EA has apologised for April Fool's tweets that came from the Frostbite game engine's Twitter account.
You might know Frostbite from the games which use it -- the
Battlefield series and the Mirror's Edge sequel, for example. The tweets have since been deleted but originally offered such snippets as: "Frostbite now runs on the #WiiU since it is the most powerful Gen4 platform, our renderer is now optimized for Mario and Zelda."
And: "Good news, we have finally fixed and optimized our
'netcode'. Uses quantum entanglement for Zero Latency connections.
Exclusively on #WiiU."
In a world where the rest of the gaming industry was pulling pranks involving collectible Pokémon, Titanfall/Transformers crossovers and Blizzard announcing that the secret to success lay in 'HotS' acronyms Frostbite's tweets came across as surprisingly mean-spirited.
EA's COO Peter Moore has since been forced to apologise, stating "Our apologies to partners @NintendoAmerica & fans
@FrostbiteEngine's poor attempt at April Fools not condoned by EA: unacceptable/stupid."
This article was originally published by WIRED UK