It has been 16 years since the first Need for Speed series was launched, and I still have very fond memories playing it on an old DOS PC. It has been a long time and I thought it would be very fitting with the most recent release, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, to take a Sunday drive through the old neighborhood where we grew up and finally heading back home to where we are at now.
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
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
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
You know the old saying...
If you need half naked girls to sell the product, then it isn't worth the purchase.
Sums up NFS really... Most Wanted was ok but everything else is paff!
Was hoping to see some screens of these chicks. Dislike
where did the babes go?
Naaah, NFS:HP2 is still by far one of the best racing games ever. NFS:U was alright, but after that, NFS went downhill.
GT5 may take the crown as my personal best racing game ever soon enough though because it's... amazing O_O
And holy crap, NFS2:SE!!! I still have the disk for that on PC XD. Soo awesome! :)