RTX On. God of War 2. I enjoyed these games more than the new one. The PS4 one looks good but plays just so different. 

Congratulations on your purchases, Conina.

Gonna also go for the Dark Hero. Shouldn't be as supply constrained as everything else.

Also, now that the waiting drags on anyway I might be able to catch a 980 pro 2TB which has yet to release this year.

Yeah, 4k still ain't gonna be viable to me until:

1. The prices of monitors come down.

2. They support better quality ones at higher refresh rates.

3. Support HDR.

Even then I'd really have to have the other req met, which would be higher res textures in everything in any given high profile game, and we're nowhere near that level yet (So tired of just 4k character/gun textures, and then you've got shitty ground, grass, foliage, rock and tree details). 4k WIll become viable to me when those are all met, so until then it'll be 1440p 144hz for me.

The Friday news!

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GTA5 has sold 135 million units, The Outer Worlds 3 million, Red Dead Redemption 2 35 million
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/gta5-has-sold-135-million-units-the-outer-worlds-3-million-red-dead-redemption-2-35-million/
During its latest conference call, Take-Two announced new sales figures for some of its games. According to the company, Grand Theft Auto 5 has now surpassed 135 million sales on all platforms worldwide.
Moreover, Red Dead Redemption 2 has now sold 35 million units. NBA 2K21, the latest NBA game that was criticized by a lot of gamers for its micro-transactions, has already sold 5 million copies. So yeah, expect even more MTX in Take-Two/2K Games in the future.
The Outer Worlds has now surpassed 3 million copies. PGA Tour 2K21 has sold 1 million units, and the Mafia Trilogy has sold 2 million copies. Mafia Trilogy includes all the Definitive Editions of the first three Mafia games.

Dungeons 3 is now free on the Epic Store
https://www.pcgamer.com/dungeons-3-is-now-free-on-the-epic-store/
Welcome to Thursday! Unfortunately, if you were expecting to sweep in and snag your free copy of the military RTS Wargame: Red Dragon, I have bad news—you can't. But I also have good news: You can have Dungeons 3 instead.
(...)
As for Wargame: Red Dragon, it's still slated to go free at some point in the future, but for now remains listed as "coming soon" on the Epic Store. Thus, next week's free game will be The Textorcist, a bullet hell game where typing is your only weapon.

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• The first one is a Warhammer Franchise Sale, with up to 75% discounts for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/warhammer-sale/
• The Speedrunners Delight Sale offers up to 85% discounts for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/speedrunners-delight-sale-/

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The new Star Deal is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint - Standard Edition, 80% off for the next 48 hours. The key is for UPlay: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/tom-clancy-s-ghost-recon-breakpoint-standard-edition
• And there's a new 25th Anniversary BYOB, with 25 games to make your 1, 5 or 10 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/25th-anniversary-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Hug it out with this cuddly Skyrim mod
https://www.pcgamer.com/hug-it-out-with-this-cuddly-skyrim-mod/
Rough day? I hear ya. Stressed out? Me too.
Need a hug? Bring it in.
Hugs are nice, and according to a scientific study someone once paraphrased to me while I half-listened, they're even beneficial to your health, probably. You should get a hug right now if you can from a friend, loved one, pet, stuffed animal, or agreeable fellow public transit passenger.
And your videogame characters should get some hugs too. Thanks to a nice little mod made by WhiteWolf424242 called "I'm Glad You're Here," you can now give hugs to your followers, your spouse, and any adopted kids you might have in Skyrim.
>> You'll be able to do in the game what you can't do in real life.

GAMING NEWS

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered Day-1 Patch Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-remastered-day-1-patch-detailed/
Electronic Arts will release tomorrow Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered. Naturally, and as with most games, this new NFS game will come with a day-1 update, and below you can see its changes, improvements and enhancements.

Dirt 5 Day-1 Patch addresses low GPU utilization and fixes crashes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dirt-5-day-1-patch-addresses-low-gpu-utilization-and-fixes-crashes/
Codemasters has released the day-1 patch for Dirt 5. This patch will be applied automatically on the game (unless you already have access to its Early version), and comes with some important fixes and improvements.

Here are the PC requirements for Immortals Fenyx Rising
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-requirements-for-immortals-fenyx-rising/
Ubisoft has revealed the official PC system requirements for Immortals: Fenyx Rising. The game promises to run on a wide range of PC configurations, something that will please a lot of PC gamers. Furthermore, Ubisoft has also shared some of the tech features that the PC version will support.

EA confirms that the next-gen Battlefield game will release in holiday 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ea-confirms-that-the-next-gen-battlefield-game-will-release-in-holiday-2021/
During its recent conference call, Electronic Arts has confirmed that the next-gen Battlefield game will release in holiday 2021. According to the publisher, DICE is working on it and we can safely assume that it will be using the Frostbite Engine.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint – Ghost Experience Update releases on November 9th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ghost-recon-breakpoint-ghost-experience-update-releases-on-november-9th/
Ubisoft has announced that the Ghost Experience Update for Ghost Recon Breakpoint will release on November 9th. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team released a new trailer for this update that you can find below.

Amnesia Rebirth Patch 1.2 released, adds mod support
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amnesia-rebirth-patch-1-2-released-adds-mod-support/
Frictional Games has released patch 1.2 for Amnesia Rebirth that adds support for mods. Thanks to this latest update, the game now offers Custom Stories, as well as official modding tools. These will allow players to create everything from slightly modified versions of the base game to full conversions with all new assets.

Open Beta phase for Worms Rumble has been launched
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/open-beta-phase-for-worms-rumble-has-been-launched/
Team17 has kicked off an explosive weekend with a cross-play beta for Worms Rumble on PlayStation 4 and Steam. This Open Beta will run until Monday, 9th November at 8:00am GMT (3:00am EDT / 12:00am PDT). According to the press release, the open beta includes a previously unseen map, Transforming Towers, which sees part of the Tower transform into a giant robot worm, as well as Battle Royale modes Last Worm Standing and Last Squad Standing, joining Deathmatch.

NVIDIA confirms that Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing will work on any DXR-compatible GPU
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/nvidia-confirms-that-cyberpunk-2077-ray-tracing-will-work-on-any-dxr-compatible-gpu/
A few weeks ago, CD Projekt RED announced that only NVIDIA GPUs would be able to run Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing effects at launch. Of course, that was before announcing the latest delay for this highly anticipated title. Therefore, and since AMD has released its new RX 6000 GPUs, we are happy to report that those GPUs will be also able to run them.

Friday news, part two:

Chicken Police, a noir adventure featuring crime-solving roosters, is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/chicken-police-a-noir-adventure-featuring-crime-solving-roosters-is-out-now/
I'm calling it now—animals solving crime is a bona fide gaming genre worthy of respect. Whether it's Aviary Attorney, Blacksad or the upcoming Backbone, animals delivering justice is where it's at. Ahead of the upcoming tidal wave of game releases next week, you might want to make time for Chicken Police – Paint It Red.

Ubisoft put a pro baseball player in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and he plays baseball with rocks
https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-put-a-pro-baseball-player-in-assassins-creed-valhalla-and-he-plays-baseball-with-rocks/
If you're a baseball fan, one of the Vikings in Assassin's Creed Valhalla may look and sound familiar. Pro ballplayer and World Champion LA Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger makes an appearance in Valhalla as a character named (deep sigh) "Otta Sluggasson."

Godfall launch trailer sets the scene for a very serious loot game
https://www.pcgamer.com/godfall-launch-trailer-sets-the-scene-for-a-very-serious-loot-game/
Godfall looks impressive from a technical standpoint—and it's going to need a monster rig—but no amount of gameplay footage really captures what's exciting about it. It's a loot-oriented third-person melee combat game that appears to take cues from both Dark Souls and the recent God of War reboot. Taking cues from Dark Souls tends to have mixed results, as we've seen countless times before.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War will share all progression with Warzone and Modern Warfare
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-will-share-all-progression-with-warzone-and-modern-warfare/
It sure is a wild time to be a Call of Duty fan: Activision announced in a new blog post that the ties between Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone will run deeper than we thought. The two games, plus Modern Warfare 2019, will all share the same rank progression and battle pass. That means no matter which game you're playing, you're progressing in the others as well.

Destiny 2 sandbox update will nerf the Hunter's Dodge and make acquiring missing quest exotics easier
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-sandbox-update-will-nerf-the-hunters-dodge-and-make-acquiring-missing-quest-exotics-easier/
The final This Week at Bungie update before the launch of Destiny 2: Beyond Light covers a wide range of news and updates, beginning—in terms of importance—with a nerf to the Hunter's Dodge that increases the cooldown period by a few seconds.

Take-Two boss: We charge less for our games than they're worth
https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-boss-we-charge-less-for-our-games-than-theyre-worth/
Rockstar and 2K parent company Take-Two believes its games are worth more than the $60 it charges for them.
"We deliver the highest quality experiences in the business, and we charge much less for them than we believe they are worth to consumers," said Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick during a financial call today. "And then we deliver, typically, an ongoing component that is free. And that is already a great deal of value. Any monetization is of course totally optional."
>> We all know what that means, right?

Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed again, this time until 2022
https://www.pcgamer.com/kerbal-space-program-2-has-been-delayed-again-this-time-until-2022/
Creative director Nate Simpson has posted on the Kerbal Space Program forum to announce that Kerbal Space Program 2—which made our list of 13 notable games we were looking forward to next year—is being pushed back to 2022.

Apex Legends went 'from zero to about a billion dollars' in just two years, EA says
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-went-from-zero-to-about-a-billion-dollars-in-just-two-years-ea-says/
Apex Legends is free to play, but it's also one of Electronic Arts' biggest moneymakers. The company said in today's Q2 2021 financial report that its earnings climbed 24 percent year over year, and it's now expected to bring more than $500 million on the year.

Update: Apex Legends 7 battle pass progression was too slow, is being altered
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-players-think-the-season-7-battle-pass-is-too-slow/
Electronic Arts made some changes to the Apex Legends battle pass for season 7, including an overhaul of challenges aimed at simplifying the system. Recurring weekly challenges have been rolled into "revamped" dailies, unique weekly challenges will be available to complete throughout the entire season, and instead of awarding points, completing a challenge will get you 1-5 stars, depending on the difficulty. Ten stars are required to earn a battle pass level.
Update: Respawn were listening. To address the issue of the season 7 battle pass progression being too slow, the amount of experience points required for each star has been halved from 10,000 xp to 5,000 xp as of today. Additionally, as explained on Twitter, "starting next week, your Weekly Challenges will take much less time to complete." The studio also explained the context behind the original decision.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War's Season 1 roadmap is here
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-wars-season-1-roadmap-is-here/
Keeping pace with Modern Warfare's successful year of free content, Activision has revealed Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War's Season 1 roadmap. Season 1 is kicking off December 10, less than a month after the game's launch, and will bring new weapons, maps, game modes, and a mysterious "Warzone experience".

Mortal Kombat 11's Mileena gameplay trailer is somehow gorier than I thought it would be
https://www.pcgamer.com/mortal-kombat-11s-mileena-gameplay-trailer-is-somehow-gorier-than-i-thought-it-would-be/
Yesterday, a new Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay trailer featuring returning fan-favorite fighter Mileena was teased via the unusual medium of an Instagram ad featuring pop star Megan Thee Stallion dressed as the character. Now the trailer is here, and it highlights the sai-wielding genetic experiment's toothy maw and sharp knives. There's a lot of blood.

The next Fall Guys level has only fans
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-fall-guys-level-has-only-fans/
Fall Guys season 2 has another month left to go, but the winds of change will be blowing before then, because the stumblebum battle royale gameshow is getting a new level, and that level has fans in it. The Big Fans level, which will see players race across spinning midair fan blades, will be added as part of next week's update, which is called BIG FAN YEET LITTLE because of course it is.

Celeste creator confirms that yes, Madeline is trans
https://www.pcgamer.com/celeste-creator-confirms-that-yes-madeline-is-trans/
A year after Celeste's Farewell DLC teased a vague hint of queerness in an ending screen, creator Maddy Thorson has confirmed that the platformer's leading lady is absolutely, for sure, a transgender woman.

World of Warcraft is free for returning players this weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcraft-free-weekend/
Former World of Warcraft players will either despair or rejoice at the news that Blizzard has made the game free to access until November 9. "You and your allies are needed back on the front lines," says Blizzard, fingering a pouch that contains what you so desperately need. "This weekend, we're giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft accounts full access to the game and all of your characters without a subscription."

Teardown dev on the 'frustrating experience' of developing the breakout hit
https://www.pcgamer.com/teardown-dev-on-the-frustrating-experience-of-developing-the-breakout-hit/
Teardown developer Dennis Gustafsson has written some design notes about the making of one of the year's surprise hits (here's our thoughts). If I was to sum up Teardown it would probably be as long stretches of precision planning, followed by intense and fast destruction: it's a game that offers enormous freedom, but at the same time focuses the player's eye.

The Rapture Is Here And You Will Be Forcibly Removed From Your Home, at 10,000 frames per second
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-rapture-is-here/
For at least the last year, it's felt like the world is just on the brink of ending for good. Fitting, then, that The Rapture Is Here And You Will Be Forcibly Removed From Your Home creator Connor Sherlock has brought his brief apocalypse back with a surprise release on Itch this week.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

• The first one is the weekly sale, with up to 90% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20201102_weekly_sale
• The Midweek Sale, with its up to 90% discounts, will last another 22 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/20201104_midweek_sale
• The Weekend Sale stars publisher 1C Entertainment, with up to 90% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/1c_entertainment_weekend
• And there are three new releases
• Chicken Police lands with a 20% discount until November 12: https://www.gog.com/game/chicken_police
• Superliminal also lands with a 20% discount until November 12: https://www.gog.com/game/superliminal
• And Rise to Ruins launches with a 50% discount that will last until November 20: https://www.gog.com/game/rise_to_ruins

+Steam

• The new daily deal is My Friend Pedro, 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/557340/My_Friend_Pedro/
• The first of the weekend deals is Unity of Command II, 50% off until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/809230/Unity_of_Command_II/
• CODE VEIN, that has a demo, is 60% off until the 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/678960/CODE_VEIN/
• Publisher Iceberg Interactive offers its games up to 90% off until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/iceberg/sale/icebergpw
• ARK: Survival Evolved is free to try and and 80% off until Tuesday 10th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/
• And yes, there's also the weeklong deals.

And that's it. Until the next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.

RT support for RX series cards (from the get-go) for Cyberpunk is great to hear. If only we have a real confirmation of the release and no more delays!

The November 2020 Humble Choice games have been revealed, once again Premium and Classic subscribers get all 12 games.

Darksiders III
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Imperator Rome Deluxe Edition
Crying Suns
Darksburg
Little Misfortune
Smile For Me
Darkwood
Tsioque
Rover Mechanic Simulator
Youropa
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt

Nice, now I don't have to buy Kiwami 2.

What makes me smile more about this confirmation is that I'm sure Nvidia prepared a nice ad campaign promoting Cyberpunk 2077 and how their cards would be the only way to properly experience the game thanks to being the only RT capable cards, and they've had that ad stored in a drawer since September, waiting for the game to release to make use of it... and now it's useless.

It's silly, and a bit petty from my part, but it brings a small smile to my face.