The award-winning co-op game It Takes Two is finally verified for Steam Deck, and no longer requires the EA App to play: It now makes use of the Steam friends list for sending game invites and joining up with other players, and uses Steam Cloud for saves. That’s good news for players but also bad news for anyone relying on EA App Cloud Saves, because, well, they don’t work anymore. (But don’t worry, there’s a workaround.)

It Takes Two, the tale of an unhappy couple who are turned into dolls by a talking book in order to save their relationship (yes, seriously), was a surprise hit in 2021: We called it “brilliant co-op adventure with a wild amount of variety,” and as if that wasn’t enough it also claimed Best Multiplayer Game at the Golden Joystick Awards and Game of the Year (along with Best Family Game and Best Multiplayer Game) at The Game Awards. It also holds a “very positive” rating across more than 141,000 user reviews on Steam.

Until now, the Steam release of It Takes Two has required the EA App launcher, which is kind of a headache, so it’s good to see that gone. Also good is that even with the EA launcher no longer required, you can still play with people through the EA App if you want to: “When inviting a friend to play, choose the ‘EA Friends List’ option in-game,” the update FAQ states. “From there, you can add their EA Account to your EA friends list, and send a game invite to them through EA.”

The one hitch in the plan is those EA App Cloud saves. If you have your It Takes Two saves on your PC, as God and nature intended, they’ll be automatically uploaded to the Steam Cloud when you start the game. But if, for some reason, you were relying on the EA App Cloud exclusively to store your saves, kiss ’em goodbye: “Due to technical limitations, save games previously stored in the EA App Cloud are no longer accessible,” EA said.

Looking for a hint for today’s Wordle? Then you’ve got one. Waiting a little further down the page is a fresh clue for Wednesday’s game. Not looking for a hint, and would actually quite like someone to help you win this thing instead? No problem. The answer to the May 29 (1075) Wordle is here too.

It looked like I’d guessed my way into a tight spot today, but in truth I was exactly where I needed to be. Between the greys and greens I’d already uncovered, there was only one unlikely combination left by the end—today’s Wordle answer.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, May 29

To me, Pine Hearts looked like yet another cutesy adventure game to pour a few hours into and leave with a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest. But the further I ventured into the sleepy scenery of the caravan park, the more heart-wrenching the story became rather than the heartwarming feeling I thought I was in for. The truth is, Pine Hearts at its core is a game focused around coming to terms with loss, no matter how many distractions you try and throw yourself at along the way. 

When you start the game, your character—Tyke—has a single intention. You just want to climb the mountain and reach the summit. Unfortunately, you don’t have the right gear to do so and the only way we can get ahold of it is to explore the park. This is done through meeting the charming characters littering the map and helping out across various puzzles and fetch quests, all featuring humorous dialogue and interactions. I felt like each character I helped out became my friend, which started to build a support network for Tyke and his adventure. 

The next Doom game will be titled Doom: The Dark Ages and revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, according to a new report.

The report, which is from Insider Gaming and is unconfirmed, claims this new Doom game has been in development for four years, and will be set in a “medieval-inspired doom world”.

I’ve really appreciated how Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 treat us like adults: that’s right, baby, our RPGs have tasteful premium cable nudity now, throw that formerly de rigueur loincloth diaper in the trash and feel the breeze. Both games, however, have a censored mode for more impressionable audiences, and while Cyberpunk just slaps a pair of briefs on V and calls it a day, Baldur’s Gate 3’s solution had me cackling when I saw it in action.

Brave cyber sojourner Traditional_Put8471 on the BG3 subreddit went where no gamer has gone before, sampling the more chaste side of things in Larian’s notoriously horny masterpiece out of sheer curiosity. I turned the option on in my own game as well, and yep, it’s that simple: gone are Baldur’s Gate 3’s smorgasbord of customizable private parts, instead replaced with a wee fig leaf like something out of a cartoon.

This really is the funniest thing Larian could have done here, another comedic coup from the masters of RPG slapstick. It feels perfectly of a piece with the studio letting us talk to all the animals in their games or shove any NPC into a bottomless pit, an indefatigable commitment to keeping it goofy that I will never grow tired of.