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:
“Of course the people who make the game vote for their own game… …
Everyone knows those creepy-crawly planet-slaying Reapers are earthbound in Mass Effect 3, but maybe the alien invasion actually happens before the game arrives sometime this holiday. Place your bets?
I’m talking about that new screenshot up top, mysteriously tweeted by BioWare as from Mass Effect 2, and which may just be a peek at …
The ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan’s eastern regions have video games companies temporarily shuttering online game servers and delaying imminent releases.
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix said it would shut down online roleplaying games Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI, as well as its PlayOnline service, to help …
Critics seem to love Dragon Age II, awarding it high scores and spouting superlatives by the dozens. Techland’s own Evan Narcisse gave it a 9.7 out of 10, calling it a “heavyweight champion,” and he doesn’t even like fantasy games.
So what’s the deal with all the wildly-at-odds Metacritic user reviews?
The Xbox 360 version of …
UPDATE:
Epic’s finally released video of the Samaritan demo in all of its 1080p glory. And would-be programmers, take note: the fancy-pants features seen in the demo here have just gone live in the current Unreal Development Kit update. So, if you’ve got a burly enough gaming rig, you can start trying to craft the games of the future …
Dragon Age 2
Publisher: EA
Developer: BioWare
Systems it’s available on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
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 …
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 with me about what DICE …
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.
Powered by an all-new Frostbite 2 engine, the threequel looks to be EA’s big bet on dethroning the shooter hegemony that Activision’s …
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Steam is a popular gaming service for PCs with over 30 million player accounts worldwide, but it’s missing out on the huge audience that prefers video game consoles and gaming in the living room.
That may change with a couple of new efforts from Valve, which …
Bulletstorm
Publisher: Epic Games/EA
Developer: People Can Fly
Systems it’s available on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
First there was a minor kerfuffle, dubbed #Boobstorm, that started on this very site as a result of an interview I did with producer Tanya Jessen, where she talked about the …
Adventure!, Half-Life 2, Final Fantasy VII… the argument about what the greatest video games of all time are has raged since the medium went mainstream. But, now, one of America’s greatest artistic and educational institutions tries to settle the debate, one mouse-click at a time.
Opening on March 16th of next year at the …
Last night, at video games’ equivalent to the Oscars, ‘Red Dead Redemption’ racked up the most wins, but ‘Mass Effect 2′ walked away with Game of the Year. It came down to epic space opera vs. lonesome Western drama at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, and Commander Shepard …