50 EA Titles to Lose Online Service Due to GameSpy Shutdown

In the wake of the shutdown of GameSpy’s online service at the end of May, 50 EA titles are set to lose online capabilities, including enormously popular games from the Battlefield and Command and Conquer franchises.In a post on EA’s news blog, the company announced the upcoming closure, saying in part,

Since GameSpy’s announcement, our teams have been working to evaluate options to keep services up and running. Unfortunately, due to technical challenges and concerns about the player experience, we do not have a solution at this time. Online services for EA games on the GameSpy platform will be closed down at the end of June.

The EA post acknowledged that a number of the games scheduled to lose support are fan favorites, and explained that while the company isn’t giving up, they haven’t reached a solution to support those titles yet.

We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don’t have anything to announce.

It would be nice to see EA come up with a way to continue online services to these games. 2K recently announced that it would be moving online support for Borderlands and Civilization titles over to Steamworks due to the GameSpy closure. While that probably won’t be EA’s response, given their somewhat adversarial relationship with Steam, perhaps they could find another, more acceptable option. Yeah, you guessed it — I’m talking about user servers. Patch the game to remove the GameSpy requirement, and simply let players run their own servers. Even though that might require EA to set up and maintain a master server, it would generate some serious goodwill, and EA can always use that. Obviously, this wouldn’t be an option for all their titles, but at least for the popular PC games, it could represent a second lease on life.We’ll have to wait and see what EA chooses to do. For now, they’ve listed all their titles with GameSpy-supported online features as closing down at the end of June. A partial list can be found below, focused on PC-related titles. If you’d like to see the full list, you can find it on EA’s service updates page.

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• Battlefield 1942 for PC and Mac (including The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WW2 expansions)
• Battlefield 2 for PC (including Special Forces expansion)
• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for PlayStation 2
• Battlefield 2142 for PC and Mac (including Northern Strike expansion)
• Battlefield Vietnam for PC
• Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3
• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for PC and Mac (including Kane’s Wrath expansion)
• Command & Conquer: Generals for PC and Mac (including Zero Hour expansion)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for PC and Mac
• Crysis 2 for PC
• Crysis for PC
• Crysis Wars for PC
• EA Sports 06 for PC
• F1 2002 for PC
• Global Operations for PC
• James Bond: Nightfire for PC
• Master of Orion III for PC
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC and Mac (including Breakthrough and Spearhead expansions)
• NASCAR Sim Racing for PC
• NASCAR Thunder 2003 for PC
• NASCAR Thunder 2004 for PC
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 for PC
• Neverwinter Nights 2 for PC and Mac
• Neverwinter Nights for PC, Mac and Linux (including Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide expansions)
• Star Wars: Battlefront for PC and PlayStation 2
• Star Wars: Battlefront II for PC and PlayStation 2

Lumines: Puzzle & Music Soon Be Releasing For Android

Lumines: Puzzle & Music is a brand new pastime of the traditional PSP recreation, with progressed graphics and all new tracks to listen and play to. Advanced mobcast inc. Have found out that their upcoming game, known as Lumines: Puzzle & Music, might be touchdown on cellular devices in September. In this identify, the game board is supplied in portrait mode and calls for you to swipe and faucet to correctly align their Lumines blocks for the timeline sweep. In case you try this well, you'll emerge as clearing blocks of 4 matching shades in rhythm to the beat. At first released for the PSP, this sport has been in a confined launch in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand for mobile devices but is now heading for a Western launch.

Sadly we don't have any strong details about how many tracks can be arriving with this recreation, how many levels there might be, or something like that. We do recognize that the game may be arriving for Android on September 1st, 2016, so if you're a fan of the series you might not ought to wait lengthy to get it. While it does arrive it'll value $2.99. In the interim, you may test out the trailer for this new version of Lumines with the video under.

Wands and Smashing the battle- All new gear VR Games

Are you a great fan of Samsung's Gear VR? Here is a crazy news for you. Yes, two new games are now available for Gear VR. One is Smashing the battle and the second one is Wands. Both of the games are quite interesting. Here is a quick review of each of the games.

Wands

It is a first person multiplayer motion-journey game wherein you'll be taking on the function of a Wielder (aka wizard) who can be taking element in magic duels with other Wielders, who also show up to be other gear VR customers. The game is developed by Nux Studio. The whole lot takes location in an trade truth model of London in the Eighteen Eighties, with these duels without a doubt being for power, repute, and glory and nothing extra.

 Smashing the battle

This game is developed by Studio HG. and called Smashing the struggle equipment VR, or greater to the point, just Smashing the battle. This specific sport is more straightforward hack n' lower gameplay in which you will be taking manage of  heroines who are out to forestall/break an navy of robots. Players will need to be quick to stay clear of incoming attacks, slipping among bullets, while being able to counter-assault their objectives speedy sufficient so that they do not get killed.

Rolling Rapids is Now Out For Android

Rolling Rapids is a new countless recreation for Android brought to you by AppVant Garde Studios. Are you ready for a loopy journey on the Rolling Rapids? Bounce, roll & splash your way around crocs, docks, snakes & rocks in this limitless arcade water journey! The boundaries may be dealt with in a selection of methods.

Rolling Rapids utilizes the low polygon appearance, akin to what human beings might see in Minecraft, and appears to move alongside pretty fast. For instance, gamers will frequently want to leap over the crocodiles and rocks (both single leaping and double jumping), at the same time as encountering things that relaxation above the water which include bridges and docks will require players to head beneath, in form just like how kayaks can roll over within the water. Gather golden rubies to liberate tremendously a laugh characters like the Surfer Dude, Cruise ship, Rescue Raft, large Blue Whale, Pirate deliver, Yellow Submarine, Sailboat & greater! Gamers could be capable of use (or buy) the gems with a purpose to replace the skin of their character. Alternatives encompass a pirate deliver, yellow submarine, blue whale, cruise liner, and extra. Rolling Rapids is available to download free of charge from Google Play Store. Here is a quick video of Rolling Rapids

Satellina Puzzle, Motion Puzzle Game Launched For Android

So here comes Satellina Puzzle, a motion game which has finally been launched for android and is available on Google Play Store. When you go to check the description of this game on Google play store, you will find the developers has written that even 5 years kid can understand this game. Yes of course, understanding this game is quite simple but the difficult part is how you master the game. This game is easy to understand and play but way too hard to master.

In this game, you will have to catch up the particles but trust me it is more difficult that just writing about it. The game has attractive sound that will encourage you to play it for longer time. Here are some of the pictures of the game, how it looks like during the gameplay.

Well, there are about 50 levels awaiting for you to be explored by you. You will find many bonuses in this game. Since it is the first release, you will get lots of updates upcoming days. So keep calm and play the game. This game is available on Play Store for $1.99.

Pokemon Go Been Cloned By China Company

After the release of the famous game Pokemon Go, it didn't take more time to attract huge mass of people towards it. Pokemon Go is an android game based on anime called Pokemon. In this game, you can see maps where you can find virtual Pokemon and you can capture them. This game was initially released for some countries only but later on it was expanded for other countries as well. The most interesting part of this game is capturing Pikachu that every single Pokemon Go players dream to.

All right, China is a country where it is very difficult to quickly launch your product or any other things. It has very strict rules due to which it is going to be difficult for the developers of Pokemon Go to launch it officially in China. From the recent news, it is seen that some developers from China has created a clone of the game Pokemon Go. I guess the developers are still unknown. This clone doesn't have the actual copy of the game but has some modifications. There are some really weird contents inside the game. I am sure some of you will be sick for 2 days playing this crappy game. Actually what the developers did is they modified some Pokemon and literally weird one by making making their face bigger from the actual one or removing their arms or similar modifications. You can check the images below.

Seeing these stuffs, i think many of the Pokemon go fans will have a headache tonight. ;) 

By the way, in this game you are not going to find everything crappy or weird, you will find some interesting things as well. So this game awaits you. ;)