Now EA's on Euro Steam, but not UK

Electronic Arts and Valve now claim that a number of the former's games are available "to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam".

However, the newcomers remain unavailable to UK gamers (and apparently those in Japan), despite reported availability across the rest of the continent.

The games in question are Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect, Need for Speed: Undercover and FIFA Manager. The US store also has Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. (We originally said that Crysis and Crysis Warhead were among the new games, but these have been available for a while - apologies for the error).

EA and Valve have yet to comment on the UK hold-up.