I’m starting to hope Ooblets, developer Glumberland’s creature collecting farm sim (which Double Fine is publishing), comes with a glossary. In the new April developer update alone, we’ve got terms like followbabies, oobcoops, and some alien horror called ‘taxes.’ In the update, programmer and artist Rebecca Cordingley shares a critical oobcoop feature: you can peek inside and play with your followbabies. For less angry new characters, we’ve got Churles, the clothing designer and clothing shop o

(As we can see in the video, it’s also getting a swanky new ornament in the next season.) “We’re going to see a lot more weapons that are capable of pulling off shenanigans the way that Vigilance Wing currently is,” Hamrick says. The Warmind expansion will bring a lot of changes to Destiny 2 on both the PvP and PvE fronts, and I’m really looking forward to diving into it. And based on Reddit threads like this one, this is the direction that a lot of players want to go. Destiny 2: Warmind goes li

VIDEO: Fortnite’s letter search challengeFortnite Season 4’s first Battle Pass challenges are here, and among them is the Donkey Kong Country-inspired Fortnite letter search challenge. Play long enough and you’ll likely find all the letters eventually, but if you’re trying to race towards the new cosmetic goodies in the higher reaches of the Battle Pass without spending any extra money, we can help you save time. The video above shows you everywhere you’ll need to visit in order to find the lett

PixelJunk Monsters 2 is a cute tower defense game about turning trees into weapons of war for the sake of protecting some chibi tiki dudes, and it’s coming to PC on May 25. Developer Q-Games released a free Steam demo for it earlier today, so you can sample its first level now. Killing monsters earns you gold you can spend to place towers and gems used to upgrade them. Apart from its lovely art, PixelJunk Monster 2 stands out from other tower defense games because it lets you switch between a to

The Humble Cryengine Bundle is an interesting mix of games, and resources that could help you make games. The $1 entry tier gets you Rolling Sun, Aporia: Beyond the Valley, and The Land of Pain, all games; and Cryengine V Samples, Cryengine Webinar Training Videos, and the Crysis 3 Animation Pack—not the game, the assets. And at $15, there’s also Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, Homefront: The Revolution, the Deceit asset pack, and The Climb asset pack. It’s also not a bad way to pick up Ryse or Sniper:

Best Buy is selling the ‘Omen by HP 24.5’ for a discounted $190, both on its website and through Ebay. To be clear, Best Buy is selling this monitor as brand new. The viewing angles are another indicator—it offers 170-degree horizontal and 160-degree vertical viewing angles. IPS panels typically more generous viewing angles and better color reproduction, but usually have a higher response time and cost more, to an extent. Head here to grab this monitor from Best Buy’s website, or here to buy it

Epic Games held a “BoogieDown” contest last month in which players were invited to record and share videos of their real-life move-busting, the best of which would be turned into a Fortnite emote. One such vigorous rendition, submitted by a lad who came to be known as Orange Shirt Kid, did not win, but gained considerable notoriety among the Fortnite fanbase for its all-in enthusiasm. The Orange Justice emote becomes available for free at tier 26, or you can snag it right away with the Fortnite

If it’s truly out of stock for the foreseeable future, however, anyone who is interested in buying one may be able to find a unit at Best Buy. The user claims to have heard from Best Buy employees that there will be both 32GB and 64GB models. Unlike the Oculus Rift or Samsung’s GearVR, the Oculus Go is a completely self-contained VR headset, meaning it doesn’t need to be plugged into a PC and is not powered by a smartphone. However, cost has been one of the biggest barriers to VR adoption, and t

And while that normally prompts a grumble from me about being force-fed dodgy date-related puns on social media, I’d much rather talk about how GOG has added 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: Racer to its storefront. It’s live now alongside a pretty comprehensive Star Wars sale. Particularly given the fact Star Wars Episode I: Racer was, before now, GOG’s most requested SW game on its Community Wishlist. With a limited-time 14 percent discount, Star Wars Episode I: Racer costs £6.09/$8.49. Moreover, b

Sea of Thieves, Rare’s open world multiplayer pirate game that launched in March, received a patch today to version 1.06. It’s not the big update due this month that promises a ‘new AI threat’ but instead one that features some tweaks, bug fixes, and several new cosmetic items. Rare doesn’t seem to have posted images of the new cosmetic items added in the patch, but they include new outfits for your pirate, ship customization options, and weapon skins. Speaking of damage, players are no longer i

If you just can’t get enough PUBG in your life, NZXT has a case that might interest you. It’s the H700 PUBG, which as the name implies is a PUBG-themed version of its H700i mid-tower, our ‘Case of the Year’ pick, but without the integrated smart controller. That isn’t included in the H700 PUBG, so you’re paying a premium for the PUBG theme instead. Everything else about the H700 PUBG is the same as the H700i. The H700 PUBG will only be sold on NZXT’s website.

It’s obviously no guarantee, but based on that timeline and the fact that Far Cry 5 earned twice as much as Far Cry 4 in their respective first week of release, it’s reasonable to expect Far Cry 6 to arrive in 2020. Which of the many Far Cry games is the best? Far Cry 2 could be a challenge to get around in, and not just because you were stricken with malaria. People do mod the Far Cry games, and there are mods for the latest, but only a handful and nothing terribly extensive. With full mod supp

Newegg currently has the Ryzen 5 2400G for $153.99, a $10 reduction from the usual cost and a $27 discount from the current Amazon price. This processor has four cores and eight threads, with a max boost clock of 3.9 GHz. It effectively kills the market for the other 4-core/8-thread Ryzen parts, as it’s just as fast and costs less. Keep in mind that the Ryzen APUs won’t work with all AM4 motherboards. The Ryzen 5 2400G can be purchased from Newegg here.

There have been a few 500GB SATA SSDs floating at around $100, such as Crucial’s MX500 for $114.99, but there’s one that’s slightly cheaper for the moment: Western Digital’s 500GB 3D NAND SSD is just $111.99 right now, and it’s one of the fastest SATA drives you can buy. Western Digital owns SanDisk, so the WD Blue 3D SSD is just a re-branded SanDisk Ultra 3D drive. In real-world testing, the 1TB version has a 128K sequential read speed of around 554 MB/s, and sequential writes of roughly 500 MB

Then Theme Hospital found a second life as a bargain-bin perennial throughout the low years of the early ’00s. Brutal but necessary fullscreening of its 640×480 native resolution aside, the process of running Theme Hospital on a modern PC is relatively painless. In Theme Hospital, a rat infestation might mean hiring more janitors: a typical management sim solution, a matter of matching the need against your balance book. The best way to enjoy Theme Hospital now is to load it up on the easiest di

Yoku’s Island Express is an incoming platforming pinball puzzler that’s sort of like Sonic Spinball, that sort of echoes Studio Ghibli, and that sort of looks fantastic. It’s due on PC later this month, and has a new trailer that explains why the titular Yoku has landed on Mokumana Island—and why, and indeed how, this “pint-sized” postman will awaken an ancient deity from its endless sleep. I loved Sonic Spinball and, at the ripe age of seven, was certain the pinball platformer genre would explo

“As our first step in GTA 5 Animations support, we added new feature for playing vehicles animations,” reads this blog update. That looks something like this:The dev team promises to support GTA 5 animations down the line with a “cutscenes player and openFormats support in the future”. Likewise, multichannel audio support lets players configure how OpenIV plays multichannel audio by selecting mono, stereo and/or multichannel modes. OpenIV Audio Player is now also has ability to export multichann

Introducing…Command Age: War ConquerCombining the top four results of the survey, the name of the greatest RTS game ever devised is Command Age: War Conquer. CA:WC has singleplayer, base building, and epic scaleCommand Age: War Conquer will have a kick-ass singleplayer campaign and strong comp stomp player vs. AI skirmish options. Command Age: War Conquer will absolutely have base building. With 55.9 percent of the vote this game will let you build as many units as I can build until my PC melt

In its place remains a crater, filled with glowing Hop Rocks—consumables which let players “lift off with low gravity.” It’s all go in Fortnite Season 4. Courtesy of Fortnite Intel, here’s Hop Rocks in practice:New ‘Hop Rocks’ found in the Dusty Divot crater! #Fortnite pic.twitter.com/LDkdEQABmWMay 1, 2018As detailed by Epic in update v4.0’s extensive patch notes, Season 4’s Battle Pass boasts 100 tiers of new rewards—including new cosmetic items, emotes and sprays. Elsewhere, the patch notes ex

It’s May already—seriously, check your calendar—which means State of Decay 2 is out this month. Before then, a technical beta aims to iron out bugs and test incoming features. Sign ups for our soon to be released, limited user technical beta for State Of Decay 2 is now live! Here’s an extract:Disappointment with co-op’s limitations aside, State of Decay 2 is a rich survival sim that also has surprising chops as a third-person action game. Sign up to State of Decay 2’s technical beta here, or wai