Apple buying gaming studio EA might seem like a strange proposition, but it wouldn’t be the craziest deal we’ve seen in recent months. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. Then, Sony got Bungie for $3.6 billion. Microsoft and Sony are active players in the console gaming business, so the acquisitions are logical developments. Apple …
Star Wars Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition is free for PC on the Epic Games Store from January 14th, 2021 to January 21st, 2021. Star Wars Battlefront 2 released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 17th, 2017, and has received more than 25 free content updates since launch. The Celebration Edition of the game includes …
EA Play Live will air on June 18th at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET, where EA will show off its latest games, including new entries in its Madden, FIFA, and NHL franchises. EA will also give us our first look at the upcoming space combat game Star Wars: Squadrons. EA should also have …
EA mentioned in an earnings call that it has to factor in games that can be “upgraded free for the next generation” in its projections for the upcoming year. It’s unclear what exactly they meant by “upgraded free,” but it sounds like both the PS5 and Xbox Series X will be able to play EA …
Electronic Arts is once again kicking off E3 a weekend of livestreams and press conferences with its EA PLAY event on Saturday, June 8th at 9:15 AM PT / 12:15 PM ET from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The publisher is mixing it up this year by breaking the event down into six 30 …
There were only a few things Anthem needed to get right to be a success — not the game of the year, or the next Fortnite-sized phenomenon, but a successful online shooter. It only gets one of those right, and when all is said and done, it’s probably the least important for the game’s long-term …
Bugs and the occasional crash are nothing new for online games. There’s only so much data a developer can gather from a stress test or a beta — the true evaluation comes when the game goes live. Now that a large percentage of us are always connected, the development team can simply issue a patch …
Many of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday video game deals already ended, but one of the biggest games of the fall is even cheaper now than it was over the weekend. Despite launching just over a week ago, EA’s Battlefield V is currently on sale for just $29.99 at Target — half of …
My relationship with the Battlefield series has evolved significantly over time. Battlefield 1942 (sealed in a solid brick of nostalgia) was one of the first shooters that I ever played, and remains one of the formative experiences in terms of what I expect from a shooter (right up there with Perfect Dark and Half-Life). But …
With the Battlefield V open beta wrapping up this morning, fans of the franchise are going to have to wait longer than expected to play the game again as EA and DICE announced last month that the release date has been delayed from October 19th to November 20th. That’s the bad news, but the good …
