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Each year the folks at EA run a prediction using the Madden NFL football game to choose which team will win the Super Bowl that year. While using a video … Continue reading

There are a few different gaming platforms at the moment for PC gamers, such as Valve’s Steam and EA’s Origin, just to name a few. In fact Valve’s Gabe Newell recently boasted that Steam had 65 million users, but it looks like EA is not about to let Valve hog the limelight as they have recently released an infographic in which they are claiming that they have more than 50 million registered accounts, of which their gamers have managed to clock about 61 billion minutes in gaming in 2013 alone! If you’re wondering how long 61 billion minutes are in terms of hours, days, or years, that works out to be about 11,5981 years. Yikes!

EA managed to arrive at those numbers based on 1.3 billion gaming sessions, which after doing a bit more math, has resulted in an average gameplay time of 45 minutes per session, with gamers managing to unlock about 159 million achievements and holding about 300 million chat conversations too. Phew, those are a lot of numbers! Unfortunately EA did not mention how many users they had registered with Origin, but like we said earlier, it’s probably over 50 million since it was back in July of 2013 that EA revealed those numbers, so we can only assume with the addition of new games, the user count should be on the rise, unless of course EA’s snafu with games like Battlefield 4 and SimCity have caused Origin users to abandon ship.

EA Boasts 61 Billion Minutes Of Playtime On Origin original content from Ubergizmo.

EA’s Battlefield 4 is a game that is riddled with bugs, to the point where there are multiple lawsuits aimed at the company, claiming that EA made false claims about the game despite knowing there were issues prior to and after the launch, which supposedly were made to inflate its stock prices. It was to the point the EA vowed to put an end to all, if not a majority of the bugs, before they start releasing DLCs which in all honesty is a good move, although we’re guessing many gamers are probably annoyed at this point. Well the good news for Battlefield 4 gamers is that EA has recently released a new patch that will address various stability issues and balances.

It is unclear how much of an improvement this patch has made the game and we doubt that it will fix it completely or address 100% of the issues out there, but we do like the sound of it so far, mainly how there are “various fixes for improving general stability”. We expect that this will not be the last update that EA will be releasing in the near future and there are probably many more to come, but Battlefield 4 gamers out there who have downloaded and updated their game, what do you guys make of the patch so far? Does it address some issues plaguing the game? Or do you think that EA has a long way to go in making it right for everyone?

EA Releases Stability Patch For Battlefield 4 original content from Ubergizmo.

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According to the rumors, Battlefield 4 was a rushed out game by EA and DICE in a bid to beat Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts to the punch. The result was a fairly buggy game that led to EA’s SVP to announce that they could have done a better job. However it seems that it might be too little too late, as law firm Holzer Holzer & Fistel have announced that they will launch an investigation against EA over Battlefield 4, or to be more specific, to see if EA has “complied with federal securities laws” when the company was making statements during the course of development, and after the launch of the game itself.

The statement made by the law firm seems to, or at least wants to, represent the interests of the shareholders of EA, who might have suffered losses due to EA’s stock prices taking a dip due to the problems plaguing the game. It wasn’t too long ago that EA announced that they would be putting a halt to future Battlefield 4 DLCs until they resolved all the problems with the game at the moment, and while this is a good move by the company, it did not sit well with investors as stock prices of EA saw a drop of 7.3% following the announcement. At the moment this does not appear to be a lawsuit yet, but it could be one.

EA Faces Potential Lawsuit Over Battlefield 4 original content from Ubergizmo.