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Got A Burning Need To Stream Old Video Games Though Your Cable Box? Comcast And EA Have A Service For You

Got A Burning Need To Stream Old Video Games Though Your Cable Box? Comcast And EA Have A Service For You

By 7.14.15

The only two companies ever to win Consumerist’s Worst Company In America award more than once are now teaming up for realsies. Comcast and EA are unveiling a new set-top streaming gaming service together, and it looks like a resounding “meh.” [More]

Comcast won the Worst Company In America title in 2010. EA won back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013.

Worst Company Champs Comcast & EA Team Up To Let You Play Games Through Set-Top Box

By 8.28.13

Two of the most-reviled companies in America — cable colossus Comcast and gaming Goliath Electronic Arts — appear to be working together, presumably to figure out a way to nickel-and-dime customers and then provide them horrible customer service, via a new gaming system that serves up “console-quality” games through Comcast’s set-top boxes. [More]

EA is really working to avoid a repeat Worst Company In America win.

New In The SimCity Saga: Maxis Promises More Servers, Refund Rumors Abound

By 3.8.13 — Updated: 3.9.13

UPDATE: EA is now saying it will be giving away free games to SimCity users in order to atone for its sins. [More]