Tag archive: Electronic Arts

Announced by Electronic Arts during an investor call earlier today, the gaming publisher has sold two million copies of Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic and 1.7 million of those gaming consumers have signed up for a subscription to the online role-playing game. However, this number includes all players that are currently taking advantage of the first 30 days of free play-time that comes with the $60 game and does not necessarily mean… Read More

Launched earlier this week and announced on the Steam site, Valve has started a closed beta for Steam Mobile on the iPhone and Android phones. The mobile application brings a vast amount of core functions found within the PC and Mac version of the Steam software, the most notable being the ability to make purchases through the application. This will allow any mobile Steam user to take advantage of the frequent sales that cut popular games up to… Read More

Greetings from a galaxy far, far away! It's been about a month since we last got together to talk about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Or, more accurately, it's been a month since I raved about BioWare's work on this highly story-driven massively multiplayer online game. The thing about MMOs is that they're so community-driven and content update-driven that it's not fair to either the player or the developer to assess… Read More

Social and casual game maker PopCap—which was recently acquired by gaming giant Electronic Arts—has published the results of a new survey (PDF) that finds nearly half (48 percent) of people who cheat at online social games like Farmville and Mafia Wars are also cheaters at life, doing things like stealing towels and magazines from hotels and waiting rooms, illegally parking in handicapped spaces, and even cheating on their partners… Read More

Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act—SOPA—is spreading from the world of the Internet to the worlds of big business and politics, and a quiet update to the list of companies and organizations willing to put their names down as supporters of SOPA reveals the proposed legislation is losing supporters. Along with domain registrar GoDaddy—which kicked off a firestorm of backlash for its SOPA support before doing an… Read More

Massively multiplayer gaming has never held much appeal for me beyond the restrictive confines of your typical online shooter's versus map, but that attitude changed when Star Wars: The Old Republic was announced. The sci-fi universe created by George Lucas has always been close to my fanboy heart, and here was a game that promised me the opportunity to tromp around a galaxy far, far away as anything from a Force-using mystic to a… Read More

According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic already has between 1 to 1.5 million early players taking advantage of early access from preordering the game. Creutz has been watching the amount of servers being rolled out for the game as well as the server population. The analyst counted 140 servers over the weekend, an increase from 106 servers there were available the previous Wednesday.… Read More

Star Wars: The Old Republic hasn't even hit shelves yet, and the upcoming MMO game already has two million players. That's the official word from Electronic Arts, which revealed the numbers from its recent beta test of The Old Republic during a press event earlier this week. According to EA's CFO Eric Brown, 725,000 unique users played the game over Thanksgiving weekend, spending an average of 12 hours in the game over the… Read More

BioWare has been putting an increasing focus on capturing the hearts and minds of community-minded gamers in recent years. The developer known for its deep, largely solitary RPG has attempted to galvanize its sizable fanbase with socially oriented games/cross-promotions like the Facebook title Dragon Age Legends. Now the studio's parent company, publisher Electronic Arts, is stepping up to increase BioWare's social presence with the… Read More

Mass Effect 3 is doing it, so why not Dragon Age? BioWare releases the trilogy-capping next entry in its sci-fi RPG Mass Effect series in March, and for the first time the series will feature an online multiplayer component in the form of a co-op-driven wave-based survival mode. Now there's word that one of the developer's forthcoming Dragon Age will follow the example set by ME3, that is if an unnamed Electronic Arts insider… Read More

Here's an interesting blip on the Xbox 360 radar. The most recent online play rankings for Xbox Live put Battlefield 3 behind not one, but two Call of Duty games: Black Ops and 2009′s Modern Warfare 2. Electronic Arts threw a lot of words around about Battlefield's dominance in the months leading up to the DICE shooter's release and even though the game has sold 5 million copies and currently leads 2011 in sales, it is… Read More

EA has decided to expand the Origin PC download service and offer titles from third-parties. PC gamers can look forward to purchasing and downloading titles like Batman: Arkham City, Saints Row: The Third and more at the beginning November. Origin is already packing a large 100 game library, but all of those are Electronic Arts birthed products. Now Origin users will be able to download games from three major publishers: Warner Bros. Interactive… Read More

Electronic Arts stopped into New York City with a boatload of upcoming games  in tow for its seasonal battery of media preview sessions. The PlayStation Vita had a surprisingly limited presence when you consider that its release is imminent, but I did spy the fancy 2012-releasing handheld sitting alone amidst the maze of console stations devoted to EA Sports titles. The game: FIFA 12, the publisher's critically acclaimed pro soccer… Read More

EA Black Box's Need for Speed: The Run is only a few weeks away, with the release set for November 15. So imagine my surprise last week when I hit up Electronic Arts' seasonal preview day in New York City last week and saw a new portion of the game being demoed. The focus of the new content is The Run's Challenge Series, which offers up a set of more than 70 standalone events that unlock in packs progressively as you advance… Read More

  Starbreeze Studios needs no introduction. The Swedish game developer of The Darkness and the Chronicles of Riddick games has earned a reputation for creating lushly detailed virtual worlds and giving players a robust set of controls with which to navigate them. It's great news then that Electronic Arts finally confirmed that Starbreeze's fabled “Project RedLime,” first announced in 2008, is a reboot of the classic,… Read More