Archive For Origin Tag

New DLC announced for Kingdoms of Amalur

New DLC announced for Kingdoms of Amalur

A new DLC for the action-RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, titled 'Teeth of Naros" has been announced by EA and Big Huge Games. The full details are given below: A New City — Explore the city ... Read More

Origin not mandatory for Simcity but requires internet connection to play

Origin not mandatory for Simcity but requires internet connection to play

Stone Librande, lead designer confirmed this news has confirmed to Joystiq that Simcity requires internet connection to play.  Good news is that you don't require Origin to download the game, it... Read More

SimCity announced for PC, releasing 2013, trailer shown

SimCity announced for PC, releasing 2013, trailer shown

EA and Maxis have announced SimCity exclusively for the PC, and the concept arts look amazing. We also have a lot of details for you from the game, which you can check out in the image below. T... Read More

Origin automatically adding EA games bought from Steam

Origin automatically adding EA games bought from Steam

For those of you who think of EA as a mega evil corporation- and maybe rightly so- this might as a bit of a shock to you. According to forum posts on Day One Patch (via Joystiq), Origin users hav... Read More

Origin is absolutely required to even install Syndicate

Origin is absolutely required to even install Syndicate

It seems like EA is pushing their digital distribution network Origin harder, and somehow people have started getting used to it. It turns out that you require Origin to download Syndicate if you ch... Read More

Remedy is on Origin: Alan Wake will be available on EA’s service

Remedy is on Origin: Alan Wake will be available on EA’s service

EA is on a signing spree - Remedy joins the the third-party list for Origin. They had recently revealed 11 new signings for Origin, which included CD Projekt; and now along with Remedy it becomes a ... Read More

EA’s Origin has 9.3 million registered users

EA’s Origin has 9.3 million registered users

EA has just revealed some stats about Origin, and you will be surprised to know that it has 9.3 million registered users. No doubt plenty of them must have registered due to Battlefield 3 and Mas... Read More

CD Projekt added to EA’s Origin along with 10 other third-party publishers

CD Projekt added to EA’s Origin along with 10 other third-party publishers

EA are preparing for a massive war it seems (I kid, I kid), as they just announced that they have got 11 new third-party publishers on board for Origin. EA seems determined to compete in the digital... Read More

Origin is required for all PC editions of Mass Effect 3

Origin is required for all PC editions of Mass Effect 3

It looks like EA won't be putting Mass Effect 3 on Steam, just like they did with Battlefield 3, as it is Origin only. Origin is EA's new digital distribution service for the PC platform. You may... Read More

EA bans user from accessing singleplayer for an offensive comment said by someone else

EA bans user from accessing singleplayer for an offensive comment said by someone else

The moderation in EA forums are a bit tricky, as many users in the past have complained about unfair bans. Sort of like this one, but this latest ban really made me feel that a lot of people should ... Read More

FIFA Manager 12 Review

FIFA Manager 12 Review

Now, I don't really find FIFA Manager as good as SEGA's Football Manager, but there are quite a lot of improvements in this year's version. These games are usually not the easiest once to get into fo... Read More

Battlefield 3 Review

Battlefield 3 Review

I played the Battlefield 3 beta a lot on the PS3 and I felt it was a mixed bag; you could say I wasn't that impressed, actually, as evident by my impressions, which you can read here. The game on th... Read More

Gabe Newell on EA’s Origin: “I think it does some things well”

Gabe Newell on EA’s Origin: “I think it does some things well”

There has bee "competitive conflict" between EA's and Valve's digital distribution services- Origin and Steam (respectively). Valve's boss, Gabe Newell, however, has tried out his rival distributi... Read More

Steam Hits 4 Million Concurrent Users

Steam Hits 4 Million Concurrent Users

Remember when Xbox Live had 2 million concurrent users during Modern Warfare 2? Well, Steam just doubled that as you can check below. The previous record was 3 million one year ago. You can check out ... Read More

Report: Only one profile per account in Battlefield 3

Report: Only one profile per account in Battlefield 3

EA recently announced that Battlefield 3 will be unplayable without an Origin account on the PC. And now, DICE's Daniel Mastros has tweeted: "Your name is linked to your origin persona." This basic... Read More

Battlefield 3 PC cannot be played without Origin

Battlefield 3 PC cannot be played without Origin

DICE has announced that PC players who buy Battlefield 3 from retain will have to download EA's digital distribution platform Origin, which means that without an Origin account, Battlefield 3 is v... Read More

Exclusive Origin edition of Mass Effect 3 announced and detailed

Exclusive Origin edition of Mass Effect 3 announced and detailed

EA has announced that a  Mass Effect 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition will be exclusively available on their download service, Origin. It will cost £54.99. It will include the following: Digita... Read More