than-500-changes/
CD Projekt RED has shared the full release notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming Patch 1.2, which features more than 500 changes. Unfortunately, CDPR has not shared any release date for this Update, although it claims that it will release soon.

New Necromunda: Hired Gun gameplay trailer showcases the Autopistol Weapon
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-necromunda-hired-gun-gameplay-trailer-showcases-the-autopistol-weapon/
Focus Home Interactive has released a new gameplay trailer for Necromunda: Hired Gun that showcases the Autopistol weapon. Necromunda: Hired Gun is a new single-player first-person shooter in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Monday news, part two:

Thymesia heard you like Souls games dawg, so it copied all of them
https://www.pcgamer.com/thymesia-heard-you-like-souls-games-dawg-so-it-copied-all-of-them/
Developer OverBorder Studio and publisher Team 17 has announced Thymesia, which is not so much a Soulslike as a Souls-very-like. Now up for https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343240/Thymesia/" target="_blank">wishlisting on Steam with a slated release date of December 31, 2021, Thymesia is an action-RPG with... look, it's various bits from the Souls games and Bloodborne. Hell, the lead character seems based on Eileen the Crow, and their fancy weapon is Priscilla's Lifehunt scythe.

Devolver’s new game is about a crow with a sword who harvests the souls of the dead
https://www.pcgamer.com/devolvers-new-game-is-about-a-crow-with-a-sword-who-harvests-the-souls-of-the-dead/
Death's Door, announced today by Devolver Digital, is a game about a crow—specifically, a crow with a sword. The crow has a sword, you see, because crows are responsible for harvesting the souls of the dead. Which is actually a much more mundane job than it sounds like, despite the sword. It gets more interesting when your assigned soul is swiped by someone else, though, because then you have to go get it.

Anthem director leaves BioWare
https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-director-leaves-bioware/
In February, Electronic Arts finally pulled the plug on BioWare's big-bust third-person shooter Anthem, declaring that "not everything we had planned as a studio before COVID-19 can be accomplished without putting undue stress on our teams." With its fate sealed, game director Jonathan Warner announced today that after nearly a decade at the studio, he's moving on to other things.

Activision orders Call of Duty stats site SBMM Warzone to shut down
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-orders-call-of-duty-stats-site-sbmm-warzone-to-shut-down/
A popular Call of Duty: Warzone stats-tracking website has been issued an order by lawyers representing Activision telling the Belgium-based site to shut down by this coming Monday, March 29th. The website's creators have announced the impending closure in a Tweet desperately asking Activision to reach out for a solution.
>> It has closed.

Battlefield 6 rumors are rife, but DICE has spaghetti on its mind
https://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-6-rumors-are-rife-but-dice-has-spaghetti-on-its-mind/
What if we told you that Battlefield 6 will have "large-scale and close quarters battles," "next level destruction" and "stunning visual effects" among other things? Would you be surprised? Battlefield 6 rumors are coming thick and fast ahead of the game's expected reveal some time this season, with a recent tweet listing some of its features eliciting a response from the official Battlefield Twitter account.

Sega is Metacritic's top-ranked publisher of 2020
https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-is-metacritics-top-ranked-publisher-of-2020/
Every year review aggregator and argument-starter Metacritic publishes a list ranking videogame publishers based on the review scores of their releases over the previous 12 months. This time, Sega has been declared the winner thanks to games like the PC version of Persona 4 Golden (87), Football Manager 2021 (85), Yakuza: Like a Dragon (83), and various Total War DLCs that all averaged scores of 80. Re-releases of old games certainly helped, like the Xbox One port of Yakuza 0, which scored a 90.
>> Second comes Annapurna Interactive, followed by Capcom and Sony.

This anime rhythm adventure looks Unbeatable
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-anime-rhythm-adventure-looks-unbeatable/
There might only be 20 seconds of footage in Unbeatable's debut trailer, but developer D-Cell Games' debut rhythm-fighter is already one of the hottest things I've seen this year.

EA is making a new PGA Tour game
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-is-making-a-new-pga-tour-game/
Electronic Arts has announced a welcome return to one of the sporting franchises that helped make the company's name: PGA Tour. The new "next-gen golf video game" is being developed by EA's Tiburon studio, which has recently been working on the Madden and NBA Live series, but was also the lead studio on EA's last generation of PGA games (the final entry, Rory McIlroy's PGA Tour, released in 2016).

The Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha is now live
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-elite-dangerous-odyssey-alpha-is-now-live/
Alpha testing for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey begins today. With the galactic spaceship sim's next expansion centred on letting you wander around planets on-foot, Frontier is keeping testers locked out of their ships for the first few weeks.

That is one huge list. I might actually get back into the game after all those fixes! Some PC specific fixes/additions:

• Enabled Ray Tracing on AMD graphics cards. Latest GPU drivers are required.
• Achievements will now work on Epic Games Store.
• Modding: Added a new "mod" folder for loading modded archives. The modded archives can be named in any way and go into the "mod" folder now. Having mod archives in the "patch" folder is no longer supported.

I am the most interested in how the last gen consoles now perform cause those got hit the hardest when it came to running this game.

TSMC Rumored To Hike Chip Prices By 25% By 2021 End As Alleged Workers Receive No Overtime Pay

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-rumored-to-hike-chip-prices-by-25-by-2021-end-as-alleged-workers-receive-no-overtime-pay/

If true, AMD CPUs and GPUs are only gonna get more and more expensive. Save us Samsung/Intel!

Gigabyte submits twelve GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB graphics cards to EEC

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-submits-twelve-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-12gb-graphics-cards-to-eec

We know it's coming... Just don't know when and whether or not anyone will be able to buy one! Rumoured to come out in May however.

ASUS launches single-fan GeForce RTX 3060 Phoenix

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-launches-single-fan-geforce-rtx-3060-phoenix

Very smol but perfect for lower end/mini itx builds.

That would seriously suck. Not just for us, but especially for the workers in the fabs, as they get shafted while the execs shovel the millions from the price hike.

I really hope they check and double check this update becase if it causes troubles or breaks the game, I think that a lot of people will get quite angry with them.

Well, it's Korea and not China. Workers can go to court to demand the money they deserve by law (because I'm guessing that Korea has laws against labor explotation).

And if they can't... well, it would suck major ass for all of us, but they can always go on strike and make the company lose billions in lost contracts and missed deliveries.

I'm surprised you haven't posted the article about the original 3080Ti chips repurposed to be 3090 chips instead: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-quietly-remarking-geforce-rtx-3080-tis-ga102-250-gpus-to-ga102-300-for-rtx-3090

It makes you wonder what the hell they'll use for the 3080Ti.

Oh, and I agree with you, that single fan card would be great for a quite powerful SFF build.