Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO’s suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: ‘I’d probably quit’

EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, recently voiced some bizarre criticism of Dragon Age: The Veilguard during a quarterly financial call. He suggested that the game struggled because it didn’t have any live service components. EA did announce that The Veilguard underperformed, even if expectations were perhaps set a little too high, but blaming this on the…

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This no-vidia gaming PC is a great example of how small design decisions can make it feel like you’re building a PC on easy-mode

Everyone is talking about Nvidia these days. The gaming graphics card company, turned datacentre company, turned AI company, turned Wall Street darling… even my Nan asked me about them recently. But today is not Nvidia’s day. Nope, this build is powered by AMD and Intel parts, working in total synchronicity. You might be surprised to…

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EA CEO says the magic words ‘Apex 2.0’: It won’t happen until after the next Battlefield, but ‘this will not be the final incarnation of Apex’

EA’s latest quarterly financial call saw the execs wearing something of a hairshirt, with CEO Andrew Wilson having to cop to the underwhelming sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard alongside the “temporary underperformance” of EA Sports FC 25. “Q3 was not the financial performance we wanted or expected,” said Wilson, adding that despite “performing in…

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