This week: Curt Schilling's getting sued, EA admits that
Medal of Honor Warfighter sucks and Most Wanted is great, except for that
crashing in the cities thing...
Portal 2 for PS3 is getting some new DLC next week. "In Motion" is the new DLC is
coming out November 6th from Sixense and has 20 levels designed for the Playstation
Move controller. The DLC is priced at
$9.99 with a discount of 30% for Playstation Plus subscription holders.
This is your chance to take advantage of yet another milked franchise in EA's dairy farm.
Former baseball great Curt Schilling's game development
studio, 38 Studios recently went under, that we knew. This week the Rhode Island Economic
Development Corporation has filed suit against the principals of the failed
company including Schilling seeking to get their $75 million investment
back. Their claim is that the company
was mismanaged and that the state's investment was" squandered."
The part they left
out was that nobody thought to do an assessment of the game developer before
loaning them the money. At the time the
38 Studios was working on Project Copernicus.
Liquidation of 38 Studio's assets have only netted the state
$830,000 so they've decided to go after the management. Good luck with that. It's called Bankruptcy protection for a
reason. Want to blame someone for losing
75 million? How about the state
officials that let the deal happen. Governor
Lincoln Chaffee stated,
"I know you work hard for your paychecks and for your tax
dollars to be squandered is unacceptable.
The board's legal action was taken to rectify a grave injustice put upon
the people of Rhode Island"
Really? Where was all
that concern when your state made the loan?
Sounds like straw man to me.
I'm
sure they'll blame it on Obama somehow...
I love PS4 news. It
gives me a chance to say..."Orbis" and do the funny hand thing...
Apparently game studios have begun receiving new PS4
development kits based on AMD's A10 APU series which includes a built in
GPU. While impressive, the A10 APU's
integrated graphics can best Intel's integrated offerings but don't say much more
than that for the platform without a performance GPU. Although they are saying they'll support
1080P (not 4K) gaming which isn't exactly stressful for even midrange GPU's
these days unless you're playing Crysis.
Look for the announcement at next June's E3 conference.
Halo 4 is coming out November 6th and so far reviewers like
it. I don't know anything about it but
if you do at least you can say I told you about it. Looks to be around $55 for the Xbox 360.
Borderlands 2 has sold 5 million copies to date says 2K
parent Take 2. Guess there's no economic
downturn after all with $60 pre-orders and the $30 season pass that gets you
access to all the upcoming DLC. Oh yeah and Borderlands: Legends is out for
IOS now.
Poor EA, First they announce that their lackluster upcoming
release of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and canceled NBA game, NBA Live 13 would
cause a soft quarter then a day later blame the loss on disappointing
"packaged" (boxed) sales.
New CEO Blake Jorgensen may be learning the lesson his
predecessor didn't. Specifically that EA can't get away with premium prices for
substandard products. The official
numbers for quarter 2 show EA lost a net 381 million. They blame it on declining packaged sales but
state digital sales were up. A loss is a
loss EA, learn your lesson and don't push overpriced garbage on your customers.
At least EA can be proud of their 30 million Origin
subscribers. Although that isn't saying
much considering PC gamers with EA titles in their collection are stuck with it
if they want to play their games. It's
the same kind of worthless statistic as the number of driver's licenses
issued. Not like you have a choice if
you want to take that Prius out for a spin.
Whoopee! Battlefield 3 premium subscriptions topped 2
million this month. Somebody got a hold
of mom's credit card..
Ok, I can care less about Assassin's Creed 3 but some people
do. So I found it amusing that players
of the newly released game on the Xbox and PS3 (PC version coming in late
December) already had a patch waiting for them on launch day. Nice that Ubisoft is on top of the issues but
how did this get by the QA department?
There are a lot of fixes in that patch!
What, 3 years since the last major release wasn't enough time?
Been waiting to rekindle those warm fuzzies of rising
through the ranks of the criminal underworld by offing the competition and
murdering prostitutes? Well your wait is
almost over with the announcement of Grand theft Auto 5 releasing in the Spring
of 2013. Apparently this iteration will
be a sun and sand affair with bikini clad victims to match the decor. Pre-orders begin November 5th for PS3 and
Xbox 360.
Finally, it seems EA's new Need For Speed Most Wanted is a
great looking arcade racer with an open world layout that is both liberating
and annoying. Apparently there's been
reports of a number of game crashes when trying to speed through cities and
roads to nowhere due to flaws in the open world design. Might be worth a look when it goes on sale
and maybe a few patches. By the way I
mean sale as in discount not full retail.
That's it for this week.
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