Visit the EA Community Lounge in Leipzig for i3D.net/Heroes posters!

10 August, 2008 (23:51) | Game industry | 3 comments

See this forum topic for the full announcement on the new i3D.net posters! This years design is done by Dice and i3d’s Ramon! Check the forum for the high res version of this unique poster. We intend to print a limited edition…

Free ‘webbased’ shooters for 2008

29 May, 2008 (13:36) | Game industry | 3 comments

This year two new online shooters will be released for free. Quake Live and Battlefield Heroes are scheduled for release in the 2nd half of 2008. Both games rely on advertising and a large online social community as they are free for…

One game, two gamers

14 September, 2007 (14:53) | Game industry | No comments

Crysis released a press announcement yesterday which shed some light on the multiplayer servers of this new upcoming EA game.

“Rather than providing the community partially working features we limit this for the DX10 version only. Due to the strong hardware…

Gaming Season 2007/2008 opened

25 July, 2007 (11:21) | Game industry | 2 comments

Yes, gaming season 2007/2008 is coming closer every day. In the next few months 6 huge multiplayer games will hit the stores:

I…

New distribution model for online games

17 January, 2007 (22:58) | Game industry | 1 comment

One of the issues a lot of game publishers have to deal with is the distribution of their games, patches and demos. Large publishers work with a load balanced geographical dispersed solution (ex. largedownloads.ea.com). Others use a single download location or…

The future of online games (2)

16 January, 2007 (20:08) | Game industry | 1 comment

In yesterdays post I discussed the biggest problem in the online game industry. Today I will discuss a solution that has already been put into practice by two publishers.

Licensing: new developments

EA (Electronic Arts) started in the summer of 2005 with ‘ranking’-software. EA handpicked a few companies…