Agreement will take effect from this time next year Just Causedevelopers Avalanche have become home to the latest union in the games industry, with over 500 staff at the Swedish studio set to be covered by a new agreement formed with local labour unions. The move sees Avalanche enter a collective bargaining agreement with Swedish organisations Unionen and Engineers of Sweden for all employees based in the Scandinavian country. According to Avalanche, the agreement covers over 500 staff, the majority of Avalanche’s more than 650-strong headcount - most of those in Stockholm and Malmö, with others based in New York, Liverpool and Montreal....

And thank you for all the words Now, sadly, she is departing RPS for a new adventure. Come say thank you and farewell. For the past three years, Katharine has been the driving force behind Rock Paper Shotgun. That includes launching series likeThe RPS 100, theTime Capsules, theGame Club, theBestest Best Readers' Editions, and many more, while supporting the team in the expansion of podcasts, Indiescovery, the return to a fully remote team, and yet still much more....

The gravity-defying debut FPS from Cliff Bleszinski’s studio Five years afterLawBreakersshut down, we’re getting to play the gravity-defying multiplayer FPS again thanks to fans. LawBreakers was the first game from Boss Key Productions, a studio co-founded by Gears Of Wars lead designer Cliff Bleszinski, and it had delightful ultraviolence beneath its uninspiring genric look. Alas, it did not sell well. Boss Key closed less than a year after launch, and the game soon followed....

More entities due in future updates as developer shifts away from adding endgame content Co-opsmash-hitLethal Companyhas received its first update in a couple of months, and it’s a biggie! Version 50 brings a new map and some new creatures to contend with, alongside some changes that make being a shovel-wielding monster-slayer or speedrunning the game a bit less easy. Version 50 is the first big update since Version 47 back in January (which was followed by two smaller hotfixes for 48 and 49)....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #309 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

I can only imagine someone said ‘Cue-thulhu’ by mistake and took it from there It’s not every day you get to use both the ‘sports’ and ‘horror’ tags for the same game.Pool of Madness, an upcoming eldritch pool game where your surroundings get more bizarre and maddening the longer you play, is the latest game to crowbar Lovecraft into a place where no Lovecraft existed previously. It’s also the latest game to make me, someone who’s ostensibly had enough Lovecraft for one lifetime think: actually, yes, go on then....

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by the slow (yet speedy!) reload of a flintlock, feathered dinosaurs, parrying bullets, snowboard stunting, an underslung chainsaw, and heaps more. Check out these attractive and interesting indie games! Asa fan of parrying projectiles, I do like thatTokyo Underground Killer(coming to Steam) demonstrates a risk around the reward of returning bullets with your katana:...

Fallout 4, New Vegas and 76 have more than doubled their players on Steam Crawl out through the fallout, baby! I’ve watched two episodes of Amazon’srecently releasedFalloutTV show, a series for and about Walton Goggins' rizz (a thing the kids say). I’ve been on the Goggins hype train for over a decade at this point, and it’s great that - oh sorry, I’m being told that the Fallout TV show is in fact about Bethesda’s post-nukepocalypseRPGseries of video games, and as such has given a massive player bump to said video games on Steam....

This week’s least boring videogame releases, plus our weekly liveblog Another week, another Monday waking up to find Edwin has trapped himself between the Maw’s cyclopean molars on what was supposed to be a routine scrubbing expedition. We usually get him out just fine, but today he’s become entranced by the chomper’s blighted runoff, and is busy stuffing plaque samples in his trousers to bring back and study. So, you get me instead....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

2D platforming with snappy combat Among theonslaught of game trailersat the terribly named Triple-I Initiative was a release date forGestalt: Steam & Cinder. It’s a 2D platformer with a heavy dose of combat and a big upgrade tree, and there’s a demo available now. All I’ve wanted to play since Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown is more metroidvanias. Gestalt, notably, does not use that genre name anywhereon its Steam page, though it’s among the user-defined tags....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #308 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

“Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?” Ubisoft have now taken the extra step of revoking The Crew licenses from purchasers and removing it from their library. Players have reported that The Crew has moved in their Ubisoft Connect libraries to a new ‘Inactive Games’ section, from which it can no longer be downloaded and installed. Clicking on the entry instead presents a message that reads, “You no longer have access to this game....