Victims of EA

Handy infographic on EA.

This does not include yet Pandemic Studios (developer of Star Wars Battlefront, Saboteur, Mercenaries) that was shitdown last  2009.

I think Criterion, DICE at BIoware are the only remaining from the list.

EA visceral games makers of Deadspace is still good. :)

Funny EA divided Bioware into 5 studios. xD

EA Bioware—focuses on creating multiplatform, role-playing, MMO and strategy games.

BioWare Edmonton
BioWare Austin
BioWare Montreal
BioWare Mythic (formerly Mythic Entertainment)
BioWare Victory (formerly Victory Games)

Victory is the former EA LA the developer of C&C games, its now just a brand of Bioware to cover up their former name.

However, Westwood Studios were the ones that created C&C games. It was bought by EA in 1998, tthen closed in 2003. That was why there was EA LA from 2003 until 2010. Then it became Victory Games, until 2011 it became Bioware Victory.

And Westwood Studios was the pioneer of "modern" RTS with Dune II. They inspired Blizzard to create Warcraft (their prior game was The Lost Vikings). Then eventually the Command & Conquer games were born. And the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert featured one of the most iconic songs of PC gaming history: Hell March.

Piracy helps a big deal on killing those devs as well.

GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650 Launching

The launch of the new cards – GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650 is today, 13th September.


The GTX 660 (non-Ti) is based on the GK106 core architecture which packs 960 cores and a 2GB GDDR5 (192-bit) memory. Core clock is maintained at 980/1033MHz and 6008MHz for memory. TDP is rated at 140W and card requires a single 6-Pin connector for power.


The GTX 650 on the other hand is based on the GK107 core architecture which already exists on the GT 640 GPU however this version while packing the same 384 cores runs faster at 1058MHz core and 5GHz memory clocks. The card has a TDP of 75W due to which the board requires a 6 Pin connector to boot. The GTX 660 cost $229 while the GTX 650 cost $149.

These are the international prices, expect a variation in Philippine prices.


Gaming performance of both GPUs can be seen here.

Choose your weapon

Discover the new GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650 graphics card
NVIDIA in a new era of gaming:

The new GeForce GTX graphics cards with NVIDIA kepler technology are the fastest and powerful graphic cards all times, Until now, graphics card performance level on this only for hard-core gaming fans. But now everything is different.

Now the Kepler family comes to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 with these graphics cards – the weapon of choice for gamers – and the powerful low-cost GeForce GTX 650 graphics card. Choose your weapon and fire away.

Mocha Playboy Philippines September 2012 Issue

THE MOCHA GIRLS: POP FEMME FATALE

The femme fatales prove to be steady with the ever-changing local pop scene. The Mocha Girls have all the trappings of a pop act, but beyond the seamless and fiercely feminine image is a thrust that goes beyond the rhythm of the local sphere. The girls are out to preach sexual freedom, urging debate and exploring self-empowerment as they go.