Electronic Arts has announced that 350 people from their marketing, publishing and operations teams are expected to get the axe in the coming days as the company looks to restructure itself to meet new challenges in publishing video games.
The moment Apex players have long since waited for has arrived. Since the game launched as a free to play battle royale it has been a massive success, and the whispering of seasons and battle passes have been blowing through the halls like gossip in a sorority. All we knew was that Respawn Entertainment was planning to launch the battle …
The Sims 4 regularly receives an infusion of new content through new game packs, and next week sees the release of new gear that leans towards the more mysterious side of life. Cue the X-Files theme.
THQ Nordic has been on a tear lately, not only grabbing licenses but actually doing something with the properties and reviving them for new generations of gamers. The next game on the THQ Nordic list? None other than 38 Studios’ Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
EA is looking to change its image, from that of a power-mad corporation responsible for killing off many of your favourite studios to a friendlier and less greedy distributor of games. Is it working? That remains to be seen in the long run. One of the tricks up EA’s sleeves currently, is to focus on providing new games.
Where’s the PlayStation 5, or are we in for another repeat of the PlayStation 3 era that lasted a good couple of years longer than the regular hardware refresh cycle? Maybe not, because it sounds like the PlayStation 5 rumours are going to start picking up steam soon. That’s according to the sometimes accurate, sometimes not scoops of industry insider Marcus Sellers, who claims that developers are currently playing around with dev kits of the PlayStation 5 console.
It’s official! We’re all headed back to Paradise City and buddy, there ain’t going to be no speed limits along the way. Having been teased for months and erroneously leaked ahead of the reveal by the Japanese, EA finally confirmed that Burnout Paradise Remastered is alive and headed towards the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on March 16.
Until the end of time itself, Star Wars Battlefront II will be a testament to the idea of microtransactions without limits. Overall, its been a harsh lesson for EA to learn from. A lesson that they say, has resulted in them rethinking how they’ll use microtransactions in the future.
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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