It's that time of year again. EA Sports has cranked its annual Super Bowl simulation through the latest installment of the Madden NFL franchise to predict the winner of this Sunday's big game. And the winner is...
Everyone with a console knows that this fall’s biggest FPS showdown will be when EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other. And, as fans leaning toward one title or another have fired shots on comment threads all over the web, speculation’s run rampant over [...]
When you think about it, Harry Potter video games were simply born under a bad sign. The stuff that video games can do well when inspired–incredible world-building, the explication of a fantasy construct and its rules–were all done to genius levels in the rich imaginings of J.K. Rowling’s writing. And then, the eight movies that [...]
Video game grudge matches rarely come this perfectly designed.
Exhaustion’s the only appropriate response after the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo. Even if you’re only watching at home, it’s dizzying trying to keep up with all the news, hype and announcements that emanate from the Los Angeles Convention Center.
You loved Dragon Age II to the tune of 1 million unit sales in under two weeks, and now BioWare wants to love you back–by handing out free downloadable copies of sci-fi roleplaying epic Mass Effect 2. The PC version, that is.
Electronic Arts just got a little greener and its retail footprint a trifle leaner. The world’s largest video games publisher says it’s finally pulling the plug on printed game manuals, making it–not the first, but certainly the largest games publisher to bid those little black-and-white pamphlets sayonara.
The original Crysis set an altogether new level of expectation as to how detailed and graphically impressive a video game could look like. “Can it play Crysis?” became shorthand for how robust a computer’s graphics, video computing components were. For all the imprint the title left on fans, the game design of that first-person shooter [...]
It’s time to reveal one of the failings of my geek CV: Fantasy leaves me cold, at least the sort of high fantasy descended from Tolkien. Maybe it was the high school English teacher who pushed The Hobbit too hard on me or the friends who insisted I’d love George R.R. Martin or Piers Anthony. [...]
EA’s hoping to storm to the top of the modern military FPS heap with Battlefield 3, ending Call of Duty‘s recent reign as the number one shooter franchise. The man leading the charge at the DICE development studio making the game is executive producer Patrick Bach. Bach’s been at DICE for nine years and spoke [...]
Last night at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, EA and its DICE development studio unveiled a look at Battlefield 3, the newest installment of the blockbuster open-world military FPS series.
