EGS bound, then you gotta wait another year for Steam release.

Granblue Fantasy Relink propaganda time !

Of course more here : https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/214480/vgshare-post-your-screenshots-gameplay-videos-and-more/89/

The news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Cities Skylines 2 has surpassed one million sales
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cities-skylines-2-has-surpassed-one-million-sales/
Paradox Interactive has just revealed that Cities Skylines has sold more than one million copies on PC. According to the company, it took around three months to hit its one million goal. For comparison purposes, the first Cities Skylines sold one million units in its first month.

GOG brings three new Deals of the Day that will last 46 hours:

• The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure is 10% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_legend_of_heroes_trails_to_azure
• Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate gets a 30% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/shotgun_king_the_final_checkmate
• And Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire features a 75% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/pillars_of_eternity_2_game

Steam has a new deal: Aces & Adventures is going to be 50% off until the 13th of February: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815570/Aces__Adventures/.

At the Humble Store we find a Koei Tecmo Spring Festival Sale, featuring up to 75% discounts during 12 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/koei-tecmo-spring-festival-sale/

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Here’s Need for Speed Most Wanted with RTX Remix Path Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/need-for-speed-most-wanted-with-rtx-remix-path-tracing-video/
YouTube’s ‘Cycu1’ has shared a new video, showcasing a WIP RTX Remix Path Tracing Mod for Need for Speed: Most Wanted. This video also compares this mod with the original version, so it can give you an idea of their graphical differences.
As with pretty much all of the RTX Remix Mods we’ve shared, this is in a very early development stage. In other words, it does not represent the quality of its final version. So, make sure to keep that in mind.
From what we can see, the RTX Remix Mod completely removes the colorgrading effects. As a result of that, the game looks completely different from its original version. Not only that but there are a lot of visual glitches and bugs. For instance, there are ghosting issues behind the car. The lighting does not also appear to affect the smoke effects.

Konami's barebones Metal Gear Solid collection gets further unofficial support, as modders enable a 'widescreen hack' for MGS 1
https://www.pcgamer.com/konamis-barebones-metal-gear-solid-collection-gets-further-unofficial-support-as-modders-enable-a-widescreen-hack-for-mgs-1/
Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection brought the classic series to PC much in the same way delivery service Yodel brings parcels to your door. Players were less than happy with the barebones package Konami kicked up the virtual driveway, and it was left to modders to unpack the publisher's soggy box and make the anthology play nicely on PC.
This they duly did, with mods like MGSResolution patch adding 4K support to the Master Collection mere hours after it launched. One of the stalwart unofficial patches for the collection, though, is Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Fix. Created by GitHub user nuggslet, the fix adds custom resolutions, analogue inputs, and mod support for the games. As of its latest update, v2.0, it also lets you play the original Metal Gear Solid in widescreen.
Uploaded yesterday, v2.0's primary addition is the ability to increase MGS1's internal render resolution, which sharpens up the game's crunchy PlayStation era pixels to a clean, hi-res look. Alongside this, however, nuggslet added a "separate option to toggle a widescreen hack" that expands the view from its standard 4:3 aspect ratio. This, apparently, "is configured by specifying the render height (rows) in pixels in MGSM2Fix.ini" while "render width is controlled using the in-game screen settings, allowing switching between 4:3 or widescreen while the game is running."
>> The article has a single native-modded screenshot.

Elden Ring just got a free NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/elden-ring-free-dlss-3-5-mod/
Modder ‘huutaiii’ has just released a free mod for Elden Ring that adds support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Super Resolution. By using this mod, owners of all RTX GPUs will be able to improve their performance in Elden Ring, especially when using RT Shadows.
Do note that this mod only adds support for Super Resolution. It does NOT add Frame Generation. Right now, the only mod that adds DLSS 3 Frame Generation to Elden Ring is the mod from PureDark.
>> The article has a four minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Unreal Engine 5-powered PVE open-world survival crafting game, Nightingale, will now hit Steam Early Access on February 20th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/unreal-engine-5-powered-survival-crafting-game-nightingale-will-now-hit-steam-early-access-on-february-20th/
Inflexion Games has just announced that its upcoming survival crafting game, Nightingale, will hit Steam Early Access on February 20th. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared a new trailer that you can find below.

Outcast – A New Beginning suffers from major stuttering issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/outcast-a-new-beginning-suffers-from-major-stuttering-issues/
THQ Nordic has released a PC demo for Outcast – A New Beginning. And, since the game will come out in March, we’ve decided to give it a go, and share our initial tech impressions.

The news, round two:

Square Enix plans to oust outsourcers as it reviews the company's development process 'from scratch'
https://www.pcgamer.com/square-enix-plans-to-oust-outsourcers-as-it-reviews-the-companys-development-process-from-scratch/
Square Enix plans to overhaul its approach to making games, as it seeks to improve individual game quality and increase its overall profit margins.
As reported by Bloomberg Japan, the move was announced by Square Enix's president Takashi Kiryu, at a financial results briefing for analysts held yesterday.

Cyberpunk 2077 sequel announces new lead writer, design director, and executive producer: 'It's like renaissance but with laser katanas,' creative director says
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says/
CD Projekt officially confirmed in October that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in early development, and it seems that process is starting to heat up. The studio announced today that it's added five veteran developers "with years of experience" to the team, including former New World head of production Dan Hernberg and Control pre-production narrative lead Anna Megill.

Atlus was 'extremely careful' about Persona 3 Reload changes: 'Good things do not get old with time, and greatness does not fade away'
https://www.pcgamer.com/atlus-was-extremely-careful-about-persona-3-reload-changes-good-things-do-not-get-old-with-time-and-greatness-does-not-fade-away/
Persona 3 Reload is a faithful remake of the 2006 original—and I loved it—but given that the remastered Persona 3 Portable released on Steam just last year, one might wonder why Atlus chose to return to that source material so soon.

Brainiac himself seemingly leaks a future Suicide Squad playable character
https://www.pcgamer.com/brainiac-himself-seemingly-leaks-a-future-suicide-squad-playable-character/
If you thought the four playable villains of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League were already a lot to juggle, get ready for Task Force X to grow. Rocksteady is planning to release four new characters over the next year of updates, with Joker already announced as the first to arrive in March. Now, thanks to a slip up by Brainiac himself, we have a good idea who the second recruit will be, too.

There's so much cool stuff coming to Crusader Kings 3 this year that I'm not sure what to be most excited for
https://www.pcgamer.com/crusader-kings-3-chapter-3-announcement/
About 10 years ago, I sat down in a San Francisco coffee shop across from Henrik "Doomdark" Fåhraeus, then game director for Crusader Kings 2, and asked him about the possibility of playing landless characters in Paradox's rich medieval sandbox. Normally, you take the role of a count, duke, king, or emperor permanently tied to their estates and collecting taxes, and I've often dreamed about how cool it would be to wander that big map as an adventurer or a mercenary.
Fåhraeus seemed skeptical about the idea at the time, but a decade later, I'm finally getting my wish. Crusader Kings 3: Chapter 3, announced today, is a slate of DLCs coming over the course of 2024 that all feel like pure wish fulfillment for me as a longtime fan of the series.

Game designer Laralyn McWilliams, known for army training-sim-turned-game Full Spectrum Warrior and innovative F2P MMO Free Realms, has died
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-designer-laralyn-mcwilliams-known-for-army-training-sim-turned-game-full-spectrum-warrior-and-innovative-f2p-mmo-free-realms-has-died/
Game designer Laralyn McWilliams, known for her work as lead designer of Full Spectrum Warrior and creative director on the Sony Online Entertainment MMO Free Realms, has died at the age of 58.
McWilliams' career began in the mid '90s as a beta tester on games including Daggerfall, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Pirates! She served as lead designer on the real-time tactics game Full Spectrum Warrior, and then as game designer on Over the Hedge and creative director of Free Realms. She also has credits on Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626, Gears of War 4, Archangel, and The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners.

WWE 2K24 will include casket matches, ambulance matches, special guest referees, and apparently Muhammad Ali
https://www.pcgamer.com/wwe-2k24-will-include-casket-matches-ambulance-matches-special-guest-referees-and-apparently-muhammad-ali/
2K released a gameplay trailer for WWE 2K24 and it sure does promise a lot of people will be shut into things. Among the new additions are ambulance matches, which turn the chant "You're going home in an ambulance" literal. "The goal is to wear an opponent down, put them in the back of the ambulance, and battle to close the doors and win the match", they say.

Former Infinity Ward dev says Activision told staff to 'take the money and get over it' after 'cold-blooded' canning of studio heads West and Zampella
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-infinity-ward-dev-says-activision-told-staff-to-take-the-money-and-get-over-it-after-cold-blooded-canning-of-studio-heads-west-and-zampella/
In 2009, Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were abruptly fired by the company's owner Activision. West and Zampella had directed the original Call of Duty, and brought the series to superstardom through Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Their sacking just before the release of Modern Warfare 2 shocked the industry, and arguably changed the course of both Call of Duty and the FPS forever.
Now a developer who worked at Infinity Ward at the time has recalled the dramatic events of that day. Paul Sandler, who is currently Lead Designer at NetEase games, wrote am article on Linkedin detailing the day's events. (...)

Palworld players stumble on cunning new strat to defeat bosses in one hit: a literal 'stairway to heaven'
https://www.pcgamer.com/palworld-players-stumble-on-cunning-new-strat-to-defeat-bosses-in-one-hit-a-literal-stairway-to-heaven/
Palworld players are working smarter, not harder by letting gravity do the work of killing bosses for them. Specifically, they're constructing enormous stairways into the sky, luring bosses up, then deleting them, leaving poor foes to plummet helplessly to a sticky end on the ground below. It's a bit like the bowl of petunias from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or a metaphor for the role of collateralized debt obligations in the 2008 financial crisis.

RuneScape developer Jagex is on the verge of being acquired again, this time by the backers of the Six Nations rugby tournament in a deal worth $900 million
https://www.pcgamer.com/runescape-developer-jagex-is-on-the-verge-of-being-acquired-again-this-time-by-the-backers-of-the-six-nations-rugby-tournament-in-a-deal-worth-dollar900-million/
A private equity company behind the Six Nations Rugby tournament is on the verge of buying RuneScape developer Jagex for a cool £900 million, according to a report by Sky News.
CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based "private equity platform" that "manages €118 billion of assets". Its investment portfolio includes the Six Nations Rugby Tournament, the courier service Hermes, and the RAC. It also previously owned Formula 1, which it sold to Liberty Media in 2016.

Celebrate Valentine's Day the traditional way, by grabbing Lies of P's crossover DLC with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
https://www.pcgamer.com/celebrate-valentines-day-the-traditional-way-by-grabbing-lies-of-ps-crossover-dlc-with-wo-long-fallen-dynasty/
Valentine's Day looms over the temporal horizon, like a giant soulslike boss just desperate to hug you to death. I can't say I've ever thought V-day and soulslikes had that much in common, unless you've got a thing for having the stuffing kicked out of you. But that hasn't stopped Koei Tecmo and Neowiz sensually putting their heads together for a Lies of P/Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty crossover DLC event, which will bring Lies of P players a lovely Wo Long-shaped present on February 14.

What's your Steam name?

Are you in this group? https://steamcommunity.com/groups/vgchartzovertracked/members

Probably 24 months after launch then. Sadge.

Huh, didnt know there was a VGC Steam group lol

Disney and Epic Games got a 1.5 bil deal.

Kingdom Hearts is never coming to Steam lol

Here are the Steam Weekly Top Sellers by revenue for the week (including free games):

Palworld
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - NEW
Persona 3 Reload - NEW

Me neither, but I joined now