Decided to nab Seven:Days long gone, but also decided to write the Star Ocean port off the to buy list, as it comes with that horrid DRM, as well as not supporting 144hz monitors.

And before anyone says, no, no I didn't purchase a 144hz monitor, just to turn it down to 60 for every brand new game. It's lazy af to not support monitors out there, that have been on the market for years. CDPR and AAA pubs/devs have managed support for 144hz, even indie devs. SE is just lazy.

Friday news!

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Destiny 2 had a solid PC release, single-player games still have legs
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/destiny-2-solid-pc-release-single-player-games-still-legs/
SuperData has released its worldwide digital video games stats for October 2017. According to the stats, the total revenue across console, mobile and PC in October was $8.5 billion, up from $7.4 billion in the same month last year. This growth is mainly due to a 28% jump in premium PC sales.
The overall PC sales were boosted by Destiny 2’s successful BattleNet launch, and the continued success of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds. As SuperData pointed out, PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds had its best month, selling another 5 million units.

Fanatical Nemesis Bundle 4 gathers wealth of indie gems
http://www.pcgamer.com/fanatical-nemesis-bundle-4-gathers-wealth-of-indie-gems/
Despite rebranding last month, it's business as usual at the online digital deals store once known as Bundle Stars—now called Fanatical. Yesterday, we shared its http://www. fanatical.com/en/bundle/doom-bundle" target="_blank">Doom Bundle that offers id's 2016 reboot for just £6.66. Today, I want to point you towards its indie-filled Nemesis Bundle 4.

SOFTWARE

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MODS/EMULATORS

Mass Effect 2 & 3 receive incredible 4K Texture Packs, improving more than 3400 textures in total
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/mass-effect-2-3-receive-incredible-high-resolution-texture-packs-improving-one-hell-textures/
A lot of gamers consider Mass Effect 2 one of the best games. And while the ending of Mass Effect 3 was a bit disappointment, the game is still considered better than Mass Effect: Andromeda. And thankfully, modder ‘CreeperLava’ released high-resolution textures for both of them.

>>Check the article to find the links to the mods..

Skyrim mod adds a realm-stalking, respawning Resident Evil Nemesis
http://www.pcgamer.com/skyrim-mod-adds-a-realm-stalking-respawning-resident-evil-nemesis/
When I first played Resident Evil 3 I was genuinely terrified by its S.T.A.R.S.-hunting Nemesis antagonist, who would respawn after death and chase Jill Valentine screen-to-screen. Now, you can introduce the brutish Pursuer to the realm of Skyrim.

>>Get the mod from Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

Seven: The Days Long Gone, 3D isometric RPG from ex-Witcher developers, is now available
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/seven-days-long-gone-3d-isometric-rpg-ex-witcher-developers-now-available/
Fool’s Theory, a team of ex-Witcher developers, announced the release of Seven: The Days Long Gone on Steam. Seven: The Days Long Gone is a Thief-inspired 3D isometric RPG. Players must escape the inescapable prison island of Peh in the post-apocalyptic open world of the Vetrall Empire.

Zwei: The Arges Adventure is coming to the PC in Winter 2018
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/zwei-arges-adventure-coming-pc-winter-2018/
XSEED Games has announced that its 2D dungeon-crawler action RPG, Zwei: The Arges Adventure, is coming to the PC in Winter 2018. Zwei: The Arges Adventure is the direct predecessor to the previously released Nihon Falcom action RPG Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection, from the creators of the popular Ys and The Legend of Heroes franchises.

New FIFA 18 patch addresses gameplay, online & FIFA Ultimate team issues
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-fifa-18-patch-addresses-gameplay-online-fifa-ultimate-team-issues/
EA Sports has released a new patch for FIFA 18. According to the release notes, this new patch addresses a number of gameplay, online & FIFA Ultimate Team issues. In addition, it brings some changes to the FIFA Ultimate Team.

DOOM VFR is now available, official PC system requirements & launch trailer released
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/doom-vfr-now-available-official-pc-system-requirements-launch-trailer-released/
Bethesda has announced that DOOM VFR is now available on Steam. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher released the game’s official launch trailer. Furthermore, Bethesda revealed the official DOOM VFR PC requirements.

>>The minimum requirements are quite high, RX 480 or a GTX 1070, but that's to be expected given that we're talking about a VR game.

Friday news, part two:

Ashly Burch will return as Chloe in Life is Strange: Before the Storm bonus episode
http://www.pcgamer.com/ashly-burch-will-return-as-chloe-in-life-is-strange-before-the-storm-bonus-episode/
The videogame voice actor strike that recently concluded led to kind of an unusual situation this summer, when union member Ashly Burch, who provided the voice of Chloe Price in the first series, was replaced with a non-union performer for the prequel Life is Strange: Before the Storm. By all reports the new performer, Rhianna DeVries, did excellent work on the series, but with the strike settled, Burch is returning to the role for the bonus episode, Farewell.

Take-Two president on loot boxes: 'We don't view [them] as gambling'
http://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-president-on-loot-boxes-we-dont-view-them-as-gambling/
Take-Two Interactive president Karl Slatoff has weighed in on the controversy over loot boxes and gambling, declaring that the company shares the position of the Entertainment Software Association: "We don't view that thing as gambling."

>>Of course he doesn't! The bad news is that we should expect them on more Take-Two games .

Try the demo for mythological action RPG Raji: An Ancient Epic
http://www.pcgamer.com/try-the-demo-for-mythological-action-rpg-raji-an-ancient-epic/
Raji: An Ancient Epic was one of the most impressive games we saw at India's 2017 Nasscom Game Developer Conference, and now you can sample it for yourself. Developer Nodding Heads Games recently uploaded a free demo to Steam, which gives you a good feel for its combat and a great feel for its sumptuous music and environments.

After 24 years, this classic Nihon Falcom JRPG is playable in English on PC
http://www.pcgamer.com/after-24-years-this-classic-nihon-falcom-jrpg-is-playable-in-english-on-pc/
Japanese RPG developer Nihon Falcom has been making games since the early 1980s, and almost all of its games started on one Japanese PC or another. But until just the past few years, only the occasional console port ever got an English localization. Most recently, Falcom's Ys and Legend of Heroes games, translated by XSeed, have found success on Steam (with four games released in 2017 alone). And now another Falcom game is finally playable on PC in English, though not through an official localization—24 years after it was released on the PC-98, Brandish 2: The Planet Buster has a fan translation.

Legendary Gary is an odd RPG from the programmer of What Remains of Edith Finch
http://www.pcgamer.com/legendary-gary-is-an-odd-rpg-from-the-programmer-of-what-remains-of-edith-finch/
Evan Rogers is best known for his programming work on What Remains of Edith Finch and, off PC, The Last of Us. He's now working on a new solo project: Legendary Gary, an RPG about a man playing an RPG.

Arma 3 'Tac-Ops' DLC is out now, adding three new singleplayer missions
http://www.pcgamer.com/arma-3-tac-ops-dlc-is-out-now-adding-three-new-singleplayer-missions/
For those among us who dislike going to virtual war against human opponents, Arma 3 now has three new singleplayer missions to stomp through. The Tac-Ops Mission Pack will take around eight hours to complete, according to Bohemia Interactive, and is now available for $ 5.99 / £ 4.49 on Steam.

Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris trailer teases new weapons and armor
http://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-curse-of-osiris-trailer-teases-new-weapons-and-armor/
The big news out of Bungie came yesterday, with the arrival of both a major blog post and a podcast that took a hard look at the current state of the game, and promised major improvements in the future—beginning on December 5 with the release of the Curse of Osiris expansion. But there's still a little bit left for today, in the form of a DLC trailer previewing some of the new weapons and armor coming to the game—some of which may be familiar to fans of the original.

Abandon Ship delayed, dev let's play shows off impressive new in-game footage
http://www.pcgamer.com/abandon-ship-delayed-dev-lets-play-shows-off-impressive-new-in-game-footage/
Abandon Ship gave its first ever public demonstration at the PC Gamer Weekender 2017, and has spent the last several months teasing its horrid sea monsters, brutal weather system, and picture frame map structure among other things. Developer Fireblade had originally planned to ship (pun intended) at some point this year, however has now delayed the seafaring strategy game into next year.

Railway Empire details its sophisticated AI system
http://www.pcgamer.com/railway-empire-details-its-sophisticated-ai-system/
As Samuel Horti reported last month, Railway Empire is on track for a January 26 release, bringing with it more stations, micromanaging, and staff hiring and firing than you can toot a conductor's whistle at. Now, its latest trailer explores its sophisticated AI system and, crucially, how you'll work around it.

Time now to take a look at GOG and Steam deals:

+GOG

There are three deals

• There 's the weekly sale: https://www.gog.com/promo/20171129_weekly_sale
• The special Turok Sale: https://www.gog.com/promo/20171130_turok
• And lastly, the platformerss & Pinball sale: https://www.gog.com/promo/20171130_platformers_pinball

+Steam

There are three deals at Steam too:

• The Elder Scrolls Online is free to try and 50% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/306130/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online_Tamriel_Unlimited/
• There is also a special "The Classic Return" sale with games that are comebacks from old franchises or genres, like Age of Wonders III, Broken Sword 5 or Wasteland 2: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/theclassicsreturn/
• Finally, there's the publisher weekend sale, this time featuring Niscalis: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/nicalisweekend/

And that's the end of the news. I hope you have a happy and gaming weekend.

Yea SE are disappointing with these PC ports, I was tempted to buy World of Final Fantasy until I read the reviews and found it to be capped at 30fps which is just bad it's like why add 1440p and 4k support and keep the game capped at 30 :( Surely they can spare such a small amount of time and add 30,60 and 144 as options for max frame rate.

I'm not so tempted to look into getting FF XV, after seeing what they've done with Star Ocean.

Also, I learned today, that setting your Steam profile, social media and all to friends only, means you're a troll and that's apparently the only reason anyone would choose said option.

This coming from the web dev of Freedom Planet's website. She has some sass on her I tell you what. 

The current Humble Monthly Bundle includes Quantum Break, The Long Dark and Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War III, additional games will follow early January.

Even without the other games the best price yet for Quantum Break.

^Great price indeed.

And another crazy month of Steam stats... Windows 7 (64-bit) is now at 70% of the surveyed data (and 72% of the Windows systems).

The macOS-share is down to 1.35% and the Linux-share is down to 0.27%:

I felt bad for the AMD share, so I added a few mobile R7 + R9 GPUs that were under my radar before. Small stuff (0.01% - 0.04% each), but every bit helps.

Nevertheless the AMD share still fell under 5% of the Steam survey data. (I don't count entry level GPUs like Radeon R5 or GeForce GT without X).

The GTX models on the other hand (Kepler and newer) are now at 76%. Pascal for itself reached 30% of the Steam survey data:

The Top 10 of GPUs on Steam are all Nvidia cards. And here it is getting ridiculous:

• the GTX 750 Ti has 3x the share of all AMD GPUs above (14.61% vs. 4.75%)
• GTX 960 and GTX 1060 aren't far behind, they each almost reach 3 x 4.75%
• the top 4 GPUs (750 Ti + 960 + 1060 + 1050 Ti) are more than half of the survey data:

The hardware base of Steam systems that can keep up with the current consoles should be around 160 million units.

For comparison PS4 + Xbox One (including PS4 Pro + Xbox One X) are around 100 million units:

Those Windows numbers still make little sense.

And it's also very revealing how bad has been Polaris/Vega for AMD in the consumer market. Sure, they may have sold lots of cards thanks to miners, but it's been a big failure for gamers.

Big growth on the Chinese players again and it now makes just short of 2/3 steam users are Chinese making up 65% when you add Simplified and traditional together.