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Electronic Arts has kicked off a very special series of sales in honor of Memorial Day in the U.S., slashing prices for games like Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, FIFA Soccer 12, Alan Wake, or Batman: Arkham City, on its Origin service.EA is trying hard to keep customers interested in its Origin digital distribution pl... |
26 May 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Online distribution solutions have been one of the core enablers for the recent indie explosion and a new initiative from one of the veterans of the industry aims to give smaller developers freedom when it comes to setting their own prices. Because We May will encourage developers to lower their prices on those plat... |
25 May 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Quite a lot of games have begun searching for funding on Kickstarter website. That’s why Electronic Arts has decided to make the lives of these developers easier by offering them three months of free distribution on its Origin service on the PC, with Wasteland 2 being the first title to benefit from the deal.
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22 May 2012
03:03 GMT |
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The fact that crowd-funded PC games get their distribution fees waived for the first 90 days on the Original digital distribution service should get more developers interested in working with Electronic Arts and reflects the company’s interest in independent titles.
Speaking with GamesIndustry International, D... |
21 May 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Origin PC has announced that it is celebrating the launch of Diablo III, the recent hack and slash title from Blizzard, by giving away a copy of the Standard Edition of the game with all Origin high-performance PCs that it sells.
At the same time, it also gives everyone who accesses the official page of the company... |
15 May 2012
07:08 GMT |
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When SimCity was first revealed by developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts, the two companies insisted that the always-on connected multiplayer would enhance the single-player side of the game, but now one leading developer is saying that the title was created with multiplayer at its core. Jason Haber, the pro... |
10 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Developer Valve has launched yet another feature for its Steam digital distribution service, allowing gamers to manage their library of video games by logging into their account using any browser they want.
The feature is included in the beta client update, which means that it will probably soon go live to the entir... |
2 May 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Despite the recent increase in subscribers, digital distribution service Origin, created by Electronic Arts, is not doing very well, according to the leading executive of one of its main rivals.
Gabe Newell, the leader of Valve, has spoken to podcast Seven Day Cooldown about Origin's prospects and stated, &ldqu... |
23 April 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has modified its infamous banning policy and will now allow those who have banned EA accounts to play the games they’ve actually purchased, albeit only offline, without support for multiplayer or other functions.
EA, like many videogame companies, resort to bans and account suspensions when use... |
17 April 2012
04:25 GMT |
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The NPD Group report no longer offers actual sales numbers but a representative of the firm has confirmed that the best selling video game for the month of March, Mass Effect 3, has managed to sell 1.3 million units on all platforms.According to a Tweet from a journalist the Xbox 360 version of the game has managed t... |
14 April 2012
05:12 GMT |
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A posting for a job opening at video game developer Valve seems to suggest that the company is working on a hardware platform, as rumors suggested during last month.
The official recruiting page states, “We’re developing hardware to enhance those experiences, and you can be a key part of making that happ... |
13 April 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Crysis 3, the next installment in Crytek’s popular first-person shooter series, is going to be revealed soon, at least according to Swedish magazine Game Reactor. What’s more, the game’s actual cover has already appeared on Electronic Arts’ Origin website.
Crysis 1 and 2, not to mention the s... |
11 April 2012
07:44 GMT |
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I love the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 and consider it a worthy addition to the series after playing it with buddies ever since the demo of the game was launched, but I feel that BioWare missed a few steps that could have made it even more engaging that it currently is.
The biggest of them is the fact that I tend t... |
26 March 2012
10:25 GMT |
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The presence of Electronic Arts' Origin service in the digital distribution market is a good thing, at least according to the creator of indie hit Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, as it provides competition to other services, including Valve's Steam.
Electronic Arts launched Origin last year and, while i... |
19 March 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just confirmed that quite a few new publishers have signed on with its Origin digital distribution service and will see their titles delivered on the PC through EA’s program.
Origin was released last year and, while its start was quite rocky due to fan backlash, things are getting better an... |
16 March 2012
03:36 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is running a brand new series of offers on its Origin digital distribution platform, slashing the prices of a variety of games.EA’s Origin has been around for almost a year and, while some users have criticized it and EA’s practices, it’s still a pretty decent service.Now, in order t... |
12 March 2012
07:31 GMT |
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This week was the launch period for Mass Effect 3, the big action and role playing hybrid from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, and we have a new series of Gamer Diaries, designed to show you how we experience the final installment in the space based Commander Shepard driven trilogy.When it comes to r... |
11 March 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Without a doubt one of the most controversial digital distribution services currently available is Electronic Arts’ Origin. Ever since EA took its games off of Valve’s Steam and revealed that new ones would be Origin-exclusive, gamers have complained about it.My interaction with the service was extremely ... |
10 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Over the weekend a strong rumor appeared that video game developer Valve was working on a new set-top box device called a Steam Box, designed to expand the range of PC-based gamers and to compete directly with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
A patent for a controller that Valve has been working on for the last three y... |
5 March 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has stated that its Origin digital distribution service is not searching the files of user’s PCs in order to add previously purchased games to its own library.
A statement from Electronic Arts says, “A few of you noticed some of your older EA games showing up in your ... |
29 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Origin has multiple high-end computers up for sale, but it decided it was time for another one, so it put together the EON17-X3D, a mobile PC powered by Intel's X79 chipset.
The notebook that the company has created relies on a second-generation six-core central processing unit to bear the brunt of computing w... |
22 February 2012
08:28 GMT |
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The developers at BioWare have assured players of Mass Effect 3 that the game will have only minimal DRM measures derived from Origin use and will never require gamers to be online in order to play.Casey Hudson, who is the executive producer working on Mass Effect 3, has told CVG that, “We use Origin, and it&rs... |
20 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has talked about its Origin digital distribution service, saying that, despite its rocky release last year, it’s trying to improve upon it and will deliver a great experience that’s going to delight gamers on the PC platforms.
Valve’s Steam service reigns supreme in the digital dist... |
17 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that all gamers who pre-order the upcoming Mass Effect 3 via the Origin digital distribution service will now get a free copy of the DICE made first-person shooter Battlefield 3.
Gamers will also get access to the M55 Argus Assault Rifle and the AT12 Raider Shotgun,... |
15 February 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Video game developer DICE has announced that it is working on a new patch for Battlefield 3, the first-person shooter that it has published together with Electronic Arts, saying that more details will be offered in the coming weeks.
On the official Battlefield Blog, DICE states that it is working on such issues as &... |
14 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has posted better than expected results for the third fiscal quarter, which ended on December 31, although it has failed to beat the outlook that Wall Street analysts have linked to the company.
EA has managed to bring in more than 1.65 billion dollars (1.25... |
2 February 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has released some impressive figures about two of its most successful games, Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12, while hyping up the popularity of its Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO and the Origin digital distribution service on the PC.
EA posted its financial earnings yesterday and, amongst the variet... |
2 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just deployed a major round of discounts on its Origin digital distribution service, this time slashing the prices on a variety of action games for the PC platform.
EA’s Origin has, slowly but surely, become pretty popular with PC gamers, largely because it’s the only way to access re... |
31 January 2012
05:10 GMT |
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At the beginning of the week we heard that Mass Effect 3 on the PC would appear on Electronic Arts’ Origin digital distribution service, as well as on a few other third party digital retailers, but not on Steam.
This didn’t surprised anyone, as EA has kept most of its recent products away from Steam, the... |
21 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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In a peculiar turn of events, the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning demo has been released for the PC platform both on Electronic Arts’ own Origin platform, as well as on Valve’s Steam.Electronic Arts saw most of its games kicked off of Steam due to Valve’s terms of service, so the company created its o... |
18 January 2012
10:01 GMT |
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To the surprise of almost no one, given recent events, Electronic Arts’ upcoming Mass Effect 3 role playing shooter won’t be made available on Valve’s Steam service, being instead exclusively activated through Origin, the company’s own digital distribution service.
Mass Effect 3 is one of the... |
16 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced yet another pretty significant sale which seems designed to stock up gamer interest for the Origin digital distribution solution that it launched earlier during the year.Those who register on Origin before January 16 can take part in the Stock Up and Save promotion, ... |
10 January 2012
07:49 GMT |
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In the coming year one analysts believes that the video game industry will see a shift from platforms like Facebook and Google to custom game portals that will be controlled by the developers and publishers themselves.Speaking to IndustryGamers, Scott Steinberg of TechSavvy Global, who is both an analyst and a market... |
3 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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GamersGate is expanding its offers in terms of digital distribution, and its CEO, Theo Bergquist, has talked about the competition in this part of the games industry, specifically about Valve’s established Steam and Electronic Arts’ recently launched Origin.PC gamers have more than enough choices when it ... |
21 December 2011
03:10 GMT |
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GamersGate, the digital distribution service that was initially launched by Paradox Interactive and has since become independent, has reported a growth rate of 50 percent for 2011 and has big plans when it comes to the future.Theo Bergquist, who is the leader of GamersGate, told IndustryGamers that, “Streaming ... |
20 December 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Video game developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts have stated that they have no plans to launch the PC based patches for their first person shooter Battlefield 3 outside of the Origin digital distribution service.This comes after a number of gamers have asked the two companies to offer new ways of getting and a... |
9 December 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has kicked off a special offer on its Origin digital distribution service, in the form of the Origin Advent Calendar, which presents new deals every day for fans of the company.Just as gamers are recovering from the series of massive sales that were ran during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, quite a lo... |
2 December 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for the firm Wedbush Morgan, has said that he is unsure whether the Origin digital distribution service from Electronic Arts is a good fit for the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console.Speaking to IndustryGamers about the rumors which link Electronic ... |
24 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The Millennium RTS (Ready-To-Ship) desktop is the new computer that showed up on Origin's website, a big, solid creature of steel and other materials that costs $1,799 (1,337.04 Euro).
The new machine that Origin has put together has all the performance and design people have come to expect from high-end pre-c... |
21 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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A source inside Nintendo is claiming that the company is working with publisher Electronic Arts to make the recently launched Origin digital distribution service the only way to deliver content on the soon to be launched Wii U home console.The fan site WiiUGo cites information obtained from an anonymous intern workin... |
15 November 2011
08:45 GMT |
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A problem linked to how publisher Electronic Arts policies its official forums has reared its ugly had once again, resulting in lock-outs from both Battlefield 3 and the Origin digital distribution service for those who behave badly on the forums.Back in March players noticed that those who were banned for the way th... |
15 November 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has worked hard to push its digital distribution service Origin but a number of analysts watching the video game market believe that the effort is not enough to make it more relevant than Steam from Valve.Speaking to IndustryGamer David Cole, who is an analyst working for DFC Intelligence, s... |
14 November 2011
21:31 GMT |
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In the ongoing fight for digital distribution supremacy between Steam and Origin one executive from Electronic Arts has said that Valve's success relies too heavily on third party titles, where his own company is able to use Origin to promote its own games.Eric Brown, who is the Chief Financial Officer at Electr... |
11 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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A well known hacker group has released a cracked version of Battlefield 3, the latest first person shooter from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, which does not need to use the Origin service in order to work.The well known pirate collective known as Razor 1911 has managed to get into the executable and s... |
2 November 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 was released last week around the world by DICE and Electronic Arts, with its digital PC version appearing exclusively on EA's Origin service, but it now seems that the shooter might still make it to the much more popular Steam service, at least according to some new evidence.Battlefield 3 was eage... |
31 October 2011
07:53 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that its Origin digital distribution platform will begin to offer titles from other companies, like Warner Bros. Interactive, Capcom and THQ, starting with the month of November.Electronic Arts is bragging that the new agreement means that 'top new releases&rdqu... |
28 October 2011
09:04 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' newly appointed Chief Operating Officer, Peter Moore, was faced at a press conference in Sydney with a heckler that criticized the company's recently released Origin digital distribution service, so he defended it with a variety of arguments.EA's Origin was released earlier this year o... |
21 October 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Speaking to Screenplay Peter Moore, who is the Chief Operations Officer at Electronic Arts, has stated, “Like any piece of software, you launch and continue to polish it, upgrade it, get feedback and make it better. That’s where we are with Origin. We’re only four and a half months in and already ov... |
19 October 2011
17:31 GMT |
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DICE, the Swedish developer, and publisher Electronic Arts have launched a new trailer for their first person shooter Battlefield 3, one which focuses on the potential for destruction that the Frostbite 2 brings to the series.We already knew that the engine was able to deliver beautiful vistas and complex characters ... |
12 October 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter, and Valve, the company behind digital distribution service Steam, are reportedly close to an agreement which could mean that the new FPS is going to be available for purchase on Steam, not just on EA's own Origin service.Special c... |
6 October 2011
06:38 GMT |
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