I am sitting here wondering if I want to pick up the new Battlefield when it comes out.  I did end up playing the Caspian Border map a bit during the beta and it felt a lot more like Battlefield but the game and EA and DICE all seem to be trying to piss me off so much that I don’t want to buy this title.   First the beta was bad.  Really bad. The only map that was playable save for the last few days of the open beta was...

I can’t wait!

Team Bondi, the development studio behind the video game LA Noire has shut its doors.  Recent news has portrayed unsatisfactory working conditions and complaints from former employees who were not listed in the credits of the game. This has proven that it is completely possible to create a blockbuster title and still somehow manage to screw up.  Over 100 developers were omitted from the closing credits of the game – supposedly...

I think I have to now set Battlefield 3 firmly in the ‘No-Buy’ category and that is seriously making me angry right now.  I love DICE and I love the BF series and was totally looking forward to this game but since we can only get it on EA’s Origin digital distribution service and not Steam and now today I hear that Origin is spying on you and reporting back to EA with no real opt-out I can’t justify giving EA any...

I have done a lot of thinking about the release of Diablo 3.  I have so many friends who are chomping at the bit to play this game, I am sure that I would have many many hours of gaming enjoyment playing this with friends online.  But should I give Activision Blizzard any more of my money? Do they deserve it?  Do the changes to Diablo 3 warrant a personal boycott? I am sure that we have all heard by know that Blizzard has stated...