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Why Choose BioWare to Resurrect C&C Generals

Pixels or Death wonders why EA has chosen BioWare to continue the long lost Command and Conquer General Series.

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Saryk4537d ago

One of the very few old games that I will play today. I hope they make the game as addicting as the first.

Ducky4537d ago (Edited 4537d ago )

... I don't know why they picked Bioware.

.. but I do know that the teaser/trailer they showed looked pretty awesome. I thought it was pre-rendered CGI.

Maybe they should let Criterion do a C&C game. Those guys have an appetite for fast-paced destruction.

Trenta274537d ago

Maybe. That would be a very interesting take on the series.

soundslike4537d ago

Baldurs Gate series were very rts-esque

da_2pacalypse4537d ago

be realistic here... after ME2 and DA2, do you really think this is going to be a traditional RTS? I mean just look at how dumbed down the RPG elements were in those two games... i expect this to be the "social RTS" *facepalm*

a_bro4537d ago

nah, they should let Criterion do what they do best, racing games. Dont let Black Box make NFS games. They should be banned to do so, let criterion from here on out. NFS hot pursuit was great and handled with care thanks to criterion.

Ninja-KiLLR4537d ago

cant get experience if you dont try. and i have high hopes for this. other then red alert 1 generals was my favorite c&c game and bioware always do their best and i dont expect any different here.

meowthemouse4537d ago

A little research and you will find out why this article fails.

http://asia.gamespot.com/ne...

Bioware =/= Bioware Victory

MPScrimshaw4537d ago

doesn't that prove the point that the only reason they are putting BioWare's name on it is to sell more title?

John Kratos4537d ago

@MPScrimshaw Pretty much, Earlier this year EA restructured the company, making Bioware one of the main brands, mostly to be able to put their name on more boxes to sell more copies. So expect more games of different genres to come from "Bioware", because they're an EA brand now with like six studio last I checked. You could almost compare it to Take Two and Rockstar, take two has 2k and then has Rockstar which was developer that has turned into a brand.

JsonHenry4537d ago

LOL! SOOOOO misleading. The team that is making it is a studio called Victory Games. Based out of the SAME offices that the last one was made at in the EALA building. The head of the profect is the lead guy from back in the Heroes of Might and Magic games.

Bioware is just a label that Victory Games is working under. They are using Bioware's name to try and gain back fans (like myself) that was EXTREMELY pissed out off at the abomination that was CnC4.

Tony P4537d ago

Pretty much.

EA just wants Victory to get the rub from BioWare's name and legacy.

If the game is terrible, BioWare will look bad, even though they might have nothing to do with it.

And that's just sad.

JsonHenry4537d ago

I have a feeling this game will be good. They simply can't afford to ignore the obvious this time. It was like the old team just WANTED to be fired for making a POS that everyone said was going to suck but stuck with it anyways like CnC4.

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Report: Sexual Misconduct Investigation Conducted at EA, Suspects Named and What They Did Revealed

EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.

isarai3d ago

Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.

Cacabunga2d ago

I wonder if it will be censored with some in game ads.

InUrFoxHole1d 14h ago

You think Phil did that? 🤣

MrBaskerville15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.

Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.

XiNatsuDragnel3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.

MrBaskerville15h ago

Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.

Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.

ravens522d ago

What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.

Extermin8or3_2d ago

I mean part of the issue is that things transpired outside of work....

MrBaskerville15h ago

That's the thing he mentioned about not being a creep at all.

KwietStorm_BLM2d ago

You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.

mudakoshaka2d ago

Nerds think they are Gods when they are making video games.

NotoriousWhiz2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."

Yep, EA is disgusting.

Extermin8or3_2d ago

I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.

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EA to Spend Billions Boosting Share Prices After Mass Layoffs

EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.

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Yi-Long6d ago

Well, anything to make those shareholders happy, I guess. They're all that matters in this industry nowadays.

badboyz096d ago (Edited 6d ago )

EA stocks haven't been profitable in over 5yrs. They better hope Take-two don't get the FIFA license lol.

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BioWare Could be Working on More than Just Dragon Age Dreadwolf and Mass Effect 4

Earlier this year, BioWare was hit with layoffs as part of a downsizing of parent company Electronic Arts, but fans have been reassured that the next Mass Effect game hasn’t been impacted. Likewise, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf’s development is still churning along, with BioWare putting it at the forefront of its focus and rumors suggesting that it could launch sometime later this year. Fans might be getting another look at the long-in-development Dragon Age: Dreadwolf at the Summer Game Fest in June.

If the recently posted job offering for a temporary development manager is any indication, BioWare could have yet another surprise up its sleeve for when Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf are nearing completion. This mystery BioWare video game could truly be anything, from another spin-off of its two major properties to something entirely new. All there is to go on at the moment is a vague mention in the job posting, and it might still be some time before BioWare is ready to confirm any new games in its pipeline.

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just_looken43d ago

So a studio that spent years on anthem then this dragon age thing is now also working on another ip along with mass effect,

You think they would be worried that there brand has been on 3 major screw ups

Dragon age 3 launched broken with the frostbite engine yes its a good game but you can see in the late game how rough it was

anthem......

Mass effect 4 well that dev team was fired so yeah.....

They should make sure this new dragon age is a goat instead of putting more work on the table

bababooiy42d ago

Bioware today is like 150 poeple i dont see how they are seemingly working on all these projects at the same time.

Michiel198942d ago

Inquisition wasn't broken, it just had some flaws and on the contrary it also had some strengths. If you call inquisition a major screw up then idk what to say.

That said with what happened to the study since then and now, I'm not really confident that their next game will be any good.

just_looken42d ago

If you played it fully to get plat like me back in its novemeber launch window you had that castle with empty area's endgame missions not there or working and a mp that was made around loot box grind like the mass effect mp.

Its hard to explain to those that played it years later after they tossed out the dlc/patch's

Michiel198942d ago

entitled much? I played it at launch too. Why you even platted it if it was a "major screw up"?
It was good enough for you to sink 100 hours in but also a complete fuckup at the same time, make up your mind.
So either you like shitty games or you're just talking out of your ass.

RaidenBlack42d ago

Well just wanna say, Archetype Entertainment is the new BioWare, composed of mainly ex-BioWare vets.
And they're developing Exodus (starring Matthew McConaughey), a new sci-fi RPG (spiritual successor to Mass Effect, dare I say?)

CantThinkOfAUsername42d ago

I hope it's a single player game with Anthem's gameplay mechanics.

Becuzisaid42d ago

They're owned by EA. What makes you think that they wouldn't publish for PS5? Shoot, if your fridge could connect to your bank account EA would try to release it for that if they could!

Double_O_Revan43d ago

How about they focus on those games and not over extend themselves? We don't need another Anthem.

Becuzisaid42d ago

Bioware died after Inquisition (some would even argue after ME3). They are no longer the same company.

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