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Andrea Shearon Mar 13, 2022. 3 minute read
Microsoft, EA, and Gearbox Add Names to Letter Opposing Texas Anti-Trans Orders
Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Gearbox Entertainment are among the 65 companies listed in an open letter calling upon Texas public officials to abandon efforts pushing anti-trans policy. Running as a full-page advertisement in the Dallas Morning News, the letter is a response to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to investigate…
READ MORE >Grant Stoner Sep 1, 2021. 4 minute read
EA Shares Accessibility Patents and Sets New Precedent for Disabled Gamers
Recently, Electronic Arts announced efforts to expand accessibility across gaming through its new patent pledge. This industry-first initiative grants any developer royalty-free access to five technology patents that include features which benefit disabled players. As more studios emphasize the importance of accessibility within their games, this move by EA demonstrates…
READ MORE >Elise Favis Jul 8, 2021. 6 minute read
Five Cozy Things I Love So Far About The Sims 4 Cottage Living
Releasing July 22, Cottage Living will be the newest expansion pack for the popular life simulation game The Sims 4. As its name suggests, the DLC embraces everything about farming, gardening, and living off the land as your Sims live nestled away in a cute cottage in the English-inspired countryside. I’ve been…
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Jordan Mallory Jun 18, 2020. 4 minute read
ICYMI: Everything That Happened During EA Play 2020
EA’s digital replacement for its customary E3 presentation took place earlier this afternoon, and if you didn’t get to see the brief, 45 minute presentation as it happened, you honestly didn’t miss much. There was a Star Wars, three indie games were shown off, and someone that works at EA…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Jun 15, 2020. 2 minute read
Star Wars: Squadrons Puts the Focus Back on the Damn Spaceships
People have wildly varying opinions about basically everything in the Star Wars universe: the movies, the books, the comics, the games especially, but we can all agree on the spaceships. No matter how good or bad the media that contains them may be, the actual spaceships in Star Wars are…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Feb 27, 2020. 3 minute read
Microsoft, Epic, and Unity Latest to Bounce on Ever-Shrinking GDC 2020
Microsoft, Epic Games (and its Unreal Engine division), and fellow engine maker Unity Technologies all separately announced today that they are pulling out of this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19. This brings the total number of high-profile absences up…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Feb 21, 2020. 2 minute read
Report: EA Canceled Third Unannounced Star Wars Game
Ignoring for a moment that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order came out last year and was generally regarded as pretty alright, EA has had a hell of a time producing the goods for its exclusive Star Wars licensing agreement with Disney. According to a report published today on Kotaku, EA…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Jan 7, 2020. 2 minute read
‘Tiny Living’ Stuff Pack Brings the Tiny House Lifestyle to Sims 4
For as many things as Sims 4 is good at simulating, it’s continually come up short in two very important categories: minimalist lifestyles, and facial hair on women. We’ll have to keep waiting for the latter, but anyone who’s been jonesing to experience the tiny house life for themselves, such…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Nov 7, 2019. 2 minute read
FIFA 20 Ultimate Team Pros Colluded for Months to Maximize Winnings
A prominent member of the FIFA 20 Ultimate Team community has exposed a secret Discord server used by pros to nefariously schedule favorable matches and organize harassment campaigns against up-and-coming streamers. Nick Bartels, aka RunTheFutMarket, suffered an unexpected disconnection during a pivotal FIFA 20 Ultimate Team Weekend League match, which…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Oct 29, 2019. 2 minute read
EA Confirms That NBA Live 20 Has Been Dunked into the Trash
EA has swished NBA Live 20 into the garbage like a crumpled up paper ball, confirming during a quarterly investor call that the once-delayed basketball sim is now officially dead. This is the fifth nonconsecutive year that EA is without a console basketball game to compete with 2K’s juggernaut NBA…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Sep 27, 2019. 2 minute read
Apex Legends’ New Map Debuts with Season 3 on October 1
Apex Legends‘ third season begins this Tuesday, October 1, and in addition to another battle pass and an angsty new character, it turns out that Season 3 also has a whole new map waiting in the wings. The reveal was tucked into today’s Season 3 launch trailer, embedded below, and…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Sep 19, 2019. 2 minute read
Apex Legends Season 3 Begins October 1, Here’s What’s New
Apex Legends Season 3 kicks off on Tuesday, October 1, and it turns out those leaks from a Gamestop management conference were right on the money. Crpyto, a white-hat hacker on the run from the law, is Season 3’s first new legend, while the Charge Rifle is its first new…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Aug 27, 2019. 2 minute read
Potential New Apex Legends Character Leaks Ahead of Season 3
The next Apex Legends character may be a fashion-wise hacker, if images purportedly leaked from Gamestop’s GME 2019 management conference are to be believed. As seen below, the new dude sports a wicked cyberpunk jacket and at least five necklaces, along with a mechanical chinstrap and more buckles than you…
READ MORE >Jordan Mallory Aug 14, 2019. 2 minute read
Everybody Mad: Apex Legends $170 Axe Edition
Hello and welcome to the first and maybe only installment of Everybody Mad™, a new thing I’m trying because everybody’s real mad about Apex Legends. Specifically, everybody’s mad about a new axe skin in Apex Legends, which was introduced at the beginning of this week’s Iron Crown event. People normally…
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