EA has confirmed they have signed an exclusive publishing deal with Disney. The deal will see Star Wars games fall under the EA brand with studios like BioWare, DICE an even Visceral Games all expected to work on future titles in some capacity. Speaking about the deal, president of EA labels Frank Gibeau said the studios may “borrow”...
Despite announcing some 300 new jobs for EA’s Customer Service base in Co. Galway last September, it has emerged that a number of employees working at the centre have been released by EA. Only last week, EA essentially shuttered EA mobile in Montreal with some 200 people put out of work. EA have not yet commented on the cuts specific...
EA and BioWare have confirmed that DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine, debuted a couple of days ago with Battlefield 4, will also power the next Dragon Age and Mass Effect games. BioWare Edmonton and Montreal GM Aaryn Flynn revealed the news on Twitter. Battlefield 4 was revealed at GDC 2013 this week. Check it out here. As for Dragon Age...
Reports are spreading that appear to confirm the closure of BioWare San Francisco. Speaking to Gamesradar, an undislosed source within the studio confirmed EA has closed the San Francisco branch, with 25 to 30 employees laid off. The studio focused on social and mobile titles, but was deemed “too expensive” to continue production...
The achievements/trophies for the final piece of Mass Effect 3 DLC have appeared online. Coming via Neogaf, the achievements are relatively spolierific for the objectives in the DLC, but not so much when it comes to the actual plot. That said, we have them below for those that want to see what they’ll be collecting: Detailed here,...
EA has released a brand new trailer for Mass Effect 3′s “Reckoning” DLC. The DLC, as outlined here, serves up new weapons and characters to the multiplayer side of things. If you watch the trailer until the end, there’s a tease of the possibility that gamers could see Collector skins going into the PvP mix. ...
BioWare has announced a new single-player DLC for Mass Effect 3 named “Citadel”, as well as confirming the previously rumoured “Reckoning” expansion. The Citdeal expansion sees a “sinister conspiracy” target Commander Shepard. Players are tasked with uncovering the truth via locations such as the Citadel’s...
Mass Effect 3 has already been lauded as one of the finest game releases this year, even despite the contentions surrounding THAT ending. It comes to WiiU suitably indistinguishable from the PS3, 360 and PC versions that had a seven month head start; and with a couple of WiiU specific bells and whistles, Mass Effect 3: Special Edition...
EA has revealed they are teaming up with Cook & Becker to create The Mass Effect & Mirror’s Edge fine art collections. The art collections, announced via official PR, offer “a curated selection of original digital art prints from Mass Effect and Mirror’s Edge” that are classed as “museum-grade certified...
EA’s Dragon Age III: Inquisition might just be a next-gen title afterall. The LinkedIn profile C.V of EA Shanghai level designer Tao Gu states that the, “Scope of the DAIII has been chaged [sic], which will target next gen platform [sic] and will be postpone [sic] to 2014.” That means it isn’t a PS3, 360, PC title...
BioWare has reached out to the community for their thoughts on Mass Effect 4. Executive Producer of the franchise Casey Hudson took to twitter last night to ask fans where, in the overall timeline, they’d like to see Mass Effect 4 set: “Parsing through your thoughts on the next #ME game. Would you be more interested in a...
BioWare has confirmed the eagerly-awaited “Omega” DLC for Mass Effect 3 won’t be coming to the Wii U at launch. Announcing the news on twitter, the official BioWare account confirmed that the DLC will hit the PlayStation 3 and 360, as previously planned, but it added: “Unfortunately it will not be available for...
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