Congratulations Sony, it takes a lot of work to set back an entire medium of distributing games but it appears if you don’t, you’re taking good strides to.
It’s common sense that a downloadable game is cheaper than distributing a game by retail, after all publishers don’t have to…
While looking through the comments from the last Skirmish of EpicBattleCry, I came across a video Battle Cry posted by CrimsonGorilla. He talks about former LucasArts president Jim Ward, who resigned from that position early last year. Mr. Ward is going into politics and recently announced that he will be seeking election as…
Remember when Sony pulled backwards compatibility from the PS3 for basically no reason? Remember feeling like the kid who was promised a toy car but got socks even though they had been good all year? Well, Sony doesn’t want that to happen and has told PS3 owners they will have no toy car to…
When the Dragon Age Origins Collector’s Edition was announced I was reading through the press release and this caught my eye:
The Stone Prisoner is available to original purchasers of new copies of Dragon Age: Origins at no additional cost. The Stone Prisoner can also be purchased separately for $15.
Have developers finally had enough…
One of my good buddies and I have been playing sports games together for years. In fact, the very first conversation we ever had was about a sports videogame (and our shared love thereof) which spawned a conversation about sports in general and thusly established a common ground for us to build our…
Some people will look anywhere for racist undertones. Houston Chronicle writer Willie Jefferson posted an article on Game Hacks, a video game blog with the Chronicle, earlier this month and accused the yet-to-be release Left 4 Dead 2 of containing racist undertones.
Jefferson points out that “players will have to fight their…
It has been far too long since Sega has released a title bearing the name of Sonic that was actually worthy of the franchise’s rich heritage. The blue blur’s quality has been on the decline since Sega stopped making consoles and diehard gamers are left with their Genesis Virtual Console games to sooth…
Here we go again…Kotaku is reporting that gaming blog The RAM Raider is calling out Eidos for attempting to fudge with the review score for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum. Of course, this comes after Eidos’ highly publicized ordeals surrounding review score tampering with both Tomb Raider: Underworld and Kayne & Lynch. From…
With the recent announcement of the PSPgo, owners of the earlier PSP models are left with a dilemma if whether or not to “upgrade” to the new model. Especially when many people have just picked up a new PSP recently. I haven’t seen the recent NPD sales charts for the current PSP,…
I came across an article posted by Mike Smith over at yahoo’s “Plugged in” blog, which makes for an interesting read and conversation. The blog post dives into questions and problems that we here at EBA have debated and tried to understand in the past.
