Posted 5/6/13 2:34 pm EST by Clint Mize in ea, Mac, News, PC, The Sims 4
Start brushing up on your Simlish because Maxis and Electronic Arts announced the next number sequel for the tiny, torture simulator -- and I'm sure the little denizens inhabiting your failed and forgotten SimCity 5 town have a lot of angry messages to deliver.
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Posted 4/26/13 10:10 am EST by Clint Mize in ea, News, PS3, Video, Xbox 360
Courtesy of Radical Interactive, get a closer look at the clandestine Overstrike Team 9! Presented in a digital comic form, you'll learn the shattered past of the four squad mates as they embark on a new mission against a mysterious threat.
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Posted 4/8/13 10:00 am EST by kevinkelly in ea, Features, GDC, News, PS3, Xbox 360
By Kevin Kelly
As a video game journalist, it isn't often that you get to sit down with the head of a studio and co-op through a video game with just the two of you. Often, the events we attend feature a big group of writers, all jockeying for sound bites and hands-on time with games, so imagine our surprise when we stepped into a small meeting room and were presented with two gaming setups, and were introduced to Ted Price, the president and CEO of Insomniac Games. He was there to show off "Fuse," the newest game from his company.
Just in case you didn't know, Insomniac has been a powerhouse development studio for Sony, creating games that turned into franchises like "Spyro the Dragon," "Ratchet & Clank," and "Resistance: Fall of Man." But "Fuse," which was originally introduced as "Overstrike" back in 2010, marks the first time the studio has developed a title for multiple consoles, and it will be out for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this May. It's a third-person shooter, grounded more in the "realistic" universe of the Resistance games. That is, it's not cartoonish, although it is frequently over-the-top. Which is what you will love about it.
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Posted 2/26/13 5:05 pm EST by MTV Video Games in bioware, ea, mass effect 3, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
By Joseph Leray
BioWare has released a trailer for “Mass Effect 3: Reckoning,” the team’s final piece of free multiplayer content. In a livestream playthrough of the DLC, BioWare also detailed the updated characters, weapons, and gear being added.
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Posted 2/21/13 5:10 pm EST by MTV Video Games in bioware, ea, mass effect 3, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
By Joseph Leray
BioWare and Electronic Arts have announced the final batches of downloadable content for “Mass Effect 3”: “Citadel” is a single-player campaign expansion, while “Reckoning” is a multiplayer pack containing new weapons, maps, and skins.
Like all multiplayer updates so far, “Reckoning” will be free, but “Citadel” will run to the tune of $14.99, or 1200 Microsoft Points on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Neither the press release or official statements on the game’s forums mention the Wii U version of the game, which launched with some DLC, but not “Leviathan” or “Omega.”
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Posted 2/19/13 9:00 am EST by Clint Mize in crysis 3, crytek, ea, PC, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360
If you recall my preview impressions, "Crysis 3" is set to be another solid shooter in a growing franchise from Crytek and EA. While "Crysis 2" was their first swing onto consoles and had some pretty impressive visuals it didn't exactly bring the house down. With the next installment, Crytek has their sights set on bigger fights with aggressive AI coupled with a robust multiplayer but is it enough to draw you away from other shooters?
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Posted 2/15/13 6:25 pm EST by MTV Video Games in crysis 3, crytek, ea, PC, PS3, Video, Xbox 360
By Joseph Leray
Confession: if there is a bow in a shooting game, I’m going to go out of my way to use it.
I’m not some kind of avid sportsman or real-life bow enthusiast, mind you. I’ve shot bows several times, actually, but I’m not exactly a marksman: sometimes I hit the target, and sometimes I send the arrow flying into my neighbor’s yard, off her roof, and into the next street. I’m lucky I didn’t seriously injure someone, and that was the end of my urban bow-shooting career. My target-practice sessions invariably take place on farms now.
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Posted 2/14/13 9:00 am EST by MTV Video Games in ea, medal of honor: warfighter, News
By Joseph Leray
The long national nightmare of “Medal of Honor” is finally over, or at least on reprieve for the time being: after bad marketing, dismal reviews, and a potential leak of classified information, Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore finally put the horse out to pasture.
In a conference call last month (caught by Polygon), Moore called the game “a miss,” explaining that “this one is behind us now. We are taking Medal of Honor out of the rotation.”
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Posted 2/12/13 11:20 am EST by MTV Video Games in Dead Space 3, ea, visceral games
By Joseph Leray
Antony Johnston, the lead writer for the original ‘Dead Space’ seems to be the only person with anything nice to say about ‘Dead Space 3.’ Between the tepid reviews -- our own called it “an awful horror game but an okay shooter” -- and the brouhaha surrounding its microtransactions, Visceral’s EA-published space-horror shooter is taking a beating.
After working on “Dead Space,” “Dead Space: Extraction,” and “Dead Space: Ignition,” Johnston moved on from the series to collaborate with Sega and Ubisoft on “Binary Domain” and “ZombiU,” respectively. Despite not having worked on “Dead Space 3,” Johnston had high praise for the team at Visceral.
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Posted 2/11/13 5:40 pm EST by MTV Video Games in Dead Space 3, ea
By Joseph Leray
Let’s lay the groundwork for a fascinating story from across the pond about whether or not farming for resources in “Dead Space 3” constitutes theft, shall we?
“Dead Space 3” includes microtransactions, the increasingly popular bugbear that lets players pay extra for items and resources after having already shelled out $60 for the game to begin with. In “Dead Space 3,” the microtransactions are tied to the game’s new weapons crafting system. Players can mix and match gun components to customize or create new weaponry. These scrap parts and resources can be found by exploring, killing enemy necromorphs, or by deploying scavenger bots, but they can also be bought for real money at each crafting station.
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