Beat Saber‘s $100 Bills is an obnoxious song that I cannot remove from my brain. It’s the musical equivalent of a bloke sidling up to you in a pub and asking if you want to see his armpits. Fortunately, Beat Saber has other songs, and makes slicing beats so satisfying that sometimes I don’t even care that armpit man won’t stop grunting about how wealthy he is.

If you own either a Vive or an Oculus and like either music, lightsabers or a good time, this is one of the best games to throw your VR moolah at. Especially now that it’s slashed its way out of early access with a level editor.

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Overwatch has now been kicking around the multiplayer shooter scene for three years, although it feels like longer, thanks to the game’s constant barrage of seasonal updates and events. Blizzard are kicking off their anniversary celebrations with a trial week, so anyone still on the fence can try the game free here, and newcomers will get to try all of the notable event modes of the past few years, one a day. Players that log in during the anniversary event (running until June 10th) will get a free commemorative loot box, and hopefully come away with at least one of the new outfits. Below, an anniversary trailer.

Update: Along with the anniversary events, Blizzard have also rolled their modding-lite Overwatch Workshop mode onto the live servers.>

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Since its launch in 2014, The Sims 4 has received a steady diet of add-ons and updates, making it one of EA’s longest-lasting games. Now there’s no excuse not to check out what all the fuss is about because you can get the base game for free on Origin for the next week.

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The Domain Of Timeless Conflict, centrepiece of Path Of Exile‘s upcoming free Legion update, isn’t quite> the mead-swilling viking afterlife, but it’s close enough to be worth invading and looting. It’ll hit Grinding Gear Games’s free-to-play action RPG on June 7th and replaces the current (and controversial) Synthesis league. Legion adds a new quarterly source of loot and experience to the world, and permanently overhauls the game’s melee combat. This is on top of the usual pile of new skill gems, unique items and a re-balance to make early-game monsters scary once more. See the trailer below.

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Even two decades after its release, The Longest Journey hasn’t lost its hold on players’ imaginations. Except now, satisfying that nostalgia fix doesn’t have to mean stomaching those 1999 graphics thanks to a high-res makeover mod released last week.

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Laid-back city-builder Cities: Skylines today enters the period of supreme slack with the addition of universities in its latest expansion. ‘Campus’ is its name, and building campuses is its game. You too can establish fine educational establishments for students to doss about, build sports arenas for them to shout in, and shape your city’s policies to enable their idleness. It’s possible you may find some benefits to educating and occupying young people, I suppose. Their vomiting in the streets might sate seagulls who’d otherwise be mugging grannies for chips, for example.

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Alright, yesterday was depressing and made some of you sad (buddy, if you think reproductive healthcare bums you> out, imagine how some of the rest of us feel!). But today I’m actually feeling pretty good today, which is out of sorts with Marty Burnham The Moon Witch, who is feeling trapped by hope. That probably needs a whole several hundred words of analysis by itself. But, blimey love, lighten up, am I right? Luckily I’m here to bring the mood back up again.

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When American Fugitive was announced – a game about escaping from jail, staying one step ahead of the cops and avenging your dad’s death – I didn’t expect it to be as big a tribute to Grand Theft Auto as we’ve got at launch today, despite obvious similarities. Still, those looking for something more in the vein of earlier GTA games, where the cars were small, the people were even tinier and explosions are frequent, this might be worth taking for a spin. Not to say that developers Fallen Tree Games haven’t had a few ideas of their own. Case the joint and the launch trailer below.

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Even as a fan of RPGs myself, the Atelier Arland series and I have been like two ships passing in the night. Starcrossed by both my limited schedule and the role-playing genre’s requirement that I sacrifice the equivalent of a small child’s lifetime to complete any one game. And that’s just with a single playthrough. Many fans swear the synthesise ’em up is every bit as lovely as its beautiful cutscenes look, though, and today the fourth instalment hit Steam, Atelier Lulua: The Scion Of Arland.

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When Valve implemented Steam’s anti-review-bombing policy in March – manual exclusion of “off topic” review clusters from a game’s overall score – they’d not given much thought to what a ‘positive’ review bomb could look like. Just one month later, Notre Dame cathedral goes up in holy smoke and Ubisoft bring in a flood of positive press (and reviews) for Assassin’s Creed Unity through a Uplay giveaway and a half-million-dollar donation to help rebuild the landmark. This has led Valve to a rare bit of public introspection on how they should even define “off-topic”, shared in this official blog post.

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