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Cruise woes prompt production halt of fully driverless van

Autonomous-car company Cruise has halted production of its fully autonomous vehicle just over a week after it suspended robotaxi operations.
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EA Games is raising prices on its Steam games, but it’s unclear why

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EA goes against the grain, brings its games back to Steam

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Electronic Arts hints at possible return to Steam, 8 years after Origin launch

EA’s Origin Access adds other publishers’ games, including ‘Batman: Arkham City’

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'Mass Effect: Andromeda' PC requirements revealed ahead of March launch

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Origin PC’s new laptop is super thin, impossibly light, and totally VR-ready

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The ‘Battlefront 1’ open beta invades PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on August 31

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EA promises ‘endless PC gaming’ for a monthly fee with Origin Access

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Origin Omni Hands-on: An all-in-one that could change your gaming

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Origin brings the heat to CES 2016 with high-end gaming all-in-one, revised Chronos mini-desktop

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Origin users can now pick up Jade Empire for the nominal price of $0

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Origin's new range of EVO15-S gaming notebooks pack power in a slimline form factor

Origin's newly announced EVO15-S is a slimline, but is a powerful gaming notebook, offering a Skylake CPU and GTX 970M in a thin package.
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EA’s Origin wants to tempt you with Red Alert 2 and expansion

Origin's On the House program is hoping to tempt gamers over with a free copy of Red Alert 2 and its expansion, Yuri's Revenge.
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Origin’s Omega is the best living room PC you can’t buy yet

Origin makes waves at CES unveiling the uber-powerful Omega living room PC after detailing a slew of impressive laptops.
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Origin PC outfits its gaming laptop lineup with Nvidia’s beefy new mobile GPUs

Origin's gaming laptops can now be stuffed with Nvidia's new notebook GPUs. Learn more here.
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Origin now offers GTX 980, 970 with Genesis, Millennium, Chronos gaming desktops

Now that Nvidia has launched the GTX 980 and 970, Origin has already added both cards as configurable options with three of its PCs. Learn more here.
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Play Titanfall for free on PC this weekend

EA is offering two full days of Titanfall to PC gamers for free on its Origin PC service as the first title in its Game Time promotion.
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As PC sales dwindle, high-end builders find that gamers aren’t going anywhere

Think the PC is dead? Just talk to these three CEOs.
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Mac Pro vs. Origin Genesis PC: Ultimate Desktop Showdown

The new Mac Pro is both fast and reasonably priced, but what happens when it goes toe-to-toe with a PC maker that specializes in high end desktop hardware?

EA’s Origin leaves 10 million customers vulnerable to hacking

Two researchers with a security company found that the EA Origin opens downloaded video games can be easily manipulated to launch malicious apps on users' PCs.

SimCity’s launch debacle highlights EA’s bigger problem: Its own business practices

Electronic Arts, Maxis, and Origin have a much bigger problem than overloaded SimCity servers. They are crippled by outmoded ideas about how to do business.

Can EA’s Origin succeed on Mac where Steam hasn’t?

Electronic Arts' Origin hasn't grown to a point where it can challenge Valve's Steam. Will that change now that Origin's available on Mac desk and laptops?

Chris Roberts returns to gaming and once again reinvents the space sim genre

Electronic Arts tried to buy Valve for $1 billion

If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. Electronic Arts tried to acquire Valve according to a new feature in The New York Times.
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EA restores offline game access to banned Origin users

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Capcom, THQ and Warner Bros games coming to EA’s Origin in early November

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Amazon rolling out digital PC game preorders

Battlefield 3 warns of possible bans for joining hacked games

Steam boss Gabe Newell speaks out about EA’s competing Origin service

Electronic Arts’ Syndicate revamp detailed in infoleak

Gamefly breaks into digital distribution, will offer unlimited PC and Mac downloads

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GameStop to start selling digital downloads in stores

Mass Effect 3 Deluxe Edition detailed, exclusive to EA’s Origin