Germany and Japan had it bad enough. Dead Space, EA’s premier horror action/adventure was banned in both countries. The former went a step further by banning Platinum Games’ Mad World even before the New Year (and its release, of course). Perhaps because it anticipated a similar debarring or because Epic is really on stingy about [...]
For those of you still salivating at the thought of a third chapter in the Knights of Old Republic lexicon (you know who you are), there’s some good news and some bad news. Bad news: this is not what you were looking forward to. The good news? As the collaboration between Bioware, EA and LucasArts, [...]
This just in. Electronic Arts, makers of the MMO Spore, has been sued. Gamepolitics.com brings us this: Electronic Arts, a leading maker of computer games, defrauds consumers through its “Spore” game, which “completely wipes their hard drive” and replaces it with an undisclosed program that prevents the computer from operating under some circumstances and disrupts [...]
by Ravi Sinha It began with Spore and threatened to spiral into not just an even bigger crisis but into the bigger Crysis: Crysis Warhead. For those in the dark, the Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection that EA has included for those two titles limits the number of times you can install the software to [...]
Whether he was ex-head of the Xbox or ex-head of Sega of America (when the Dreamcast was going the way of the Titanic), Peter Moore still retains his wonderful penchant for entertaining interview pieces. Moore has often been described as performing “more spinning than a top” and over-confident, at times even arrogant, but when he [...]
You like, even love, your 360 and would possibly marry it if the law were more flexible (insane) and no force on Earth, save black magic which you’ve dabbled in to get those A-list games to come out sooner but quit for unknown reasons (“Those ingredients were alive, I tell you!”), can tear you from [...]
When Koei refused Square-Enix’s friendly bid to purchase their humble breast-physics oriented enterprise (they also made something called Ninja Gaiden, apparently), its shares had increased in value. Even when the deal was finally called, another jump in share prices came with their merger announcement to Koei. Shrewd business sense coupled with “the right announcement at [...]
Leipzig GC 2008 was a mixed bag of events but while Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) were ping-ponging conflicting reports on Mirror’s Edge being a “timed exclusive” for the PS3, a lesser advertised event by nVidia, nVision 2008, actually went several steps further with EA announcing the game’s system requirements. The [...]
by gSathe The state of gaming has undergone a major change over the last five years, and the single player component has dwindled greatly in importance over time. This is nowhere more true than in action games, and while some, like Call of Duty still provide a strong and polished single player campaign, for most [...]
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