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Valve's Early Access program has already helped some smaller developers get their games out but now bigger studios are starting to see the value in keeping the community involved throughout the development process. EA's DICE is considering an Early Access style approach to game development. The same goes for ex-Valve …

AMD's Mantle API had its début last year, promising performance boosts for AMD users in Battlefield 4 and Thief. Since then, Mantle has slowly been working its way in to more titles and now EA has announced that it will incorporate the API in three of its upcoming games. The …

EA and Visceral Games are taking a different approach to Battlefield Hardline, rather than having a “beta test” two weeks before the game's launch, they are holding a real beta test and its already live. The Battlefield Hardline beta launched last night at the end of EA's otherwise somewhat underwhelming …

E3 officially kicks off today but we've already had a few leaks to give us an idea of what's in store for us this week. We already know that EA will be announcing six new titles at its press conference but it looks like one of them could be Mass …

A video showing some leaked beta footage of Battlefield Hardline has appeared online, giving us a much better idea of what gameplay will be like, what sort of equipment and vehicles we'll have access too and how the game plays without a load of jump cuts. Update: Thanks to Facebook …

Yesterday we saw a seven minute long video of the internal dev team describing the different multiplayer modes in Visceral Game's upcoming title, Battlefield Hardline. However, it turns out that the video is actually pretty old and isn't a fair indication of what we'll be seeing at E3 in just …

EA might be pushing Battlefield into a yearly cycle as the publisher has announced Battlefield: Hardline, a spin off game focusing on the police force, developed by Visceral Games. The title will get its official reveal at E3 this year but we've already seen some leaked footage. Battlefield Hardline will …

GameSpy announced that it was shutting down last month and as a result, a lot of games are having their multiplayer servers shut down. Game Ranger recently announced that it would save a few but some titles are bound to slip through the cracks. EA is going to be one …

EA may not be everyone's favourite company but it does have some good developers up its sleeve, which is why you should still be a little excited that six new games are going to be announced at E3 next month. We'll also be getting a closer look at Star Wars …

Respawn and EA have been pretty tight lipped on the subject of Titanfall sales numbers but it turns out, the game actually sold a lot which led to EA signing a deal to publish the game's sequels. Titanfall sold close to a million copies in the US alone throughout March, …

EA is reportedly working out a game streaming deal with Comcast, the deal would allow EA to stream games on the American cable provider's X1 operating system. This move would also expand EA's customer base significantly as the publisher would be able to reach all of Comcast's 22 million customers. …

Dragon Age Inquisition writer, David Gaider, posted a rather lengthy blog post on his personal Tumblr describing the current state of the game and explained a little about the reality of cutting content. Inquisition is currently heading in to the Alpha stage and while new content is still in development, it …

Mass Effect 4 has been in the making for a little while now, we got our first tease of the game last year when Bioware showed off some screenshots but the team seems to have made significant progress since then. The developer had a lot on its plate when the …

Plants VS Zombies: Garden Warfare has gone down pretty well with console gamers so far and unlike the mobile versions of the Plants VS Zombie games, it has stayed micro-transaction free- until now. An upcoming update will add in the option to buy in-game currency which could potentially hinder the …

EA has apologised for some April Fool's tweets that came from the Frostbite Engine Twitter account yesterday, branding them as “unnecessary” and “stupid. The Wii U taunting tweets have been deleted but EA COO, Peter Moore, has still apologised on behalf of the company. Gamers will know of the Frostbite …

Despite once long ago saying that it wouldn't offer game sales, EA has now made the original Dead Space entirely free on its Origin download platform for a limited time, as part of a new scheme it's launched called “On the House.” In this new system, EA will offer up …

EA bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise in May last year, since then gamers have been wondering what the Publisher plans to do with the franchise as so far, only Battlefront 3 has been announced. However, EA CEO, Andrew Wilson, has shed some light on how developers are …

If you're stuck with an Xbox 360 for your main gaming device and you were looking forward to Titanfall, then you're going to be waiting a while as the game has been delayed again for the last generation console. The game, which was originally pushed back to the 28th of …

Titanfall is obviously a success. Obviously. Which is why it's no suprise that reports are circulating that EA has already secured the publishing rights to the sequel and it's going to be multi-platform. That means it'll be breaking free of its current Microsoft chains and show up on the PS4 …

Titanfall has done well for itself, the new IP released to a swarm of good reviews and it looked like the launch would go off without a hitch, unfortunately Microsoft's Xbox Live service wasn't feeling up to the task yesterday as it went down for six hours, stopping many gamers …

Microsoft Studios Vice President, Phil Spencer, has expressed some interest in making a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Anniversary edition, something I'm sure a lot of fans of the RPG series would like to see happen. Image Credit: RetroGamingAus Things started off when a fan tweeted the Microsoft …

Gamers spent whopping $15.39 billion (£9.1894 billion) on PC and console video games in the U.S. last year, according to a new report from NPD Group, a leading market tracker. Due to changes of the ways people get new content, the overall market grew just 1% annually amid increasing interest …

You may have noticed that EA released a mobile version of an old but much loved franchise, Dungeon Keeper, a couple of weeks ago. Following the game's release, the publisher instantly felt backlash as the internet ripped the game apart, branding it as a scam and nothing more than a …

The Titanfall beta is live for those of you who were lucky enough to get a beta key but for Xbox One users the game seems to be running at a pretty weird resolution. The Titanfall beta is currently running at 1408×792 or 792p, Respawn has confirmed. Eurogamer was the …

Want to play Titanfall? Yea, so do we and now we have a chance to, as the beta signup period has begun. If you want to apply, there's a few hoops you have to jump through, but it will mean that you'll be able to play the hotly anticipated FPS …

When Dungeon Keeper arrived on mobile devices, many fans of the original games branded it as a micro-transaction greed fest, not many people like the game at all. So you might be wondering, if so many people hate the game, why does it have such a high rating on the …

Despite its latest EA published racing title Need for Speed: Rivals being pretty well received by critics and the public, that doesn't mean jobs at British developer Ghost Games are safe. Several people have been laid off and others asked if they want to move over to a new project …

After a week or so of speculation we finally have confirmation that gamers will have a chance to beta test Titanfall on both the Xbox One and PC sometime soon. Respawn co-founder, Vince Zampella announced the beta earlier today on Twitter: “I'm sure no one has been able to guess from …

Recently there has been reports of an anonymous EA developer admitting that Nintendo became dead to the Publisher “very quickly” following the launch of the Wii U, apparently this didn't sit well with EA COO, Peter Moore, who denies the claim that EA has turned its back on Nintendo despite all …

In light of Microsoft's recent secretive campaign to get content creators on YouTube to speak positively about the Xbox One, it has been revealed that EA has also done the same to promote its own next gen games. Right now the promotion is aimed at getting producers to be positive …