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Translating EA’s Language On Microtransactions
Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen had some interesting comments regarding his company’s policy on microtransactions, namely the fact that they’re going to be impossible to avoid in his company’s...
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Bought SimCity? Mad About It? You Deserve What You Get
The launch of SimCity has been problematic for EA. The game’s DRM servers are overloaded, and with EA waiting to add new servers, players are being advised to either try new servers or wait a half hour...
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Why John Riccitiello’s Resignation Is Bad For Gamers
I’m going to do something most writers don’t do and spoil the rest of my writing by linking to someone else who has more or less said the same thing I’m about to. Therefore, if you’ve already read Ben...
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Voting EA The “Worst Company In America” Belittles Our Medium (EDITED)
The image to my left is a powerful, visceral reminder of just how stupid it is to vote a video game company the “worst” in America. Theoretically speaking, Electronic Arts – not even the shittiest...
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XBox One, And Marginalizing The Gamer
Image credit: ForbesMicrosoft revealed their newest system, the XBox One, and other than the assertion of allowing the transfer of used games1, things went largely as planned. I’ve been critical on...
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Groundhog Industry
It’s been over a month since I wrote the infamous piece about the Consumerist vote, in which I made a reference to Aspergers’ patients voting in the poll form their parents basements. The fallout was...
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I Come To Bury AAA
Rob Fahey of Games Industry International has an outstanding opinion piece up regarding the state of AAA development in lieu of the changes that Microsoft was forced to make regarding the Xbox One. I...
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Games I’ve Been Playing: Mass Effect 2
I almost forgot how to write about video games for a moment, instead of bitching about the industry. Oh well. As comeuppance, allow me to talk about a four year old game. Over a year ago, I played...
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Games I’ve Been Playing: Mass Effect 3 (And Mass Effect in General)
Two hundred hours. I can’t think of the last time I put 200 hours into anything. Granted, most sports games don’t have hour counters – if that was the case, I think the period of time I was doped up...
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Games I’ve Been Playing: 2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil
I hate to admit it, but 2014 has been a rough year for football games. I think my issues with FIFA ’14 were largely those of perception; I hated the new tackling they put in, which caused defence to be...
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