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SimCity for Mac coming on June 11

by Steven Sande (Apr 10th, 2013)

EA announced today that the latest version of SimCity will be arriving on the Mac platform on June 11, 2013. Lucy Bradshaw, senior vice president and general manager of EA's Maxis Label, said that "We didn't want to make any compromises when it came to the Mac, so we created a native version ...

EA reveals 'single identity' cross-platform gaming experience

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

EA has completed its Origin login service, which means that most of its games going forward (including, presumably, Real Racing 3, which hits the US App Store tomorrow) will use a single company-specific login. Now, all EA games on all platforms will be able to access that login. So, for ...

EA launches Origin for Mac alpha, includes free Bookworm

by Randy Nelson (Jan 24th, 2013)

Electronic Arts announced today that it's bringing its Origin service to Mac, and that an alpha version of it is now available for download. According to EA, the alpha is being opened up to "a few thousand" users in North America and Europe. You can get the client from the Origin web store's ...

Daily iPad App: Trenches 2

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2011)

Thunder Game Works' Trenches was quite the hit on the iPhone last year, combining a cartoony World War 2 setting with some solid real-time strategy combat and quite a few innovative game features. The game also spawned a few spinoffs, and was popular enough for EA to publish the sequel. There ...