PC

If You Don’t Have A 64-Bit Windows In 2013, You’ll Be Missing Out

Not in an advertising sense. You will quite literally be missing out on some games, as EA has revealed that come 2012 a whole range of titles using DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine – the one powering games such as Battlefield 3 – will need a 64-bit operating system to even run.


Uncategorized

EA Pulling Dragon Age: Legends From Facebook And Google+ On June 18th

EA hasn’t been shy about blatantly saying that they’re going to extend their big games across as many platforms as possible. The recent example Mass Effect Infiltrator on iOS — which links back to the console game via the mega-publisher’s Origin online service — shows how EA probably wants this kind of thing to work in the future. An example of how they don’t want things to work? Look no further than Dragon Age: Legends.


May 21, 2012
Uncategorized

Here’s Three People Coming Back For Mass Effect 3′s Extended Ending

BioWare’s extended ending sequences for Mass Effect 3, which are looking to give players a little more closure on the series, will feature lines from at least three of the franchise’s main voice actors.


May 19, 2012
News

EA Offers Crowdfunded Games Three Months Of Free Distribution On Origin

So, you’ve successfully rallied hundreds of strangers to pay for your brilliant game idea on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo or some other crowdfunding site. Now you need to make the damn thing. But an even bigger problem looms after you develop and test Amazing Game X: getting it to everyone who wants it, including backers.


May 16, 2012
PlayStation

Sony Site Reveals New Mass Effect 3 DLC

While there were whispers of this earlier in the month, Sony’s Hong Kong website has now officially lifted the lid on a new piece of Mass Effect 3 DLC.


May 15, 2012
News

Official Servers Make A Battlefield 3 Comeback

After it was discovered last week that the number of “official” DICE and EA Battlefield 3 servers on console had dropped significantly in the wake of a new rental scheme, the developer has moved to bring a large number of them back online.


News

Rumour: EA Prepping A COD Elite Style Premium Service For Battlefield 3

Kotaku AU

Battlefield 3 community site, Battlefieldo, is reporting that EA is prepping a premium service for Battlefield 3, a service that’ll be unveiled June 4 at E3.


May 12, 2012
PC

NSFW: When The Secret World Got All Naked

When I first installed and started The Secret World earlier this week, I encountered a tiny graphical glitch: everybody was naked.


May 11, 2012
In Real Life

From Skate Video Game To Skate Park Video

Inspired by the replay modes in EA’s Skate series, friends Brandon and Darren decided to put the controllers down and go and make a real skate video just like it. So they did. This is it.


News

Where Did All The Official Battlefield 3 Servers Go?

It seems that EA and DICE have, very quietly, been taking away official servers for the console versions of Battlefield 3. Worse still, it looks like they’re replacing them with servers that fans have to pay for.