![]() ![]() Original: Valve Time are reporting that the two-man operation Star Filled Studios have been bought by Valve, and will be heading up a new office based in San Francisco.Īccording to the LinkedIn profile of Star Filled's Tod Semple, a former programmer for PopCap, "my recent startup was acquired by Valve and we are opening a new office on the San Francisco peninsula." Update: Valve's Doug Lombardi told Joystiq: "As a point of clarification, this is probably better categorized as Valve hiring two new employees instead of an acquisition of a company or opening of a Valve SF office." We're getting great feedback from our fans and know that many of you are having fun and are exploring this whole new expression of SimCity."ĭespite the controversy surrounding and criticism of SimCity's always-online requirement, mixed messages about the decision, and much-discussed simulation flaws, EA says the 1.1 million unit figure makes SimCity the franchise's biggest launch of all time. The good news is we have solved most of the major issues and players are really enjoying the game. We know we messed up and want to sincerely thank you for staying with us. "Our SimCity Mayors are incredibly important to the team at Maxis. E-mails with instructions will start going out to owners today-I just received an update and on-message apology which opens: PDT and redeem the free game by Maat 11:59 p.m. To take part in the offer, you must register your copy of SimCity on Origin by Maat 11:59 p.m. The free game will be acquired through a "redemption portal" which will be rolled out in the Origin client later this week. Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition) Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition) Today, EA announced that SimCity sold over 1.1 million units in its first two weeks (well, there's your problem), and Maxis announced the list of apology games for SimCity owners to choose from: On the week of SimCity's ill-fated launch, during which a lot more people wanted to play SimCity than SimCity's servers could handle, Maxis SVP Lucy Bradshaw promised us each a free EA game for our troubles. For all the details, point yourself at Origin. ![]() It really is a brilliant game.īut the smart thing to do is to grab them both, which you may do here for BF3 and here for PvZ, until June 3. That is perhaps somewhat less compelling as deals go since it's only five bucks at regular price and just about everyone on the planet already owns it anyway, but again, free is free and to be perfectly honest, if you haven't played either of them and for some odd reason can only get one, I'd actually recommend Plants vs. Zombies, which has also been marked down to zero. I say that free is free, and I'll take it wherever and whenever I can.Īnd no worries if you already have Battlefield 3, because there's a Plan B: Plants vs. Today is the day you get Battlefield 3! Why, you ask? Because today is the day you can pick it up at absolutely zero cost that is to say, free as the second game in Origin's "On the House" program.Įlectronic Arts unveiled "On the House" in March with a Dead Space giveaway and implied that there might be an element of randomness to the thing, saying that OTH freebies "can appear and disappear at any time." Today's announcement of Battlefield 3 as the next OTH giveaway, on the other hand, suggests it something more regular, coming as it does almost exactly one month after Dead Space, but does it matter? I say, no. ![]()
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