Tag: EA

This weekend I found myself heading to London town to check out the last day of the Eurogamer Expo and take a look at a number of upcoming titles that were there. It was a pretty good day out all in all and there were a bunch of great games to get hands on with, [...]

What a difference five years has made on the PC gaming world. In that time frame, many gaming developers (including Electronic Arts) have written off PC gaming as “dead” or “dying”, and have chose to focus their businesses more on the console market. In a move that has drawn a great deal of [...]

The idea is simple: take the excellent framework of Battlefield 1942 and three of the most popular multiplayer maps that game produced, add in the Frostbite engine used to power Battlefield: Bad Company, simplify the class system and vehicles for a perfect ‘jump in and play’ style game and sit back and watch the copies [...]

For anyone looking for a quick way to add another ‘beaten’ title to their Backloggery listing, it seems Skate 2 is the game for you. Looking on the PS Store last night I spotted that, in EA’s infinite wisdom, they’ve released some day-one DLC that will unlock everything in the game (named the “Time is [...]

When Mirror’s Edge first appeared you couldn’t help but be intrigued. DICE, long-time developers of the (rather successful) Battlefield series FPSs were ditching the ‘S’ to create a platform/adventure game in the first-person. Set in a rather sterile dystopian future, where the government has become ‘big brother’ and controls all communication, the game would follow [...]

It would be fair to say that Mercenaries 2: World In Flames and I didn’t get off to the best of starts. Bought on the promise of sandbox fun, big explosions and, most importantly, an entirely co-operative campaign, I was rather keen to get hands on with the game only to run face-first into the [...]

Managers, salesmen and politicians are all people live in alternate worlds, spouting their own brand of bullshit, trying to twist people’s world views to match their own warped perceptions. It would seem Activision’s boss, Bobby Kotick is currently buying into his own crap, coming out with the following claim:
“We’re outselling [Rock Band] 6 to [...]

I had the end of last week off from work and ended up heading back to my parents’ place to spend a few days with family, since my sister was back home too, and as expected Rock Band made an appearance on a number of occasions.
On the Friday, whilst the rest of my family were [...]

The classic image of EA is that of the evil publisher who cares for nothing but profit, forcing their developers (swallowed up through brute force and big pockets) to churn out year after year sequels, usually with diminishing returns on the quality front. This year EA have sought to tackle that image, promising to be [...]

Yeah, yeah. I’ll keep this short. Mostly because, like last week, a game I’ve been looking forward to is completely and utterly unplayable. Fucking AWESOME, or something.
Crashers was just a bad game that could have been saved by co-op had it actually been tested to see if it worked. Mercs is a good idea for [...]