Yeah, and I wonder how many legitimate customers have been hit with this anti-piracy measure (assuming it is indeed a legitimate anti-piracy measure and not just the more typical case of EA screwing something up). If the answer is "more than zero," then this is a failed anti-piracy measure, in my eyes ( Read more... )

The Sims 4 was released today, apparently, and as per usual with EA, it came with a day 1 patch to fix a bunch of bugs that were in the release versionAnd now, back to mostly ignoring The Sims 4 until such a time as all of the inevitable expansions have been released and are bundled together for a more reasonable price, which probably won't be for ( Read more... )

*weary, defeated sigh*

Aside from that and perhaps a bit of *double facepalm* and maybe some *headdesk* thrown in for good measure, I don't think that this needs any more comment from me.

(EDIT) I will additionally comment that the mindless EA fanboys and/or reputation managment drones are out in full force in the comments under this one. ( Read more... )

Okay, I wasn't going to comment on this at first, but now... I'm going to comment on this. And that comment is as follows:

The fact that Anita Sarkeesian is pretty much a proven fraud (or, at the very least, she has been proven to be a fraud to my satisifaction anyway, YMMV [EDIT] but since then, given that most of the "evidence" of her being a ( Read more... )

Because GOG is changing its pricing scheme to implement pricing parity for other currencies, some publishers are apparently pulling their games from the service. I'm not sure who, if anyone, is the "bad guy" here. I just know that both GOG and these publishers are going to lose business over this.

"Click-bait.

Readers hate it, but they often have no clue what it actually means. They hate it so, so much but they click anyways."Did Forbes seriously just post an entire article defending their use of click bait headlines while simultaneously denying that they use click bait headlines, based on their dubious, arbitrary, and mostly incorrect ( Read more... )

Amazon or Google, it all comes to the same thing in the end.

"So exactly how will you go about purchasing the inevitable DLC, you ask? 'Instead of using BioWare Points, PC and Mac users can purchase future DLC directly through Origin, using currency,' the announcement says."

Ah, so I have to use Origin. Well, thanks for giving me another reason not to buy the new Dragon Age game, EAWare.

I don't disagree with what these guys say (either the GameStop CEO or the author of the article). As soon as they release a proper Zelda and/or Metroid game, the Wii U will probably take off. Hell, just the next Smash Bros. game, which is not too far away, will probably be enough to make that happen. People (or at least me, anyway) buy Nintendo ( Read more... )

"It's been a strange week in video game land, particularly on the front of the unfortunate war between gaming fans and the gaming press, which is reaching new levels of insanity. All this week, every forum thread I read is decrying the state of the gaming press. My Twitter feed, conversely, full of gaming journalists, is decrying the state of the ( Read more... )