Last week, some tech and gaming publications reported that Sony, Nintendo and Electronic Arts had "dropped" support for SOPA, a bill that would allow the government to block websites accused of copyright infringement, and to cut off funding to those sites. But these game publishers never actively supported SOPA in the first place.
Remember Syndicate, the PC-based neo-noir cyberpunk-strategy game from long-ago developer Bullfrog, the game studio captained by Peter “Fable” Molyneux? To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes this stuff comes back…as a first-person shooter. It’s practically a truism for contemporary remakes. Take 2K Marin’s XCOM, for instance.
It looks like game developer BioWare’s been caught out posting Metacritic reviews of its own game, just-released roleplaying sequel Dragon Age II. Not only that, game publisher Electronic Arts essentially owned up to the deed, trying to write it off by telling Kotaku:
The majority of Americans may own an Xbox 360, but EA Games CEO John Riccitiello believes that the PS3 is so much more popular overseas that it will eventually overtake Microsoft in this battle of game consoles. He told Industry Gamers:
The trailer for the final chapter in Mass Effect series was released during Spike’s Video Game Awards this past Saturday, and I’m already putting it on my Chrismukkah wishlist for next year. Mass Effect 3 is slated to be released during 2011′s holiday season for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC simultaneously, and while it may be a [...]
Put down that controller: EA Games President Frank Gibeau says that the era of going it solo is a thing of the past. In a candid interview with Develop, Gibeau recounted how he plans to revamp the company which has lost money for 12 successive quarters since 2007. Part of the plan means getting rid [...]
Electronic Arts will make Windows Phone 7 games after all. Microsoft’s recent press release indicates that these four titles will be available this fall: Need for Speed: Undercover, Tetris, The Sims 3, and Monopoly.
EA Sports’ Madden franchise has locked down an exclusive agreement with the National Football League to be the only console-based video game to feature real teams and players. As such, the series has virtually no competition year after year, leaving critics and fans alike to wonder aloud whether the newest version of the game is [...]
Video game giant Electronic Arts took the stage at E3 to announce a bevy of upcoming titles. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
EA is promising “the real RISK experience,” perhaps in a nod to the handful of RISK clones currently available in the App Store (Generals and Lux DLX, to name a couple).
Alien dismemberment rules. So that’s why we’re glad that Electronic Arts has finally officially announced Dead Space 2.
