Electronic Arts (EA) has announced the end of Origin, its 14-year-old game launcher. The company will sunset Origin this April, forcing gamers with EA titles to open them via the newer EA app.

In a support document, Electronic Arts (EA) announced plans to shutter its Origin launcher in a few months, which raises the questions of what will happen to game libraries and accompanying mods.

The often-reviled game launcher is going dark for good on April 17th, which is only a few months away. The good news is that EA already released a replacement in 2022, known as the EA app ...

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EA, which owns the likes of Battlefield, The Sims 4, Mass Effect, and myriad sports games, is about to shut down its Origin launcher. This means existing users are being forced to migrate to the ...

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All DLC for The Sims 3 is on sale, too. However, this is only for the PC versions of the game available on Steam and the EA launcher. Personally, I prefer The Sims 3 over The Sims 4 only because ...

We might not have seen a whole lot of EA's next Battlefield game beyond the few seconds of pre-alpha footage shared this week, but it turns out it's probably not all that far away. The publisher ...