Season Three is now available across the Modern Warfare Universe, giving all Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® and Call of Duty: Warzone players access to a new season packed with free, new content and experiences. The new Season Three is packed with new maps, modes, weapons, Operators, Vehicle Skins, cosmetics and more to continuously fuel the fun for both Modern Warfare and Warzone. Millions of players already have joined the fight to date totaling more than 2.4 billion hours played together in Modern Warfare including Warzone.*

“When you play Modern Warfare and Warzone, you’re joining a massive community of players having fun, staying connected and playing together,” said David Stohl, Co-Studio Head, Infinity Ward. “Season Three is packed with free, new content coming to players across both Warzone and Modern Warfare. From the new maps and modes coming to core Multiplayer and the new ways to play in Warzone – including all-new Quad gameplay, this season is going to be awesome; we can’t wait for everyone to jump in and start playing.”

Sales of #TheWitcher3 by hardware platform (units sold)

Pixel counting from this graph gives rough results per platform:

PC: ~12.4m
#PS4: ~10.8m
#XboxOne: ~4.3m
#NintendoSwitch: ~0.7m

Total: ~28.3m

In Something Ate My Alien, you're tasked with digging through different worlds to find all the items required for the pirate who hijacked your mining ship. During the adventure on each planet you have to battle environmental dangers, fight off wildlife, solve secret puzzle chambers, and all this while surviving on a depleting oxygen supply and a threat far scarier than the local wildlife.

Welcome to the Cold War in a parallel reality. You are Francis Reaver, the newly-elected mayor of a major industrial city in the Commonwealth of Orange Collectives, an alternate version of the Soviet Union. Your political decisions and who you choose for your allies will carve out the fate of this parallel world. Lead it to democracy or take control as unyielding dictator. Will the party serve the people, or will the people serve the party? The choice is yours, comrade!

Features:

• Taste of power - Gather information however you can—even from illegal sources if it suits your needs.
• Think strategically - Every district of Iron-1 has pressing needs.
• 5+ endings - Every decision you make has its consequences.

Danger Scavenger is an intense cyberpunk-themed roguelike, where evil corporations immersed in a dystopian setting bring doom upon the world. The Scavengers – a group of outcasts once rejected by fate, now glorified and admired – decide to overcome the status quo. Become one of them and set out on a risky adventure where you get to choose your destiny. Choose your path wisely though, as big rewards come at a price and often mean even bigger risks.

• GOG.com Midweek Sale: frightening horror games up to 90% off.
• Humble 7000 Game Dev ICONS Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).

• No Man's Sky Exo Mech Patch 2.41.
• The Witcher 3 Redux Version 2.0 available for download, packs numerous fixes, tweaks & improvements.

• Getting the hate out of games - GamesIndustry.biz.

• Ubisoft, Codemasters and Sports Interactive sign on for YANA fundraiser.
• ESPN becomes the official broadcast home for League of Legends’ spring playoffs.
• Intel Delays Esports World Open to Next Year.

• Valorant closed beta: The tactical hero shooter I never knew I wanted - Ars Technica. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• A Hero Returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season Three, Available Today on Xbox One.
• Glaive: Brick Breaker Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries Of New York Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• Come Hop Into Trove's Bunfest on Xbox One.
• Roblox’s Egg Hunt Event is Back in Action on Xbox One.
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Skip-Ahead Ring (2005.200406-0000).
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Ring (2004.200407-0000).

• Covid-19 detecting apps face teething problems.
• Mobile Benchmark Cheating: When a SoC Vendor Provides It As A Service.

• Mozilla Thunderbird — Release Notes (68.7.0). Thanks Frans.
• Disney Plus surpasses 50 million subscribers.
• Netflix’s ‘Space Force’ spoof starring Steve Carell arrives on May 29th.

• Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer.

• Valorant accounts are selling for $150, but Riot warns that buyers can be banned…

We’re facing some of the most challenging times in recent memory. Keeping social distance is vital, but staying home for long periods can be difficult and feel isolating. Video games can be a valuable way to socialize with friends and family when you’re stuck at home, so we’re giving gamers in 14 countries free access to Stadia for two months. This is starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours.

Anyone who signs up will get two free months of Stadia Pro with instant access to nine games, including GRID, Destiny 2: The Collection, and Thumper. You can purchase even more games on the store, which will remain yours to play even if you cancel your Stadia Pro subscription. If you’re already a paid Stadia Pro subscriber, we won’t charge you for the next two months. After that, Stadia Pro is $9.99 a month, but you can opt out of your subscription at any time.

Don’t have Gears 5? No problem. It’s easy to get in on Operation 3: Gridiron, because Gears 5 is part of Free Play Days starting today, April 6 through April 12. All Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can play Gears 5 online with their Gold friends during Xbox Free Play Days! Console, Windows 10 PC, and Steam — everyone can play together.

We’re all in this together. Let’s get in some game time with our friends and jump in!

We are thrilled to invite all motorsport fans to discover The Crew® 2 for free! From April 9 to 13 enjoy the full Motornation experience and get behind the wheel of an extensive selection of exclusive, extensively customizable vehicles all across the USA.

Free Weekend Details
Early Access v.4 patch will release Thursday April 9th at 1pm EST and Hanako: Honor & Blade will be free to try from the 9th-12th for a Steam Free Weekend. We will be active, holding events, streaming and chatting with new friends on our Discord

The official trailer for Early Access v.4 will be revealed in the coming weeks before the event/release. We welcome anyone who wants to preview these changes early to join our Discord and play in one of our Wednesday night events, where we playtest the below changes to get them ready for full release.

Journey to the Savage Planet’s ‘Hot Garbage’ expansion rockets players to a new alien planet DL-C1 and tasks players with investigating reports of strange spikes in pollutants at Kindred Aerospace’s (voted 4th Best in Space) new interstellar waterfront resort. After discovering robotic representatives from Vyper Corp. (voted 2nd Best in Space) are using Kindred’s resort as a toxic waste dump, players will explore their way through more alien goo and report their findings back to corporate headquarters. Using the Kindred scanner to report their discoveries, players will unlock new upgrades to gear and abilities including lead boots for adventuring underwater, a specialized Kindred suit for traversing toxic areas, an unlimited stamina ability for endless sprinting and the power of flight (well, sort of).

Doubling down on its cast of sarcastic robotic intelligence, the ‘Hot Garbage’ expansion in Journey to the Savage Planet introduces Kronus, a trash talking piece of Vyper Corp. property with a single mission to berate players throughout their adventure. The new area of this weird and wonderful world also brings new flora and fauna, including a goofy variation of the bird-like Puffer and a fleet of ‘harmless’ Vyper Corp. cleaning and flying security bots. After a long day of dumpster diving, return to the Javelin habitat to view a selection of new commercials for the galaxy’s hottest products and services the future has to offer.

Four phases of content
The Season Pass content will be delivered in four phases, each with its own theme and new region: Search and Recover; Explore and Expand; Locate and Deliver; with a massive Expansion as the fourth phase. With each step, players will receive brand new vehicles and be able to explore vast new regions, including the great white north of Canada, a beautiful new location for the franchise. New regions set in Russia and Wisconsin will also arrive for players to explore alone or with friends.

Even those without the Season Pass will receive new content for free, including new activities, more extreme cargo, skins, trials, and more.

“Our new game will allow you to look at the human world from a completely fresh perspective. MicroMan will have to face adversities that the average person would not even think of. We will provide the players with a surprising, dynamic and – at the same time – very multifaceted adventure. We will be fighting rats, running away from a hedgehog, looking for a way to get on the bus or trying to avoid getting crushed by human feet. And these are just some of the things MicroMan will offer. All this will be wrapped in stylish audio and visuals and sprinkled with a good dose of good humour” – adds Karol Marcinkowski.

MicroMan – main features:

• a crazy story and a dynamic adventure;
• a completely new perspective on the urban jungle;
• a humour-rich experience;
• unexpected threats (such as ants, hedgehogs and rats);
• fighting to survive;
• unusual means of transport (e.g. a butterfly and a skateboard);
• stylish audio and visuals.

We are currently hard at work on the new Community Voted Stuff Pack. I know, of course we are…. I can’t tell you its name, because we have not voted on that yet, but I saw the list of options last week, and I have no idea which one you all will choose. I’m anxious to find out. That pack is really coming together and it has been great having all of your input to help shape it.

In addition to the Stuff Pack, we are also hard at work on our next Expansion Pack. I’m super excited about the theme the team has chosen—I think it will be a surprise to many of you. The team has also been hard at work on some new surprise additions we plan to bring to the game over the summer. They are not massive changes, but they are pretty cool ones that I think you will have a ton of fun with. Another group on our team is currently focused on our next Game Pack. This pack is a major first for us, and we are super eager to share it with all of you later this year.

• Humble Stardock Strategy Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare & Warzone Patch Notes - April 7th.
• DOOM Eternal Carmack's Eternal ReShade Brings Noticeable Visual Improvements.
• Team Fortress 2 Update Released.
• Tritin Survival Alpha 3 released. Here's a trailer.

• Starbase - Getting Started.
• Astartes Warhammer 40,000 Fan Films. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Designing around panic in The Walking Dead- Saints & Sinners - Gamasutra.

• Sword of the Necromancer by JanduSoft — Kickstarter. "Sword of the Necromancer is a dungeon-crawler action RPG with Rogue-like elements where you can revive your defeated enemies to make them fight alongside you." Here's the Steam Listing and here's a trailer.

• Ars Technica - Ars analysis: -80% of Steam games earn under $5K in first two weeks. Thanks JDreyer.
  "But even as the number of successes on Steam has increased, the number of failures has increased even more, both on an absolute and relative basis. For developers, that means just getting a game on Steam isn't anything close to a guarantee of being able to find a significant audience these days. For players, that means sifting through Steam storefront listings full of a lot of crap that apparently very few people want to buy."
  
  
• PayneReactor - I want to be sedated.
  "What struck me upon revisiting the game in 2020 was the fact that Max, when injured by non-player villain characters, is damaged all the time. He never really has a chance to recover from his injuries but sustains more and more, and the player is encouraged to hoard painkillers and frantically smash a button when Max comes dangerously close to losing his life. It’s this constant yo-yo between frenetic, bullet-dodging gameplay and constant monitoring of Max’s wellbeing that leaves the player in an almost out-of-breath race to solve the narrative puzzle surrounding the character to ensure his agency and success. To beat the game, you have to use."

• Two Rocket League pros banned for throwing league match.
• Subaru Teams With iRacing for New Sim-Racing Competition.

• Null Drifter Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Edition Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Convoy: A Tactical Roguelike Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Rush Rover Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Hotline Miami Collection Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Crawlers And Brawlers Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.

• EU to adopt pan-European approach on mobile apps to fight coronavirus.
• Want to help fight Covid-19? Your phone can support research while you sleep.
• Gaming on a Ryzen 9 4900HS Laptop with a Discrete GPU - TechSpot.
• Samsung's 2020 Galaxy A phones are coming to the US with 5G.
• NVIDIA Experts Provide Insight into Self-Driving Infrastructure. Thanks Hypothermia.
• What to know before buying a smartwatch.
• Facebook releases couples-only messaging app. We truly live in the future.
• Nuro gets the green light to test driverless delivery robots in California.
• Dead Cells is finally making its way to Android on June 3rd.

• Chrome Stable Channel Update for Desktop.
• Discord wants to clean up and support its massive bot community.
• Amazon says it may fire workers who violate social distancing guidelines. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Verizon is canceling home internet installations during the pandemic. Thanks Slashdot.
• Netflix To Allow Hiding Of Single Titles.
• Samsung's older smart TVs are losing remote control app support. Thanks Slashdot.
• China orders Baidu to clean up 'low-brow content.'
• Longest Twitch Stream Record is Broken by LosPollosTV.
• Bruce Springsteen to livestream concert from home. Won't have to drive all night in your pink Cadillac on backstreets or Thunder Road to experience better days. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus. Thanks Hypothermia.
• High-end PC builder Maingear will produce ventilators for the NYC area. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Taiwan's Foxconn says to make ventilators with Medtronic.
• Corsair claims its new wireless gaming mouse is faster than your wired one.
• BurnAware version 13.2. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• Best antivirus software and apps in 2020: Keep your PCs, smartphones, and tablets safe. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Twitter Updates its Data Sharing Policy, Will be Selling User Data.
• German foreign ministry restricts use of Zoom over security concerns.
• Eliminating VPNs for more secure, productive remote work.

• Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws.

• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord early access review - Rock Paper Shotgun.

• ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Phantom Gaming GPU Review — Modders-Inc.
• Asus Chromebook Flip C436 review: pricey, premium Chromebook - The Verge.
• Aukey PC Gaming Peripheral Collection Review - Gaming Nexus.
• Bitspower Touchaqua NJORD 120 PWM Fan Review - TechPowerUp.
• CalDigit Tuff Nano 1TB Portable SSD Review - TweakTown.
• Corsair A500 Dual Fan CPU Cooler Review - Neoseeker.
• Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Review Mouse - APH Networks.
• CORSAIR DARK CORE RGB PRO SE Wireless FPS-MOBA Gaming Mouse Review - Mad Shrimps.
• Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse Review - Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse - Neoseeker.
• CORSAIR Dark Core RGB Pro Wireless FPS-MOBA Gaming Mouse Review - Nikk Tech.
• Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Mouse - Overclockers Club.
• Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Mouse Review - TechPowerUp.
• Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Gaming Mouse Review - ThinkComputers.org.
• Corsair DARK CORE RGB PRO SE Wireless FPS-MOBA Gaming Mouse Review - TweakTown.
• CORSAIR Dark Core RGB PRO SE Mouse Review - Vortez.
• Intel NUC 10 Mini PC Review - MobileTechTeview. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Revisited: How does it fare against the GTX 1070 and RTX 2060? - TechSpot.
• Thermaltake Riing Quad 12 Review - OverClocked Inside.

• Metal Gear Solid 2 Retrospective: Be Careful What You Wish For…
• War Stories: How Homeworld brought the third dimension to real-time strategy…

Stuffed Links
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Breakfast Links

• Remote D&D Tips and Tricks - Dungeons & Dragons. Free D&D content daily. Thanks Polygon.
• Porsche-Based Gemballa Mirage GT Crashes Spectacularly All Over NYC. Thanks RedEye9.
• 500-year-old manuscript contains one of earliest known uses of the “F-word.” Thanks Jim.

Stories

• New Zealand isn't just flattening its coronavirus curve. It's squashing it.
• Pennsylvania's colorful 'Graffiti Highway' is being shut down for good.
• How coyotes made their homes in America’s cities.

Science

• Synthetic antibodies might offer a quick coronavirus treatment. Thanks RedEye9.
• The silence of the owls: How owls fly without making a sound. Thanks Max.
• Experiment finds that gravity still works down to 50 micrometers. Thanks Max.
• Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times.

Media

• AMAZON REDEFINES "ESSENTIAL." NSFW. Thanks JDreyer.
• Loading into Tarkov for the first time - Tarkov Logic.
• This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs – in Your House - Deep Look. Eeek!

Follow-up

• Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19.
• Boeing making new 737 MAX software updates to address computer issue.
• Netflix's 'Tiger King' Is an Ethical Train Wreck. Thanks RedEye9.