Action Audit: No Man’s Sky NEXT
Welcome to Action Audit! We wanted a feature of the site to be something quick and convenient to read. Our goal with Action Audit is to give you something to [Read More]
Analysis
Our Take: ArenaNet Fires Price
Jessica Price, a game producer/writer/editor, was recently fired from ArenaNet for violating the company communication policy. Sounds simple right? Break the rules, get fired. The truth is that’s exactly what [Read More]
Our Take: EA’s Response To The Star Wars Battlefront 2 Controversy
Shuffling the top means changes are coming…usually. [Update 9/10/2018 – Patrick Söderlund has decided to leave EA, post promotion. EA tried to keep him there with several incentives, but ultimately he [Read More]
The Battleroyale Market – Why LawBreakers Failed and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is Thriving – Part One
PUBG is now 38.3% of all internet traffic. The rest is cat videos…and porn. This is part one in a three part series that explains why games like Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds [Read More]
Our Take: There Is Nothing Inherently Wrong with EA’s EOMM System
EOMM matchmaking gives players an expected win every once in a while. The horror! If you’ve been around any video game forums or YouTube the past couple of days, you [Read More]
Interview With A Game Developer
We talk about a lot of different things on GO30. It’s time to let someone else do the talking. A few months ago I set out with a goal to [Read More]
Our Take: EA/DICE Battlefront II AMA on Reddit
This is a quick reaction to the “Star Wars Battlefront II AMA” by EA/DICE on the Battlefront subreddit. It is, by its nature, a short take on recent events. My [Read More]
Our Take: EA Q2 FY 2018 Results
A minor loss now means printing money later. The EA Q2 FY 2018 results came out yesterday and as we predicted, EA continues to make positive gains in every financial [Read More]
Our Take: EA Dissolves Visceral Games [Updated]
Update 10/27/2017 – Our analysis was correct. As reported by Jason Schreier at Kotaku, EA closed Visceral Games because the Star Wars game was completely off track and the studio [Read More]
Efficient Gaming: Blizzard Games
Blizzard plays the hits again, and again, and again. Starcraft 2 came out on July 27, 2010 and I am still logging 2-6 hours in game per week. That was [Read More]