A few months ago I wrote a piece on games journalism for The Escapist. Not a bad little article, though it didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked. In it, I had a throwaway line about how the success of The Sims is still a story but no one seems to be […]
Entries Tagged as 'Electronic Arts'
SimCity: Societies Preview
August 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments · City Builder, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview, Tilted Mill
The fruit of my brief trip to EA Headquarters ten days ago can be found now on Gameshark. A lot of people will not like this game. Societies turns its back on so many SimCity assumptions that the hardcore city building audience will be astonished. Not that this is a bad thing. I agree with […]
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Command and Conquer 3 Expansion
August 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Command and Conquer 3 Expansion · Electronic Arts, RTS
So it’s official. Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars will be getting an expansion called Kane’s Wrath. The story based campaign will be the biography of our favorite bald lunatic. Taking a page from other RTSes, there will also be a “global domination” game. Oh, and can someone send a fact checker to Gamedaily? While […]
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I Love a Good Mystery
July 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Electronic Arts, RTS
Odds are this isn’t one. A big Command and Conquer 3 announcement on August 7? Oh, whatever could it be? A movie, with all your favorite B-listers reprising their roles in the cinematic glories of Tiberium Wars? They are porting it to the Wii? EA is making a new turn based version for all those […]
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Command and Conquer 3 Online
April 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Electronic Arts, Me, Multiplayer
I’m not very good. This shouldn’t be surprising. I’ve noted before that I don’t play many games often enough to actually excel at them. But I usually fail even against standard newbies who just have a better sense of the ebb and flow of a RTS. Part of it is my inability or unwillingness to […]
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Define “majority”
March 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Electronic Arts, Multiplayer
Just to be clear: Not everyone is having problems playing on-line… the majority of people are able to get online, play games, and a have a great time. That’s EA Executive Producer Mike Verdu on the continuing problems with Command and Conquer 3 multiplayer. It worked fine out of the box, but the patches have […]
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