Beautiful and surprising, the millions of Goo Balls who live in the World of Goo are curious to explore - but they don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

Welcome to the multiple "Game of The Year" award-winning puzzle game - World of Goo. Drag and drop living globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues.

Today, Ubisoft announced that Operation Oracle and a free weekend for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands are available starting May 2 through May 5 on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X and Windows PC.

Playable in single-player or co-op, Operation Oracle sends the Ghosts on a rescue mission for a Skell Tech engineer taken hostage by Unidad. This typical rescue mission will soon turn into something much bigger. Forget what you know about your enemies and friends as you meet Cole D. Walker, a Ghost Team Leader on the hunt for the truth.

Operation Oracle comes after two years of substantial post-launch support for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and follows the completion of Year 2, which brought four free major updates to the game further expanding the Ghost Recon universe.

Audience Reach

• Activision Blizzard had 345 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs)C in the quarter, with 41 million at Activision, 32 million at Blizzard, and 272 million at King.
• King MAUsC were up sequentially for the second quarter in a row driven by the Candy Crush™ franchise where MAUsC again grew quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. Candy Crush Friends Saga™ continues to attract both former and new players to the franchise.
• Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice launched in March to 90-plus Metacritic scores. The game sold-through more than two million copies worldwide in less than 10 days.

Deep Engagement

• For each of Activision, Blizzard, and King, daily time spent per user increased year-over-year. For the Company overall, average time spent was approximately 50 minutes.
• Daily time spent per player across the Candy Crush franchise reached a new high, driving the King network to a record of 38 minutes.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s core player base remains highly engaged, with total hours played and daily time spent per player growing double-digits versus Call of Duty: WWII.
• The Company’s professional Call of Duty city-based league is off to a strong start, selling its first five franchise teams. In Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto, we are partnering with existing Overwatch League team owners who have first-hand experience of our esports strategy and capabilities and recognize the scale of the opportunity for a global Call of Duty league.
• The second season of the Overwatch League commenced in February to sell-out crowds at the Blizzard Arena. Viewership hours for the second season to date are over 30% higher than in the first season.

The games in the 2019 class of The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame traversed dark tunnels, played their cards right, fended off mighty foes, and sped across the finish line to win their esteemed places in the hall. Colossal Cave Adventure, Microsoft Windows Solitaire, Mortal Kombat, and Super Mario Kart have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. They emerged from a field of 12 finalists that also included Candy Crush Saga, Centipede, Dance Dance Revolution, Half-Life, Myst, NBA 2K, Sid Meier’s Civilization, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. The four inductees span multiple decades, countries of origin, and gaming platforms, but all have significantly affected the video game industry, popular culture, and society in general.

The ESO Plus Free Trial is now live and will run until Monday, May 6, at 10:00AM EDT. This is also during our 5-Year Anniversary Event, so there has never been a better time to check out the daily quests available within ESO’s dungeon and zone DLCs, completely free!

During the trial period, you gain access to the following ESO Plus benefits:

• Full access to DLC game packs—new zones, quests, dungeons, and more
  • Includes the Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Shadows of the Hist, Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, Dragon Bones, Morrowind (zone and story), Wolfhunter, Murkmire, and Wrathstone
• A Craft Bag offering you unlimited storage for all of your crafting materials
• Double Bank space for all the characters on your account
• 10% increase to Experience and Gold acquisition, Crafting Inspiration, and Trait Research rates
• Double Furnishings and Collectibles space in player housing
• Exclusive ability to dye costumes
• Double Transmute Crystal storage

Year 3, Season 2 of For Honor has begun, and a new Hero – the Hitokiri, a terrifying warrior for the Samurai – has joined its roster. Wielding a huge Masakari axe, the Hitokiri are ghostly, remorseless executioners who wander the battlefield inspiring fear in their opponents. Available as a female version (named Sakura) or male (Yato), the Hitokiri can enter a special state known as Mugen-ryu, which enables them to perform special moves and chain heavy attacks. The Hitokiri is available now to Year 3 pass owners; other players will be able to unlock the Hitokiri for 15,000 Steel starting on May 9.

Year 3, Season 2 also introduces a new map, Canopy, a Samurai settlement at the heart of a sacred grove. Designed for Tribute mode, but also playable in Elimination, Skirmish, Brawl, and Duel, Canopy is now available for free to all For Honor players. Also free are new improvements and balancing updates focusing on the Lawbringer and Raider Heroes; for a full list of changes, check the official patch notes.

Award-winning global publisher, Wired Productions and leading Italian game studio, Storm in a Teacup, are today proud to announce that the Nikola Tesla-inspired first-person horror game, Close to the Sun, is available now at EpicGames.com, for $29.99 in North America and €29.99 in most European countries*. Players will aboard themselves onto a breath-taking and unforgettable experience.

Grounded in an alternative 19th Century where famed inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla was able to fulfill his potential and change the world forever, Close to the Sun sees players step onto the Helios, a colossal vessel for scientific research, steeped in horror and mystery. As the heroine, Rose, players find themselves walking the massive area looking for their lost sister on the majestic yet mysterious ship created by Tesla. Where is Ada and what happened? Grand halls stand empty. The stench of rotting flesh lingers in the air. Silence. A single word is painted across the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Tondbert, loyal Guard to the Castle of Wrinklewood, is having a rough day. A little too much ale at the local pub, a lapse in judgment, and the next thing you know a hooded figure has slipped into the kingdom and kidnapped the princess -- an event that will have consequences well into the future.

A thousand years later, in a small orbital station, Agent Starborn is a member of a resistance group embarking on a last ditch effort to overthrow evil and take back the Earth -- a quest rooted in the depths of history.

Discover how these two playable characters' fates are intertwined and you might just save humanity in the process.

Key Features:

• Monty Python-esque comedy adventure spanning two drastically different time periods
• Hand-crafted pixel art with hundreds of detailed animations
• Streamlined puzzle design and inventory -- the feel of a classic without all of the faff
• Integrated "to-do" list of current objectives ensures you'll never feel stuck
• Full voice acting and original soundtrack with 30+ unique musical compositions

Welcome to Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape! We've played a lot of Zombie Escape-style mods, and wanted to make something standalone, and on a large scale. Up to 30 players spawn in a large world. One of them gets randomly infected, and has to spread the infection turning everyone into zombies. The human players desperately try to escape on a train through an onslaught of what seems like endless zombie hordes.

• First standalone ‘Zombie Mod’ on a massive scale
• Unique co-op experience with ad-hoc teams, vehicles, a large open world, and a train
• Distinctive art style & game atmosphere

The game structure has been totally gutted, and the divisive permadeath feature has been removed. You will still fail a story if you die while climbing Mormo's Palace at the end, or if you play in Hero Mode, but otherwise, if you fall, you will collapse and wake up in your house having dropped some cash and fragments. The game is now more forgiving and easier to enjoy.

The end game has been drastically improved, with much more to do, and more variation in the game's rules. For example, when you defeat Mormo, in the next story she will cast one of her curses on you, changing the rules of the world for that story. (The Time Curse that was cast in the Timeless Update remains as one of those curses).

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 May 2nd Update: PC 1.17 Update - Zombies Weapon Tuning - Bounty Hunter Improvements and More.

• Star Wars Day: Up to 65% off of Star Wars games • The classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront releases on GOG.
• Steam Sale: Curve Digital Publisher Weekend, Save up to 90% Off.
• Steam Daily Deal - The Swapper, 85% Off.
• Steam Daily Deal - Rise to Ruins, 66% Off.
• Steam Weekend Deal - PC Building Simulator, 30% Off.

• Borderlands 3 is about more bullets, not new bullet points - GamesIndustry.biz.

• Call of Duty World League Returns to London for Next Stage in 2019 Season.

• Starpoint Gemini 3 -- Dev Diary #3.

• Welcome to VA-11 Hall-A, Out Today on PS4.
• Nintendo Download: Aloha!
• This Week On Xbox: May 02, 2019.

• Garth Brooks Made His Mobile Game Debut with Zynga’s Words With Friends, Opens Final Pre-Order Window for The Legacy Collection.

• Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Facebook.
• Verizon is trying to sell off Tumblr.
• Ex-YouTube engineer reveals how video site worked to kill off Internet Explorer 6.
• 768k Day may cause major internet outages.

• Microsoft Delivers the Promised Future of Windows 10 Update Process.
• Access Your Radeon Settings Directly In-Game with AMD Radeon Overlay.
• Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff donated $30 million to try and solve San Francisco’s homelessness problem.
• HoloLens 2 dev kits- $3,500, or $99-month, with Azure credits, Unity trials.

• HP’s Endpoint Security Controller- More Details About A New Chip in HP Notebooks.
• Google manually reviewed a million suspected terrorist videos on YouTube.

• World War Z sold 320k on Epic Games Store…

We also have a delay to announce. A month ago we published the Epic Games store roadmap to share our release plans for new store features. We’ve shifted features targeted for April to May and June as development efforts have focused on supporting online features required for new game launches. Be on the lookout for future updates and regularly check out the “Recently Shipped” section of the Trello Board to keep tabs on our progress.

The partnership between Humble Bundle and Epic that was announced at GDC is now bearing fruit. Today you can buy Metro Exodus and Dangerous Driving, and pre-purchase Borderlands 3 at the Humble Store; more games are coming! https://www.humblebundle.com/store.

Since launch, the Epic Games store has offered a new free game every two weeks, leading to more than 25 million free game installs so far. We’re humbled by the overwhelming response and we will continue to support developers and publishers in releasing awesome games for free throughout 2019.

LIVE THE BATTLES

STAR WARS™ Battlefront is an action/shooter game that gives fans and gamers the opportunity to re-live and participate in all of the classic Star Wars battles like never before. Players can select one of a number of different soldier types, jump into any vehicle, man any turret on the battlefront and conquer the galaxy planet-by-planet online with their friends or offline in a variety of single player modes. Single player modes include "Instant Action", "Galactic Conquest" and the story-based "Historical Campaigns" mode that lets gamers experience all of the epic Star Wars battles from Episodes I-VI, fighting from the perspective of each of the four factions within the game.

Fight as a soldier on the front lines where every weapon and vehicle you see is yours. Take the Empire head on or crush the Rebellion - by yourself or with an army behind you.

• Pick your side - Rebels, Imperials, clone troopers or battle droids.
• Choose your weapons wisely - each soldier has different weapons and capabilities.
• Battle on unique planets from the entire Star Wars saga.
• Pilot over 30 vehicles including AT-ATs, X-Wings and Snowspeeders.
• Fight up to 32 players in massive online battles!

• Fortnite version 8.51 Patch Notes.
• Hunt: Showdown -- Update 6.0.
• Major Dark Souls Overhaul Mod Daughters Of Ash Now Available For The Remastered Version.
• Shrek in Sekiro Is the Mod You Didn't Know You Needed.

• GUILT: Multiplayer survival action RPG by Outer Brain Studios — Kickstarter. "Explore a gritty, dark fantasy world of bone and misery. Meaningful multiplayer interactions with deep emergent roguelike gameplay." Here's a trailer.

• Video Of Odd Behavior In Fortnite Match Leads To Accusations That Pro Was Cheating.
• League of Legends 2019 Mid-Season Invitational Play-In Day 2 Tease.
• Develop-Brighton unveils its 2019 conference programme.

• Gamasutra - Q&A: Producing a bigger Borderlands. "To find out what's changed about making Borderlands games, we spoke to senior project manager Chris Brock about the production process for Borderlands 3."
• Team17’s Benjamin Ellis on biz dev: What skills does it take to search out the next big indie hit? – MCV.

• Every Returning Character in Borderlands 3 - IGN.
• 2K Confirms Borderlands 3 Will Have Cosmetic Microtransactions Following Gearbox CEO's Twitter Tirade.
• Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2's first full-blood clan is the Brujah. Come at me, Brujah!

• Attack On Titan 2 Demo Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Feudal Alloy Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• Microsoft's Official Examples Of "Acceptable Trash Talk" Are A Joy.

• Why I Love My Teeny Tiny Knock-Off Nokia.

• Let’s face it, the Internet is a utility and so are the corporations who control it.
• Netflix: Python programming language is behind every film you stream. Thanks Slashdot.
• Netflix Upgrades To High Quality Audio.
• Google to 'auto-delete' web tracking history.
• Netflix got Quentin Tarantino to turn The Hateful Eight into a miniseries — should we expect more conversions?

• Could the death of UWP apps spell the end for the Microsoft Store?
• Amazon's warehouse robots won't replace humans for at least a decade.
• E-voting by touch-screen trialled in local elections.
• What to expect at Google I/O 2019.
• How AI Could Track Allergens on Every Block. Thanks Hypothermia.
• A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities? Investors just bet $20 million on it.

• Study claims video game loot boxes may encourage problem gambling.
• We dunno what's worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess.
• Dell laptops and computers vulnerable to remote hijacks. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again.
• Super Micro will move chip production out of China to avoid spying claims.
• Austrian construction group Porr hit by cyber attack.

• Gamer Manages to Get an Anthem Refund Even After Playing It, Cites False Advertising & Fraud as Reasons.
• Cellphone Searches By Border Agents Violate Constitution, Lawsuit Says.
• $5 billion Facebook, FTC deal could add more privacy oversight.
• 'I do not wish to surrender' Julian Assange tells court over US extradition bid.
• Family of deceased Model X owner sues over 2018 crash.

• Aggelos on Parallax Abstraction.
• Alphacool Eiszyklon Aurora RGB LT Fan Liquid CPU Cooler on TechPowerUp.
• Bad North on Christ Centered Gamer.
• Close To The Sun on PC Invasion.
• Rise of Industry on PCGamesN.
• SilentiumPC Armis AR7X TG RGB Case on Overclocked Inside. German.

• MSI Optix MAG271CQR Gaming Monitor on AusGamers.com.
• Oculus Quest on The Verge.
• Samsung 883 DCT Enterprise SSD on TweakTown.
• SilentiumPC Armis AR7X TG RGB Case on Overclocked Inside.
• Turtle Beach Recon 70 Headset on Gaming Nexus.

• Gaming Industry Could Hit $300B By 2025…
• Creative Assembly’s creative director Mike Simpson: ‘Designing a game is like designing a bridge’…
• Red Sox reportedly banned Fortnite from clubhouse…