Grey Dog Software announces the release of Total Extreme Wrestling 2020, the first new installment in their series of wrestling promoter games since the release of Total Extreme Wrestling 2016. You can get a look at the game in this trailer and pick up a copy exclusively through the official website. Here's more if you are still wrestling with the decision:

In the award-winning TEW series, you play the role of a wrestling promoter. It is up to you to try and lead your chosen company to the top of the industry, along the way dealing with prima donna superstars, wars and alliances with other wrestling companies, and the demands of TV corporations!

The biggest and best version yet, TEW2020 takes all the prime cuts from its very popular predecessors and adds well over 250 brand new features and changes to give the ultimate TEW experience. More user friendly than ever before, this is the perfect version for newcomers to the series to start off with!

In a lengthy update on Steam Ghost Ship Crew lays out a roadmap (starmap?) for Deep Rock Galactic, their co-op first-person shooter set in space, where no one can hear you pew pew pew. The game just officially launched following its Early Access period, but they are not resting on their laurels. They say Update 31 is due in three or four weeks as a post-launch update, update 32 is due in Q3, and update 33 is coming in Q4. They also indicate there are additional major updates on the event horizon. Here's the overview of plans for the rest of this year:

UPDATE 31: QUICK POST-LAUNCH UPDATE
In the process of finishing the 1.0 build, we had to leave a handful of new features and content behind. But now we are dusting them off and have decided to quickly put together a new update. This first post-launch update, called Update 31 for now, should be released in about 3-4 weeks time, so early to mid June. It will include 3 new Secondary Mission Objectives which we’d hoped to have ready 1.0, but they needed a bit more time in the pot. The new Secondary Objectives will help add more variation to all missions and is a good example of the overall goal we have for the new roadmap. Check the roadmap picture below for details on this post-launch update.

UPDATE 32 + 33: BIG UPDATES AFTER SUMMER
We’ve had a survey running in the Exit Game menu for several months now, asking you what you’d like us to focus on. The votes are in, and an overwhelming number of you simply want more of what’s already there, more variety. This aligns perfectly with our own desires to get our focus back onto the game’s cave content, and that’s reflected in our sparkly new Roadmap below, and the headlines of the upcoming Updates. At its core, this is a game about action and exploration in alien caves, and we can't wait to get back into the production of new Missions, new Biomes and new Enemy types to make this better than ever. Update 32 will arrive in Q3, so because of summer vacation (yes, even devs go on vacation) do expect quite a bit of waiting time before it lands.

The Minecraft Website reveals that Mojang is celebrating Minecraft's 11th birthday with a new name, and they will be henceforth known as Mojang Studios. This is going to take a lot of getting used to, but they go even further and unveil a new logo. They say there's a secret "hiding" in their new logo, and offer this trailer to introduce "the mysterious little gizmos known as the Mojangs." Here's word:

We will say this: play is at the heart of Mojang Studios. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even entangled in our name (which roughly translates to “gadget” in lovely, old-timey Swedish). And now, finally, it’s squarely planted in our new, modular logo.

But we have yet to reveal our biggest little secrets. They are hiding in plain sight – in this very blog post – as part of the new logo. Introducing: the Mojangs! These mysterious little gizmos are powered by play. They test and tinker, endlessly explore, and help us discover new corners of the Minecraft universe.

Not entirely sure you understand what the Mojangs are? No worries! We created this entirely straightforward and scientifically sound trailer to explain their origin, especially for you:

Continue here to read the full story.

Nine entries make up this week's list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week:

1. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
2. Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
3. Scrap Mechanic
4. Red Dead Redemption 2
5. Red Dead Redemption 2
6. Deep Rock Galactic
7. Valve Index VR Kit
8. Grand Theft Auto V
9. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
10. Crusader Kings III

PCGamesN busted out a calculator to figure out the value of all the games given away for free on the Epic Games Store during their promotional freebies spree. This added up quickly, as we are surprised to see the retail value of all these giveaways comes to more than USD$2,000. Here's word:

We added up the full list of 108 free games that Epic’s had on offer since launch, using the regular sale price of the base versions of each game – the versions of the software that have been offered as the freebies, basically. Sure, some of these games have been available deeply discounted or free elsewhere, but we’re going with the non-sale price as a rough gauge of how valuable each title is.

All together, from Subnautica to Grand Theft Auto V this week, the total value of the free games the Epic Games Store has given away is $2,140.94 USD. That’s equivalent to £1,768.83, although the total value in pounds is probably a bit different due to regional pricing variations.

• The Witcher 3 Redux V2.7 released, brings numerous gameplay fixes, tweaks, reworks and additions.

• HeroStorm Ep 73 "Boss Loss." Thanks Ant.

• SCS Software's blog: Trucks World Cup 2020 - The Next Phase.

Thanks Phlegm.

• Gorn gets its long-awaited PSVR release this week - watch Ian battle through the first 30 minutes.
• "Hundreds of thousands" of us are playing DayZ since it joined Xbox Game Pass.
• 29 years on, has Final Fantasy broken the spell of Active Time Battle?

• What Happened When I Switched From Macs to Windows. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• MoviePass Is Going For Cheap At Auction.

• Amazon planning to reopen its French warehouses from May 19. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Google Searches For 'Java' Spiked During Friday's Online AP CS Exam. Thanks Ant.

• AMD's Radeon Rays 4.0 Announced as Closed Source, Then Mostly Opened Again After Backlash.
• Windows 10 KB4556799 update is causing audio issues and data loss for some users. Thanks RedEye9.
• HWiNFO version 6.26. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• How Many Case Fans Do You REALLY Need? Video. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Thanks Ant.

• $500M IPhone Deal Gets Nod, But Virus Delays Final OK.
• Tales from the crypt-oh- Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue. Thanks Simon.
• Charter tells court that its no-refund policy helps prevent price increases. Thanks DSLReports.
• Disney forces explicit Club Penguin clones offline. Thanks Slashdot.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Asus ZenBook Duo Review- A Dual-Screen Laptop You Can Afford - Digital Trends.
• Corsair A500 Review: Premium Price, Curious Flaws - Tom's Hardware.
• Elegoo Mars Pro Review: An Affordable UV Resin Printer For Beginners and Pros - Tom's Hardware.
• Kingston KC2500 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - Nikk Tech.
• ROCCAT Vulcan 121 Mechanical Keyboard and Kain 202 Wireless Mouse Review - Truly Premium Hardware - Wccftech.

• Overwatch fan unearths fun Diablo 3 Easter egg in two-year-old map…
• Version 1.19.0 for Nintendo Wii U Emulator CEMU released, packs Vulkan & compatibility improvements…

As noted in this post Frans completed a project this morning to convert the database here to Unicode UTF-8 character encoding. This is the default recommended by the W3 for HTML. The change should help clear up the occasional appearance of unusual characters like the Chinese noted in that thread. Frans is still looking at some things that came out odd after the conversion, but if you notice anything that looks wrong in news stories or forum posts going forward, please let us know. Thanks!

Encoded Links
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Breakfast Link

• How The Empire Strikes Back made those AT-ATs look so real

Science

• Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful. Thanks Max.
• Evidence suggests sun entering ‘solar minimum’ stage: reports.

Media

• The Walk of Shame.
• Dune (2020). NSFW.
• Tiny, Scared Puppy Falls In Love With A 120-Pound Great Dane.

Auction

• Old Sneakers Auctioned Off For A Record $560,000. Thanks RedEye9.

Follow-up

• 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's request for prison release to fight coronavirus denied by judge.

The Funnies

• Dilbert.