{"id":12129,"date":"2011-06-03T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-announces-origin-like-steam-but-only-for-ea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12129-ea-announces-origin-like-steam-but-only-for-ea-games","title":{"rendered":"EA announces &quot;Origin&quot; &#8211; like Steam but only for EA games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts has revealed that it is rebranding its PC games digital distribution platform with the launch of a new application called Origin, which will supposedly offer gamers exclusive game content for titles such as Battlefield 3, &nbsp;Mass Effect 3, FIFA 12, SSX, Madden NFL 12, Need for Speed The Run and Star Wars: The Old Republic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Origin will also give players exclusive demos, trailers and online betas for EA games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The brand new service launches at 5PM today, and anyone will be able to download the beta client from the official <a href=\"http:\/\/store.origin.com\/store\/ea\/Content\/pbPage.maintenance\" target=\"_blank\">Origin website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that Origin will be a great platform for EA games. However, if EA wants to take on the monster that is Steam, they will have to provide a similar offering for games from other publishers &#8211; something which they are not looking to do at this point.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like Steam, Origin will let players manage their personal community of gamers, connect to friends, and all that other good stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14305-EA-announces-new-digital-platform-Origin?p=448037#post448037\" target=\"_self\">Discuss EA&#8217;s Origin <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New digital platform will provide gamers will exclusive content for EA games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}