In what is undoubtedly a rags to riches story of a studio struggling to find its feet in the world, only to acquire Bullfrog, fuck it over and then become [...]

Electronic Arts have been slipping online passes into pretty much every big game to come out of their stable for the last few months with various justifications from server costs [...]

EA are no strangers to online passes. They already have ones planned for Mass Effect 3, Syndicate and Kingdoms of Amalur, so why would SSX be any different? Well, it [...]

As mentioned in yesterday’s article, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will come with an online pass that will reward players who purchase the game with the House of Valor faction quest, [...]

The recently introduced system of online passes has now integrated into pretty much every game that contains a multiplayer of some sort (usually tacked on), and even some with only [...]

What’s the one thing the Dragon Age series really doesn’t need? That’s right! Exactly the same thing that the Mass Effect series really doesn’t need. In keeping with the recent [...]

A very noticeable trend of late seems to be the tendency of developers to release day-one DLC alongside games. Usually this is not free DLC either, much to the frustration [...]

I for one have been thrilled by the many revelations and reports that have come in from Volition, regarding their upcoming Saints Row: The Third, which releases locally this week. [...]

Okay, so amongst all the commotion about piracy and the industry’s efforts to quell the used game market, guess what happens? Yep, despite its online pass and what not, the [...]

Oranges! Okay now that we’ve got this column under way — I never quite know how to properly start these things off — I’d like to talk about something that [...]

A few months ago I posed the question of whether the gaming resale market could be considered piracy, in one of my famous Life, The Universe, And Gaming columns. Shameless [...]

Hands up those of you who saw the recent Mass Effect 3 multiplayer announcement and instantly thought “Online Pass incoming”. Just me? Okay, how many of you expected Battlefield 3 [...]

Online passes are a bit of a grey area with gamers. Some have accepted it and understand why they need to exist, while others have seen it as yet another [...]

It seems as though publishers are losing a grip. First, a build version of Dead Island was released on Steam as the full retail version, and now it seems as [...]

DRM is a real pain in the ass for most gamers. Lucky for us, the upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter from id Software, Rage, will not be using it. However, id Software [...]

Yesterday we brought you the rumour of Sony introducing a PSN Pass. Well it turns out that those rumours are true. Sony has confirmed that it will introduce a ‘PSN [...]

NetherRealm Studios head and Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has said that use of the online pass system is right for all games. Whilst speaking to Eurogamer about the inclusion [...]