EA hints at return to Steam

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By Jody Macgregor
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It may not seem like much to go on, but EA tweeting out a picture of a steaming hot beverage in an EA mug sure seems like a hint their games will be returning to Steam. Said games have been available exclusively through Origin on PC since the launch of Battlefield 3 back in 2011, and Crysis 2 was even pulled from Steam at the time (though it came back a year later).

One tweet's not the only evidence EA's games might be coming back to Valve's launcher. Earlier this week, @RobotBrush found a test application to run Origin games through Steam, suggesting a similar situation to Uplay, where the games are on sale in Steam but open their own launcher when played.

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If it turns out to be true, it could mean we'll be playing Apex Legends with access to our Steam friends list, or filing all the Mass Effect games together in the one library. Which would be nice.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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