Yoku's Island Express is a pinball-based platformer which stars a cute little dung beetle postman - and if you're not sold by that, well there's some new footage below.

I first played Yoku back at EGX last year - on Switch, I think - and was instantly sold on the concept. I didn't realise at first that Yoku was a dung beetle - but the fact you push a ball around, which can then be propelled through the game's various paths... well, it then made sense.

Today's trailer shows off Yoku's underwater gameplay for the first time, something which is unlocked when you upgrade your dung ball with other abilities. Another upgrade, the Slug Vacuum, lets you suck up explosive slugs and turn them into jump boosts, because why not.

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Fallout 3, which will be 10 years old this year (good grief!), is being remade using the Fallout 4 engine for the Capital Wasteland project.

It's making good progress judging by a new video, which shows the player meeting the Brotherhood of Steel paladins at Tenleytown Station and going on to take down a Super Mutant Behemoth. It doesn't quite have the crumbly atmosphere of the original game but it looks undeniably more up to date.

Here's the Capital Wasteland footage next to relevant sections from the original Fallout 3 game.

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Switch owners will already no doubt be aware of the perils of buying digitally when the onboard memory of Nintendo's newest system is a mere 32GB. Fortunately, Micro SD cards can be used in order to expand the storage space available, allowing you to get up to 2TB of storage.

The thing about that, however, is that 2TB Micro SD cards don't actually exist at this point. What does exist, though, is a Micro SD card with a whopping 400GB of storage. As luck would have it, MyMemory is offering up the chance to save 40 off the price of one of these 400GB beasts by entering the code SAN20MM during checkout. Comparatively, Amazon is still listing this for 200.

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Five years later, the gorgeous crowdfunded mouse adventure Ghost of a Tale, made by Lorax and Despicable Me animation director Lionel Gallat, is ready. An update on the game's website yesterday revealed a startlingly imminent release date of 13th March.

That's on PC, where a small portion of the game has been in early access for a year-and-a-half (it's also currently in the Xbox One Game Preview programme). It's 15/$20 and will stay that way for the next couple of weeks, after which it will go up to $25(/ 20, perhaps).

There are console versions (Xbox One X and PlayStation 4) planned for later this year but their timing depends on rectifying any issues there may be with the PC version first. A Switch version is a much trickier proposition and would require "a complete re-tooling of the visual features and a fundamental re-authoring of most of the 3D assets", Gallat said. If Ghost of a Tale sells well and Gallat can hire a studio for a Switch conversion then it would be possible, but otherwise probably not.

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Warframe developer Digital Extremes has announced that this year's TennoCon - the company's annual Warframe-themed convention - will take place on July 7th, at the London Convention Center in London, Ontario.

Digital Extremes says that TennoCon 2018 will feature a variety of developer-led panels and workshops, plus numerous Warframe-themed activities - including a cosplay contest with a $10,000 CAD (about 5600) prize. It will also host a live Twitch stream with the developers, known as TennoLive, which promises "huge reveals". Last year, this included the announcement of Warframe's open-world Plains of Eidolon update.

Tickets for this year's TennoCon will go on sale this Wednesday, February 28th, and will range from $30 CAD to $1000. More specifically, there are four available price tiers - $30 CAD, $75 CAD, $250 CAD, and $1000 CAD - and each subsequent tier includes an increasingly elaborate array of digital and physical goodies.

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There are still a few weeks to go before Rare's multiplayer pirate extravaganza Sea of Thieves officially launches on Xbox One and PC, but the developer is already reshaping the game's world to honour the achievements of its players.

Subtle, and often warmly humorous, changes and additions have begun to appear all across Sea of Thieves' map with each new public test appearance - and the game's official forum community is now attempting to compile them all.

On Shipwreck Island, for instance, you might spot two skeletal feet sticking awkwardly out of the ground beneath a hastily etched stone. This small memorial was apparently constructed to commemorate player IOnEI-Falcon achieving the dubious honour of dying by falling from their ship's crow's nest more than anybody else in one play session.

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Considering that Subset's last game, FTL, handed you an entire galaxy to knock about in, Into the Breach might strike you as being a little cramped in its opening minutes. This turn-based tactical battler likes to drop you into snug maps of eight squares by eight. You never have more than a handful of turns to worry about on each mission, and you have just three units to control as standard. What's worth remembering, though, is that FTL may have been set in the vast reaches of space, but it found its most frantic entertainment in the compact and claustrophobic arrangement of rooms that was your spaceship. This is a studio that understands panic and understands the power of confinement. FTL is a classic - and Into the Breach may well be even better.

The question with any turn-based tactical game is: what kind of game is this really? Once you take away the mechs and the super-soldiers, is this Chess again? Is it American Football? The easiest answer for Into the Breach - and it's not a complete answer because Into the Breach is not an easy game to get your head around - is that beneath a veneer that invokes the likes of Front Mission and even Advance Wars, this is billiards. By which I mean your shots matter, but victory lies in understanding where the remaining pieces are going to come to rest afterwards.

This is doubly true because so much of Into the Breach isn't merely concerned with blasting away at mutant hordes with your guns and missiles and lasers. It's concerned with doing all that while shoving them too. Shoving them into the sea where they drown. Shoving them onto a dangerous tile that is about to drop into the earth or be hit by falling magma or be engulfed with the burning fumes from a rocket launch. Missiles and lasers and guns are great, but you learn to look through the weapons you're given along the course of an adventure and cherish the ones that have drag or knockback powers. Again: it's not how much damage you do in a round, it's what the board looks like once the round is finished.

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Over at the Humble Store today, you can pick up a copy of Team Cherry's beautiful 2D action platformer, Hollow Knight, with 34 per cent off. That brings the price down to 7.25 / $9.89 depending on where you are in the world.

This is the latest in Humble's line of two-day deals, offering up a variety of discounts, mostly on indie titles, with some short time limits. For your money, you'll be getting a Steam key as well as the DRM-free version. As usual with these things, Humble Monthly subscribers will get an extra 10 per cent off that price.

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EA Sports is boosting the ratings of hundreds of FIFA Ultimate Team players according to their real life form.

The Ratings Refresh, as EA Sports calls it, adds updated ratings for new basic player items in packs (existing in-form items will have their ratings automatically updated to reflect the Ratings Refresh).

Loads of Premier League players have seen their stats upgraded (players from other leagues follow). At the top end of the scale, the improvement is minimal: Manchester United's superb goalkeeper David De Gea goes from 90 to 91, Manchester City's midfield maestro Kevin De Bruyne goes from 89 to 91 and Spurs' relentless striker Harry Kane jumps from 86 to 88.

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UPDATE 28TH FEBRUARY 9AM GMT: Another day, another tease, and it's more schematics for equipment. This time there's a design for a shield which looks a lot like Reinhardt's - check the lion's head in the centre - only smaller, given the measurements supplied and the words "kompakt!!" scribbled next to it. The similarities to Reinhardt's shield reinforce this being Brigitte, as she not only makes and mends his equipment, she's very close to him - him being a godfather figure to her.

If we assume Brigitte does use this shield, and she also uses the flail with a chain seen yesterday, then she will end up being quite similar to Diablo 3's Crusader class. Someone has even handily plonked her head on a Crusader's body.

Excitingly, though, Brigitte may also have a companion - a cat companion. And possibly with a jetpack.

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