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Mass Effect Infiltrator Now Available on Android for $6.99

Attention Mass Effect fans: If you’ve beefed up your gaming rig playing BioWare’s awesome trilogy, or ponied up cash playing it on your game console, you’ll want to hear this. Mass Effect Infiltrator is now available for Android smartphones. This stop-and-pop action RPG takes its queues from the recent mega hit Mass Effect 3 and works

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NHL 13 Unveils Skating Changes in New Trailer

The NHL franchise from EA Sports has been about evolving the game of video hockey ever so slightly since NHL 07. It was during that year that they introduced the Skill Stick. It took play off of the face buttons and put it on the right stick, something that feels exceptionally natural today. Six years later

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UPDATED: FTC About to Officially Deem Mass Effect 3′s Advertising False?

UPDATE: Absolutely not. The company guilty of false advertising? Sketchers. The shoes that tone your body, totally bogus. Original Story: The FTC posted an announcement today that could potentially stir a lot of things up inside the gaming industry. The headline of the announcement runs like so: FTC Announces Action Against Major Marketer of Consumer Goods The

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Battlefield 3′s “Close Quarters” DLC Gets Gameplay Trailer

Each Battlefield 3 DLC pack will be centered around a single combat theme. The first pack, Close Quarters, will involve battle and strategy in tight, destructible locales. The video at the head of this post provides a look at the intense fighting we’ll have a chance to experience in the coming months. Here’s a quick note

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Crysis 3 Gameplay Trailer Arrives

The full Crysis 3 gameplay trailer has finally arrived, promising you more gorgeous looking action. After receiving a teaser trailer for the full trailer last week, EA and Crytek delivered this morning with a short but powerful trailer that gives you more of a sense of what you can expect from the third installment in

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Crysis 3 Gameplay Trailer Gets Teaser Trailer (Video)

EA and Crytek have elected to spread out assets for the next entry in the Crysis line in the form of teasing for teasers that tease new trailers. Yes, that’s what the collective industry is doing these days. The clip above is what EA’s marketing arm is offering up for Crysis 3. It’s a save-the-date, of

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Upcoming SSX DLC a Throwback to Tricky Roots (Video)

If you felt like the style of EA’s brand new SSX was a little too dark and imposing for your tastes given the history of the Tricky franchise, the upcoming DLC for this snowboarding title might be right up your alley. The Mt. Eddie DLC will give old school fans a sample of what they first fell

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Crysis 3 Announced for 2013

Early this morning, EA took the wraps off of their highly anticipated Crytek developed shooter, Crysis 3, via press release. Players will yet again take on the streets of New York City as Prophet in the year 2047. They’ll be fighting to take back the city from the corrupt Cell Corporation after learning the motive behind building

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Apple Given the Go-Ahead to Intervene in Lodsys Patent Suit

Nearly a year after Apple filed a motion to intervene on behalf of numerous iOS developers in a patent case with Lodsys, a federal judge on Thursday gave Apple the go-ahead to get involved. The decision gives the Cupertino-based company freedom to participate in the proceedings if it so chooses, as long as Apple is

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Burnout CRASH! Slams onto iOS

In the Burnout franchise, one of the classic modes that fans regularly adored and sunk hours of play into was the havoc wreaking Crash mode. Essentially, players would drive into a high-traffic scenario, crash their vehicle and then slowly guide it into other vehicles in order to cause the highest amount of damage. Damage was calculated

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter Gets Gameplay Trailer

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is EA and Danger Close’s next attempt at relaunching the Medal of Honor brand after a few years of leave. The series once stood tall next to Call of Duty, but the most recent game didn’t register much of a blip in the eyes of gamers. Will that change with this upcoming title?

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Mass Effect 3′s Advertising Deemed False by BBB Blog

The “BBB” in question here is the Better Business Bureau; the group responsible with servicing the businesses and consumer marketplaces in North America. One writer and employee of the Bureau took to its blog to explain that Mass Effect 3 was, in fact, falsely advertised by EA. The writer, Marjorie Stephens, Director of Communications at BBB of Northern

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EA Named “Worst Company In America,” Wins Consumerist’s Golden Poo Award

Consumer Union’s Consumerist blog has named Electronic Arts “The Worst Company in America.” Whether you’re a fan or not, this is still kind of shocking — and no small feat, considering there were contenders like Bank of America and Walmart up for that Golden Poo trophy. Each year, the site compiles a list of the

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Going Hands-On with Mark of the Ninja

Mark of the Ninja, from the same studio that brought the gaming world both Shank and Shank 2 is, put simply, looking sweet. This XBLA title is a 2D stealth game. More than likely, it’s among the first of its kind. I had a chance to see the game in action today at PAX East.

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EA Releases Content Unlocking DLC for Battlefield 3

It seems that EA has yet again given players the opportunity to skip over the task committing hours on end to unlock content in one of their titles. The Ultimate Shortcut Bundle DLC for Battlefield 3 will allow you to unlock just about everything in the mulitplayer portion of the game, ready for immediate use to give you the upper-hand. The The

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European Retailer GAME Group Saved by $1.60 Buyout

The private investment firm OpCapita has purchased the GAME and Gamestation stores that remain open following GAME Group’s decision to enter administration last month. 277 high street stores were closed last Monday, but OpCapita has purchased the 333 that remain for just £1 (approx. $1.60). It has set up a company called Baker Acquisitions to

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We Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13

In this edition of We Play (Did you even know that was the name!? I didn’t.), we lace up our spikes and take to the links of Pebble Beach in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13. We take a look at two separate holes as we make use of the new gameplay mechanics like more in-depth

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SimCity Must be Online with Origin in order to Play

You want to play the upcoming SimCity on your laptop from the backseat of a car during a long road trip, eh? Well, as it comes from the folks at Joystiq and Lead Designer Stone Librande, you’ll need to do so while connected to the Internet. SimCity is an “Internet-dependent” experience that requires a connection to EA’s Origin in

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European Retailer GAME Enters Administration

Internet shopping and the rise in digital downloads have claimed their latest victim: European retailer GAME Group — which owns the GAME and Gamestation stores littered across the U.K. — has entered administration, its board has confirmed today. In total, GAME has 1,270 retail outlets across Europe and Australia, but the company has been struggling for

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SimCity’s GlassBox Simulation Engine Shown Off (Video)

Whoa there, hoss. Before you start yelling about how ugly the graphics are in the new SimCity title from Maxis and EA, make sure you pay attention to one of the first things Dan Moskowitz, Gameplay Lead for SimCity, says in the clip. The video above was built to show off GlassBox, the new simulation engine

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EA Shutting Down Online Services for 11 Games

EA Games have announced that they will be shutting online game servers down for 11 of their games on April 13th of this year. Here’s the full roster of games losing online functionality, courtesy of EA: BOOM BLOX Bash Party for Wii Burnout™ Revenge for Xbox 360 EA Create for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and

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BioWare Does Not Need to Change Mass Effect 3′s Ending

BioWare posted on their Facebook wall for Mass Effect that, apparently, they’re not ruling out creating a new ending for Mass Effect 3. This comes after fans have been railing against the company since the game’s launch for its conclusion. Here’s BioWare: We would like to clarify that we are actively and seriously taking all player

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Mass Effect 3 Review

It’s time to strap in and go over BioWare’s third effort in the Mass Effect universe. Mass Effect 3 is one of the biggest video game launches of 2012. This trilogy’s conclusion has already dropped for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms. It’s, so far, been met with all sorts of reception from both fans and critics.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Free to Play this Weekend

Fans of Star Wars: The Old Republic have been excited by the news of the incoming 1.2 update for nearly a week now. It’s set to bring the MMO a slew of new features (many of which most suggest should have launched with the game, instead of months later) to EA and BioWare’s currently successful entry into

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Battlefield 3 DLC “Close Quarters” Gets Trailer

Battlefield 3 is officially getting more extra content later this year. The trailer above was released by EA and DICE to highlight a little bit of what gamers can expect when Close Quarts drops for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms early this summer. Aside from Back to Karkand, the first DLC pack to

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