Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Maxis Platform: PC Release: March 5th, 2013 You couldn’t have written it better. For the sake of our future and the future of all those developers still basement bound and instant noodle fed, EA had to...
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Madden NFL 13 [Game]
Publisher: EA Sports Developer: EA Tiburon Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, Vita, Wii Released: August 28th Rated: E for Everyone My main opinions on this review will focus solely on the PSVita version of the game. While I have been playing...
EA (Kind of?) Announces Battlefield 4
Battlefield 3 was one of EA’s biggest tent-pole releases last year, with a little over two million sales worldwide, as well as numerous accolades from the game critique crowd. So it was a foregone conclusion that another Battlefield title would be put into development, that we’d hear about its announcement in a huge splashy Game Informer cover, and promptly proceed...
E3 2012: Electronic Arts “The Download” Live-Blog
This event is now OVER. Please feel free to read through the news as it broke, and comment on the article.
38 Studios is Empty Effective Immediately.
In a somewhat shocking turn of events, the Rhode Island based 38 Studios has layed off it’s entire staff today. Everyone inside the company recieved this email this morning, The Company is experiencing an economic downturn. To avoid further losses and possibility of retrenchment, the Company has decided that a companywide lay off is absolutely necessary. These layoffs are non-voluntary...
South African Retailer May Have Just Revealed Existence of Dead Space 3, Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2
Though this has yet to be confirmed by EA, South African retailer BTGames was spotted having put up listings for both Dead Space 3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2, both of which EA properties, on their website earlier this week, though these pages have since been edited to have the games’ names removed. This isn’t the first time...
EA’s Stance Against Homophobia: “the truth”, THE TRUTH, and The Actual Truth of the Situation
Electronic Arts has recently been making a very public splash in the LGBT world. They’ve made a public statement this week that due to the use of gay and lesbian characters within their games (including most recently Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3) they have been receiving thousands of angry messages from homophobic individuals incensed about their...
Bulletstorm 2 Cancelled, due to “Poor PC Port and Piracy”
The alliteration in the title was entirely by accident. The supposed sequel to everyone’s favourite “FPS-meets-Calvinball” title Bulletstorm has been officially scrapped today, from a statement by Epic Games president Mike Capps. Despite receiving a positive critical reception, it seems that the sales from Bulletstorm ended up being not quite what EA was hoping for. While poor sales were quoted...
Bioware’s Dr. Ray Admits They’re Looking into Doing Something for Mass Effect 3′s Ending
So, internet, from the sounds of things it seems like you’re not, shall we say, excited at how everyone’s favourite space racism parable concluded. Having not yet seen the ending myself (despite my best efforts) I can only take your word for it. But my there are a lot of words out there against it right now. From vitriolic forum...
SimCity 5 is Official, and Officially PC Exclusive.
Deemed the “rebirth of the SimCity franchise” at GDC this year, EA officially announced SimCity 5 for PC only. Set to land in 2013, there is a lot of great attention and hard work going into this new installment. One of the most intriguing part of SimCity 5 is that the robust earth simulator will be fully functional in multi-player...
Mass Effect 3 Allegedly Requires Users to Constantly be Online in Order to Access DLC
The title “Most Evil Game Publisher” has been a hotly contested “award” for a number of years, with companies such as Activision or Zynga (who I’m personally not too big a fan of) making great strides in the field of corporate scumbaggery, but as of late it seems no one’s been able to come close to the crowned king of...
EA Announces New Swedish Game Studio, EA Gothenburg
Announced yesterday at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference, the giant that is Electronic Arts is growing yet another arm, this time in the ominous-sounding (though admittedly very pretty) Swedish city of Gothenburg. This will mark the second EA studio in the nordic country, alongside EADICE. Though no concrete details on what EA Gothenburg is or will be working on first...
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning [Game]
Developer: 38 Studios, Big Huge Games Publisher: Electronic Arts, 38 Studios Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Release Date: February 7th, 2012 Rated: M for Mature “Reckoning takes the head chair at the kiddie table with resolve and reason”. On paper, Reckoning has probably the greatest potential of the year. However, this is only the start of the KoA franchise...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Game]
When BioWare said they were making a Star Wars based MMORPG we all heard two questions being spoken. One, will the world play and pay monthly for a game that isn’t filling a void in our industry? And two, are Star Wars fans so in love with the franchise that they will buy anything with the name attached? In short;...
Bioware Admits The Old Republic Server Queues an Issue
Getting an online world created, working, and inhabited can only be considered a monumental, awe-inducing task, and even though by now MMO’s are something of an understood genre amongst game developers, it’s still seemingly impossible to launch one without their being some sort of issue. Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic is no exception to this rule, as countless people...
EA already teasing the next Medal of Honor.
On the heels of publishing DICE’s Battlefield 3, and wrapped around the launch of Modern Warfare 3, EA has begun teasing the next “adventure” in the Medal of Honor series. VERY little is available about the new game, other than it will proceed this year’s re-launch of the franchise and will most likely include another multiplayer designed by the awesome...
Mass Effect 3 gets 4-player co-op and Galaxy at War feature!
People already know that Mass Effect 3 is planned to be big, but today it more truly grew with the announcements of 4-player co-op missions and an online feature for the single-player campaign called Galaxy of War. Both of these will mark the first appearance of any multiplayer interaction in the Mass Effect series, and from the sound of things...
Beta Bonanza! Info, Impressions, and Assassinations.
Everyone check your Battle.net account RIGHT NOW! Once you sign in, go to “account” tab and see if you were one of the lucky buggers to get into the Diablo III early Beta. I’ll be on (after I download this huge file) and hopefully bring you fine folks an update later in the week. We’ve been waiting YEARS for the...
STFU & Return to Your Cave!
Hey McLeans! How about you get the hell off that horse of yours that really isn’t as high as you think it is. Dear Jesse Brown, Please stop doing everything you do in your life and return to the damp and sweaty cave that you protruded from. In a recent article from the intelligently deformed Brown, McLeans readers took a...
Madden 12 – 360 [GB Review]
Developer: EA Tiburon, HB Studios (Wii, PSP, PS2) Publisher: EA Sports Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Playstation Portable, Wii, iOS, Android Release Date: August 30th (NA), Sept 2nd (EU) Rated: E for Everyone “Madden 12 scores a TOUCHDOWN on a trick-play.” Opening Statement: There is nothing that leaves sports fans more anxious than waiting for the latest instalment...
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