Right now, news of release delays isn’t really all that strange. Quite a few games are delaying their releases for one reason or another, mainly to do with the need to make sure the game’s coded well enough to not fall apart when the players at last get their hands on it. Most succeed, a few still manage to make the headlines for the wrong reasons.

However, of all the games I’d expect to see delayed, one of the ‘annual sport titles’ really wasn’t one of them. The 2015 edition of the F1 games has been delayed from its June release date, being pushed back a month to July. The announcement wasn’t given a big fanfare though or even really announced in the usual way over social media. No, seems that Codemasters chose to let the gaming public know by… slipping the new date into a very brief teaser trailer.

Maybe a bit too subtle there…

If you’re a Minecrafter who likes to check out the latest apps, beware when checking the Google Play store. Reports are coming in of a number of scareware apps disguised as legitimate apps are hiding in the store to try and fool the unwary.

The apps themselves promise access to a number of cheats for the popular blocky game. In reality the apps will scare the user into downloading malicious programs mascarading as anti-virus software using banner advertising. The malware will then charge the victim €4.80 by SMS per weekly if they activate the “anti-virus program”.

Currently its estimated that over 30 of the apps are in the Store, and all seem to have been made by the same person due to similarities shared between them all. They all seem to have somehow bypassed Google’s Bouncer screener program and have therefore been downloaded by unsuspecting Minecraft fans an estimated 660,000 and 2.8 million times over the past nine months.

As always, be careful what you’re downloading people. This just proves that even stringent security processes won’t end up catching everything.

After two years of development time, Double Fine has finally given a release date to their turn-based game Massive Chalice. The game will ship with a bunch of improvements as it enters version 1.0 with rebalancing to make the game more challenging and controller support for the Steam version on June 1st.

Writing on the game’s official forums administrator Spaff broke the news to the fans:

“It’s been two years since we started on our quest for the MASSIVE CHALICE, and we’re excited to say that our journey is nearly at an end! After many months of designing, building, reading through our early access feedback, and playing the game for hours on end, we’re finally in lockdown. That means the team is in the final stages now; working purely on bug fixing, performance, and polishing things up, in between sending builds off to Microsoft for certification.”

To celebrate the launch the Double Fine Twitch will be streaming the game on the day of release, so if you’re unsure make sure you catch that to help you make up your mind.

Divinity: Original Sin, a PC game that was released last year, has been announced to have ports coming to both the Xbox One and the Playstation 4. It’ll be an overhauled version of the original and what’s more, it’s also coming to PC!

Divinity: Original Sin: Enhanced Edition will be free for all owners of the original game and is essentially the result of a patch gone too far according to developer Larian. Developed for over a year, the re-release will overhaul the graphics and add a 360 camera as well as an entirely new ending, new game modes, locations and quests. DirectX 11 will be supported, although support for 32-bit Windows will be dropped.

The vanilla version will remain available for those unwilling or unable to upgrade their game too.

MMOs are finding a home on console, and Neverwinter is seeing success over on the Xbox.

The MMO world is currently in a bit of a lull, but Neverwinter is reporting quite a bit of success following its launch on Xbox One.

According to the official site, over 1.6 million players have downloaded the game, creating some 2.3 million characters, and slaying over 1 billion enemies. They even put together an infographic to show it all off.