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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.

Fallout 76's long-awaited Wastelanders update, which adds fully voiced NPCs to Bethesda's beleaguered multiplayer game, is finally be coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC on 7th April, and it'll be heading to Steam on the same day.

After years in development, Nvidia's GeForce Now service is finally available to all users. Hosting PC games in the cloud, GeForce Now ties into your existing PC library across a range of online storefronts, allowing you to play your games on computers, smartphones and tablets. 1080p gaming at 60 frames per second is the aim, with Nvidia even offering access to real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing for users prepared to pay a small price premium. More power, more titles, more flexibility, portability with your games library - in theory it's an impressive offering and 4K streaming apart, its feature set leaves Google Stadia in the shade.

Nearly seven years after its first release, Saints Row 4 is headed to Nintendo Switch.

Colourful couch co-op game Moving Out will move onto Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 28th April.

That rumour didn't last long. Stories last week suggested that the long awaited Switch Pro would arrive in 2020, with Nintendo bringing the fight to the next-gen Microsoft and Sony console launches. It all sounded rather unlikely and Nintendo was quick to dismiss the story. The current Switch range continues to sell relentlessly and there's no substantial commercial reason for Nintendo to release a more powerful model quite yet - nor to go head-to-head with PS5 and Series X with what would almost certainly be less capable hardware. However, the firm's partnership with Nvidia is likely to continue and three years on from the Switch's release, plans must surely be afoot for a next-gen system. On top of that, looking at how Nvidia's tech is evolving presents some mouthwatering opportunities for a new, more powerful Nintendo console hybrid.

70 per cent of people who work in the UK games industry are men.

Pop 14th April in your diary. It's the day a game called Someday You'll Return comes out.

Following the drama that was Apex Legends' new character reveal, developer Respawn is finally ready to start talking specifics ahead of Season 4's arrival tomorrow, 4th February - and it's now shared news on the big map changes coming, alongside a first gameplay trailer.

Some games have you from the start screen. So it is with Over the Alps, a narrative adventure from a team that's had experience at both Inkle and Failbetter, so knows quite a bit about this narrative adventure stuff by now. Anyway, the start screen: a stylised plane coasts over a stylised mountain range. At the bottom of the image, the legend: Alpine Adventure. Alpine Adventure! Yes please!

Sony's Christmas sales figures are in and they're good - but they're down noticeably on those from previous years.

Less than four hours into its Kickstarter campaign, Platinum Games' The Wonderful 101: Remastered has smashed all initial funding goals, meaning it's coming to Switch, PC, and PS4.