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EA's Origin servers offline tonight for maintenance
Electronic Arts has posted a notice stating that its Origin servers will be offline tonight from 10 p.m. until 11:59 p.m. Pacific. The notice adds that Origin will only be available in offline mode during the maintenance and that multiplayer in Origin titles will be unavailable. Presumably, this ...
Origin update 9.0 streamlines friends list, library, clock
EA is preparing to update its Origin client to version 9.0, which seems designed to make the experience of using the Origin client as painless as possible. The upcoming update decouples the friends lists into its own little window, so you can move it around or hide it. The library view can now be ...
Rumor: Battlefield 4 outed by Medal of Honor: Warfighter pre-order promotion
As seen in the header image above, an Origin pre-order promotion for Medal of Honor: Warfighter briefly tempted customers with access to a Battlefield 4 beta before being removed from the public eye, according to neoGAF. Interesting, since Battlefield 4 doesn't really exist or anything yet, at ...
EU court rules it's legal to resell digital games, software
Buying and reselling any form of digital software is perfectly legal, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. Software authors – or in the gaming world, publishers – can not stop customers from reselling their games, even if the publisher attaches an End User License ...
DeMartini: Origin to be a better version of Steam
David DeMartini, EA's senior vice president of global ecommerce, said the goal of EA's Origin service is to be a better version of its competition. DeMartini noted that "the only way you get to the innovation is to have other people try and do a better version of what someone has previously done," ...
EA: first year with Origin 'a huge success,' service to become 'stickier'
EA's Origin service is "a huge success" in its first year, according to EA senior VP of global e-commerce David DeMartini. Despite a rough start with end-user license agreement mishaps and banning some users from playing games they purchased offline, DeMartini said the service has seen 12 million ...
Origin's DeMartini: Steam sales 'cheapen intellectual property'
EA's Senior Vice President of Global Ecommerce David DeMartini said that deep-discounting of games on Valve's Steam service "cheapens intellectual property" in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. As head of EA's Origin digital distribution service, DeMartini suggested an alternative to Steam's ...
Origin waives crowd-funded games' distribution fees for 90 days
EA's Origin is jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon – no, not by Kickstarting an EA game (that would be hilarious) but instead, by presenting itself as an ally to crowd-funded games. EA announced today that it will waive distribution fees for crowd-funded games for 90 days after launch. The ...
EA has 11 million strong on Origin, made $150 million in ten months
EA's Origin service has a registered 11 million members and has generated $150 million in non-GAAP revenue during the fiscal year from March 31, 2011 to April 1 this year, EA reports. EA's Nucleus, its cross-platform community network, now has 220 million members, EA says. EA recently allowed all ...
Skullgirls boppin' to PC digital distribution later this year
Reverge Labs' debut fighter Skullgirls is coming to major digital distribution channels later this year. The Windows PC port will be available on Steam, Origin, GameFly, GamersGate and GameStop PC Downloads. The PC version will ship with several updates built in – updates that will eventually ...
