This week is a big episode, as it is chock full of surprising news this week, as well as some long, long reader mail. If that weren’t enough, we take a look back at the IntelliVision game Maze-a-Tron, deal with too much love for Paul, and the mystery that is the popularity of gorillas. This [...]
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Episode 222: Gorilla Love
July 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Tags: Casual Games · electronic arts · Industry News · Kinect · Microsoft · Podcast · popcap · PSP · Retro · Show Notes · Xbox 360
Rumor: EA Buying Popcap?
June 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Tech Cruch is reporting that Electronic Arts is about to acquire casual games giant Popcap Games for a cool $1 billion, which would exceed EA’s market cap by over 13%. If true, this would be EA’s definitive entry into the casual games market, a field they broke into 7 years ago. Despite consuming a significant [...]
Tags: electronic arts · Industry News · popcap · Rumors
Gaming Podcast 219: ColecoVision Rules
June 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments
Paul crows about Nintendo’s dominance over the ColecoVision and Dreamcast, while Jonah and Jordan reminisce about this week’s Gaming Flashback, Electronic Arts’ Barnstorming for the Atari 2600. The news also includes the following topics: Duke Nukem Forever review fiasco Harrison: Apple will be the games industry in 10 years Tretton: No need for PS4, PS3 [...]
Tags: atari · electronic arts · Episode · playstation 3 · Podcast · Retro · Rumors · Show Notes · Sony
Gaming Podcast 161: Gayma Via
February 16th, 2010 · 8 Comments
This weeks gaming podcast is a his and her podcast as Don is out sick. Oddly, the episode is shorter than normal, apparently we just didn’t have enough to rant about this week. We did cover some community responses, covered some game history and busted through some news articles including: PS3 heading for shortages? Get [...]
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Electronic Arts Issues 1,000 Pink Slips
December 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Electronic Arts is planning to lay off 1,000 employees, approximately 10% of their employees. In this layoff their also consolidating EA Black Box back into EA Canada. EA Black Box was spun off as a studio outside of EA Canada to work on such titles as Need for Speed but, with the layoffs arriving, they’re [...]
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DRM Free Spore Steams Forward!
December 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Gamers get upset when developers sneak ugly hacks onto their computers when they just want to play video games. Although gamers really only revolt when they know their being exploited, Spore is a fine example of how not to lock down a video game. Using SecuROM was a bad decision on the part of Electronic [...]
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Smart Business Choices During Economic Downturns
November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Many game studios are being dropped following a bit of an economic downturn in the United States and globally. Activision has to deal with being agile enough to survive the economic times like anyone else and has dropped a few games that had great potential. Gamers continue to ask the question, “why?” when some of [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Editorial · electronic arts · Industry News
38 Studios Pulls EA and Blizzard Talent
November 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Formerly Green Monster Games, 38 Studios is growing a large pool of talented folks for their MMO endeavor. First, we heard R.A. Salvatore (writer of the Dark Elf series) was heading over to work on a story, art direction by Todd McFarlane (creator of Spawn) and now Irena Pereira from Blizzard and a sound designer, [...]
Tags: Blizzard · electronic arts · Industry News · MMO · Press Release
Studios Closing: The Good, Bad and Ugly
November 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Gamers around the world are going to feel the pain in the 2009 holiday season after the economy shakes apart many great development studios. Electronic Arts feels the pain of being a public company as their investors complain about lackluster revenue, THQ deals with closing studios to extend their runway and other firms will lose [...]
Tags: Editorial · electronic arts · Industry News · Microsoft
EA Feels The 310 Million Dollar Dagger
October 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Halloween is a scary time of year, no less when you’re posting a $310 million net loss. EA CEO John Riccitiello sees “weakness” at retail in October and we’re betting this isn’t the end of the road of sorrow for game publishers around the globe. Electronic Arts isn’t unfamiliar with bad times and we’re sure [...]
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