BioWare promises “substantial reinvention” for year-old Anthem
All screens from this gallery are taken from real-time gameplay, except where noted. There's a lot to knock about Anthem, but man, can it be a looker. What's more, when the game is this pretty, it says, "go ahead, fly through this beauty." BioWare In Anthem, if you see it, you can probably fly to…
Aetna and Anthem will now spend for more kids with a...
In a policy reversal, the health insurers Aetna and Anthem will now cover a $2.1 million, one-time treatment for more kids with the rare and devastating disease spinal muscular atrophy. Aetna previously covered the therapy only for patients younger than 9 months old. The health insurer's new policy will now cover kids up to 2…
Feds charge Chinese nationwide in 2015 breach of health insurance company...
Federal prosecutors have indicted a Chinese national they say carried out sophisticated network intrusions on four US companies, including one on health insurer Anthem that stole personal information belonging to close to 80 million people. Fujie Wang—a 32-year-old resident of Shenzhen, China, who sometimes used the first name Dennis—was part of a hacking group that…
Inside take a look at BioWare describes precisely how phony E3...
Enlarge / This "javelin" suit could have starred in a game titled Beyond, but at the last minute, its name was swapped to Anthem. Find out about this story, and many more, in today's lengthy Kotaku report. In what has become a regular occurrence in recent years, a major story about game-development woes—full of insider…
Sony starts reimbursing Anthem purchases because of “complete power down” reports
Enlarge / Anthem may look gorgeous. But what's that worth when it makes your console hard-lock to the point of fully powering down? After a weekend full of reports about Anthem woes on PS4, people who purchased the game on that console got a sliver of "good" news on Monday: you can probably get a…
EA kips down downer financial report: “We’re dissatisfied in our underperformance”
EAEA's latest quarterly fiscal report included a stark admission: Battlefield V's sales fell way below expectations. This, combined with a severe drop in mobile-gaming revenue, led EA's executives to admit that they were "disappointed in our underperfomance" in fiscal Q3 2019. BFV's sales to date, according to EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen, have reached 7.3…
I invested 72 hours with the very first substantial video game...
There's a lot riding on "Anthem," the huge upcoming game from EA's legendary BioWare studio. For starters, it's the first major new franchise from BioWare in years, and it's an online-only, multiplayer-focused shooter — a major departure from a studio known for single-player role-playing franchises like "Mass Effect" and "Dragon Age." Second of all, BioWare's…
