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Read More »SimCity server failure persists for EA
European launch is hours away and server trouble continues to hinder players
Read More »Maxis: Our team won’t stop until SimCity is fixed
The team at SimCity developer Maxis has pledged that they won’t rest until the game is working correctly. At the time of writing connection problems are still blighting players in North America and Australia, and with the UK release just hours away gamers are rightly concerned about their chances of …
Read More »EA hosts event about LGBT issues in games
In the wake of an anti-same-sex marriage act in the US, publisher takes on hate in games
Read More »EA hosting event discussing LGBT issues in gaming
An event discussing LGBT issues in video gaming called EA Full Spectrum is taking place today in New York. EA Full Spectrum will bring together leaders from the LGBT and videogame community to talk about the state of hate in videogames, the origins of homophobia in games, the development of …
Read More »Dead Space 4 saga turns ugly as EA’s Peter Moore insults journalist
The story of Dead Space 4’s supposed cancellation has taken an unwelcome turn with EA COO Peter Moore launching a personal attack on the journalist who broke the story. For those who missed it, a report on Videogamer on Tuesday claimed that poor sales of Dead Space 3 had led …
Read More »EA "aggressively undergoing server maintenance" to fix SimCity woes
The clock is ticking ahead of the UK launch of SimCity at midnight. The game has endured a torrid start to life so far thanks to a combination of always-on internet DRM and Origin server woes. The result has been multiple reports of gamers being locked out of the single-player …
Read More »EA co-founder launches new studio
Joe Ybarra ditches publishers and plans Kickstarter for space strategy title
Read More »EA: Microtransactions will not be used in all future games
Blake Jorgensen backtracks on previous comments that business model would become standard
Read More »EA corrects microtransactions misunderstanding
Microtransactions will NOT feature in every single EA release going forwards. Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen last week claimed that the company is "building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way" and that "consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of …
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