Feb 17
Titanfall: Xbox One vs PC
Posted in: Today's ChiliAfter having played the Titanfall Beta on both the Xbox One and PC (via Origin on Windows 8), we’ve come to one conclusion. If you want to play Titanfall on … Continue reading
Feb 15
Tonight the decision to stress test Titanfall Beta has been made – codes will not be needed and all players will be able to try the game until the end … Continue reading
Feb 15
It would appear that the Titanfall servers bug was a big enough issue over the past 24 hours or so to warrant an extension of the Beta time for users … Continue reading
Feb 05
There are quite a few irritations when it comes to PC gaming. Most notable are all of the anti-piracy measures that plague games and make it hard for gamers to enjoy what they spent their money on. It’s also very annoying as a PC gamer when a game requires you to use an internet connection constantly and to install other software to play.
While most gamers don’t mind Valve’s Steam so much, but some of the other software out there is much more intrusive and unstable. Case in point is EA’s Origin. One of the most anticipated PC games of the year is Titanfall. The head of Respawn studios, the developer behind the game, recently tweeted a disappointing response to a question asked by a gamer.
The question was simple, “does it require Origin?” The answer was simple as well, “yes it does.” The Titanfall PC beta will also require Origin for players to participate. The game also requires a 64-bit Windows OS and it has to be Windows 7 or higher. Since I’ve run Vista for years and it works fine for me (don’t judge) I have no intention of upgrading for Titanfall.
[via IGN]
Jan 15
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. 
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Jan 09
This week NVIDIA has a gigantic Origin Genesis gaming PC customized to high heaven, sitting out front of their booth at CES 2014 with Project CARS on three 4K displays. … Continue reading
Aug 20
Gamers have been choking lately on some of the restrictive DRM for upcoming consoles and titles, but at least EA is offering some relief. It just announced that its Origin store now features the “great game guarantee,” letting you return downloaded games after purchasing. You’ll have 24 hours to send it back, digitally speaking, after you first launch the game, or seven days from the date of purchase (or release date for pre-orders). By contrast, Steam offers no refunds or exchanges on any of its games. Origin’s new policy is now available in 20 countries, but only applies to EA-published games and not downloadable content. There’s also a clause for any “abuse of the refund process,” so if you’re looking to see how many games you can beat in a day, you may wanna rethink that.
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Source: EA
Aug 14
Humble Bundle has had a pretty good run with its game offerings so far, but its newest grouping of Origin titles provides some of its biggest names yet. Included in the bundle are Mirror’s Edge, Medal of Honor, Dead Space, Dead Space 3, Crysis 2 Maximum Edition, and Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box (most of which are available on Steam). The games can all be purchased for $1, but paying over the average (currently $4.54) will also net you Battlefield 3 and The Sims 3 Starter Pack. Buying the bundle won’t just score you some sweet games; you’ll also be contributing to a few good causes, as Electronic Arts is donating its share of the proceeds to charities like the Human Rights Campaign, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society. For more info, check out the video after the break or follow the Humble Bundle link below.
Source: Humble Bundle
Aug 08
Fans of the Call of Duty series, you will most probably have a whole lot more on your plate than just Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Vengeance Map Pack which was introduced for the Xbox 360 recently, especially when a spanking new video over from Treyarch that you can view above, where the latest Call of Duty teased inside that “everything has a beginning…and an end.”
This new teaser trailer has been titled “Origins”, where it runs for approximately 90 seconds while featuring four men – all of them battle hardened, I would presume. At the final part of the teaser trailer, some action from trench warfare is depicted, in addition to some sort of robot that is certainly a whole lot larger than your ordinary WWE pumped up wrestler! Other than that, nothing else about Call of Duty: Black Ops II Origins was released, so we will just have to play the patience card for however much time is required before additional information is leaked, or released on an official basis. At least this would mean that the franchise still has legs…
Black Ops II: Origins Teaser Depict A Robot original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jun 28
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