Tag Archives: EA

BTL Radio Podcast – Ep 047: Loot Boxes, Gambling, and Monetization

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we welcome a very special guest, long time industry veteran Jason Kaehler joins to discuss the Battlefront 2 debacle, and a lot of the implications with it. From loot boxes, gambling, monetization, game prices in general,

Point Streak Podcast – Star Wars Battlefront 2 Controversy

Point Streak goes super topical this week and discusses the Star Wars Battlefront 2 launch and its attendant controversies.  IS EA up to pay-to-win loot box money-grubbing chicanery or is this just an overreaction on the part of gamers?  How

BTL Radio Podcast – Ep 045: EA and Visceral

Hello Enthusiacs! This time Nick and Jeff discuss the shutdown of Visceral by EA in detail in their usual unusual way. As more background information of what happened comes out, it seems the “no more single player” initial reaction was

BTL Radio Podcast: VR Discussion and News

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have Marco back to discuss a few smaller news stories, and to discuss the possibilities for VR in the future. From managing communities and marketing, to the evolution of the nature of the industry over

BTL Radio Podcast: Publishers and Developers

Publishers and developers are perceived very differently by the public.  Developers are  often seen as the artists, the go-getters, the scrappy team trying to bring you their vision and being held down by the money grubbing tycoons at the publisher. 

Behind the Line: GDC 2016

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Last week at the Moscone center in San Francisco was the 2016 Game Developers Conference, and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend…  for part of a day at least.  Usually around GDC time you can see some

Behind the Line: 38 Studios, Publishers, and the Indie – pocalypse

Many documents came out this week as legal proceedings continue in the wake of the failure of 38 Studios in 2012.  These documents concern many things, including the nature of the deal between 38 Studios, Electronic Arts, Big Huge Games,

Battlefield Hardline Review

Today on Vega Goose Says we take a look at the latest release in the battlefield series Hardline. Does it hold up to it’s brand name, or is this just a cheap cash grab? Find out today only on Vega

Dragon Age: Inquisition Review

Today we look at the latest entry in the Dragon Age franchise. Here we join the Inquisitor as they battle the forces of darkness to save the world.

Mass Effect 2 Insanity Playthrough

Axalon takes the next step in the Mass Effect journey by playing Mass Effect 2! After surviving a devastating attack on the original Normandy, Commander Shepard is revived better and badder than ever. Humans are being abducted, and the galaxy