When we heard that Volition was kicking off PAX this weekend and would be announcing their new project, we knew there was a good chance it was going to be related to the Saints Row franchise. Especially when the voice of one of its characters was there to help present the panel and then later artwork surfaced of a ouija board that contained the prominent fleur-de-lis image of the games’ titular gang.

So it comes as no surprise that the project turns out to be a new standalone expansion to the Saints Row 4 game – Saints Row 4: Gat Out of Hell has gone from the superheroics of the last main game to the supernatural. The two-player co-op sees Johnny Gat and Kinzie of the Saints sucked to Hell by ouija board to battle demons and eventually face Satan himself to rescue the Boss.

The game’s version of Hell will be half the size of SR4’s Steelport and will feature some new weapons which in true Saints style, are just plain bonkers. For example one of them is called Arm Chairmageddon and is basically a La-Z-Boy recliner with guns. Others draw more from the ‘hell and damnation’ side of the game’s style, including the Locust Gun.

Gat Out of Hell will be sold separately for $19.95 in North America and will be released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on Jan. 27, 2015. The expansion will also be part of an upcoming re-release of Saints Row 4 called Saints Row 4: Re-Elected for PS4 and Xbox One. No word yet about prices or release dates for European versions.

Steam’s policy of refunding can be a bit of a nightmare at the best of times. Now the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) are planning to take Valve to court over the policy which they argue is in “breach of the Australian Consumer Law for businesses”. Pretty serious stuff.

The list of points that make up their case include the belief that Valve is seeking to modify guarantees and would not refund games that the customer hadn’t attempted to sort their differences out with the publisher or developer first (and weren’t Valve games themselves). Australian consumers have a right to a refund if a product does not work as advertised and that the “allegation is that Valve sought to remove those consumer rights which is a breach of Australian Consumer Law”.

On their part Valve have stated that they’re working with the ACCC to resolve the matter while still continuing to bring their services to all gamers around the world who love gaming through their platform.

Creators of popular and long-running MMO EVE Online have closed yet another American office following on from the closure of their Atlanta office earlier this year. This time it’s the office in San Francisco as CCP move to “combine and simplify” their operations.

The closure also comes with the news that prominent employee David Reid who joined the company in 2012 to oversee the launch of Dust 514 has also been let go, along with CFO Joe Gallo who had worked at CCP for five.

The recent changes are meant to refocus efforts on back on EVE as a game and in the Reykjavik HQ, where Eve is developed. As of yet though the Eve Valkyrie team in Newcastle remains operational.

GOG’s had some pretty big changes made recently. No worries though, it’s all good.

The first of the big changes is one that was discussed earlier but then scrapped. Regional pricing means that customers in countries other than the USA can now see prices in currencies other than just American dollars. Currently Euros, Pounds Sterling, Australian Dollars and Russian Roubles are supported. The plan was previously scrapped because just as with Steam the prices in other currencies didn’t exactly match those ones in dollars, but GOG are now getting around this by making it an option to choose to pay in a currency other than dollars. They’ve made the prices more equal too, although where the publisher of the game follows a different regional pricing you’ll be able to get the difference refunded in store credit if you choose to pay with something other than dollars.

The other big change suggests that GOG are trying to beat Steam to the punch with their upcoming support for movies and televisual media. There are now 21 documentaries about gaming available for purchase on GOG, some free while others are currently discounted under a launch offer. There’s also plans to bring more to GOG but no one seems to want to be the first to try.

“DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it’s gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right.” said GOG

Seems that CCP think that wormholes in their game EVE Online have gotten too predictable, they’ve made some changes to how they work to put a little mystery back into a game that currently publishes guides on the best wormholes to live in.

The Hyperion update will open up new wormhole connections. The ones with black holes inside are now places for fast-skirmishes between ships and class 4 systems will gain an extra reliable exit point. The changes to calculations of mass on ships entering wormholes have also been changed and will result in bigger ships drifting further away from the hole’s entrance and safer grounds – hopefully resulting in more “exciting skirmishes”.

Another addition to the game sees the addition of ‘burner’ pirates – solo attackers that wait behind space gates to attack frigate-class ships that open them. CCP have apparently take inspiration from player encounters in adding these ships and programming their behaviour patterns.

Hyperion is the third mini-expansion released for EVE, in a change from the traditional large expansions that CCP used to bring around to the game a lot less often.