The long-awaited next entry in the Need for Speed franchise has been unveiled: Need for Speed Payback. Set to release on November 10, Need for Speed Payback looks like it wants to capitalize on the love for games like Need for Speed: Most Wanted, while bringing in some features from the last few years of Need for Speed and other racing games. Payback followed street racer Tyler Morgan...
EA is taking every measure to assure fans and shareholders alike that the complaints that dogged the first Battlefront won’t affect the second. In this week’s earnings call, EA said during a Q&A session about Star Wars Battlefront II that the game is “three times the size of the original game at launch.” The answer came in response to a question about DLC or a season pass for the...
Star Wars Battlefront II finally has a campaign, an element sorely lacking from the original. But the multiplayer is still at the core of the experience. The first of the new Battlefront games was fun but just about every review and fan gripe I heard about it could be summed up as saying it “lacked depth.” Our own Joey Davidson’s review included. So the team has some work to do with...
The launch of Mass Effect: Andromeda isn’t even a month away. It’s hard to believe, I know. As the release date approaches, BioWare is letting more information slip through the likes of hands-on opportunities and press events. While we haven’t had our hands on the game ourselves, we’ve been poring over the coverage. One of the big question marks is how combat will have changed from ...
Metacritic spends its days and nights gathering together every review score under the sun, amalgamating them into single scores to help people decide what games they should get (and to help publishers decide who gets bonuses, unfortunately). Then, the site takes all those scores and boils them down and ranks each publisher. The results are out for 2016, and Electronic Arts is sitting on...
When you’re just another player on the field, you can shoot your mouth off without too many people taking notice. But when you’re the champ, all eyes are on you. Madden NFL 17‘s U.S. champ Chris “Dubby” McFarland found this out last week after his tweets cost him $3,000 of his $75,000 prize. Madden NFL developer and publisher Electronic Arts announced the decision last week. Their...
Need for Speed will return, EA says, and we won’t have to wait much longer. During yesterday’s financial call, the company addressed the status of a bunch of its core franchises, with Need for Speed among them. EA promised the game will be on shelves and in hands before the end of the next financial year in March of 2018. That gives them about a year-long window to fit something in, but...
Where Call of Duty continues to move out of modern warfare and into the future, Electronic Arts and DICE are taking things back to the very birth of modern warfare this fall with Battlefield 1. This latest iteration of the Battlefield series is set in World War I, the first war that saw tanks on the ground and fighter planes in the skies. While games have drained World War II and modern...
FIFA Ultimate Team is big business for Electronic Arts. Even while we sit and make fun of them for showing videos of people developing games instead of actual games at E3, they’re printing money, and FUT is the machine at work. Fans think they might’ve found a glitch, and if it’s true, it could be huge. Here’s how FIFA Ultimate Team works. This is a mode separate from the standard ...
Video game consoles are changing before our eyes. It’s a weird, exciting time to be a gamer. Many previously held assumptions have to go away, and we’re in a field of unknowns. In truth, the change began years ago when the previous generation of game consoles started to live longer than anyone expected them to. Now, with the announcement of Microsoft’s Project Scorpio and the official...