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 fact is, the company has been screwing up, but...
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 failure of the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic in...
When considering a new component for your gaming machine, brand is often an important factor. After all, you’re probably going to want to go with a brand that has a history of making solid products, rather than possibly spending a lot of cash on something that ends up being sub-par. It’s for this reason that I enjoy having the chance at testing out...
The gaming industry is full of trends, whether it be the influx of FPS games. The surprising number of downloadable tower defense games (seriously, there are tons), and more recently, really really bad customer relations. With Ocean Marketing’s memorable debacle, sending threats to customers, Randy Pitchford ignoring and blocking all criticism of...
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 quirky little distraction then you’ll be glad...
I won’t lie: as a game I like SimCity. But besides the obvious always-online connection problems there are a few other issues with the game. For one, the cities themselves are a bit too small, which gets aggravating when the game keeps yelling at you to zone some more residential districts. The fact that there’s only one road into and out of the...