SimCity sales ensure it has a "long service life in front of it" as EA learn lessons from a "challenging launch"
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EA rang their shareholders for a chinwag yesterday, and talked a great deal about the biggest event in their year so far: SimCity. Sales of Maxis’ messy mayoral reboot were “solid”, thanks to an upsurge in direct downloads via Origin. But EA are working to ensure its disastrous launch, which saw servers swamped and inaccessible to a large proportion of players, “won’t happen again”.
Correlation is a dangerous art, but here’s something I’ve noticed. Over Christmas, our Steve rated Crysis 3’s signature weapon 
The
Prophet has never been as brash as he is in this new trailer for Crysis
3, where he spends thirty seconds strutting and striding to the boxy
tones of ZZ Top. Yes, it’s silly. But it made us giggle. Click through
to see the action.
Crysis 3 has been sold to us as a sort of synthesis of the series so far - a yummy midpoint between the first game’s wide-open jungle rumble and its sequel’s New York explode-a-thon. But there's a good chance that neither of those reference points will mean anything to you, and so Crytek have decided to arm you with the means to educate yourself.
Let me just introduce 2012's bow and arrow trend using a screenshot of a bow and arrow game due to be released in 2013. That's appropriate, isn't it? That's how powerful and remarkable a trend bow and arrows have been this year. They're leaking forwards and backwards and sideways through time. They have been gaining popularity, those bows and arrows, from Far Cry 3 and Dishonored (sort of) to Assassin's Creed 3 and Black Ops 2 (sort of). Bow and arrow? Bows and arrows? A bow and an arrow? What a grammatically clunky name for such an elegant and ancient weapon! But what are they all about? And why?
“Are you the hunter, or the hunted?”, ask Crytek in this latest ogling of Crysis 3. Well, if I had to choose...
That's right, that means there are six more of these Crysis 3 promos to come. This one, subtitled "Hell of a Town," shows a gunfight in an overgrown New York City and looks like a cross between in-game footage and a cutscene. Click through to watch the bullets fly.
While the issue was first raised in that 
I don’t know if you heard, but there’s a Far Cry out now and it’s 
Is this a critical moment for PC gaming? Usually news comes clearly denoted as such, but perhaps the sticker fell off this one in transit. Because it certainly feels quietly important - and if you listen carefully you’ll hear the sound of old wounds closing.
A month ago, our Jules enthused about 
Earlier this month we heard that 
That tesselated toad did look lovely, didn't it? Excellent toad, almost indistinguishable from the real thing, such is the power of CryEngine 3. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli spoke about Crysis 3's ability to melt PCs during an EA livestream at Gamescom, as well as his desire to bring back the "can it run Crysis?" benchmark that disappeared roughly around the time Crysis 2 came out.
Much maligned by the specist propaganda put out by the writers of fairy tales, toads are finally receiving a positive public image from an unexpected quarter: the CryEngine 3.
