Author: Trafficblast

The Epic Games Store has announced a change in its refund policy. Epic Games director of publishing strategy Sergey Galyonkin revealed the change on Twitter, writing that people will be able to refund a game provided it is “within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours played.” You will also now have unlimited refunds through Epic, giving the game store the same policy as Steam.

According to Variety, to previously refund a game on Epic, you had to submit a ticket. From there, you’d get a verification request where you’d need to fill out several fields of information, including your public IP address, the date your Epic Games account was created, an invoice ID, your location, your account’s display name, the final four numbers of the debit or credit card connected to your account, and the date of your last login. Only then would your ticket be reviewed.

Now, provided you ask within the 14 days and two hours played guidelines, you only need to submit a ticket through player support to get the refund. “The team is working on the self-service solution, but for now, you’ll have to go through player support,” Galyonkin said.

Over the past few months, Epic has been making moves to undercut its largest PC game store competitor, Steam. When Epic announced its new store, the company offered game developers a better deal than they’d get on Steam by taking less of the profits and promising to aid creators who used Unreal Engine. Epic has also secured several exclusives, such as Hades and the PC version of Journey, and even taken the PC version of games expected to launch on Steam, like the latter half of The Walking Dead: The Final Season and The Division 2.

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Treyarch has a number of patches lined up for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 this month. The developer rolled out the first of these–which added new Featured playlists, among other things–earlier this week, and now it’s given fans a preview of what’s coming in the game’s next update.

Over on Reddit, the studio outlined what’s in store for Black Ops 4 next week. All three of the game’s modes will be receiving some attention. Zombies is set to get Gauntlets, which Treyarch describes as “curated 30-round challenges with unique rules for each round.” The developer is also holding a 115 Day Celebration Event in the mode from January 15-18. The event will be available on all platforms and offers double XP, weapon XP, and Nebulium Plasma.

For the Blackout battle royale mode, Treyarch will be implementing a new looting interface on consoles, making it easier to loot specific items. The developer says it will also hold two limited-time modes in Blackout next week. No further details have been provided yet, but Treyarch teases that it will reveal more info about the modes–as well as “more Blackout news”–soon.

Finally, in multiplayer mode, next week’s update will add both Elevation and Madagascar to the map rotation for those who have the Black Ops Pass. Treyarch says that future maps will be added to the full rotation “as they’re released.” The update will also bring new Featured playlists, as well as stability improvements and other fixes.

Later in the month, Treyarch will introduce League Play to Black Ops 4. This will make competitive multiplayer more akin to what’s seen in professional matches, with skill-based matchmaking putting participants into 50-player groupings.

The Witcher 3’s Geralt of Rivia is invading Capcom’s hit action RPG, Monster Hunter World, this year as part of the game’s next crossover event. The publisher has now confirmed that the famed Witcher is set to arrive in the PS4 and Xbox One versions as a free update, which rolls out early next month, on February 8.

The White Wolf finds himself in the New World after being transported there by a portal. Capcom hasn’t revealed many details yet about what the crossover will entail, but it says there will be new quests “with a unique flavor, blending the RPG mechanics of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Monster Hunter World’s game systems.”

Capcom also says Monster Hunter World’s Witcher collaboration was developed closely with CD Projekt Red, the studio behind The Witcher games. Among other things, Geralt’s original voice actor has been enlisted to provide new voice over work.

Geralt is hardly the only video game character to cross over with Monster Hunter World. Earlier this month, Capcom collaborated with Ubisoft to bring Assassin’s Creed content to the game. By completing a new event quest, players will be able to craft a new set of layered armor that makes them appear as Bayek, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed Origins.

Before Geralt arrives, Capcom will kick off Monster Hunter World’s Appreciation Fest, an in-game event commemorating the title’s first anniversary. The celebration begins on January 26 and will bring back “almost all” previous event quests. It will also feature new gear, limited bounties, and “some very special” event quests.