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EA began its Online Pass program several years ago; I first encountered it in Dragon Age 2 on the PC in 2011. The purpose of it was to obtain a small measure of profit from the trade-in market, which is insanely popular with console games. Anyone who has played a modern PC game knows…..

Steam, it is beloved the world over and for good reason. Valve does many things right, and what it doesn’t get right, it either builds on until it is or it sees an opportunity to change the standard and make it better. This week heralds a new update that will borrow some…..

Microsoft’s “point” system has been a sore spot for many people. The cash values never matched up evenly, you were generally left with a small balance and you didn’t always having something to spend it on easily. According to The Verge, sources familiar with the Microsoft Xbox point system say that it’s going…..

EVGA – you might have heard of it – it manufactures NVIDIA video cards, Intel motherboards and has a small selection of power supplies. The midrange and extreme PSUs has had a healthy offering from the SuperNOVA line up, but something in between has been missing. Today that changes with EVGA’s announcement of the…..

Watch Dogs, it first graced us with a phenomenal demo at E3 last year and to say the expectations are high would be an understatement. The game is best described as Assassins Creed combined with Grand Theft Auto, but the hero isn’t a thug or a chosen one – he is a…..

Guns, it is a blistering-hot topic right now. So of course, there is a new subtopic brewing in the game industry and EA is the catalyst. According to Reuters, EA is currently dropping all ties with licensing guns from gun manufacturers in its video games but will continue to use them in its games. EA’s…..

The other day, we reported on how Adobe will discontinue its stand-alone Creative Suite products and instead move to Creative Cloud, or “CC”.  To say the news has had a mixed reaction is an understatement; even Clint Patterson, the Director of Communications, Office Division has provided his own personal thoughts on the…..

The next generation always-on topic has been lively to say the least, but it has been focused around Microsoft – not much has been heard from Sony. Microsoft has been at the forefront because many rumors suggested always-on would be required. That assumption was further fueled by Adam Orth, who ignited the…..

Sony has always offered indie games on its PlayStation Store, but it has been wrought with problems, mainly because people couldn’t find them very easily. Today, that changes. Sony has officially given Indie Games its own category, thus making easier for customer to find these unique games in a convenient way. Director…..

Last month, we learned that Disney was pulling the plug on LucasArts, and today, we finally learn where Disney has settled its Star Wars game franchise: EA. According to a press release given by EA, the company will be handling all of the development and publishing of Star Wars games on PC,…..

Anyone who has been on the Internet has seen a meme in one form or another, which is described as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.” This is generally done in a humorous fashion through puns, pictures, animation, music and etc. There are…..

Earlier this week, Greenheart Games released its first game, Game Dev Tycoon, for only $8. Despite the small price, it didn’t stop many from pirating it. In anticipation of this fact, Patrick Klug, founder, director and coder for Greenheart Games, decided to do turn the tables on those very people who couldn’t be…..

Earlier this week, Techgage reported on the many issues facing Electronic Arts and things just seem to be getting worse for the gaming giant. On Tuesday, a California federal judge denied EA’s final attempt to dismiss a case that was filed over two years by Robin Antonick. The suit claims that Robin…..

Dr. Patrick Markey is someone you may not have heard of before, but he is an associate professor of psychology at Villanova University, the director of the Interpersonal Research Laboratory, and a former president of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Yesterday, USNews published his opinion piece “In Defense of Violent…..

Earlier this week, Techgage reported that Nintendo would not be giving a press conference at this year’s E3, now it appear that 2K Games will be absent from the festivities all together. The news comes from 2K’s own blog site where it gave this statement: “While 2K will not have a booth…..

E3 has always been a way for game developers, hardware and software, to come together in one place and show the public what they have been working on and provide a road map of where they are going in the coming year. This year’s E3 will be missing a major contributor to…..

The traditional subscription-based MMO developers have not had any opportunities to bring its games to the largest digital PC distributor on the internet, Steam. Yesterday is when everything changed. In a statement made by Valve on its own Steam News feed, it announced: “With Subscription Plans, Steam offers gamers the ability to…..

While the world eagerly awaits to hear about the features that the next generation Xbox will (definitively) have, we heard a controversial opinion in early April from a (now) former Microsoft employee, Adam Orth, who stated on Twitter: “Sorry, I don’t get the drama around having an ‘always on’ console. Every device…..

The Resident Evil series has been at the forefront of horror games since its first game on the PlayStation in 1996. Does this latest Resident Evil maintain the same level of creativity and bouts of genuine horror, or does it prove that the game has become a follower rather than a leader?

Mass Effect 3 has had a turbulent journey since its release – there have been a few DLCs released, but none have captured the spirit that the Mass Effect franchise has been all about. Will the new Citadel DLC bring the series back to its former glory, or are we doomed to repeat recent history?