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I can practically hear the rejoicing and dancing in the streets. EA has announced that they will discontinue their Online Pass program from this point on, a decision they claim is partly based on user response. “Yes, we’re discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg told GamesBeat...

EA wants a piece of the MOBA pie. Prior to announcement, EA's Dawngate has had its website published on the web. As the first title from Waystone Games, Dawngate looks to compete with the big dogs such as League of Legends and Dota 2 with its "whole new way to experience MOBA gameplay"...

EA announced today that DICE studio has opened an office in LA to strictly work on their recently acquired Star Wars license. DICE general manager, Karl-Magnus Troedsson, is excited to work on this project, as is his studio. "People stood up and cheered, when I announced that we were working on Star Wars," he said...

For those of who are unaware, comics are now going to be published on Saturdays, not on Mondays, which has been our tradition so far. So, once again, here's this weekend's comic, if you missed it: EA's Star Wars Library Also, I'm glad you guys liked our latest comic and this might be the perfect opportunity to share the one of the best comments I've read in a while. LostPcGamer: "Size matters not it's how use it you do"- Mini-green Pimp Yoda.

They're gonna do it, ya know... one by one. AT COMIC: EA's Star Wars Library

Although Call of Duty is the series most known for having more releases than necessary, it's Battlefield that just might last forever On May 2nd EA registered website domains for every Battlefield number between 13 and 20. Previously, it had rights to Battlefield...

EA bought the rights to create Star Wars games, as you may have read yesterday. So, instead of feeling relieved that we'll get more proper Star Wars games, a lot of people feel a bit concerned given what EA has done with many decent game franchises over the years...

More bad news for the Wii U in terms of getting third-party titles? Fifteen of EA's upcoming titles will not be added to the Wii U library due to the console's incompatibility with the Frostbite 3 Engine from DICE. These games include Mass Effect 4, Battlefield 4, Dragon Age 3, and all off EA's unannounced Star Wars games...

Altogether now: "bollocks!" Electronic Arts announced today that it has secured the rights to develop Star Wars games "spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres." "Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau...

In what seems to be part of their continuing company-wise restructuring plan, EA has shut down three of its Facebook games—The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society. As of June 14th, all three of these games will go offline due to a steep decline in player activity...

There have supposedly been a lot of layoffs at publisher EA, with a report claiming this has severely affected the company's dev team in Montreal - a studio devoted to mobile games. "EA is sharpening its focus to provide games for new platforms and mobile," a spokesperson said to Polygon...

It's gonna happen eventually, just wait and see... AT COMIC: Never Offline

The EA god has been summoned. After being nominated by Consumerist as the Worst Company in America for its second year in a row, EA CEO Peter Moore shot back with a post on the EA news feed. As you'd imagine, he admitted to the company being capable of doing better, but argued that it's also doing many things right...

Gamers have been frustrated with DRM since its inception in 2008. Even then, developers have pursued it as a solution for their greatest enemy: piracy. But it hasn't paid off, and after two attempts at making it work leading to disaster, EA is willing to admit defeat...

EA & DICE have released the much anticipated gameplay footage from the upcoming shooter, Battlefield 4. We already know that the game is in development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but a report from Polygon states that the game is also winging its way to the PlayStation 4 console...