DualShockers

EA Origin To Shutdown Later This Year

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 ...

EA announces the guillotine will finally fall on Origin this April thanks to Microsoft's abandonment of 32-bit Windows and, if you don't like it, 'use a newer computer'

A new post from Electronic Arts (EA) with the inauspicious title "Update your operating system for the EA App" tolls the ...
Android Police

Nobody is going to miss EA's Origin game launcher when it shutters in April

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...
ExtremeTech

EA to Sunset Origin Launcher This April

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 ...
Time

EA Origin Security Flaw Could Expose Tens of Millions of Players

When it rains, it pours: Electronic Arts, currently grappling with game-breaking SimCity server issues as well as the surprise resignation of CEO John Riccitiello, might have to add “millions of ...
VG Chartz

EA Origin is Shutting Down on April 17 - News

Electronic Arts announced it is shutting down EA Origin on April 17, 2025 on PC and Mac. Origin users will need to download and install the EA app on EA's website ...
TweakTown

EA's Origin App is shutting down and an arguably worse alternative has taken its place

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 ...
Kotaku

EA Is Killing Off Origin, But Also Your 32-Bit Gaming Collection

EA’s Origin app has always topped the charts of things no one wants to have, alongside venereal diseases. It’s finally being closed down forever, but sadly it’s not a clean, liberating break that will ...
Ars Technica

EA's Origin or 'Stop whatever you're doing because EA has to tell you something'

I've been working hard around the house today and decided that after five continuous hours of cleaning and running errands it was time for some video game goodness. So I sit down at my computer, open ...
TweakTown

EA's hammered the final nail into Origin app's coffin: full shut down happens on April 17, 2025

TL;DR: EA has officially discontinued its Origin store and launcher, requiring users to transition to the EA app by April 2025. This will mostly apply to Mac gamers, who still used Origin as the EA ...
Ars Technica

EA Origin questions

I have to admit, I don't really play games nearly as much as I used to. So when I got some e-mail from EA a couple of months ago announcing the "migration" of my EA Account to an Origin account, I ...