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. The ...

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Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. EA is closing Origin on April 17, 2025, switching to the EA App due to ...

SysWOW64 (the 32 bit codebase) is about 1.2GB on my Win11 box. The other issue is that it has to be maintained. (Yes, System32 is 64 bit and SysWOW64 is 32 bit, thanks to a series of compatibility ...

TL;DR: EA will shut down the Origin app on April 17, 2025, due to Microsoft's end of support for 32-bit software on Windows 11. Origin, launched in 2011, faced criticism for mandatory use and ...

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After the announcement in 2020 that the EA Origin marketplace would be shutting down, EA has released its next PC platform: the EA app. Origin was EA’s exclusive PC launcher for its titles first ...

Last month, EA announced a fairly major change to its subscription services, revealing that it would unify them under the name of EA Play. The company's subscription service was previously known as EA ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The days of launching Electronic Arts games on the PC platform via the Origin app are coming to an ...

A new desktop app set to replace EA's Origin is now available to download. Simply dubbed the EA app, the "new, enhanced PC platform" will see Origin, which launched in 2011, slowly phased out. Access ...