EA’s cute The Act romance game exploits iPad’s touchscreen for unique gameplay
Electronic Arts is unveiling a cute romantic game today called The Act that has a unique emotion-driven gameplay that takes advantage of the iPad's touch controls.
Origin offers 90 days of free distribution to successful Kickstarter games
By taking advantage of EA's generosity, crowd-funded games will have a chance to reach Origin's growing audience of more than 12 million users worldwide.
The Sims Social on life support? EA says no way
Electronic Arts came out swinging against what it calls a "misinformed" article in Business Insider, which said that EA's The Sims Social game is on "life support."
EA confirms new Dead Space for 2013 fiscal year
Dead Space fans can look forward to more limb-cutting and space-themed scares. EA has confirmed that the will release a new title in the popular survival horror series during the 2013 fiscal year, which ends March 2013.
PAX East 2012: New business model changes development of PopCap Games (UPDATED)
GamesBeat sat down with PopCap's director of social media at PAX East to talk about how monetization will affect the studio's future. It may deeply alter two of the developer's biggest titles.
Kip Katsarelis on designing the next SimCity (interview)
Kip Katsarelis is lead producer for the new SimCity game Electronic Arts’ Maxis studio is developing. We recently made the trek to Emeryville, Calif.,...
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
EA server shutdowns another example of why online passes are a bad idea (editorial)
Video game publisher Electronic Arts recently announced it is pulling the plug on servers for nearly a dozen games whose player base has shrunk....
What does $100 buy you in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer?
Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode employs a trading card-style unlock system, where you purchase “packs” of mystery items that include one-time-use boosts, new weapons,...
Gamers who customized Shepard in Mass Effect 1 may have trouble importing into ME3 (update)
Update (3/9/12): BioWare Community Coordinator Chris Priestly has acknowledged the face-code error in a post on the game’s official forum. In that thread, Priestly...