The head of development for EA Sports, Andrew Wilson, delivered a talk in which he discussed pricing models for games in the “Gaming 3.0” future. And believe me, it’s way more interesting than that buzzword-laden phrase suggests.
UOJournal looks at the question of how many players are still active in Ultima Online, and comes away with some figures that I think, at least, are surprising.
The Middle-Aged Gamer interviewed some of the more well-known members of the Ultima X: Odyssey development team back in 2008, and posted the entire discussion on his blog.
EA has recently made major purchases in the social and mobile gaming spaces, acquiring developers Ohai and PopCap as part of their increased focused on socially-driven gaming.
G4TV presents a restrospective look at the storied history of System Shock and the many and varied issues that have long prevented the creation of a sequel or the release of the series on sites like Good Old Games.
The Game Archaeologist, one of the periodic features at Massively (the MMORPG news site), looks at the sad story of two Origin MMORPGs that never saw the light of day.
Big Huge Games/38 Studios’ upcoming RPG title — Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning — won a lot of accolades at E3 this year, and looks really promising. And did I mention that its lead designer is none other than Tiberius Moongazer, former head of Team Lazarus?
The first part of an in-depth look at EA Games’ top man by British newspaper The Guardian.
BioWare’s “the Doctors” — and many of the top people at EA, for that matter — stress the importance of having executives who are also hardcore gamers. I can’t help but agree.
