It seems that Bio Ware fans can rejoice, as they can look forward to even more content for their favourite RPG’s next year. As part of their annual earnings report EA have announced that Dragon: Age Origins will be getting yet another big PC expansion at the beginning of 2011. The game is currently only imaginatively titled “Dragon Age Title TBA” but it’s definitively on the EA PC release schedule for January-March period of 2011. But the ...

My New Year's day hangover was mercifully shorter than my fading fond memories of 2009, but looking back through that skid-tinted pane and with the aid of a little perspective from M2 Research, I've realised just how bloody awful 2009 was for many people in the games industry:

EA has officially announced Dead Space 2 for PC and console. The surprise horror hit of 2008 from EA's Visceral Games is returning with Isaac Clarke, who "calls the shots" this time. We don't know what that entails, but we will see familiar Zero-G and space-vacuum environments, plus new weapons and more gruesome Necromorphs to fight than before. Look out for more information on the Dead Space website. Incidentally, Dead Space scored 9 ...

Following all the recent furore around Infinity Ward removing dedicated servers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on PC in favour of IWNet- a peer to peer based matchmaking service- EA developers DICE have taken the opportunity to reassure PC gamers that their own forth coming multiplayer military shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2, will come with dedicated PC server support. Speaking on The Battlefield Blog, Gordon Van Dyke, Producer on Battlefield Bad Company 2 at DICE ...

In a recent interview with Total PC Gaming, Jim Vessella producer at EA working on Command & Conquer 4 told us that the PC was the only real choice as a platform for the final C&C game. “When we set out to make C&C 4 and were deciding which platforms to go on, we realised we could really just open up the design a lot more if we went straight for PC,”  Vessela said.“You have such a different design challenge (going ...

EA has revealed the debut expansion for Sims 3. World Adventures takes the Sims outside Sunset Valley and Riverview into the world beyond,

While EA recently announced that it had pruned the ailing Godfather license from its books, 2K's Mafia series is going from strength to strength. That doesn't mean that the Mafia II team isn't shedding a tear over what is clearly a victory in a long running mobster game war, "I found EA dropping the Godfather series quite sad to be honest," said 2K producer Denby Grace, "All of us at 2K love mafia and mobsters stories ...

Crysis 2 will be confirmed for PC at around midnight tonight in an EA E3 announcement according to a leak to Total PC Gaming early today. Nothing is currently known about the sequel to 2007's stellar shooter other than it will be the first outing for Crytek's all-new CryEngine 3 graphics/game engine. While we'll have to wait until midnight to find out for sure, we're also expecting to hear that its going to be the first game from the German developer to feature on current generation consoles including the Xbox 360 and ...

Mythic Entertainment has now banned in excess of 10,000 accounts for its recently released MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning. These accounts aren't your garden variety MMO gamers, though: these belonged to gold farmers, widely regarded as spammer scumbags by honest gamers and despised by MMO developers for breaching intellectual property rights and the T&Cs of the game. The figure currently stands at 10,578 accounts banned – which pretty much equates to sticking heads on poles as a stern warning to the ...

GOA, EA and Mythic Studios have announced that the open beta for Warhammer Online: Age OF Reckoning will begin on 7 September. Fans of the highly anticipated MMO will be able to enter the European open beta by pre-ordering WAR and going to the GOA account centre or visiting the EA Store to sign up for a limited number of spots. GOA also announced on the official forum that they have lifted the NDA for all players in the current closed beta phase of ...

A beast of rare quality… the Greater-headed TPCG, as seen with the aid of EA's Spore Creature Editor demo, available for download as of 17 June. Oddly fascinating this… relatively speaking, I'm not enjoying it that much, but I can't stop making freaky creatures with it.

Both Mass Effect PC and Spore are to use SecuROM as copy protection for the retail versions. The controversial anti-piracy software requires an internet connection to connect to an EA server and verify every ten days. Derek French, technical producer at Bioware clarified the news, "An internet connection is not required to install, just to activate the first time, and every ten days after. You can be completely connectionless for nine days and encounter no problems playing Mass Effect. And you don't need ...

EA-Land, or Sims Online as most know it, will see its final day at the end of July. EA has chosen to shut down the last of the servers on 1 August having seen a rapidly diminishing population in recent years since its 2002 release. Those still playing will get the final 60 days free of charge and anyone that subscribed as of 29 April 2008 will get $15 off any game in the EA store or three months Club POGO ...