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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus net and this is your weekly game news recap a new fallout 4 mod adds seasons to the wastelands bringing a change of pace to the desolate terrain by adding desolate winter and Tesla it's sprained hey there's always so much that Ahmad can do the new mod makes for bright sprains filled with green scenery gray winters rot with steep snow banks and somber falls with changing leaves and fiercely bright summer's accompanying those in its current state the mod does not dynamically update the season based on in-game clock so players have to install the mod season which they most want and leave it until that's manually updated by the player the Mater hopes to implement dynamic season changes in the future and that's not available right now but as a reminder fallout 4 doesn't yet have an official toolkit so all of this is being done with limited resources overwrites ini files and some carryover Elder Scrolls tools and that limits the level of dynamic interaction that mods can have at this time Activision's call of duty franchise has remained a front-runner for the games industry for years and it's sequels regularly top retail charts black ops 3 has just been named as the best-selling physical retail game 4 2015 in a new study released by the NPD group and the analysis doesn't include digital sales which basically eliminates pc from the list but it still provides a look at popularity of games sold predominantly to console or casual players on that list is call of duty black ops 3 in first place with 250 million copies sold followed by madden nfl 16 and fallout 4 then battlefront and fourth place grand theft auto 5 took fifth place for physical retail sales for 2015 in a shrinking market for physical box goods and considering that almost no PC players buy stuff in store these days that's a small cross section of the industry luckily we've got some steam stats for you to that look at the Digital side of things a new report by medium.com uses steam spy statistics to dig up valves unruhe old success in its winter sales the report looks at sales volume for games during winter sales and ultimately concludes that valves volume has increased by staggering fifty percent over the summer sale according to steam spy it looks like 46 million games were sold just during the winter sale alone including three hundred ten thousand copies of fallout 4 grossing 14 million in revenue and 339 thousand copies of GTA 5 grossing 11 million in revenue the winter sale as medium calculates should have netted about 270 million in gross revenue for the digital games publisher and that's just from the winter sales alone not counting other sources of income an order the top sellers are counter strike global offensive unchallenged in first place with 575,000 sales though the game only quote unquote made 4 million in revenue rocket League is next with four hundred seven thousand sales at five million in gross revenue GTA 5 with three hundred thirty-nine thousand quite a lot for a game that is considerably older than some of these other titles though global Offensive is certainly no newcomer fallout 4 had three hundred ten thousand sales though the highest revenue out of all of them and the indie title undertale was following these much larger titles with 312,000 sales grossing 2.2 million in revenue for the small developer definitely a massive feat for undertale the games industry quite obviously has gotten crazy big ESPN the largest sports broadcasting network in the u.s. anyway has historically had conflicting opinions about the world of eSports we've heard broadcasters say they'd sooner quit then commentate dota players for instance and that's just won't of the future of gaming but they've also looked into the option of supporting eSports in a new announcement ESPN it looks like it's finally catching on to gaming as a professional competitive sport and as such the network will begin covering eSports in the immediate future ESPN launched a new hub to eSports where the network promises to cover gaming events and has already made moves to employ known eSports reporters interestingly activism CEO Bobby Kotick is potentially one of the most hated men in the games industry promise to turn MLG which Activision just acquired for 46 million dollars into a quote ESPN of eSports so and it's hopes to do so Activision Blizzard on-boarded Steve bornstein former ESPN CEO to head up Activision to eSports network now there's an actual eSports ESPN these days so I'm not sure how Co takes plans will change to accommodate that but it will be an interesting battle for relevance between the two as ESPN has pulled on slasher a pretty well-known gamespot commentator of older days and former on gamers sports editor before he was sacked following a reddit scandal ESPN also hired a zoo booze Darren quillin ski another qualified eSports reporter and that's ramping up the world of eSports pretty heavily in the immediate future at least through 2016 the last bit of weekly news wraps with Intel's Extreme Masters challenge or I am and the next polish IEM event will feature Intel Extreme Masters expo which is a woman's csgo league and aims to post 30,000 in prizes for counter strike global offensive the event will be hosted March 4th to 6th this year the same time as IEM proper for lack of a better differentiator and the 30,000 prizes that makes this one of the largest women's eSports events to date and should showcase some intense FPS matchups definitely worth a tune in that's all for this week's gaming news recap be sure to check out gamers nexus dotnet for ongoing well-written coverage and hit that patreon link in the post all video it's a sports directly I'll see you all next time