Sims 3 was released June 2. While you are happily playing with your Sims (hope they don’t disappear on you!) you should know what type of digital rights management software is included with the game…since it was a serious issue in the past.

Electronic Arts decided to drop online authorization DRM for Sims 3. Honestly, my eyes popped in amazement. Then a slow smile appeared on my face. Let me explain why this is a really good move.

Companies wonder why their products or services aren’t selling as well as they could. Sometimes the reason why is due to making bad business decisions. Let’s look at a questionable one from Electronic Arts.

Updated 7/29/08: Scrabulous has been disabled in Facebook for US and Canada users. Hasbro, owner of the trademark for Scrabble, filed a lawsuit against the creates of Scrabulous for trademark infringement via the Scrabulous Facebook application. A DMCA was also sent to Facebook to remove the application. I do not use the application (I rarely [...]

Yes, I played The Sims. Yes, I have Sims 2. I have some of the expansion packs but I quickly caught on what the real deal was: EA was going to expansion pack me to death instead of releasing a game that could be the best it could be. And I gave up. The Sims [...]

After looking at the sweet screenshots of The GodFather, EA announced that the game will not be launched until 2006. Let me be more specific…the PC game will be out in the first quarter 2006. The Xbox 360 game will be out later. The game will not be ready in time for release during the [...]

Electronic Arts recently released new screenshots and a video of the upcoming game The Godfather, coming out on the PC and Xbox. Lookin’ good.

If you haven’t seen the keynote yet, there were some very interesting details revealed: Xbox 360 will be backward compatible. North America, Europe and Japan will launch on the same day. 176 titles in development, 25-40 will be available at launch. Xbox live will have a free basic service which can be upgraded. Xbox 360 [...]