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Take-Two has delayed The Outer Worlds on Nintendo Switch due to the coronavirus.

Autonauts, the adorable automation-focussed colony management sim from developer Denki, has just received its first major free update of 2020 on Steam, titled Industrial Revolution.

When we move around cities we are navigating several varieties of space simultaneously: on the one hand, the tangible contours of buildings and roads, and on the other, the abstract routes, dynamics and barriers imposed by the city's maps and signs. The tension between these kinds of space can be sinister: maps and signs, after all, exist in part to deny you full access to the city's geography, to enforce laws and property rights. They keep secrets from you. But they can also be a source of delight, an invitation to read your surroundings as several realities jostling against one another, never quite rubbing along harmoniously. After 10 years of living in London, I still get a quiet thrill from walking between Underground stations, re-ravelling connections I understand only as coloured lines on a map.

Daniel Mullins - creator of such jaw-dropping, genre-defying delights as Pony Island and The Hex - has revealed his latest "self-destructing love letter to video games". It's called Inscryption, it's a card-based horror "odyssey", and it's due to arrive on PC next year.

Capybara Games, the studio behind Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP and stellar mobile puzzler Grindstone, has revealed that its gorgeously atmospheric rogue-like dungeon-crawler Below will finally be heading to PlayStation 4 this spring - and it'll feature a brand-new, exploration-focussed way to play.

Ubisoft has promised five triple-A games before April 2021, one of which is reportedly a new Far Cry game.

Mediatonic's endearing Murder by Numbers, which blends campy visual-novel-style detective mystery and the numerical puzzling of Picross, finally has a release date. It'll be sleuthing its way to Switch and PC at the beginning of March.

Square Enix has shown off the Ruby Weapon boss fight in Final Fantasy 14 - and appropriately enough it looks rock hard.

Metro Exodus launches on Steam at 5am UK time on Saturday 15th February.

With the PC release of Monster Hunter World's superb Iceborne expansion finally out of the way, Capcom is quickly playing catch-up to bring parity between the game on Steam and console. And tomorrow sees the developer making major headway, dropping a new PC update that finally adds its hilariously odd Resident Evil crossover, new monster Rajang and more.

As one of the last major releases for the original Xbox, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is also one of the most memorable games on the system, taking the series to new places with a cross between third-person platforming and first-person shooting. With its unique weapons system, open-ended mission design and fascinating story, it's a game that always felt special and still holds up today - and it's recently received an impressive Switch conversion.

Blizzard has changed its standard refund policy for Warcraft 3: Reforged to allow refunds upon request.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will soon launch it second season, and with it add some big hitters from the series' past.

When we first meet the young orc warchief Thrall in Warcraft 3, he's just woken from a nightmare; visions of orc and human armies clashing on a battlefield as the sky burns above them.

Gears of War chief Rod Fergusson has left Microsoft to join Blizzard as the new head of Diablo.

Remember when we said February was probably Pokémon Go's busiest month ever, with half a dozen in-game events on the horizon? Well, here's another to add to your calendar on top of all that.

I've spent the week with preview code for Dan Marshall's latest, Lair of the Clockwork God. It's the new instalment in his series of Dan and Ben games, which up until now have been fairly classical adventure games. Clockwork God is different, however, because Dan has decided that indie games are the future and adventure games are history. So this means that while Ben is still playing an adventure game - collecting objects, combining them, solving puzzles - Dan is jumping around, leaping from ledge to ledge, and having indie platformer epiphanies all over the place.

Shiro Games, the developer behind Evoland and excellent Viking-themed RTS Northgard, has announced that its intriguing medieval co-op zombie-slayer Darksburg will be heading to Steam early access next week, on 12th February.

UPDATE 6pm: Following the release of Fortnite's 11.5 update earlier today, Epic has detailed its Valentine's-Day-themed limited-time Love and War event, which is already underway.

Media Molecule has announced that players who purchased the limited early access version of its promising PS4 creation tool Dreams will be able to play the full game - including its ambitious story campaign - a couple of days ahead of launch next week.

Florence is a wonderful mobile game that will now come to Switch, Steam, GOG and Mac App Store on 13th February.

February is a good month for Xbox Game Pass - Microsoft's subscription service gets Final Fantasy 15 and Wolfenstein: Youngblood this week.

When Fire Emblem: Three Houses protagonist Byleth was revealed to be Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's latest DLC character, there was something of a mixed reaction among series fans.

If Nioh was Team Ninja rediscovering its mojo, then the imminent sequel sees the prolific Shinjuku studio further refine its beloved art. This isn't a radical reinvention, nor a drastic evolution; rather it's a subtle retooling that presents a more aggressive, fantastical and diverse playground of miscreants to scythe through. It's a mean, purposeful mutation of Nioh's original formula.

Have you played Outer Wilds yet? You must! A glorious little solar system filled with dynamic forces! A time loop that encourages exploration! A puzzle to solve and a culture - several cultures - to uncover. And a game so good it was named Eurogamer's game of 2019.

Fable Fortune, the card-battling spin-off from Lionhead's much-missed fantasy RPG series, will shut down for good on 4th March.

PlayStation will shut down its Manchester-based VR studio, Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz confirmed last night.

A quiet January for new releases has been helped with the arrival of Temtem, a Pokémon-inspired MMO available now on PC - which has caused enough of a buzz that servers have struggled to keep up with demand.

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser will be leaving the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption studio in March, following an "extended break" that began early last year, according to parent company Take-Two Interactive.

Last week, Blizzard dropped its Warcraft 3 remake, Reforged, into the laps of expectant fans, and the results, it's fair to say, weren't pretty. Broken online play, bugs, missing features, and a final product that some customers felt was wide of that originally promised resulted in an immediate backlash, and Blizzard - a company still struggling to right its reputation following last year's Blitzchung debacle - has now responded.