I have to get a new laptop and all new laptops have Windows 8

Does Mass Effect 3/Origins work on Windows 8?

The Escapist: Researchers Identify Security Exploit in Origin

"a security research company [ReVuln] has identified an exploit in the Origin platform that could potentially allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a player's computer.

[...] To counter the exploit, ReVuln recommends globally blocking the origin:// URI using a tool such as ( Read more... )

I got sent a free DLC code by Chris Priestley, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to imput into Origin

Can anyone help?

Am I the only one whose Origin friends' list won't load? I'd hoped that it would be back up by now, but it's been down since this morning.

So, I happened to be home here for the next hour, and thought I'd get in a couple of matches.  But when I started Origin up, at first it said "unknown error, please restart Origin." Then, it logged in, but said it was in offline mode. I tried clicking on the "Go online" link and it does nothing.  I didn't change any settings between yesterday (when ( Read more... )

Apologies for the second post, but a comment by explosiontime reminded me that the potential EA Origin hack I posted about last night might also extend to:

- Any person who accessed the Cerberus Network in ME2
- Any person with a BSN account (as the BSN and EA Origin share a password database).

For more info, see my original post.
 

Rock Paper Shotguntl;dr version: some users are reporting in forums and to Eurogamer that their EA Origin accounts were hacked, getting email notification of password changes they didn't initiate and at least in one case, a user was able to identify a .ru email address it was changed to ( Read more... )

There's an update for ME3 out this Thursday. Most of the changes pertain to multiplayer but there are some single player and crash fixes included as well.

( Changes under the cut-there are a lot of them! )

Both times yesterday that I played the ME3 disc my laptop suddenly shut down (the furthest it got was to the selection screen)

Could this have something to do with the recent update to Origin?

Update: Oops, I messed up the link. If this didn't work for you earlier it should now. Maybe clear your cache if the sale prices still aren't showing up.

If anybody out there wanted to partake in the glorious, easily-screenshottable world that is the ME3 on PC (and the not-so-glorious, easily frustrating world that is Origin on PC) you can do it for ( Read more... )