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EA and NVIDIA in Alliance

Posted by michael on from the unholy-pair dept.

Deepak Jois writes "Arstechnica is reporting that EA and NVIDIA have entered into a pact to promote each other. Among other things it also means EA will support games on all PC platforms featuring NVIDIA hardware. Also check this link to the press release."

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  1. Here's a good idea... by swordboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    nVidia should write a proprietary API for their video chips. And then they could pay EA to release hardware specific products...

    I think that "Glide" would be a good name for this API.

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  2. EA's games have been crap lately by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Funny


    I remember them, back in the days of "NHLPA Hockey", "John Madden Football", and "Bulls vs Blazers", they were the creators of the BEST sports games on Nintendo/Sega.

    Seems like they stopped working on the game quality somewhere about 1999, and now are just concerned with shoving as much FMV, dumb features, and gimmicks in to their games. Not to mention the games are pretty buggy, the AI is horrible...

  3. Wait a... by Martigan80 · · Score: 3, Funny

    By exclusively adopting NVIDIA hardware for their worldwide studios, EA is escalating the creative palette of its 3D artists and programmers

    I thought a palette was a piece of wood or something that had a range of colors, so how can a creative palette be obtained from using only one gfx card?

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  4. Does this mean.... by Dutchmaan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that EA's new slogan will be "Challenge Everything... except nVidia"

  5. Re: The point. by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny
    After having a horrible experience trying to get a darn kernel driver working with an Nvidia card (which has been sitting in a box for a year now) I'm now exclusively ATI.

    Try taking the card out of the box and plugging it into the PC.

    HTH