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EA brings Hell to the superbowl. Also makes a nice montage video.

Looks like EA is ready for some football. They've purchased a spot during the Superbowl to highlight their newest franchise - Dante's Inferno. Over the weekend they also dropped this nice (up to 720p) video montage of what hell may be like if you carry a fantastically large penis scythe.

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EA and Del Ray and Dante team up to go to Hell

In what I can only describe as a slight blow to literature everywhere but an interesting opportunity for literate gamers, Dante’s Inferno is being republished.  In book form.  By Electronic Arts.  Oh, with Del Ray (ne Ballantine ne Random House) doing the bulk of the dead tree work. Don’t worry though, the fine folks who brought [...]

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Reason Number 426 I hate EA

So it turns out that EA is so paranoid, so chained to oppressive DRM, that they have basically made playing Dragon Age (a single player only game) without a connection to their servers for verification impossible. Grow a pair EA. If you are going to be draconian with us about your DRM measures, do it to our faces.

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Dragon Age: Journeys

With Dragon Age: Origin's street date right in our faces. Bioware has released a short but sweet browser game to state our hunger.

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Leaked Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer

I saw this and just had to pass it along. I love the first Left 4 Dead even if it does scare the heck out of me. There's a new set of people and it looks like there's new types of zombies as well. I'm ready to get scared all over again. November holds so many great releases I just can't wait!

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Dragon Age: Origins, Character Creation Tool released.

Can't wait to start playing Dragon Age:Origins? Well, good news! You can get a head start making your character when the game releases Nov. 3(PC). Just keep reading to find out how.

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Sims 3 to be DRM free? This from EA, have they seen the light?

EA let slip today that the Sims 3 will not ship with intrusive DRM (read SecuROM). EA sites past backlashes, particularily Spore as the main reason. So far it looks like the Sims 3 will ship with a CD Key activation and . . . well, that's it. If this is true, then I'm willing to give EA a bit of a golf clap and let's see what happens with other forthcoming titles.

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EA gets more class action suits. Will they ever realize that SecuROM isn’t the answer?

I noticed today on GamePolitics that two more class action suits had been brought up against EA and their use of SecuROM software. You can read the PDFs here and here. This time the suits concern the installation of SecuROM when an EA product was installed. Yeah, that's nothing new - except these were demo versions of the game. DEMOS.

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