EA results remind the industry that sports, not just Battlefield, pushes profits
Electronic Arts continues to reap benefits from its position as the leader in sports games, as both Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer produced solid results...
Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters
If you’ve worked in games and technology long enough, you have your super fans, the people who you can turn to when you’re designing...
NBA 2K’s real tattoos are taking it to a different kind of court
With increasing frequency, video games are depicting tattoos that very closely resemble those inked on the bodies of prominent professional athletes. While many would...
Star Wars: Battlefront II — director Mark Thompson digs into the Imperial single-player campaign
Mark Thompson is taking us to the Dark Side. The director for the single-player campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront II has created a story...
Star Wars: Battlefront II hands-on — the Imperial single-player campaign shows the ‘Gray Side’
Star Wars: Battlefront II is coming in hot, and Electronic Arts is revealing the first details of the single-player campaign where you play as...
Single-player is the vestigial limb of publishers that had to adapt or die
At some point last century, someone at the U.S. Department of Defense plugged a network cable into a computer. Cut to a few decades...
Are loot boxes ruining Star Wars, Hearthstone, and … everything? GamesBeat Decides
This week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast was already a long one, and then — right before we were going to upload it — we had...
Battlefield 1 tackles amphibious ops with December’s Turning Tides expansion
Despite what Steven Spielberg would have you believe, he did not invent storming beaches during war. World War I featured multiple operations that involved...
The British Parliament is examining the loot-box model in video games
Loot boxes in video games like Forza Motorsport 7 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War are raising a debate about business models in the gaming...
BioWare senior creative director Mike Laidlaw announces his departure
BioWare senior creative director Mike Laidlaw announced today on Twitter that he is leaving the studio after 14 years. Laidlaw has worked on blockbuster...