HomeNews EA games hit Steam en masse today, and EA Access is coming soonAccess all areas Access all areas Image credit:EA Image credit:EA With very rare exceptions, EA have long been shy about bringing their games to Steam. But over the last year or so, the two massive firms have slowly shown signs of making amends. Itstarted with last year’s Jedi: Fallen Order, and this week saw the fruits of that partnership properly come to pass as a ton of EA games, old and new, made their way over to the house of Valve - alongside some hefty discounts and hints at a Steam debut for subscription service EA Access....

HomeDeals GOG have added a new Witcher bundle and more free games to their Summer SaleWitcher gonna play first? Witcher gonna play first? GOG’s Summer Sale is in full swing at the moment, but just in case you needed another reason to dive back in to their big sack o' deals, they’ve just added a new Witcher collection that gets you all five games for£20 / $27, plus a bunch of free games, includingThimbleweed Park’s Delores Mini-Adventure, so grab ‘em while you can until June 15th....

HomeNews Infinity Ward lays out plans to crack down on racism in Call Of Duty"There is no place for racist content in our game" “There is no place for racist content in our game” Call Of Dutydevelopers, Infinity Ward, have pledged to “do more” against the racist content players bring to their games. Last night,they tweetedtheir plans to put more resources in place to monitor and remove racist and hateful content, improve reporting systems and increase the number and severity of bans....

HomeNews Overcooked is once again Epic’s freebie for the weekFree-for-all fry up. Free-for-all fry up. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube It was never a pace Epic was going to be able to keep up, and it looks like the freebies might be taking it easy for the time being. For what it’s worth though,Overcookedis a proper good time. A great couch co-op chef ‘em up about attempting to prepare, cook and serve meals in increasingly perilous situations....

HomeNews The Sims 4 update has a bug that makes sims pee fireBatten down the mod hatches Batten down the mod hatches Nevertheless, the update has caused a kerfuffle in the community. Most significantly, many people are reporting crashes on specific save files. Some households are failing to load, and there is anguish and gnashing of teeth as people have lost access to massive mansion builds they’ve spent hours on, despite attempting to restore saves or reverting to older ones....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant has a great bug where you fuse into other playersWhy are they not laughing Why are they not laughing The culprit is Reyna, the new hero who was added on launch day. She’s got an ability that briefly lets her go invisible when combined with her Ultimate ability. Unfortunately, under certain circumstances it also seems to make her… intangible. [BUG] Reyna’s “E” ability during Ult got me stuck onto another playerfromr/VALORANT...

HomeNews Humble launching $1 million publishing fund for Black developers"We stand in solidarity" “We stand in solidarity” While Humble are best known for their pay-what-you want Humble Bundles and their Humble Store, they do publish indie games themselves too. Their publishing label has put out games includingTemtem,Void Bastards, and Wizard Of Legend. Humble have also funded small and experimental games as ‘Humble Originals’ for their subscription service, Humble Choice. Theyrelaunched their publishing brandonly last month...

HomeReviewsOld World Old World review (early access)It’s an old world after all It’s an old world after all And not just any old pet monkey, this is a pet monkey with the capacity to alter the course of history at any given moment, its idiot monkey paws tipping the balance of power one way or the other, determining the fate of epochs and chaperoning the fortunes of generations. When Old World is not being a typical 4X game – in which you build out your cities, develop tiles into resource-producing farms and quarries, and send scouts out to explore the map, scraping away the fog of war like fingernails on a continent-sized scratchcard – it plays more like an interactive novel....

HomeNews Paradox set to sign collective agreement with unions"We hope it will inspire people to organize in video game companies the world over” “We hope it will inspire people to organize in video game companies the world over” Part of the need to organise seems to have stemmed fromt the company’s growth over the last few years. They’re continuing to expand pretty quickly too. Just the other daythey announced the opening of Paradox Tinto, a new Spanish studio focused on grand strategy games, and said they plan to hire more 200 people company-wide in 2020 alone....

HomeFeaturesPath of Exile Path Of Exile’s next expansion takes a leaf from Stardew Valley and makes loot-farming literalStabbed-you Valley Stabbed-you Valley On June 19th, the next quarterly update forPath Of Exile- the free-to-play action RPG - will give players the chance to trade blood-soaked knives for green fingers. It’s called Harvest, and it tasks you with managing a garden. Of course, your glowing nocturnal plants will blossom into monsters needing slaying, but this should provide some downtime between dungeon crawls in a game that has grown faster and more aggressive with every update....

HomeReviewsPoly Bridge 2 Poly Bridge 2 reviewA bridge not far enough A bridge not far enough I’m so interested in how expectation affects our experience of games. Whether it’s from over-ambitious promotional materials, peculiarly unhelpful reviews, or completely misreading the game’s description before buying it, what we’re hoping for before we start really colours how we receive the game. I was convinced thatPoly Bridge 2was a goofy physics puzzler, something somewhere between Totally Accurate Battle Simulator andCrayon Physics Deluxe....

HomeNewsKerbal Space Program 2 Report: Kerbal Space Program 2 switched developers after Take-Two poached Star Theory’s teamOut of the airlock and into the frying pan Out of the airlock and into the frying pan Back in 2017, Take-Twobought Kerbal Space Programfrom its developers at Squad. After that, they handed off development of the sequel to the developers at Star Theory. Importantly though, Take-Two didn’t own Star Theory, only the game they were working on....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves has dropped anchor on SteamGather your crew and voyage forth Gather your crew and voyage forth Oh I’m so jealous of all the new players who’re going to get to experienceSea Of Thievesfor the first time. Today, Rare’s excellent loot huntin', ship shootin' pirate sandbox opened its doors to Steam players. So, Sea Of Thieves is no longer exclusive to the Windows Store, after two years, and what’s more, it has cross-platform play and progression between Steam, Windows and Xbox....