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Editor's note: Once a month we invite the wonderful Gareth Damian Martin, editor of Heterotopias, to show us what proper writing about games looks like before we shoo him away for making the rest of us look bad. If you want to read more in-depth critical writing, you can find the third issue of Heterotopias here.

Eurogamer has become quite used to attending Blizzcon and asking the World of Warcraft team about their stance on Legacy servers. We're not so used to Blizzard actually having anything to say on that front.

Invented languages have been a part of fantasy storytelling at least since Tolkien wrote his Middle-Earth stories. By now we're all used to the idea that one way to make your imagined world feel real but unfamiliar is to invent a new language for at least some of its inhabitants to speak - usually the ones you consider the strangest and most 'other'. So Tolkien's elves have their Quenya and Sindarin; Game of Thrones has Dothraki and Valyrian, and in sci-fi there's the famous Klingon language, or, more recently the interesting creole spoken by the Belters in The Expanse.

Blizzard has announced that its phenomenally popular real-time strategy game StarCraft 2 will go free-to-play from November 14th.

Blizzard has announced this year's final Hearthstone expansion, Kobolds & Catacombs.

UPDATE 2/11/17: Lumo has missed its originally announced October launch window on Switch. There's good news for those eager to play the excellent isometric puzzler on Nintendo's console, however. Publisher Rising Star has confirmed that the digital eShop version of Lumo will now arrive worldwide on November 16th. A physical release will follow shortly after, launching in the US on November 21st, and November 24th in Europe.

Snipperclips will finally support Switch's amply sized Pro Controller and Joy-Con grip, thanks to a free update due next week.

Chinese free-to-play publisher Perfect World Entertainment has shut down Torchlight developer Runic Games, and laid off the majority of staff at Gigantic studio Motiga.

Join us from 6pm UK time for Blizzard's annual Blizzcon opening ceremony celebrations.

It's a bumper night for Overwatch at BlizzCon 2017 - there's both a new hero and a new map coming!

UPDATE: It's official - Hanzo and Alexstrasza are coming to Heroes of the Storm. Alexstrasza can transform into a dragon, and Hanzo can be a nimble scout assassin.

The team behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has apologised for "the inconvenience caused by the cheaters" and assured fans of the hot Battle Royale title the "development team is doing their best to detect and ban those who use cheats in a more proactive manner".

Assassin's Creed Origins is a beautiful game, and one made for sharing via its fantastic photo mode tool.

One of the more irritating facets of game consoles' generational cycle is the scorched-earth approach to peripheral compatibility. Since the business began, platform holders and their partners in the peripheral business have used new console generations as an excuse to get gamers to shell out again for new controllers and other accessories they've already bought by ensuring older models won't work with the new console hardware. It is, and has always been, a bit of a racket.

If you plan on downloading games onto your fancy new Xbox One X, be ready for some truly gargantuan file sizes.

Upcoming Switch exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is getting a Nintendo Direct presentation next week.

Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread developer Bossa Studios is taking a unique approach to the fate of its next project, Decksplash.

Earlier this week we reported that in Call of Duty: WW2, loot boxes drop from the sky onto Normandy beach and open in front of other players. It looks like this:

Activision has not yet said how many copies Destiny 2 has sold, but in the company's latest financial results briefing last night it revealed an eye-opening statistic:

Bubsy and his platforming ilk remind me in a strange, tangled way of high-frequency trading. This is the dodgy Wall Street manoeuvre, as detailed in Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, in which money men exploit their speedy internet connections and clever algorithms to spot your buy order leaving your computer, get in front of it, grab the stock you want and then sell it to you for a tiny profit - a tiny profit that becomes an enormous profit when you scale it up to the point where you're pulling this off a gajillion times a day.

Ubisoft released Monopoly for Nintendo Switch this week, and players have discovered it has pretty horrendous loading times.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is propelling its way onto the Nintendo Switch on 9th November.

For Honor Season Four starts on 14th November and it adds two new heroes to Ubisoft's multiplayer-focused melee combat game.

Cult classic murder mystery Deadly Premonition is now backwards-compatible on Xbox One.

American Truck Simulator will hit the open road and head to New Mexico when its latest major expansion launches on Thursday, November 9th.

Stupendously daft multiplayer escapade Oh My Godheads will leave early access and spread its delightful nonsense over Xbox One, PS4, and PC on December 5th.

Bandai Namco has put out a new video for promising Arc System Works developed fighting game Dragon Ball Fighterz that gives us our best look at the story mode yet.

There's a new patch for Assassin's Creed Origins on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One which improves the game's excellent photo mode.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon sees the return of Team Rocket, the series' original baddies.

Late last month Jeff Kaplan announced big changes to how we watch Overwatch eSports, which can be a messy and confusing viewing experience.