The Sims Online is back! I’ll give you a second to remember that this existed. We’re going on ten years since The Sims Online was shut down by Electronic Arts, but nothing online ever dies forever. Unfortunately for players, while promising for the developers, is that interest in the revival has been so overwhelming that … Continue reading “Community Revives The Sims Online, It’s Too Popular”
Titanfall 2 is a fantastic shooter whose success has been hampered thanks to the poorly timed launch between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. To bring more eyes to the game, Electronic Arts will be releasing a trial for PC and Xbox EA Origin/Access players on November 30th with the trial rolled out … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Titanfall 2 Trial Coming Soon”
Electronic Arts has responded to complaints that the Origin service is unavailable in Myanmar, with Community Manager EA_Tom announcing that the company is working on restoring access to affected customers. The whole ordeal started with players in Myanmar finding out that their access to legitimately purchased Origin games had been blocked. According to ‘Champions,’ EA’s volunteer … Continue reading “EA Is Working To Restore Access To Myanmar”
The Screen Actors Guild has announced that it will be going on strike, barring a last minute deal, against a set list of game developers over a fallout in negotiations over contract deals. The union will be reentering negotiations today, however has warned its members to be prepared in case these last minute negotiations do … Continue reading “Voice Actors Are Preparing For A Strike”
Vanilla servers are still the big topic being discussed here and on other gaming websites and forums, so for this week’s Top 5 I decided to compile a list of popular arguments against such servers and discuss them. As always, the list is in no particular order. If you’d like to add your two cents … Continue reading “Top 5: Arguments Against Vanilla Servers Discussed”
EA Access is a side-service available for Xbox One that trades a subscription for access to numerous Electronic Arts titles. $5 monthly or $30 annually grants access to the EA Vault, a number of full games, and ten hour trials of games that recently released or in many cases haven’t been released yet. There are … Continue reading “[Column] EA Access Is A Pretty Good Deal”
Electronic Arts has announced that a handful of titles from their free to play library will be shutting down this year. The list includes Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Fifa World and Need 4 Speed World. Servers are set to shut down in about 90 days. Star Wars: The Old Republic continues to enjoy an “enthusiastic … Continue reading “EA Gutting Play4Free Amidst SWTOR Growth”
Ultima Online’s second expansion, and its new continent Trammel, has been debated nonstop since its introduction way back in the year 2000. Gordon Walton, currently working on the upcoming MMO Crowfall, is responsible for Trammel and posted a lengthy piece explaining why the update came to be. In his post, Walton explains that Ultima Online was losing … Continue reading “Ultima Online: Rampant PvP Drove Away 70% Of New Players”
Daewoo Securities, a financial investment group in Korea, have released an earnings forecast for NCSoft that is throwing some of the community into a ruckus. The whole thing stems from the prediction that in Q3 2015, Guild Wars 2 will see a massive rise in sales thanks to an upcoming expansion launch. Here’s what you … Continue reading “Reminder: Daewoo Is Not An Official Source”
January is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: the 2014 fiscal year is ending and the 2015 fiscal year is beginning, well for most people. This year MMO Fallout plans on expanding our coverage of quarterly reports with even more analysis, so now is as good a time as any to show off … Continue reading “Reminder: Tentative Schedule For Quarterly Releases”
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