(CNN) -- From plummeting sales to a shift to social networks, critics love to endlessly debate what ails the gaming business.
But ironically, the biggest problem of all may be that there is no singular "games industry" to speak of anymore, and that the term "video game" itself is hopelessly outdated.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran.
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
V = Violent
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Fill it out people!
Interactive Visual Media, but I prefer to call it Games
Its a game that uses a video screen as opposed to a game that uses a board to play.
Something the main stream media can hate on because they don't understand it and they haven't tested it, they hope their nit picking will reduce video games and stop their channels decline in popularity DESPITE that channel also showing far more violent and sexual themes WITH NO PARENTAL LOCK, NO store policy. If a child is up beyond 9 pm they can see scene far more violent than video games BECAUSE these networks are in bed with the ratings board. Don't believe me?
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
And then films like clerks getting a 18 rating while other more violent and sexual films get a 15 or 12... why? Because money is everything.