Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said in an analyst call today that the massive game publisher is planning to expand its lineup of titles in the next couple of years.
Wilson said on the call that EA had decided to postpone its NBA Live game for the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2020. Instead, EA is working with the NBA and NBA Players Association to create a game for the new video game consoles…
Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment
October 30, 2019
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented. Yet we know that audiences actually love shared live experiences. Jeopardy is more fun…
Sony's PS4 is the second best-selling console of all time
October 30, 2019
Sony’s PlayStation 4 has become the second best-selling console of all time, surpassing the original PlayStation, which sold 102.5 million units. Sony said that it sold 2.8 million PS4s this quarter (including the PS4 Pro), on top of the 100 million mark it hit last…
Why Electronic Arts games are coming back to Steam
October 28, 2019
Electronic Arts is probably going to announce soon that it is bringing its games back to the Steam PC gaming portal. Last week, the Madden and Battlefield publisher posted a teaser on Twitter. The video shows an EA coffee mug with steam coming off the top. And since then, some more evidence points to EA returning to Steam. This would mark a significant return for the publisher after leaving…
'Luigi's Mansion 3' is Mario's brother at his best
October 28, 2019
It’s been six years since Mario’s brother strapped on a modified vacuum cleaner and battled colorful ghosts in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (known as just Luigi’s Mansion 2 in Europe, Australia and Japan). The 3DS adventure was a brilliant but sad…
Luigi’s Mansion 3 review — Stepping into Nintendo’s top tier
October 28, 2019
The Luigi’s Mansion series never felt like top-tier Nintendo. Sure, the original Luigi’s Mansion was fun and quirky when it launched along with the GameCube in 2001, and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was a great 3DS game when it released in 2013. But they couldn’t shoot…
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox All Access bundle back, just in time for the holiday season. Xbox All Access is a bundle that splits the cost of an Xbox console, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Live into monthly payments across 24 months. Microsoft will bundle an Xbox One X, Xbox One S, or a digital edition of the Xbox One S with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, from $19.99 per month. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate…
Microsoft is bringing back Xbox All Access, in addition to expanding the availability of the program to include the UK and Australia. Stateside, the financing program will relaunch on November 18th through Amazon. Meanwhile, in Australia and across the pond, All Access will…
The reborn Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is off to a rough start if you’re an Xbox One X owner. Infinity Ward has identified a problem that leads to frequent crashing for some owners of Microsoft’s higher-end console, in some cases rendering the game…
If you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it will look best on a gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX hardware. I played the just-released first-person shooter game on the PlayStation 4 and have also started playing it on a Falcon Northwest Talon gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card.
That RTX hardware gives me real-time ray tracing, which dramatically improves the…
