EA Sports has its own Madden Bowl competition, which pits the best NFL gamers against one another before the Super Bowl in the Bud Light Hotel. But the game publisher also ensures average sports fans and gamers can get the experience of being crowned a champion. Electronic Arts has worked with Virgin Gaming and GameStop the past two years to host the EA Sports $1 Million Challenge.
Sports games open up a huge mass market audience of potential eSports fans. Armchair quarterbacks, soccer (or football) fans and puck heads who don’t follow Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II or Riot Games’ League of Legends can easily see who’s winning and what real-life sports strategies apply. Wim Stocks, the executive vice president of Virgin Gaming, discusses the role this big-money competition in Las Vegas plays in the burgeoning pro gaming space and how further integration into the Madden, NHL and FIFA games this year will evolve eSports in this exclusive interview.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
It would be nice if Virgin wasn't such a scam. They made a huge deal about a $1.3 million Battlefield 3 tournament and guess what... never happened. Can't be legit if companies throw up bogus events they never actually have.
Nice to see average gamers making money by playing games.