Dragon Age 4 has been in development for many years now and has undergone massive content and creative leadership changes along the way. We know that in its original form, Dragon Age 4 was pitched as a game with ‘live' multiplayer elements baked in, an idea that was thankfully scrapped …
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Dragon Age 4 might be in trouble as creative director leaves BioWare
BioWare has been working on Dragon Age 4 for years now, with development beginning sometime before 2017. Unfortunately, the game has run into problems along the way, having lost a creative director and being 'rebooted' once before. Now, the game has once again found itself without a creative lead.
Read More »Apple and Amazon fined over ‘anti-competitive collusion’
Apple is regularly in the news due to repeated antitrust violations. This time around, the company has been accused anti-competitive behaviour in Italy, with authorities also claiming collusion between Apple and Amazon to supress competition. As a result, both parties have been ordered to pay a $225 million fine. Italy's …
Read More »KitGuru Games: A Delayed Game is Eventually Good
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”. This is a quote that has echoed throughout the video games industry. First said by Nintendo veteran and the father of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, the quote has been used and abused over the years when discussing the ever common practice of delaying games. But is it true?
Read More »Mass Effect: Legendary Edition performed ‘well above’ EA’s expectations
When it comes to EA and single-player games, there is always some concern around the publisher's expectations for sales and revenue. In the past, we've seen lofty sales goals lead to the cancellation of beloved franchises and even studio closures. Fortunately, in the case of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, the …
Read More »Casey Hudson, the former General Manager at BioWare has announced a new studio
Over the past few years, many of the industry’s biggest and most well known names have left their positions at major studios in order to pursue their dreams of creating their own studios. Such was the case with Hideo Kojima, Jade Raymond, and now Casey Hudson, who has announced his …
Read More »TSMC sees growth in Q1 but warns chip shortages could last into 2022
There is good news and bad news from TSMC this week. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has seen a rise in revenue and profits in Q1, but unfortunately, we are no closer to the current chip shortage being over. TSMC revealed this week that it saw a 19.4 percent rise …
Read More »EA cancels Motive Studio’s new IP ‘Gaia’
EA has had a very busy week. So far, we've seen Anthem's reboot plans scrapped, multiplayer/live-service elements scrapped for Dragon Age 4 and to top it all off, EA has also pulled the plug on another secretive project, known as ‘Gaia'. Gaia has been in development at EA Motive for …
Read More »Dragon Age 4 is dropping multiplayer, EA no longer forcing ‘live service’ on Bioware
We've heard quite a bit about Dragon Age 4's development over the years, specifically that EA was mandating live-service multiplayer elements. Since then, EA has seemingly had a change of heart, with reports now indicating that Anthem's flop has made executives back off a bit. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, …
Read More »Ubisoft doesn’t want to rely on AAA game releases
Ubisoft is one of the biggest players in the video games industry, releasing a number of large-scale AAA titles each year. That being said, it would seem the publisher does not want to be overly reliant on these releases, and plans to supplement its future AAA games with “new premium …
Read More »Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 13 million copies
Back on launch day, CD Projekt Red revealed that over eight million people had pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077. Since then, there has been controversy over bugs and refunds have been offered to those unhappy with the game on Xbox One and PS4 consoles. Despite refunds, the game is still a huge …
Read More »BioWare releases behind the scenes look at the next Dragon Age
Typically when EA releases a behind the scenes teaser for a game rather than a proper trailer, we see a lot of moans and groans. This year though, BioWare has been very quiet and we know that the next Dragon Age game is still a couple of years away. With …
Read More »Foxconn expected to invest $1 billion on iPhone assembly facilities in India
Recently Apple has been expanding its supply chain to include more factories outside of China. As one of Apple's biggest partners, Foxconn is looking to also expand to suit those needs, with the company expected to invest around $1 billion to expand its presence in southern India. According to a …
Read More »There may have been a sneaky Dragon Age 4 teaser during EA Play
While BioWare did not have much of a presence during last night’s EA Play stream, there may have been a sneaky tease for Dragon Age fans. Anthem, Mass Effect and Dragon Age weren’t specifically mentioned during the show, but a next-gen console teaser-reel appears to have at least something for …
Read More »Report: TSMC halts new orders from Huawei as US rules change
The trade dispute between the US and China is continuing this week, with reports saying that TSMC has stopped taking new orders from Huawei as the US attempts to limit chip supplies. The US government announced last Friday that semiconductors making chips abroad with U.S. technology would require licenses for …
Read More »EA Play goes digital, will take place in June
While E3 won’t be going ahead this year, publishers are still planning their own Summer showcases for upcoming games. EA will still be going ahead with its annual EA Play event in June, although this time around, it will be a digital-only event, rather than a larger gathering. EA Play …
Read More »BioWare staffing up for a new game in one of its ‘most prestigious’ franchises
Anthem may not have been the big successful new IP that we wanted from BioWare but older fans of the studio will have something to look forward to soon. Recent job listings show that BioWare is currently staffing up for a new project based on one of its “most prestigious …
Read More »EA has cancelled an unannounced Star Wars game but Fallen Order sequel is coming
Given how disastrous the launch of Star Wars Battlefront 2 was, a sequel wasn't necessarily expected for 2020. However, it turns out that EA was working on a spin-off of sorts, although that game has been cancelled, as has the game that was rising from the ashes of Ragtag, the …
Read More »Google fights back against colossal €2.4 billion EU fine
Google has been battling with the EU for a few years now over various anti-trust concerns. At the moment, Google faces a hefty $2.6 billion (2.4 billion Euro) fine, which the company is still fighting. The fine was initially imposed back in 2017 and this week during a three-day hearing, Alphabet …
Read More »Warcraft 3: Reforged officially has the lowest user-score on Metacritic
Towards the end of last week, fans began making their disappointment in Blizzard heard, giving Warcraft 3: Reforged an incredibly low 0.6 user score rating on Metacritic. Since then, the score has dropped again to 0.5, officially making it the lowest user-rated game on Metacritic. There is even talk of …
Read More »Warcraft 3: Reforged gets one of the lowest Metacritic user scores of all time
The lowest user score in Metacritic's history?
Read More »Former BioWare and Naughty Dog developers team up for new sci-fi RPG
Early last year, Wizards of the Coast announced that it was forming a new game studio in partnership with former BioWare veterans. Now almost a year later, the studio has been officially unveiled as Archetype Entertainment, and their first game will be a sci-fi RPG. James Ohlen, formerly a BioWare …
Read More »All the games confirmed to support Nvidia’s ray-tracing and DLSS RTX features
Nvidia's RTX features are starting to catch on with developers and the list of supported games continues to grow. At E3, a few more major releases were added to the full list.
Read More »Xbox One bundles push Minecraft and Sea of Thieves back into UK top ten sales chart
Black Friday is consistently the biggest retail shopping event of the year and while total UK physical game sales were down compared to 2018, retailers still sold through an impressive 1.3 million physical game copies last week. This also means that the UK's top ten games chart is very different …
Read More »The next Mass Effect has reportedly entered ‘very early development’
BioWare is a very busy studio at the moment. Not only are there still multiple teams trying to salvage Anthem and rebuild it from the ground up, but the studio is also working on the next Dragon Age and apparently, the next Mass Effect has also entered ‘very early development'. …
Read More »Modern Warfare becomes best selling game of the year in 6 days
The NPD results for October have been released, giving us an insight into how the video game market performed last month in the US. Unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare took the top spot as the best selling game of the month. Perhaps more surprising, however, is the fact that …
Read More »BioWare teases more Dragon Age in December
While the game is unlikely to release until 2022, we could hear more info next month
Read More »EA hits record high milestones and shares game release plans for 2020, 2021 and 2022
Yesterday was a rather big one for EA news. Not only did the publisher announce that it will be bringing its games back to Steam and offering EA Access through Valve's platform, but EA's quarterly earnings report also revealed a lot about the upcoming games lineup. We haven't entered the …
Read More »WWE 2K20’s disastrous launch has led to Sony offering customers refunds
2K’s latest entry in the WWE franchise is being review bombed by fans after claims that the game launched in a buggy and unfinished state. Amid all these complaints, PlayStation has reportedly been issuing refunds to those who request it on their digital store, a move which is uncommon for …
Read More »Rumours suggest EA might be returning to Steam
Despite being absent from the platform since 2011, when it launched its own store and launcher, it seems like EA might be gearing up to return to Steam, removing the exclusivity of its IP from its own EA Origin store, if rumours and recent discoveries are to be believed. Twitter …
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