Posted on 17 June 2009 by rustedangel
I dislike having nothing new and exciting to play. We seem to be in the middle of a bit of a slump in terms of exciting new 360 content, particularly if – like me – your living arrangements prohibit getting onto Xbox Live.
The lack of anything highly anticipated has caused me to skew my leisure [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Black Triad Trilogy, Dead Space, EA, game review, Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, takashi miike, Visceral Games | 4 Comments »
Posted on 17 December 2008 by tanith6227
It seems that Guitar Hero: Metallica is coming together and should be ready for release in Q1 2009.
According to Internet rumours and Game Informer magazine, the expansion pack is nearing completion. GI’s preview stated that GH:M will feature 45 songs, including 28 by the headline band. Assuming this expansion follows the model set by Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, players can expect the remaining [...]
Filed under: Games, music | Tagged: Brutal Legend, EA, Guitar Hero, metal, Metallica, Tim Schafer | 3 Comments »
Posted on 16 May 2008 by Pale Horse
Posted on 1 April 2008 by trippenbach
I’ve just talked with the PR Manager for EA Games, Johnathan Goddard. (He was in my office for a presentation and I nabbed him after.) Remember that cheeky reference to the Pirate Bay in that trailer? I was wondering about that, so I asked him how much piracy affected the movement towards free-to-play.
“Massively,” he said. [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Battlefield Heroes, EA, John Goddard, power-levelling | 7 Comments »
Posted on 1 April 2008 by trippenbach
There’s a trailer, folks:
The trailer is a bit lame, if you ask me, but it does explain the game concept fairly well. I laughed at the reference to these guys.
And there’s an article in Gamasutra where the designer talks all about it. Turns out there’s more to it than just buying [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: EA, Battlefield Heroes, microtransactions, trailer, micropayment, game | 6 Comments »
Posted on 24 March 2008 by trippenbach
We’ve posted about microtransactions before on Objective 514. That post spawned quite a bit of discussion. Most of you seemed cool with paying for stuff – snazzy hats, for instance – as long as the stuff you bought didn’t actually affect game performance.
Well, guess what – the barely-established taboo has already been broken. By EA, [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Bad Company, Battlefield Heroes, EA, Games, microtransactions, Xbox | 6 Comments »
Posted on 18 February 2008 by tanith6227
Electronic Arts is planning to make the newest game in its Battlefield franchise available for download free of charge. So how will the game be paid for? Through in-game advertisements and micro-payments.
The advertisments will appear between game levels on loading screens, but not during the actual gameplay. Joystiq quotes Ben Cousins, senoir producer at Heroes creator Digital Illusions CE as [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Battlefield, EA, free games | 44 Comments »
Posted on 12 February 2008 by tanith6227
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello told the DICE Summit that increasing development costs, growing teams and industry consolidation pose a threat to creativity in the industry by dulling the creative voices of developers.
However Riccitiello feels that this problem can be countered by adopting “quasi-autonomous label models” like the one pioneered by Take 2 Games. EA is adopting [...]
Filed under: Games, internet | Tagged: developers, DICE, EA | 2 Comments »
Posted on 8 February 2008 by tanith6227
Level Up recently interviewed BioWare co-founder and CEO Greg Muzyka and asked why the developer didn’t step up to defend it’s new title, Mass Effect, when it became the target of wildly inaccurate allegations. Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley did his best to defend the title on TV, and EA (which owns BioWare) demanded a retraction, but [...]
Filed under: Games, internet | Tagged: BioWare, EA, Fox News | 6 Comments »