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How NOT to Steam – EA Origin

So, I finally decided to check the Battlefield 3 beta on PC. While I could say some things about the game itself, it’s the whole experience surrounding it what I’m going to write about. EA has finally launched Origin, their digital shop, and apparently they aren’t going to release their games in the biggest online [...]



Ryzom goes Open Source… finally

The Saga of Ryzom was an MMORPG developed by Nevrax, a French studio that launched the game in 2004 after four years of development. The game wasn’t exactly a success, and the company went broke in 2006, leaving the project to Gameforge AG, a German web-browser games publisher. It was quite a famous case back [...]



Game Maker changes its logo. God kills a kitty.

YoYo Games has managed to arise the rage of their community for Game Maker, their famous middleware, with a rather superfluous movement. They changed their logo. It wasn’t really good before, but people got to like that red ball thing with the hammer. And I can totally see why, as now the company has decided [...]