Steam recently sorted out their refund policy after years of it not really having much of one. It’s now possible to claim a refund for a game, as long as it’s within fourteen days of purchase and less than two hours have been played.

Sounds pretty fair, but indie devs are beginning to complain that some unscrupulous gamers are taking advantage of it, by buying games, playing through them in less than two hours and then getting their refunds. Essentially, they claim that gamers are playing their full games for free, and if that’s true it’s not good.

Qwiboo, developers of Beyond Gravity, and Puppygames, developers of Revenge of the Titans, are two of these indies, who have backed their claim with graphs. And truthfully it does seem that they have a point…

It’s sort of worrying if this is a trend that is going to keep up. Hopefully Valve will tighten the rules to stop serial committers of “refund demos” before it costs a small indie studio their livelihood.

As we know, soon Windows 10 will be released to the public with a latest Windows update allowing for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to reserve their copy if they wish.

However, as with every update some things will not be making their way across to the new version. We’ve already seen this with Microsoft’s attempt to remove the Start button for another system for Windows 8, which didn’t really work out as it will be making a return for Windows 10.

This time, Windows Media Centre is biting the dust, as well as the long-lived Solitaire, Minesweeper and Hearts games; although the latter is being replaced with newer versions named Microsoft Solitaire Collection and Microsoft Minesweeper.

Here’s the full list of depreciated features:

• If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, or Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and you install Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed.
• Watching DVDs requires separate playback software
• Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed as part of installing Windows 10.
• Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.
• Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.”
• If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer’s website.
• If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.

Amazon are a massive company right now in the digital age of the Internet, and after carving out a sizeable market in the e-shopping domain and the streaming one the company is trying out an entry into yet another market. Simply put, they want to make a video game.

Amazon have made it clear that they wish to make PC games and have listed a whole heap of jobs going for people to take up. They want to make an “ambitious new PC game” using “the latest technology”, and already they’ve got a team that contains former Portal, World of Warcraft, BioShock, Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, Halo, Infamous, Shadow of Mordor and The Last of Us developers. So it’s a fair bet that they’re aiming for something big. Most noticeably they’re looking for people who have had previous experience with AAA games.

Only time will tell what they have in store.

Blizzard have recently been putting out a lot of video content for their upcoming game Overwatch, putting out gameplay of full matches being played by certain characters. So far Reaper, Tracer, Mercy and others have been covered and now it’s the turn of engineer Torbjörn.

Torbjörn’s skill is in the building of turrets to assist in assault and defence, and he does it by gathering scrap metal dropped by dead enemies to put together a turret. He can then further upgrade its abilities using more scrap. He can also drop armour cores for his allies to use for a defence buff and can overheat his armour for his Ultimate ability which ups his stats in armour, attack, building and repairs.

Check out the video here:

Overwatch is scheduled to enter open Beta in the autumn.

Desura is a bit like Steam, a digital distribution store for PC games, although focused mainly on the indie gaming market. Recently Desura’s been having a little trouble, with devs of games complaining about not being paid the money from sales for months at a time.

While at the time Desura were reassuring the developers that they would be paid, and put the delays down to the change of ownership (Desura was previously owned by Linden Lab who developed Second Life before it was sold to Bad Juju their current owner) and the illness of the CEO; it seems that it was a symptom of worse to come. Bad Juju have just filed for bankruptcy.

Desura did not have an automated system but was apparently working on one while they made manual payments to the developers. With the new development in the financial situation of its parent company though, it’s unknown if the missing money will be paid out at all or if it is how much and when.

Tony Novak, CEO of Bad Juju, has been quoted as saying that he is unable to answer questions yet under advice of lawyers. It’s hoped that more details will be made public soon.