Tag: EA
Don’t buy Mercenaries 2
Remember how I said I hated the idea of region locking games, thus preventing friends across countries from playing with one another. Turns out Mercenaries 2, which just arrived this evening, features just that. How do I know this? Was this announced up front? Not at all. I know this because I’ve just tried to [...]
Posted by Ben: September 4th, 2008 under News, Rant.
Tags: 360, Annoyance, EA, Online
Comments: 12
Exclusive games, yes; exclusive content, no
So it turns out that EA and Sony have struck up a deal so that Mirror’s Edge, a title I’m really quite excited about, will be getting exclusive downloadable content on the PS3. This sort of thing isn’t new, as platform holders struggle to claim some element of exclusivity, and isn’t too dissimilar to the [...]
Posted by Ben: September 2nd, 2008 under Discussion, Rant, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, DLC, Downloads, EA, Exclusivity, PS3, Sony
Comments: 8
Building virtual walls
One of the upcoming releases I’m most excited about at the moment is LittleBigPlanet, which manages to look better every time I see it (which is impressive given how good it was looking from the off). However, there was a brief scare in the last couple of days when an announcement at Leipzig Games Convention [...]
Posted by Ben: August 24th, 2008 under Discussion, News, Thoughts.
Tags: 360, EA, Home, PS3, Region Locking, Share, User-Created
Comments: 3


