NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has been pictured

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition-has-been-pictured#disqus_thread

Or replay an old one, considering that if you rank the list by daily players the top 3 would all be Monkey Island™

1 hour to go if you want to watch the Lovelace press event

https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia

AMD to launch Radeon RX 7000 series on November 3rd

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-launch-radeon-rx-7000-series-on-november-3rd

For reference, RDNA 2 launched on November 18th 2020 so it's confirmed they will be launching sooner this time around. Although it could also be the announcement date since it's kind of odd to give people the release date before the announcement date. Most likely they are waiting to see the prices of Lovelace so they can position their GPUs more accurately.

AMD introduces Ryzen/Athlon 7020 “Mendocino” APUs with 6nm Zen2 and RDNA2 architectures

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-introduces-ryzen-athlon-7020-mendocino-apus-with-6nm-zen2-and-rdna2-architectures

ONEXPLAYER announces Mini Pro gaming console with AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, starts at 1199 USD

https://videocardz.com/press-release/onexplayer-announces-mini-pro-gaming-console-with-amd-ryzen-7-6800u-starts-at-1199-usd

That beats the one that just stated 16gb as ram without any other specifics

Here we go. I'll try to post some screenshots but I am sure websites will have the summary shortly after it finishes.

CLOUD

The Tuesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam has several new sales and also weeklong deals:

• Airborne Kingdom will be 40% off until Thursday; https://store.steampowered.com/app/982290/Airborne_Kingdom/
• Stellaris gets a 75% discount until the 22nd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/
• The Kingdom Franchise Sale gets up to 90% discounts until September 25: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Kingdomfranchise2022
• The Steam Bash Bash Sale, featuring Hack and Slash and Fighting games, features up to 90% discounts and will last until September 26: https://store.steampowered.com/category/hack_and_slash/
• The Bloodbowl franchise goes on sale with up to 85% discounts until next Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BloodBowlFranchise2022
• Have a Nice Death, still in Early Access, will be 20% off until September 27: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740720/Have_a_Nice_Death/
• And here's a small sample of the weeklong deals:
  • PlateUp! , that has a demo, is 20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599600/PlateUp/
  • Twelve Minutes gets a 40% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097200/Twelve_Minutes/
  • Neon Abyss is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/788100/Neon_Abyss/
  • Raji: An Ancient Epic gets a 66% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/730390/Raji_An_Ancient_Epic/
  • Victor Vran ARPG is 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/345180/Victor_Vran_ARPG/
  • And Mordheim: City of the Damned gets a 90% discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/276810/Mordheim_City_of_the_Damned/

The Humble Store has three sales:

• Publisher Techland puts its games up to 87% off during 6 days. All the keys are for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/techland-publisher-sale/
• The RPG Sale, with up to 90% discounts, wil also last 6 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG, https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/rpg-sale/EGS
• And the D3 Publisher Sale brings up to 90% discounts during 10 days. All the keys are for Steam: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/d3-publisher-sale/

Fanatical has two new bundles:

• The Grey Alien Games Bundle comes with 10 games split into three tiers of 2, 6 and 10 games: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/grey-alien-games-bundle
• And the Neon Mystery Bundle features up to 10 unknown games: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/neon-mystery-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Fallout 4 gets a new DLC-sized fan expansion, featuring 30 new quests
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/fallout-4-gets-a-new-dlc-sized-fan-expansion-featuring-30-new-quests/
Varangian Studio has released a new DLC-sized fan expansion for Fallout 4, called Galac-Tac Mercs and Music. This mod lets you continue the story of where Galac-Tac Retribution left off, and comes with new companions new armor, and new story.
Going into more details, Galac-Tac Mercs and Music is the second part of the Galac-Tac faction mod. Mercs and Music takes place right after the end of the main Fallout 4 quest line, and features two new companions.
Furthermore, this fan expansion packs 30 new quests and a light morality system. According to the team, this morality system has perks and penalties for your choices. The team also claims that your choices will also affect the world around you.
Varangian Studio has also added new voice lines, new armor pieces, a new weapon, and a custom Pip-Boy.

Legendary modder works to bring all Unreal Engine games to VR
https://www.pcgamer.com/legendary-modder-works-to-bring-all-unreal-engine-games-to-vr/
Virtual Reality is one of the coolest and most functional current next steps in gaming. Putting players into these virtual worlds, having them look around, move their arms, and sometimes even their whole bodies can really enhance the experience. Simple games can feel wondrous, Fast paced games are exhilarating, and scary games discover a whole new level of terrifying. But developing for VR is a tonne of work, and it's still kind of niche so there are far from as many games out on VR as there could be. Thankfully, once again, modders are working to help change all that.
Dedicated folks out there are working hard to bring us amazing VR experiences by way of older games. We've seen that epic Half-Life 2 VR mod,explored the high-fantasy land of Skyrim, and even games like Valheim are getting VR. Mixed News tells of a recent update to one VR mod project called the Universal Mod that could bring hundreds of games into this new perspective.
A universal mod is being worked on to bring Unreal Engine games into VR. That's not just one Unreal title being worked on, but a solution for the engine itself meaning we could see a burst of older games coming to VR. While the mod isn't done yet, a new video has been released showing off a few games running in VR. These include games like Life is Strange: True Colors, and everyone's favourite cat sim Stray, running in VR with 360 views and freedom of movement.

GAMING NEWS

Here are some brand new 4K screenshots for Stellar Blade
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-some-brand-new-4k-screenshots-for-stellar-blade/
Shift Up has released a new set of beautiful 4K screenshots for its upcoming action-adventure game, Stellar Blade. These screenshots showcase the main protagonist, as well as some of the game’s environments.

Diablo 4 Open Beta begins in early 2023, “End Game” Closed Beta begins soon
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/diablo-4-open-beta-begins-in-early-2023-end-game-closed-beta-begins-soon/
The “Family & Friends” closed beta testing for Diablo 4 is currently under way and 40 minutes of gameplay footage have been leaked from it. Moreover, Blizzard announced that it will soon launch an “End Game” Closed Beta. Not only that, but Blizzard confirmed that the first Open Beta testing will begin in early 2023.

Tuesday news, part two:

Thief 2 prototype appears in yet another leak
https://www.pcgamer.com/thief-2-prototype-appears-in-yet-another-leak/
While not quite on the same scale as Grand Theft Auto 6 or Diablo 4, another recent video game leak has provided an intriguing insight into one of the PC's most critically acclaimed games. Over the weekend, an unfinished prototype of Thief 2: The Metal Age appeared on the Internet.

Fortnite's best new season 4 skin is a bear piloting another bear
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-chapter-3-season-4-chrome/
Goo is taking over Fortnite. The cinematic for Fortnite Chapter 3: Season 4, which premiered on Sunday, shows a chrome goo spreading across the island, and it looks like it's going to take some multiverse shenanigans to set things right. That makes this the ideal season for Spider-Gwen from Into the Spider-Verse to make her Fortnite debut, then.

Electronic Arts CEO kinda hopes Call of Duty will become an Xbox exclusive
https://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-ceo-kinda-hopes-call-of-duty-will-become-an-xbox-exclusive/
Possibly the biggest potential obstacle to the biggest videogame industry acquisition of all time—Microsoft's proposed takeover of Activision-Blizzard—is Call of Duty, and specifically the possibility that Microsoft could one day make it a console exclusive, thereby denying it to Sony. Microsoft has repeatedly said it won't—at least, not anytime soon—while Sony says the actual on-paper guarantees fall far short of public representations.
Amidst all the hubbub, there's one man who wouldn't mind terribly if Microsoft did someday decide to make Call of Duty a platform exclusive: Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, who said during a recent Goldman Sachs event (transcribed by Seeking Alpha, via GameSpot) that even just the possibility of Call of Duty becoming an exclusive is good news for EA's Battlefield series.
>> No sh*t, Sherlock. They would have the most popular console all for themselves.

A follow up to 2016's trippiest FPS just released on Steam, and it's a thousand times trippier
https://www.pcgamer.com/hyper-demon-release-steam/
In 2016, a first-person shooter called Devil Daggers appeared on Steam. It could've been the subject of a middle schooler's creepypasta: a game so demonic that most people only survive for a few seconds, and no one's seen the end, if there even is one. After several hours of play, my Devil Daggers survival record is just 70 seconds. How do you take a concept like that to the next level?
Hyper Demon, a surprise Devil Daggers follow up that released on Steam today, has the answer: a game so demonic that it's possible to survive for less than zero seconds.

The Taliban is banning PUBG for being too violent
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-taliban-is-banning-pubg-for-being-too-violent/
The Taliban has announced that a much-discussed ban on PUBG: Battlegrounds—for "promoting violence" and "misleading youth"—will take effect in Afghanistan within three months, Khaama Press reports. The decision was announced following a recent meeting between Afghanistan's Ministry of Telecommunications, a Sharia law enforcement official, and security representatives.
>> Oh, the hypocrisy.

Looks like Sackboy: A Big Adventure is all but confirmed for PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/looks-like-sackboy-a-big-adventure-is-all-but-confirmed-for-pc/
Sony's stitched mascot Sackboy looks to definitely be heading to PC, as a Steam database update has all but confirmed a port of Sackboy: A Big Adventure.