Heard about this news first via rabbitucker over on Facebook.

I'd have probably heard it sooner, but I've pretty much stopped following to-the-minute video game news altogether, at least for the time being, now that I've removed everything but Slashdot and Learn to Counter from my feedly thing (well, andexcept for Did You Know Gaming and Zero Punctuation, ( Read more... )

As you can see from the tags, I'm posting the link to this not because I care about this "Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare" game at all, but because of the rant that sets in at around the 3:44 mark and lasts until around 6:09, a rant that I fully agree with. Along with some of the other, smaller rants before and after, such as the "I hate how you ( Read more... )

Link to article.

And yet, you can probably still starve to death or die in a fire or get electrocuted or whatever other common ways to die there were in previous Sims games. Why not remove those things as well, EA, if you're being so "respectful"? (One thing you most likely won't be doing, however, is drowning to death. At least not until the ( Read more... )

For those very few who might still care about this game at all (which doesn't really include me, except to bitch about it), EA/Maxis is apparently finally going to implement offline mode for the game. This comes several months after they first started to explore that possibility, and almost a full year after they admitted the game should have been ( Read more... )

In the case of SimCity, for me at least, it's pretty much a matter of too little (har har) too late. Unlike Diablo III, which I would still, even now, possibly consider buying at some point if Blizzard ever came to their senses and finally removed the asinine always online requirement from the PC version, I've pretty much already dismissed SimCity ( Read more... )

Yep.

Good to see that he, at least, is not stooping down to suck EA's dick.

I bought both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 on release day, and I don't regret doing so. However, with The Sims 4, that's definitely not going to be the case this time, especially after the whole SimCity fiasco and also given my general antipathy for EA as a whole. Even so, and despite my general vow to never buy another EA game, I'm going to freely ( Read more... )

How can people make a game this bad without actively trying to do so? It is a mystery. Oh, wait, no it's not. EA just sucks that much.

Oh, EA, why must you be so incompetent? So glad I didn't waste money on this game.

But it's not just this game, though. Take The Sims 3 and its various expansion packs and such, which is something I actually play. There are still rather substantial and long-standing (I'm talking years here) bugs in that which have gone unfixed, or if there was ( Read more... )

"Why has the SimCity story gone away? It's a good question. And the answer for it reveals much about how both the games industry, and the games journalism industry, work."

Let's look at a few choice quotes from this article:

"Silence is a powerful weapon in the industry. The mad truth is, if you ignore it, it will go away, when it comes to gaming ( Read more... )