Judge Orders Alleged EA Games Hacker to Pay $750,000 Bail in Cryptocurrency
Great news for anyone doing crimes with bitcoin.
Belgian Gaming Commission Decides Battlefront II-Style Loot Boxes Are Gambling, Wants Them Banned
Electronic Art’s Star Wars Battlefront II, one of the biggest video game titles of the year, debuted to disaster in recent weeks after both consumers and the gaming press revolted against the $60 game’s reliance on microtransaction-fueled, pay-to-win loot boxes. At launch, the title prevented players from accessing…
Battlefront II Starts With a Fascinating Premise That Becomes an All-Too Familiar Star Wars Story
Battlefront II, the new video game where you can play as Bossk before you spend a dozen hours unlocking Luke Skywalker, has a slavish dedication to fancy graphics and Star Wars action. Unlike its predecessor, it has a whole new Star Wars story to tell. But while it starts promisingly, it ends up being a far too…
Congratulations to EA for Posting the Most Hated Comment in Reddit HistoryÂ
While Reddit sometimes overstates its value as a space for authentic conversations online, the massive community-driven website has served as a kind of town hall where everyone from everyone from Elon Musk and Barack Obama to a dildo manufacturer have responded to questions from completely un-vetted strangers.…
An Unholy Union Between Comcast and EA May Bring Games to Your Cable Box
How does it make you feel to read Electronic Arts and Comcast in the same sentence? Frustrated? Apprehensive? Well for once two bads might make a good. Reuters reports that EA and Comcast are working on a deal that could bring games to your cable box.
Your Worst Customer Service Horror Stories
While my own Verizon horror story did work out in the end (replacement phone received, $500 penalty avoided, woohoo), not many people have a globe-spanning soapbox like Gizmodo upon which to kvetch. Here are ten of the most stupendously terrible cases of customer service our readers have had to endure.
Gaming Giants Withdraw Their Support Of SOPA
While they haven't caught as much flack as GoDaddy did for appearing on the SOPA supporters list, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, and Sony Electronics have officially withdrawn their support of the despised bill.
Electronic Arts, Like Every Other Company, Was Hacked
Here's the moment when we all feign shock and surprise that a big company like EA was hacked. One of the servers for EA's was the target of the attack, which involved phone numbers and mailing addresses.
Your Handy Guide to E3's Big Press Conference Kick-Off Times
Keeping track of E3's big press conferences-where all the important announcements are made-can be hard enough. But keeping track of them and then knowing what time that is in your particular part of the world? That's really hard!
Get 'em While They're Cheap: EA Games On Sale In the App Store
Fan of EA games on iOS devices? This weekend's your nirvana then, as the mega-publisher is having a 90% off sale for a number of their games. Dead Space, for example, is 99 cents. [Dead Space, App Store]
Fight Night Champion for iPhone Lets You Wail on Your Friends Over Wi-Fi
Fight as boxing legends past and present in the newest Fight Night installation from EA, which has truly impressive graphics and squeezes an incredible amount of gesture control onto a 3.5" interface (swipe this way to throw an uppercut; swipe this way to throw a haymaker, etc.). I'm not a violent guy by nature, but…
Lots of Great EA Games on Sale for $1 in the App Store
AHHHHHHH FIRE! Fire sale that is. EA's got tons of great games on sale in the U.S. App Store for just a buck. A buck! TouchArcade lists 'em all:
Legendary Wars for iPhone
No offense, Plants vs. Zombies, but it might be time for a new tower defense game. If you're ready to get serious about your defending, then the expansive RTS-RPG-tower defense hybrid Legendary Wars might be the new king.
Dead Space for iPad
Dead Space, the new iOS installment of the popular PC and console game, is scary. Like horror movie scary. It's also one of the most fully-realized iOS games yet.
EA's Got a 99cent Sale On For Heaps of Awesome iPhone Apps
They're saying the 99cent/59p sale is only running for a limited time, so if you want to get Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, Scrabble, The Sims 3, FIFA 11 and 60 other iOS games for peanuts, act quickly. [EA]
Angry Birds Halloween Has 45 Spooky New Levels
Just in time to help you put off making your Halloween costume, Angry Birds Halloween has arrived in the App Store, boasting 45 new spooky levels. I look forward to the Angry Birds Easter, myself. $1 [iTunes]
Four Minutes With FIFA 11 For iPhone
Developers are really getting a sense of what they can do for iOS, namely, making console-quality ports of their popular franchises. FIFA 11 feels as good as the older FIFAs did a few years ago, meaning, I'm still lousy at them.
EA to Support Android Gaming
According to EA's Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown, EA has decided to push the Android platform in addition to the iPhone. Citing his own market projections, Brown said that they expect the "a lot to happen" in Android's future.
