https://store.steampowered.com/category/ocean

I thought we got ridden of him, but I guess that when things are bad, they can always go worse:

Notorious videogame movie auteur Uwe Boll is returning to the director's chair with a spiritual successor to House of the Dead
https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/notorious-videogame-movie-auteur-uwe-boll-is-returning-to-the-directors-chair-with-a-spiritual-successor-to-house-of-the-dead/

... Why?!

Overkill!

Seriously though, overkill with it's b-movie flair could actually work somewhat with Boll

You mean the Wii game? I found it ok, nothing too special about it.

Also he can't since Sega won't let him do it.

AMD set to launch Ryzen 7 7700X3D with 8 cores and 96MB L3 cache

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-set-to-launch-ryzen-7-7700x3d-with-8-cores-and-96mb-l3-cache

NVIDIA tells users to update GPU drivers after security disclosure

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-tells-users-to-update-gpu-drivers-after-security-disclosure

Microsoft introduces Surface Pro and Surface Laptop for Business with Intel Panther Lake chips

https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-introduces-surface-pro-and-surface-laptop-for-business-with-intel-panther-lake-chips

Steam Frame shown in public testing, no NDA signed

https://videocardz.com/newz/steam-frame-shown-in-public-testing-no-nda-signed

Sony reportedly pulls back from PlayStation PC ports

https://videocardz.com/newz/sony-reportedly-pulls-back-from-playstation-pc-ports

Sony raises PlayStation Plus prices for new customers from May 20

https://videocardz.com/newz/sony-raises-playstation-plus-prices-for-new-customers-from-may-20

Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-tells-pc-makers-to-adopt-18a-cpus-or-lose-their-allocations

Memory pricing mentions hit record highs as chip shortages grip tech sector

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/memory-pricing-mentions-hit-record-highs-as-chip-shortages-grip-tech-sector/ar-AA23hTOh

ZOTAC Marks 20 Years By Giving Away RTX 50 Series GPUs, Mini PCs, And Cases Ahead Of Computex

https://wccftech.com/zotac-marks-20-years-by-giving-away-rtx-50-series-gpus-mini-pcs-and-cases-ahead-of-computex/

NVIDIA Blackwell Costs Twice As Much As Google And Amazon’s Custom AI Chips, Yet Morgan Stanley Says It’s Worth It

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-blackwell-costs-twice-as-much-as-google-and-amazons-custom-ai-chips-yet-morgan-stanley-says-its-worth-it/

The Tuesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

(Click here for the Top 100)

GOG has two new promos:

• Post-Apo Promo has games with up to 95% discounts during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260519_post_apo_promo
• Feeling Old Yet Promo will have games up to 94% off during 10 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260519_feeling_old_yet_promo

Steam has new deals and one lonely sale:

• Super Bunny Man will have a 50% discount until the 31st of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673750/Super_Bunny_Man/
• Rogue Legacy 2 is going to be 60% off until the 1st of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253920/Rogue_Legacy_2/
• Darkest Dungeon® II gets a 75% discount that will last until June 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940340/Darkest_Dungeon_II/
• Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion will be 80% off until the same 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1342490/Daemon_X_Machina_Titanic_Scion/
• Super Meat Boy Franchise Sale puts the games up to 92% off until June, the 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/SuperMeatBoyFranchise2026
• And as usual in most Tuesdays, there are new weeklong deals

Humble Bundle brings back the Monster Hunter Spring Collection 2026, with up to 11 items to get (games, DLCs and a coupon) during 17 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/monster-hunter-spring-hunting-collection-2026

Fanatical hasn’t put new Flash Deals, at least not yet, but it has a new bundle: the BYO Solstice Bundle, featuring 20 games for your 1+, 5+ or 10+ game bundles during 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-solstice-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

New Crimson Desert Mod Greatly Improves Its Physics Effects
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/new-crimson-desert-mod-greatly-improves-its-physics-effects/
Modder ‘VAXIStaa’ has released a cool new mod that aims to overhaul the physics effects of Crimson Desert. So, let’s take a closer look at it.
The first version of the VAXIS’s Simulation Physics Mod improved the hair physics for all horses. It revised the physics for all cloaks, and it added higher wind reaction. Not only that, but it added new physics to all of the game’s paper sheets. Plus, it improved the cloth physics of tents, as well as the rope physics.
The modder has released two major updates for this mod. Version 2.1 allowed the behaviour of weapons and lantern to be fully dynamic instead of a set spline behaviour. It added physics to pieces of paper on signposts, and it added additional physics to lower-body clothes. Moreover, it added better collision for the lantern.
Version 2.2 added physics for Kliff’s long beard, as well as higher wind reaction to Kliff’s long beard. Furthermore, it added better physics for Kliff’s hairstyles. Not only that, but it added new physics to Demains Long pony tail hair and higher reaction to wind, and it toned down wind reaction for the rope that became too stretchy.
All in all, this is a mod that a lot of Crimson Desert fans will find interesting. You can go ahead and download it from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find a showcase video. From what I know, it is compatible with the latest game version.

This Subnautica 2 mod lets you kill all the fish you want
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/this-subnautica-2-mod-lets-you-kill-all-the-fish-you-want/
If you've had your eye on the Subnautica 2 discourse for the past few days, you already know it revolves around a single topic: to kill or not to kill?
Long story short, players want a way to fight back against hostile sea creatures like Nibbler Mangos and Hammerheads, pointing out that the original Subnautica had a survival knife you could use to stab mean fish and even leviathans to death.
Subnautica 2 devs, meanwhile, have responded by essentially saying: "How about no?" Okay, what they actually said was go play some other game if you want to kill stuff, because Subnautica 2 is "not a killing game." Fair enough: it's their game and if they don't want to add weapons, they obviously don't have to.
But now there's now an option if you like Subnautica 2 but still want to kill stuff: use a mod. The Killable Creatures mod by jibotron doesn't give you any weapons, but it weaponizes some of the tools you already have and lets you fight back against all those oceanic pests.
"Getting into Subnautica 2 for the first time and then realizing they took away the ability to kill made me angry," modder jibotron said. "Why take away a feature so simple especially when its a sandbox survival game? And after seeing the devs tell people it wont be coming back and it doesn't suit their vision for the game I thought why not make it myself having experience modding other games."
With the mod installed, swinging the survival multitool (it's a hammer) deals 20 damage to creatures and the sonic resonator deals 50. Do enough damage and you can kill just about any creature you see, after which they'll float upside down like an aquarium casualty.
>> The article has a gif/video showing the mod in action.

I just learnt I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 with a broken camera for 15 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/i-just-learnt-ive-been-playing-metal-gear-solid-3-with-a-broken-camera-for-15-years/
A confession: I've never played the original PS2 version of Metal Gear Solid 3. Though I had (and loved) MGS1 on PlayStation, I became an Xbox—and then PC—boy thereafter, which meant I only got access to the third game when it got a Bluepoint HD edition in 2011. That same Bluepoint HD edition would become the basis for the version in Konami's Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 in 2023.
Which means I've been playing MGS3 wrong, it turns out.
Afevis Solmunko, head honcho of the Master Collection graphics fixpack MGSHDFix, recently announced a big tweak coming to MGS3's Master Collection version in the mod's upcoming 3.1.0 version: a fix for Bluepoint's misaligned cutscene camera that's has been in the game ever since its initial 2011 release, and which no one has since fixed.
"In both 2011 [HD Collection] & 2023 [Master Collection], the camera in ALL of MGS3's cutscenes is ~10% higher than PS2's framing, cutting off the bottom of screen," wrote Solmunko. "Now fully corrected/properly centered by MGSHDFix."
Solmunko's been on a tear recently. Just last week I wrote about him uncovering true third-person mode in MGS2, obscured by just a single variable in the game's code.
10% might not sound like much, but in example images compiled by Metal Gear augur Heitais, the difference is very noticeable. The camera being angled just that touch higher in the game's Bluepoint version cuts off a chunk of every scene's bottom part. Is it fatal? Well, clearly not, since I didn't even notice for the previous decade and a half, but it certainly isn't desirable in a game as deliberately concerned with its framing and general cinema-ness.
The issue is also present in MGS2, though Solmunko seems to still be toying with the idea of fixing it there. In a post on the Metal Gear Network Discord, he wrote that he "Mightttt recenter MGS2 as well—they aligned the bottom edge of the frame and added more headroom, which results in you being able to see things like Ocelot teleporting / characters loading in." Sounds good to me. Though this is Metal Gear: maybe it's not a bug and Ocelot can actually just teleport.
>> The article has some of the comparison images mentioned, and the mod is available from Github.

GAMING NEWS

Project Rabbit is a Souls-like reimagination of Alice in Wonderland
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/project-rabbit-is-a-souls-like-reimagination-of-alice-in-wonderland/
Novaflare has just announced Project Rabbit, a reimagination of Alice in Wonderland with a Dark Souls combat system. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared a trailer that you can find below. This trailer packs a few seconds of gameplay footage. So, be sure to watch it.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s Denuvo Bypassed Before Release
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knights-denuvo-bypassed-before-release/
The Early Access for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will begin in around 4 hours from now. However, it appears that a Hypervisor bypass for its Denuvo protection has already been released.

The second part of the Tuesday gaming news:

All Will Rise devs 'definitely expect some pushback from Western audiences' over its depiction of violent resistance and ecoterrorism
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/all-will-rise-devs-definitely-expect-some-pushback-from-western-audiences-over-its-depiction-of-violent-resistance-and-ecoterrorism/
All Will Rise is a narrative-driven deckbuilder where you debate and explore ideas through the cards you've unlocked and upgraded. It's also a passionate story about the murder of a river, activism, about holding the powerful to account—using both the law, but also ecoterrorism and violent action.

Don't expect to kill fish in a future Subnautica 2 patch: 'You are here to exist on this planet, not to dominate it'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/dont-expect-to-kill-fish-in-a-future-subnautica-2-patch-you-are-here-to-exist-on-this-planet-not-to-dominate-it/
Since Subnautica 2's cetacean-sized early access launch last week, a contingent of its players have been vocal about their frustration over their inability to retaliate against its predatory sea life with their own lethal intent. Subnautica 2 devs at Unknown Worlds haven't been swayed by those complaints, urging players to seek out one of the many other survival games if they're looking for a sandbox where they're free to kill whatever they find.
That stance isn't likely to change in the future. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of its early access launch, Subnautica 2 developers said killing fish outright is fundamentally incompatible with the game the studio wants to make.
>> To do that, there’s the mod I shared above. And by the way, careful what you do with the game, as the EULA is quite strict (link).

Arc Raiders' new trader comes to Speranza stacked with cosmetics, premium currency, and blueprints
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-new-trader-comes-to-speranza-stacked-with-cosmetics-premium-currency-and-blueprints/
Last week Embark explained to players that it would be scaling down the frequency of major updates in Arc Raiders, citing the need to slow down to provide concise and "more impactful" changes. But now, just one week later, we've got another patch with quite a few highlights: a new weapon, durability adjustments, and a new trader from Topside.

Survival RPG Outward 2 will run just fine on 'potato' settings, and as proof, here's testimony from an actual potato
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/survival-rpg-outward-2-will-run-just-fine-on-potato-settings-and-as-proof-heres-testimony-from-an-actual-potato/
As my ancient PC gets ever older and my hopes of upgrading it someday grow ever dimmer, I spend a lot of time peering through skeptical eyes at upcoming game trailers. "Looks good, but will I be able to run it? I bet those slick graphics are going to set my GPU on fire. Reflective puddles? In this economy?"
At least one game I won't have to worry about is Outward 2. Nine Dots' survival RPG sequel is launching in early access on July 17, and according to the talking potato in the video below, it'll run on just about anything—and still manage to look good, too. And yes, when I said talking potato, I meant talking potato.

And the third part of the Tuesday gaming news:

Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ken-levine-says-he-had-to-leave-bioshock-behind-because-things-can-own-you-if-you-hold-them-too-tightly/

Slaying 2,401 treasure goblins is too many treasure goblins for Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred to handle, says bloodthirsty player who lost all their loot
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/slaying-2-401-treasure-goblins-is-too-many-treasure-goblins-for-diablo-4-lord-of-hatred-to-handle-says-bloodthirsty-player-who-lost-all-their-loot/

It's official: Steam decrees 'bullet heaven' the name of the Vampire Survivors genre
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/its-official-steam-decrees-bullet-heaven-the-name-of-the-vampire-survivors-genre/

Stardew Valley doesn't have any microtransactions because Eric Barone values the player 'more than the money I could squeeze out of everyone'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/stardew-valley-doesnt-have-any-microtransactions-because-eric-barone-values-the-player-more-than-the-money-i-could-squeeze-out-of-everyone/

Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi praises AI slop trailer for a FF6 remake, earns himself a light ribbing from battle designer on the first 2 games
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/final-fantasy-creator-sakaguchi-praises-ai-slop-trailer-for-a-ff6-remake-earns-himself-a-light-ribbing-from-battle-designer-on-the-first-2-games/

I understand, even if it's very surprising, the move from AMD to launch more 5000 CPUs to squeeze the AM4 platform as much as possible, more so nowadays with RAM prices. But why are they launchign this CPU? Why focus on zen4 when it would make more sense to launch the 9700X3D instead?

What are you doing, AMD? 

The guys at PCGamer have taken the news perfectly fine and they're not salty at all...

Sony retreats from PC gaming, robbing us of maybe 4 games
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/sony-retreats-from-pc-gaming-robbing-us-of-maybe-4-games/

Despite the vibe of the editorial, there are some valid points in it.

Here's a warning to those of you with AMD cards: 

AMD Radeon GPU users are reporting serious cooling problems after installing latest driver
https://www.club386.com/amd-radeon-gpu-zero-rpm-issue-driver/
AMD Radeon users are reporting fan control issues with their graphics cards after installing the Adrenalin 26.5.1 driver. It appears that this update contains a bug that causes AMD’s Zero RPM mode to malfunction after exiting from sleep, resulting in improper GPU cooling.

The latest AMD graphics driver is the 26.5.2, newer than the one causing the issue, but there was no mention of this problem in either the fixed sectin or the known issues one. Therefore I don't know if the issue still persists or it's been solved.