Yeah this bug happened to me. They all kind of ran off the roof and died. I couldn't hit them with anything and the game froze like five minutes later. Still one of the best games this year!
Aren't game prices determined by the retailers?
1) The vets thing is Activision
2) You cancel games that will probably not sell well because...well they won't sell well. If facebreaker 2 has to go so I can get more Dragon Age DLC then good on them.
3) You buy out smaller companies to gain assets like, IP, employee, and most of all money. Its the way the world works. The Bioware/Pandemic buy worked for them. The Playfish thing might too and get them more money to focus on their good games... old (sports titles) and...
<insert Sony fanboy rant>
<insert Microsoft fanboy rebuttal>
<insert Microsoft fanboy disguised as neutral party comment>
<insert neutral party crying for gamers to come together as one>
*Eric Krangels laughs as all of the above generate hits for his article*
*oatz01 goes back to prince of persia*
So the demo corruption is probably Microsoft's doing but more than likely it's an unintentional consequence of their DRM checks. It is demo code, not necessarily as stable as it could be. Intentional corruption (like the article is insinuating) of software that isnt yours is a lawsuit waiting to happen. If nothing else they would just prevent you from booting it and kick you back to the arcade screen. My 0.02 CAD.
He's trying to show investors he has faith in EA's plan going forward. Thats all there is to it really ... it's not a precursor to some major change or insider trading. Just a strategic move to keep investors from selling stock.
gameplay actually looks pretty good this year.
So they have two studios in Vancouver. One is Black Tusk (working on a AAA game) and one is Big Park(did a Kinect game or two, working on the Sports TV stuff for Xbox Live now).