Will the problems never end for the beleaguered Origin platform? Last week at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam it was revealed that Origin has a security vulnerability that would allow attackers to easily compromise an end user’s machine. From what I can tell the attack isn’t even...

It’s been a rough time at EA recently. After all, SimCity has been a disaster from day one, which is only now starting to get fixed, the CEO is resigning at the end of the month, and not only that, but the company’s one big cash cow, Battlefield 3, has just released its last bit of DLC,...

The release of SimCity was quite a bit of a failure, wasn’t it? After the servers all crashed on day one, the news just got worse and worse, from the reveal that the always-on DRM isn’t exactly necessary, to the fact that the company has been censoring instances of the customer care number. The...

Despite all the games and money EA has made over the last few years, the fact remains that the company isn’t exactly doing great. Now while it’s certainly in a better position than, say, THQ, the company is still having to deal with many shortcomings, from the mess with SimCity, to the massive...

Do you remember Surgeon Simulator 2013? It’s the delightfully fun game developed over a weekend for the Global Game Jam where you’re tasked with performing a heart transplant. The only problem, of course, is that you’re not actually a transplant surgeon, but the janitor. If you enjoyed that...

There area few types of microtransactions in games out there these days, but really, there are two that stand out.  The first kind is cosmetic, where for a buck or two you can get yourself some new skins or some awesome avatar for your profile. The other kind, sadly, is the game altering type, where for a...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week then you know that EA’s latest game SimCity has had more than it’s fair share of problems. Because of the always-on requirement for the game the few servers available were quickly overloaded and people started dropping left and...

When Tomb Raider was released last week for PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC it quickly became apparent that the PC version was having some issues. Thanks to some issues with NVIDIA graphics drivers the game tended to crash a lot. Of course, that issue was small potatoes compared to SimCity’s problems, but...