Plants vs. Zombies is perhaps my favorite casual game of all time. When going through a “game drought” of more flashy titles, I often found myself drawn back into the game for a few more hours of fun. I was understandably excited to hear that PopCap …
Ah yes, the old we hate the game yet still bought it routine. Despite all the anger over its ill received launch, SimCity made over $1 Million in sales in only two weeks. This may come as a shock, especially if you’ve read a review of …
The gaming industry has come under fire for years now about a variety of issues. Today’s installment of TL;DR will focus on the big ones, and try to show the outside world, including certain news organizations who oh-so-gleefully get their kicks vilifying the industry by spreading …
Tornadoes and earthquakes are no longer the worst disasters associated with SimCity: the latest game in Maxis’ long running city management series was rendered unplayable when the game’s servers couldn’t handle the flood of players trying to log-in upon game’s launch. SimCity requires players to be …
Mass Effect 3’s latest (and apparently final) DLC chapter went up on Xbox Live and PSN last night, and to celebrate the occasion, Bioware is hosting a five day long multiplayer event to get players warmed up for their final sortie with Shephard.
Latchkey Games is a weekly column that takes a look at games that perhaps didn’t quite get the amount of love they deserved: whether it was a game that was panned on its initial release only to become a cult classic, one that stirred the ire …
Recently, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen was under the spotlight for a recent Q&A during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. During the session, which was transcribed by Gamasutra, he spoke about EA’s plans for next-gen and mentioned some interesting details concerning the …
EA’s Medal of Honor series was once one of gaming’s premiere FPS franchises, but due to the poor reception that Medal of Honor: Warfighter got when it was released last Fall, EA says they’re taking the franchise “out of rotation.”
Just like last year, EA is running their annual Madden Super Bowl simulation, this time for the upcoming game between the Ravens and the 49ers. They were right last year; the Giants beat the Patriots 21-17, pretty close to the 27-24 that the Madden simulation predicted. …
The galaxy far, far way is about to get a little bit bigger, as today Bioware and EA announced that the first major expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, entitled Rise of the Hutt Cartel, would be released sometime during the next spring.