Good for Seth.

Electronic Arts thinks gaming will go entirely digital in the near future so they announce they are in the process of planning to do the same with all EA developed and published games to only have digital releases once they are ready.

While it wasn't specifically stated, its assumed the games would only be available on Origin or a select number of EA approved digital providers.

EA could also have been influenced by a recent report from the NPD which stated roughly a third of all gamers now only purchase digital copies of games while the overall spending in the retail market has declined so far since the same period last year.

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Daily Recap:
1) According to European Union's Court, consumers have the right to re-sell digital games while game makers can no longer imply in EULA terms that you only own are leased the rights to play the game and not the actual software itself. The ruling however doesn't require current digital distribution providers to offer a trade-in program if they don't want to though.
http://kotaku.com/5923280/european-c...-digital-games

2) A current rumor semi-confirmed by Gamestop states a Knights of the Old Republic Collection set will be released later this month as a PC exclusive, contains KOTOR 1 & 2, and a retail price of $20.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...pc-later-month

3) Atlus is having a mega sale on PSN with almost every game they've released or published for the service having a 50% discount from now until July 31st.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...g-sale-on-psn/

Gaming going all digital is still a bad idea with bandwidth caps.

Gunna pick up Catherine on sale.

Fuck I bought Catherine and got really annoyed at it, gave it to my friend

Was there tits?

If I had digitally downloaded that game I wouldn't have been able to give it to to my friend.

Yeah this blonde chick was trying to fuck me

Gimme some skin on this
 

I know how that is!

And shitty distribution of high speed. And HDD space still at a premium.

Incidentally, NPD is calling bullshit on this.

one hour of the Battlefront 3 demo video

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Stop posting battlefront stuff. It makes me sad.

Battlefront 2 is still one of my favorite game of all time. The only game with which I legitimately played online for a long time outside of NHL.

FF7 & 8 are being re-done on PC. Probably just makes them work on newer PCs, but the specs have got one hell of a bump.

Releasing on their store. There's placeholders for them in Steam, so they should come there at some point.

FF8 woooo.

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- Marvel Superheroes and Marvel vs Capcom.
- 8plyr lobbies.

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Don't really care about MVC, but I'd love the old Marvel Superheros game just for nostalgia.

Google and a new company involving former people at IGN, Microsoft's Xbox division, and a few others are currently rumored to be working on a new console called Ouya.

The console is rumored to cost $99 and would be Android-based in design. Also rumored is the games will be free to play while the console itself can be legally "hacked" in a sense of every console coming with its own dev kit. Consumers are being encouraged to develop and publish their own games for the service.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-in-the-works/
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Daily Recap:
1) Halo 2 rumored to potentially get the "Anniversary" treatment but no potential details nor will 343 Studios even consider working on the project until well after Halo 4 is released.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...iversary-works

2) According to leaked documents sent by Sony to the FTC, a new PS3 model might be on its way soon as part of rumored "Super Slim" (PS3 4000 series) with a rumored debut expected during this year's Gamescom.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-in-the-works/

3) Activision is currently having a 50% sale on all DLC packs for The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3 which will last until July 9 and some of the proceeds going towards the Call of Duty Endowment charity.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ow-half-price/

Sounds like BS. Remember when Gateway or one of the other pc companies had a console in the works? Haven't heard anything new about that since.

This Ouya thing may be interesting. Though having everyone and their mama's developing games will lead to a sea of shit by default. There may be some gems eventually.

DICE thinks the modern warfare setting for shooters is getting stale while public support for the genre might be beginning to dwindle unless something huge can be done.

Although he did state a simple switch of settings or time periods will not be as influential as the switch from World War II to modern warfare was for first person shooters.

He also hinted the whole problem might only be a real issue for the first person sub-genre and not shooters as a whole. The potential switch to the near future as the next big move might only produce a temporary boost and not the next big boost in interest for the time being.

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Daily Recap:
1) While Sony recent bought streaming and cloud service company Gaikai, the company states it will not be moving purely digital with the PS4 since retailers are still a big source of revenue for the Playstation brand.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-4/

2) Valve confirms the annual Steam Summer Sale will be occurring very soon but gave no exact date although other rumors have stated it won't happen until after the current Warhammer sale ends.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...er-sale-plans/

3) Sony reveals some new details regarding Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale with the pre-order bonus being exclusive costumes, 2 more characters to be revealed at EVO 2012, and a release date of October 23, 2012.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/intr...sbr-pre-orders
http://www.screwattack.com/news/play...s-release-date

Forget near future, do a sequel to Battlefield 2043.

Well now, we can't go back and do World War 2 shooters now. That time period has been done to death too, right?

Isn't that what the industry does? Alternates between two ideas so they seem fresh?

Honestly, though, I'm surprised anyone's picking up on this even after "shooter fatigue" at E3. The industry's always seemed okay with driving a genre into the ground.

I haven't seen FF8 for PC confirmed or even rumoured anywhere else but this thread. It's like people go out of their way to be wrong about things.

FF7 is confirmed. FF8 has an entry on Steam and has had for a while ready for it. Already been ported to PC and using the same engine as 7. Since it's not an HD remake, it's just really a case of getting 8 running smoothly on the latest Windows. It's happening.

They might not bother if FF7 doesn't sell well.... But it's FF7, so it likely will.

Id rather they port FF9 to PC than reporting old PC ports.

I'd rather they stop milking the past and make original, good games.

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In theory I should love that game because of how much I love Final Fantasy music, but my hatred of rhythm based games and the 3DS makes me hesitant. I also feel like I would be embarrassed to play that/have people watch me play that.

Play it alone. Also...answer my calls!

Quake Wars is an amazing FPS set in the future and was met with little to no success because everyone was too busy playing COD :/ I still play QW (imo, best fps of the past 10 years), but theres only a couple active servers left now...

I think Fassbender will make a great lead, although I could have seen Jake Gyllenhaal in the role because he did such a good job with Prince of Persia.

I'd rather they quit the years of cockteasing everyone with spinoffs and reports and graphical demos or even WHOLE FUCKING MOVIES and get on with the actual overhauled remake of FF7 that Square knows everyone wants them to make.

Also, make original, good games with less characters like Hope in them. Seriously, I can't play through XIII because of that annoying asshole. Got to the part where I was forced to play as him and I haven't touched it since.

The list of bundles and games Valve is planning to put on sale as part of their annual mega Summer Sale might have been leaked according to a posting on Reddit.

The source stated the info was found while digging in one of Steam's databases which listed 11 indie bundles and a lot of games along with DLC packs.

No official date has been announced for the Summer Sale but it is still expected to occur shortly after the current Warhammer 40k sale ends on Steam.

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Daily Recap:
1) Peter Molyneux's newest plan involves seeing how many dumbasses will actually purchase a piece of DLC costing $50,000 for his upcoming game called Curiosity.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...s-a-50-000-dlc

2) Gearbox announces anyone who has a Borderlands 1 save file will automatically unlock exclusive character heads and skins for Borderlands 2.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...borderlands-2/

3) Gearbox also claims despite rumors stating Brothers in Arms Furious 4 has been canceled, the game is still in development although a lot of new unannounced changes are being made to the game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/brothe...ve-heard/4257/

aw man

Sweet. Always a safe bet to keep a old save file in the hard drive.

Was XIII the one where people were all "it gets good after the first hundred hours or so?"

But yeah, the teasing is probably their primary source of revenue.

I know Roxer will mock me for expecting you to know what you're posting about, but the cost is 50K pounds, not dollars, and there's only one, so it's not about seeing how many will purchase it. There is only one.

All you had to do was read the article you posted a link to (This news was up on websites like three weeks ago, I merely verified that it hadn't changed) to know that.

While only 1 can actually buy it, Molyneux did state there is the possibility people will pool their money which means the item can be shared somehow. It would also imply that multiple people would be willing to pay a good amount to get the item (either have the $50,000 outright or having others help).

The money thing was a mistake since I took the news from another source that briefly stated the article but got the money wrong. The Eurogamer link was quickly taken from that article for more details (http://www.screwattack.com/news/pete...e-defending-it).

Didn't have time to fully read the article because for the past year or so, I've been splitting time between my place and at the grandparents to help take care of them. I'm lucky if I can "leech" 1 bar of internet from the neighbors when I'm over there like today and countless days before.