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.

Telltale are currently responsible for episodic games of quite a few different story-based games. One of the current ones is based on the Game of Thrones universe and already has three episodes out. Now the forth has been announced through a tweet revealing the poster. The name is Sons of Winter.

The poster itself features the Wall and fans of the TV show will know that as these games take place at the same time as the events we’re watching on screen, we’re probably fast approaching the notable moment for the Night’s Watch atop the Wall. Season 4 saw an attack at the Wall by wildlings and it seems that this event might play a part in Sons of Winter.

Currently the only word we have on a release date for the episode is ‘soon’. Keep your eyes peeled for an actual date of release soon.

The Civilization games are fairly well liked. The most recent entry into it though suffered from being that game to follow a popular predecessor. Civ V once fitted with its DLC entries was a very good game, and Beyond Earth fell a little short of capturing me in the same way.

Now however Firaxis have announced the first DLC for Beyond Earth, entitled Rising Tide. As the name suggests it adds a lot to the game that is mainly based upon embarking upon alien seas to allow for colonisation of the ocean as well as mine resources from it. It’ll also expand the role of diplomacy among other new features:

• Building floating settlements and accessing natural resources hidden beneath the seas of the alien planet, while alien beasts with unique abilities inhabit the water and challenge players in distinctive ways
• Shaping the diplomatic landscape by upgrading traits, changing diplomatic relationships, and leveraging the benefits of your allies, all with political capital
• Unlocking a dynamic set of Diplomatic Traits while activating different combinations in response to the changing world
• Playing as one of four new factions, including the Al Falah, a group of nomad explorers descended from wealthy and resilient Middle Eastern states
• Investing in multiple Affinities to unlock hybrid Affinity units and upgrades for the first time;
• Collecting and combining alien relics via a new Artifact System that unlocks powerful benefits
• Exploring one of two new biomes, Primordial world, an untamed biome rife with volcanic activity and indicative of a chaotic landscape still forming in the new world

Riding Tide will be releasing this Autumn and will retail at around £20.

After revealing the system requirements they recommend to be able to use the second version of their Oculus Rift headset, Oculus have made a further blog post to inform users that they’ve taken the decision t0 puase development on the OS X and Linux versions of the hardware in order to focus more on developing a high-end Windows model.

The blog posted, written by chief architect and technical director Atman Binstock explained the reasoning on Oculus’ end. Basically they want to be sure they can deliver a high-end experience to the majority of users before they expand into making the headset work on more operating systems.

“Our development for OS X and Linux has been paused in order to focus on delivering a high quality consumer-level VR experience at launch across hardware, software, and content on Windows.” stated Binstock. “We want to get back to development for OS X and Linux but we don’t have a timeline.”

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.