TAG: Electronic arts

Electronic Arts discontinues Online Pass programme

16 May, 2013, 1:10 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

EA faced a lot of controversy back when it first announced its Online Pass programme. According to VentureBeat, the company seems to be doing away with the More

DICE opens new studio in Los Angeles to develop Star Wars games

15 May, 2013, 5:03 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

Electronic Arts is all set to start work on new games in the Star Wars universe. According to Gamasutra, the studio handling the development of the Star Wars More

EA's Frostbite engine coming to iOS and Android

15 May, 2013, 3:40 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

EA’s favourite game engine – Frostbite 3 – is getting a variant design to run on mobile devices.  According to the official Frostbite More

EA registers domains for Battlefield 13 to Battlefield 20

14 May, 2013, 4:21 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

Electronic Arts seems to be going overboard with planning for the future. According to Fusible, the game publishing giant has registered domains for More

Video game maker drops gun makers, not their guns

08 May, 2013, 8:18 am IST Gaming

In the midst of the bitter national debate on gun violence, gun manufacturers and videogame makers are delicately navigating one of the more... More

Plants vs Zombies 2: It's About Time to release in July

07 May, 2013, 10:30 am IST Shunal Doke Gaming

Popcap's upcoming casual tower-defense game Plants vs Zombies 2: It's About Time, now has a release date. The company has announced that the game will More

Electronic Arts announces The Sims 4, will release in 2014

07 May, 2013, 8:49 am IST Shunal Doke Gaming

Electronic Arts has officially announced that the latest game in its people-simulation franchise is under development. Titled The Sims 4, the game is being More

Disney teams with EA on Star Wars video games

07 May, 2013, 8:29 am IST Gaming

Disney is not giving up on "Star Wars" video games after all... More

Zynga shuts down four games, launches Draw Something 2

25 Apr, 2013, 11:20 am IST Shunal Doke PC

Zynga has announced that it is shutting down some of its games, attempting "doubling down on big bets". This essentially means that the company is going More

SimCity to get first major update, brings changes and bug fixes

22 Apr, 2013, 9:29 am IST Shunal Doke PC

SimCity is set to get its first major update tomorrow. Maxis will be fixing a number of issues that gamers have complained about. The game's servers will More

Battlefield 4 multiplayer to have Commander Mode, three playable factions

16 Apr, 2013, 1:00 pm IST Shunal Doke PC

Promotional art for the upcoming Battlefield 4, which was filmed by YouTuber "luger700", has revealed that the game will mark the return of the much-beloved More

EA to shut down three Facebook games developed by Maxis

16 Apr, 2013, 11:53 am IST Shunal Doke PC 1 Comments

Electronic Arts is shutting down some of its Facebook games. The company has announced on its website that it will be shutting down The Sims Social... More

Electronic Arts cuts staff at Montreal studio

12 Apr, 2013, 8:57 am IST PC

Videogame publisher Electronic Arts has begun laying off staff at its Montreal game studio in its latest round of jobs cuts, less than a month after... More

Deal with it: Adam Orth leaves Microsoft after "always on" Xbox tweet controversy

11 Apr, 2013, 10:31 am IST Nishtha Kanal Console

Microsoft Studios' Creative Director, Adam Orth, who sent out a series of controversial tweets regarding the “always online” Xbox consoles... More

Microsoft releases statement about next-gen Xbox's always-online requirement

06 Apr, 2013, 12:54 pm IST Shunal Doke Console 1 Comments

After the recent hints dropped by Microsoft's Adam Orth about always-online, Microsoft has issued a statement. The company claims that it does not have More

Microsoft Creative Director hints at always-online requirement for next-gen Xbox

05 Apr, 2013, 5:43 pm IST Shunal Doke Console

There have been a lot of rumours going around about what Microsoft may have planned for the next-gen Xbox, but the most prominent and unsettling one so far has More

Mass Effect 4, Dragon Age III to use Frostbite 3 engine

01 Apr, 2013, 5:14 pm IST Shunal Doke Console

We already knew that Dragon Age 3 will be using DICE’s Frostbite engine, but BioWare’s Aaryn Flynn has confirmed that the next game in the More

DRM not an option for game publishers anymore: EA

28 Mar, 2013, 4:53 pm IST Shunal Doke Console

According to EA Labels' boss Frank Gibeau, DRM was not the reason for forcing players to stay online while playing a traditionally single-player game. More

BioWare shutting down Asia-Pacific servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic

26 Mar, 2013, 7:42 pm IST Shunal Doke Console

Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be making as much money as BioWare and Electronic Arts hoped it would. BioWare is shutting down the Asia-Pacific... More

Battlefield 4 website up, hints at rain being prominent in the game

21 Mar, 2013, 10:37 am IST Shunal Doke Console 3 Comments

We seem to be getting closer to the Battlefield 4 announcement. The website for the game is up, though it doesn't give us much in the way of information More