Ea Games President Says The Offline Single Player Game Is Finished
Every so often, some developer, publisher or various industry bigwig sounds off about the death of the single-player game. It would appear that this year it was EA Games’ President Frank Gibeau’s turn. Gibeau seems rather certain that unless a single-player game has some sort of online component, it’s going to go the way of the dodo. Here’s what he had to say: It shouldn’t go without mention that EA just dumped truck loads of money into purchasing both Playfish and Chillingo....