In a statement to Kotaku, EA responded to their Consumerist “Worst Company in America” title saying: “We’re sure that British Petroleum, AIG, Philip Morris, and Halliburton are all relieved they weren’t nominated this year. We’re going to continue making award-winning games and services played by more than 300 million people worldwide.” As the Consumerist’s Chris […]
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The Times reports that the Game of Thrones season 2 premiere saw a 77% increase over the season 1 premiere one year ago. In television, as in Westeros, the slogan “You win or you die” seems appropriate. So far, the adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s as-yet unfinished epic fantasy series is winning. The premiere […]
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For those of you who subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, you’re likely already familiar with the fairly large video streaming catalogue available on Amazon’s website. In the past, if you’ve had certain devices such as the Roku, you’ve been able to stream these shows and movies directly to your television. However, for those of us […]
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The other day I wrote that George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones deserved a better class of video game, more in tune with the spirit of the books. I suggested something along the lines of Paradox Interactive’s upcoming War of the Roses, or their previous titles such as Mount & Blade. Well, ask and […]
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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” dates back to 1927. Charles Lindbergh’s famous aviation earned him the title in what was widely seen as an attempt to make up for Time’s lack of coverage on the remarkable flight. The first time the publication bucked the trend of naming an actual person as Person of the […]
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EA is in the Consumerist’s championship battle in the website’s grueling tournament to determine which company is America’s worst. As notes, there is a good reason for this. The massive game publisher has a “habit of buying beloved gaming companies and either summarily executing them, or corrupting them to the point where they’re almost unrecognizable,” […]
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Searching for images of Lara Croft on you may as well be looking up soft-porn. This is partly ‘s fault. Her film portrayal of the popular video game character has linked Jolie and Croft not just in the collective imagination, but in image search results. And there are plenty of provocative pictures of on the […]
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VG247 is reporting that sources have told them that PlayStation is confident their next-gen console will be released prior to the Xbox 720, sometime in 2013. “Sony are completely in the belief that they have the jump on Microsoft this time,” the source told VG247. “You should be watching the timing of next year’s E3 […]
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Will we see the free-to-play equivalent of an Elder Scrolls game in the next few years? GamesIndustry International reports that Ngmoco Sweden chief, Ben Cousins, thinks we will. “I believe that single-player will be the next to be cracked in terms of freemium monetization,” Cousins said at the Free-2-Play Summit in London. “And I’m talking about traditional, […]
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Is gaming its own reward, or do games suffer from a lack of deeper meaning? Michael Thomsen’s peculiar review of Dark Souls displays a deep misunderstanding of what a game is and why we play them. Just as troubling, it appears that Dark Souls is only a convenient whipping boy for Thomsen’s ire; gaming itself, […]
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