Electronic Arts has revealed its 2016 lineup, and confirmed that two new Star Wars games are currently under development. The first Star Wars game is a new Star Wars: Battlefront and the second is Visceral’s Star Wars title.
Regarding its 2016 lineup, EA plans to release FIFA 17 this September, Battlefield 1 this November and Titanfall 2 – most probably – in November or December.
This lineup also confirms EA’s plan to release the new Mass Effect game in early 2017 (Q1 2017).
Do note that EA’s dates are according to its fiscal year, meaning that Q1 translates to Q2, Q2 translates to Q3, etc.
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Some interesting titles, but none are “must own” for me.
I can guarantee Mass Effect: Andromeda will be a must own game. They have been working on it since 2012. Prepare to be blown away at E3 this year.
Vega and 1080 Ti will also release close to that. The game is going to be huge in every way imaginable.
The hype is strong with this one.
just stop
You’re joking, right?
You’d actually stake yourself on a Mass Effect game, AFTER Mass Effect 3?
Please tell me the Internet just failed at sarcasm once again……. >.<
Don't even get me started on staking yourself on a BioWare Game after Dragon Age 3, period………
Mass Effect: Andromeda is not being made by the dead BioWare (Edmonton) that you are talking about, but by the newly formed BioWare Montreal. This is their first full game after having worked on the multplayer portion of Mass Effect 3 only. Since then the studio has rapidly expanded and have hired industry veterans from other great AAA development studios to work on Mass Effect: Andromeda:
BioWare Edmonton – The original BioWare studio, it is responsible for most of the games released under the BioWare label, including the ongoing Dragon Age series and the original Mass Effect trilogy.
BioWare Montreal – Formed in March 2009 to assist the Edmonton studio as necessary (Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer), it is, as of November 2013, working on the fourth Mass Effect title (Mass Effect: Andromeda)
BioWare Austin – Formed in March 2006 specifically to develop Star Wars: The Old Republic (with assistance from BioWare Edmonton). Bioware Austin later began working on a new IP called Shadow Realms, but production was shelved in February 2015 in order to focus on the continuing production of Dragon Age: Inquisition and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
I’m aware, that’s part of my point;
On September 18, 2012, the next day after the official announcement of the third Dragon Age title, both Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, two of the remaining co-founders of BioWare, simultaneously announced they would be retiring from the gaming industry. After almost a year without a formal head, EA appointed Matthew Bromberg the group general manager of the BioWare label on September 9, 2013. Former CEO and president of Major League Gaming, Bromberg worked as the general manager of BioWare Austin since 2012; after his promotion, Jeff Hickman took over as the general manager in Austin. Aaryn Flynn remains in charge of BioWare Canada (Edmonton and Montreal) and Jon Van Caneghem, the head of Victory Games and Waystone Studio (also parts of the BioWare label).
There’s also this to keep in mind;
Casey Hudson, the creator of the Mass Effect series, left BioWare in May 2015, while Drew Karpyshyn, writer of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, returned in 2015, Dragon Age’s writer David Gaider left BioWare in January 2016. Chris Wynn and Chris Schlerf, both had had an important role in the development of Mass Effect: Andromeda, left in December 2015 and February 2016 respectively.
Hence, I stand by it; BioWare as we once knew it is dead, & people should have very little hope for Andromeda, no matter which BioWare Studio is working on Mass Effect these days. Besides, I highly doubt (I would really be amazed if) they’re not coordinating with Edmonton on this.
I agree BioWare as we knew them a long time ago are dead but that does not necessarily mean this new BioWare Montreal studio cannot make an amazing game. A studio is just a collection of developers and from what I have gathered is that BioWare Montreal have hired amazing talent from around the world. Who would not want to work on a brand new Mass Effect game(s).
Let me put it another way; The same people who were in senior positions 5 years ago are undoubtedly largely still there today, unaware, unwilling, unable to realize that they ever did anything wrong. There is no “fresh blood” in BioWare Leadership, there has been no “injection of new” into the BioWare Group Leadership these last few years to result in a change of mentality, of mindset. Just like DICE, just like EA, & so on & so forth.
Besides that, I seriously hope this “amazing new global talent pool” isn’t comprised of mindless fans, as it is my experience that hiring “fandevs” to work on a new game in an established IP does NOT work out well, as they really just want to make their own personal “ideal” version of the series that they’ve been envisioning in their fantasies for however long, now.
For example, see 343 Industries & the new Halo Trilogy, or Diablo 3, DOOM, etc. etc. etc.
BioWare Montreal do have a steep mountain to climb, lets hope they do succeed and deliver a game that exceeds all our expectations.
Or you could stop doing their marketing for them. Seriously, these posts are getting irritating. Stop hyping a product that doesn’t even exist yet.
Who would not want to work on a Mass Effect game? Devs who have seen how previous Mass Effect games turned out, and what happened to previous ME devs.
True that!
“Mass Effect: Andromeda will be a must own game”
Nope, some of the key devs left the project, it’s in development hell and after that mediocre dragon age, there is no hope for it. 1080 or 1080ti has nothing to do with a game being good or bad, it’s just consumerism.
Great summary of the situation, cheers ^^
Burned once, ok, it’s only one time, next time they might do good, lets give them a chance, burned again, ok a normal human being at this point will stop the bleeding and gain more experience and will avoid burning again. yet that’s something some people (including me sometimes) won’t do, they just do it again and again and again and will defend it not matter what even they know they won’t get any benefit from it.
Exactly, the Bioware that made fantastic games & set the bar is not the current Bioware, and hasn’t been for quite some time. Look towards Obsidian, Larian and inXile for your RPG needs these days.
While not in the classic CRPG style, I believe CD Projekt RED belongs in that list. CDPR, Obsidian, Larian and inXile are the best RPG developers.
I am sure that 1070 and 1080 will be able to max evry game at 4k for years to come so Mass Effect will not be realy benchmark for this card. Games who needs high end gpus for max settings 1080p and 4k like rise of the tomb raider and soon DOOM already look almost like real
if it is a open world sci fi game i might give a damn
BF1
Approximately one second of gameplay has been shown. There are a million ways they could F it up.
good old fifa, not getting it this year after how much the last game pissed me off. they need to make it fun again, not realistic.
“not getting it this year”
As in you buy the same damn game every year? And your threat is to skip one year? EA must be quivering all the way to the bank.
No i dont buy it every year, why are you being so obnoxious? some of the people that comment on here are such bellends.
Those 14 million copies of battlefront were probably buried in the garbage dump where the cartridges of E.T. were buried.
esports and cs go are a pos. btw it was announced battlefront 2 is coming.
they just need to concentrate on console like they should every game they release thats where their money is.
maybe them seeing how pc gamers treated battlefront they will do that.they just mite because of psvr and battlefront.they just dont need to worry about pc…lol
“Something something muh consoles lol”
This site was much better in the last few weeks/months when you weren’t around. I look forward to whenever that happens again.
“esports and cs go are a pos. btw it was announced battlefront 2 is coming.”
esports and cs go are POS but battlefront 2 isnt.
Keep buying garbage.
” thats where their money is.”
Pc gaming makes more money than all consoles combined idiot.
“just mite because of psvr and battlefront.they just dont need to worry about pc”
Ps4 is getting an upgrade do do vr half as well as pc. HUR DUR I BUY CONSOLES SO I DONT HAVE TO UPGRADE AM I RIGHT?
Grade 1 mental R tardetion
Yay more mediocre Star Wars games.
Looks like DICE is doing the same thing they did with BF3; Launch the “prequel” Game first, then launch the “full” Game 2 (or 1 in this case) year/s later.
What a sick joke.
As one of those rare PC gamers not familar/following BF, can you explain what you mean by this?
Battlefield 4 in a single sentence can basically be described as “what would once have been an Expansion Pack to Battlefield 3.”
BF4 is like, if they remastered Battlefield 3 for New-Gen Consoles, & threw in some sprinkles to make it all look extra pretty. It’s a giant Map Pack, with a $110 price tag attached to it.
Most of the coding was basically ported over (evidence to this being that a lot of the same bugs that plagued BF3 & were subsequently patched plagued BF4 on launch), Gun Models etc. as well as Audio clips of theirs etc. were most definitely re-used, & on so & so forth. We’re lucky they only recycled one DLC’s worth of Maps even, tbh – which they’ll definitely try to do again this time.
Hell, they even managed to make a few of the Systems worse than BF3’s. Granted, 2+ years of patching means BF4 is now by far a superior experience to BF3, but it still has a ridiculous amount of issues, both coding-wise & gameplay-wise.
They’re going to do the same thing with Battlefront 2 – most of the game will be ported over from Battlefront, a few extra maps will get tossed in, a new Game Mode or so, maybe a new set of Textures all around. The base game will be exactly the same, with most of the coding remaining untouched from the last Battlefront patch.
Cheap, easy, recyclable games. That’s DICE’s motto these days, much like Call of Duty, except not as openly.
Apparently an RPG is on the way but it’s being developed by the guys who did Battlefield Hardline. Hard to be excited.
I don’t know, those guys did make Dead Space. So, there is hope.
and dead space 3 sucked. What these guys need to do is make another sci fi franchise or a fantasy setting not something generic.
No, not really. While Dead Space 3 strayed from horror it was quite a good game in its own right. I quite liked all the crafting and stuff.
I still believe that was EA’s interference. If they just leave them alone, they have a decent chance of making something good.
Though I doubt they will, so we’ll just get another watered down mediocre “RPG” situated in the Star Wars Universe because “launching IP’s is hard” *whine whine.*
Mediocre is the best case scenario.
At least we already have dozens of fantastic Star Wars titles on Steam & GOG, no need to shell out $60 on some “AAA” piece of sh*t.
Not $60 but $110 for complete experience
True, though i would really like a KOTOR sequel from Obsidian.
it shipped that much but no one bought it. 350k is the highest players peak on all platforms combined since the release date. and currently the game is dead.
It is a mmo most peole dont care about mmo. I would had bought it if it was a single player action adventure game like the Force Unleashd 1&2 or any of the previous games but never touch a mmmo. Not surprised it didnt sell well since most mmos already have millions players playing them
Battlefront is not a MMO, what are you smoking?
it is a online only game anyway
It doesn’t have a Campaign Mode, that doesn’t make it an MMO.
Jesus f*cking Christ.
It doesn’t have anything related to an MMO.
it didnt sell well ON PC because of idiotic pc gamers comparing a battlefront reboot to battlefront 2(2005).those morons should have compaired it to battlefront 1.the game did extremely well like titanfall did with 10m copies sold.
you should be worried about cod infinite warfare..lol
Just to be clear;
We shouldn’t have been comparing Battlefront (2015, DICE) to Battlefront II (2005, Pandemic Studios), we should have been comparing it to Battlefront (2004, Pandemic Studios)?
…….
What?
lets see star wars battlefroont is a reboot if the battlefront franchise right ther isnt a 2 after it right?
Since the game is not released on steam we can not know how much it sold on pc. Because there is not a site lke Steam spy that tracks Origin sales like we have steam spy for sales of games on steam. But i am sure that it must have sold well enough on pc since it is a online shooter a
from peak times right now.
http://swbstats.com/
PC: 3,099 (24h peak: 5,924)
XBOXONE: 4,807 (24h peak: 17,098)
PS4: 13,492 (24h peak: 25,433)
its usually like this if you check back at an actual peak time not this early in the morning.the pc numbers dont get much better they do go higher then 9000 players at peak time.
what up kkkiiidddd!!!.”it shipped that much but no one bought it” come on you know better then that.the pc only has about 9000 players at peak so thats a lot of ps4 and xbox one players.the game is only dead on pc.
i chose to get this game on console because it will last longer. its still easy to find games to play on console.every mp gamer ides with in 5 months on pc..lol
This guy’s right! I mean, after all;
Battlefield 2, Quake 3, Call of Duty 4, so on & so forth, ARE ALL DEAD ON PC!
Oh? Wait……. What? They’re NOT dead? What? WHAAAAAT?! How can that be? I mean, PC is where Multiplayer games go to d- What? What’s that? Consoles SHUT DOWN MULTIPLAYER SERVERS?
No?! You don’t say!
talking about games from 2005?..lol…move on.this is the problem with will die quicker then the division did on pc i game tpc gaming.oh enjoy cod infinite warfare and paying $80 for cod 4 remastered.
cod infinite warfare will dies faster then the division did and i gave that game 5 months on pc before the CHEATERS AND HACKERS killed it…lol
‘Cause Consoles are sooooo cheater/hacker free, right? Want a more recent Game, that’s not Call of Duty? Ok.
Uh, Team Fortress 2? Oh, no wait, that’s old….. Oh, oh, I know – Bad Company 2! No wait, my bad, that’s old too! Uh, uh, uh….. Oh! Oh! Oh! I know! I know! Unreal Tournament! No wait, that’s a pre-release, I guess that’s too new for you.
Oh, I know! I know! Counter-Strike (series)! Yeah! Oh, no wait, but Global Offensive launched YEARS ago, it’s too ooooooooold!
In that case, how about….. Left 4 Dead 1/2? Oh, no wait, that’s old too. Can I say DOTA 2? Even though it’s just a giant remake of the original Warcraft 3 DOTA Mod? Oh, but it’s a MOBA….. Riiiiiight. So I guess League of Legends & MMO’s are off the table too? Right. Right.
So, no Starcraft either then, because it’s too old, & it’s an RTS, right? Even though it only just got an Expansion Pack a few months ago.
Hmm…… Dammit, this guy’s right! There’s nothing to play on PC Multiplayer wise that’s not from pre-2006! DAMMIT ALL, I WANT A CONSOLE NOW! I WANNA HALO! YEAH!
Call of Duty always dies fast, that’s the entire idea. Every year, most of the Community moves on to the next game, while fragments are left behind. After a few months, the latest game’s community breaks up into chunks as well, as people revert back to their preferred CoD entry, leaving behind a large chunk of people just wasting time on the latest entry until the next one comes along. The cheater-hackers have very little to do with that process, at all.
P.S. The Division is f*cked because it’s moronic, not because the PC automatically kills Multiplayer, but anyway, nice soapbox.
“Cause Consoles are sooooo cheater/hacker free, right”…psss they are.
youtube disagress, video date? yesterday
because games dont die on o consoles because consoles dont have hackers.
Nope, PC Peak was 50k and never went any higher than that, it is now 5k and hardly goes any higher, it’s 23k on PS4 and 11k on xbone. it’s dead everywhere.
Look the comment above, this guy is Grade 1 R tarded
Yep, it’s been a year, at first it was hvdhvd or something now he changed it.
The revenue of those esports & competitive games you hate so much far, far exceed the numbers Battlefront did. EA could focus on making a highly competitive & skill based game and potentially make much more money, but they aren’t that type of company.
thats because of idiots buying $400 knives and $2 skins….lol pc cant touch console in AAA titles sales which is what matters…lmao
you can go ahead an ways you money on something you will never really own…lol
When the games are free or dirt cheap, it’s easier to justify spending a little extra on useless stuff like skins to support the developers, especially when so many of those players get 1000’s of hours out of a single game. Even if someone spends $100 on skins, they’re still paying less than the full experience of Battlefront ($60 game + $50 season pass), for a game that has a much more active player base and a longer life cycle. Plus you can play those games perfectly fine without spending a single dime.
Why do only “AAA” sales matter? I don’t think a company cares how they’re making money. In fact, I’d say most developers would rather not make “AAA” games because the risk and investment is ludicrously high, to the point where one failed title can tank a whole studio. Even if sales of “AAA” games ARE all that matter, that speaks nothing of the quality of those games or the platforms those sales are for.
why does The revenue of those esports matter?that is not games sales thats items sold in a game.but its counted as total pc gamer revenue right?
so AAA titles matter
Revenue is total money by the platform, doesn’t matter where it comes from or what type of games, why are you not getting this? Console games are dominated by AAA space and nothing much more anyway, PC games are every space, it’s just MMOs, MOBAs are it’s biggest money maker.
yep thats why you have f2p trash on pc to you would spend money to make their crap games better.the only reason pc Revenue is high is because of items sold in f2p trash.
pc still cant touch console sales on AAA ty.
Speaking of trash, those AAA generic games are $60 for a 6-10 hour games with DLC, in-app purchases, paid multiplayer on consoles ,expensive peripherals, so yeah same sh*t every year AAA trash with remastered trash paying double.
news flash star wars battlefront shipped 14m that doesnt even include the digital download on consoles.oh and esports arnt the same every year? skins arnt the same every year.?…wake up.
Publishers do however have this “Hollywood Box Office” mindset that “nothing but the first 24 hours/7 days matters” in regards to sales. They have no long-term vision, they just care about how much they can brag about on their quarterlies.
Then again 6-12 months later with the Game of the Year Edition, or however they choose to relaunch it.
Making something like Valve’s DOTA, CS or Blizzard’s Starcraft even by comparison, which aren’t aimed at making 20 million sales within 24 hours just so they can pump out a Sequel 12-24 months later (mostly in Valve’s case, Blizzard not so much), they don’t understand that. They can’t see the continuous profits Valve makes off these, they just think “how to make people swipe that plastic,” ala Ubisoft.
” pc cant touch console in AAA titles sales which is what matters…lmao”
Good man you saying buying generic been there done that GARBAGE sequels is a good thing while freaking INDIE games on pc surpass those AAA games in sales.
“you can go ahead an ways you money on something you will never really own.”
You dont own those console games either half the game is missing in dlcs, day 1 patches and you cant play it if your console breaks due to no backwards compability. Also about 30% of the game is online social features.
This thing you are comparing is gone, its long gone, look at battleborn and division this is the future on consoles too.
You are a moron, console games have tons of in-game purchases like skins packs and all sorts, that on top of the $60, DLCs and online fees you pay. The games you hate so much that are making the most money on PC have PROPER content updates for years and years. Did you know Eve Online has been going got 13 years now with 13 years of free updates? The Division got a free update that is compete garbage.
Well, to be fair, EVE is technically a Subscription-based MMO, but otherwise yeah, where other MMO’s (*cough WoW cough*) are trying to move into the “less content, higher price tags” formula (not really working out for them I might add), EVE launches every Expansion Pack, every major Patch, every major Systems revamp, every major content addition for free to all Subscribers.
It is worth noting though, they do have optional cosmetic microtransactions you can choose to buy into as well, if you want. Purely, absolutely, solely cosmetic, however. Clothes, ship skins, etc.
“Regarding its 2016 lineup, EA plans to release FIFA 17 this September, Battlefield 1 this November and Titanfall 2 – most probably – in November or December.”
Typo as Battlefield 1 is set to release in October not November.
Imagine how screwed over the few people must feel that bought the season pass for battlefront. lol I personally always wait 6-12 months after release of a EA title before I even consider buying it.
Assuming they’re still playing lol.
obviously they were not on pc due to piracy HUR DUR HUUUU DURRR
Console peasants by stupid games what else is new?
dont you have a esport to play or waste money on a $400 knife or a $2 skin or something to do.
go play league and buy a skin.
Esport games are good games, thousands of hours of gameplay, years and years of support, updates and content while your AAA console games are done in 6-10 hours.
esports are as toxic as their communities are. full of cheaters, hackers truly the worst of the worst in gaming. the only reason the pc revenue is so high is because of the in game skins that they buy. in esport games.
pc still cant touch console on AAA title sales. they dont track the SHADY 3rd world cdk keys that you buy from g2a, kingpin cd keys. they leave those out of pc sales because they arnt legit.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Titanfall 2 and Mass Effect: Andromeda, Can’t wait!