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EA Roasted For Dunking On Single-Player Games After Everything It’s Done
4It’s been a while since Electronic Arts was the video game villain of the moment, but on Thursday the FIFA publisher sucked up all the oxygen in the room thanks to a bad joke made even worse by the company’s cutthroat history. If there’s one mega gaming company out there who shouldn’t have been taking…
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Irony Sensors Explode As EA Shuts Down Ultima Forever
EA is learning an important lesson at the moment — you can’t take treasured franchises, add fun-crushing gameplay based on player skeletonisation and micro-transactions and expect people to blindly lap it up. True, it’s one EA will fail to understand, or simply ignore, but we can pray that one day, the soul of someone in…
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Warhammer Online Could Work Offline With A Command Line Argument
The lights on Warhammer Online‘s servers went dark earlier this week, signalling the end to EA and Mythic’s great WoW killer (which, at the time of release, every MMO branded itself to be). As with other games that require a permanent online connection, it’s yet another title future generations will be unable to enjoy, unless…
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The New Ultima Can’t Come Soon Enough
I’ve not seen a more tantalising “Coming Soon” at the end of a trailer in quite some time. Set 21 years after the events of 1985’s Ultima IV, Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar looks to capture the feel of that classic role-playing game with modern-day mechanics.