Despite some of the technical problems with the demo version of the game (mostly in the PS3 version), Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning looks like a very promising game. It has color, slick graphics and a satisfying combat system. Like most new games nowadays, it has special content that you can only get by pre-ordering the game. Unfortunately it looks like they will be offering unique pre-order content depending on where it's purchased from. This is a practice that I do not understand. Are they trying to get people to buy the game multiple times to get all of the content? Pretty ballsy move from a brand new IP. You know what else is ballsy for a new IP that no one has ever heard of? A near $300 Limited Edition. I'm not even kidding.
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.
Sounds like another shity port for the PS3.
BTW: a 300$ limited edition is completely ridiculous.
For that price it should almost coma with a console.
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i played the ps3 demo and the only issues i experienced was pixel stretching. didn't experience any game freezing or anything like that. nothing that really ruined the experience. and considering that they said it wasn't the final code i have pretty decent expectations for this game..