In a strange twist of fate, the lifting of a trade embargo to one country seems to have resulted in access to a service being cut off for residents of that country.

Origin, EA’s digital distribution platform has been available to residents of Myanmar (the small South-East Asian country also called Burma) since its launch, despite a trade sanction against the country from the US – the place where Origin is pretty much based. In the middle of September President Obama announced that the sanctions were going to be lifted from October 7th. Yet more than three weeks on from that date and Origin seems to be inaccessible to the residents of Myanmar, having been blocked since mid-September.

Community Manager on EA’s AnswersHQ support forum, EA_Tom explained that EA was now just complying with the trade sanctions the US has placed on certain countries, and that was why the service was being denied in these countries. Indeed there is a clause in Origin’s terms of service which reads “You agree to abide by U.S. and other applicable export control laws and agree not to transfer the Application to a foreign national, or national destination, which is prohibited by such laws, without first obtaining, and then complying with, any requisite government authorization.”

“In compliance with US embargoes and sanctions laws, Origin is not available in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine (Crimea region),” EA_Tom wrote to one user.

Why EA have begun to follow the sanctions now after years of allowing access is unknown, and so far it’s unclear when EA are going to allow Myanmar residents access again now that the sanctions imposed on the country in 2003 after humans rights charter violations have been lifted.

Ahead of its free-to-play opening up to all players, CCP have put out a new trailer for EVE Online, to show off its merits to those still on the fence about joining in.

EVE will be going free-to-play on November 15th and it’s clear that CCP wish to bring in new blood to become hopelessly lost in the endless hours you can spend grinding for ships and fighting for corporation in EVE. After all, that game’s player community pretty much writes the game’s entire story, and the battles that happen in it are quite legendary.

If you decide to give it a go, make sure to inform all your friends and family. If you get hooked, you might not be seeing them again for a long time…

No, but seriously, the trailer’s pretty cool. Check it out below:

Fans of free-to-play sci-fi shooter Warframe get ready, your next major expansion to the game is incoming next month.

The War Within is Warframe’s next big update, and it’ll add the next stage of the game’s main story quest to the game, a hunt for information about the mysterious Tenno and will continue from the point that the last expansion The Second Dream left off back in December – so you’ll need to get past that expansion’s content first to get into the next story parts that The War Within will be bringing.

There will also be story cinematics which will show off your character in all their awesome glory, so make sure that you’re looking snazzy. Digital Extremes recommends it.

While there’s not actual date, we do know it’s coming November and it’s likely that there will be some double resource weekends and other events to help you build up in time for the big day so you can enjoy it to your heart’s content.

Frontier’s theme park builder game Planet Coaster will be out in a few weeks, and the devs are releasing videos of information for those who want to know more before they play. The latest one talked about the guest AI or ‘guest brain’ as they referred to it.

As you’d expect, the guests you attract to your park will have needs and wants to fulfill and part of your job is to make sure there are places to satisfy those needs whether it be using the bathroom or getting something to eat. They’ll also be taking in what is around them and reacting to them, as well as making plans. They’ll be doing things like factoring in where they want to go, how they can get there, whether they want to save time by spending to use a transport ride or save money by walking and get there with less time to enjoy it. Visitor groups and what type they are will also make a difference to those wants, as a family might go for the more children-friendly rides while teens and young adults might seek out the most thrill-seeking roller coasters and water rapid rides possible.

Either way, it all sounds really quite cool. If like me you can’t wait to play the game, November 17th is the game’s release date. If you pre-order the special edition though, one of the bonuses is early access from November 9th.

No Man’s Sky didn’t live up to expectations, that much most people agree with. No matter whose fault it was, the game was hyped to hell and back and would have had a difficult time living up to it all in the end. However, earlier today it seemed that Hello Games themselves were regretting No Man’s Sky, tweeting out “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.”

This obviously led to the tweet getting retweeted all over Twitter and a lot of confused, curious and other replies and questions to the account and Hello Games’ Sean Murray. It was Murray who pointed out what some had already guessed – someone had hacked the Twitter account and was posting claiming to be Hello Games.

Server hacked. We’re binging Mr Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) October 28, 2016

The interesting bit comes when you realise that the e-mail server had also apparantly been hacked into and e-mail replies being sent out to journalists’ enquiries containing some really odd information. Polygon got one from someone claiming to be Murray saying that not only had he made the tweet, but that Hello Games had “not been coping well” since the game’s release. There is some speculation that the hacker is a disgruntled employee or someone related to Hello Games who was using compromised accounts to access the e-mail server and send the messages, with both Forbes and mashable reporting that Murray has confirmed such to them.

It’s not quite the tweet many were waiting for from the Hello Games Twitter, but at least it livened things up a bit. There could possibly even be more to this than we currently know about. Who knows? Maybe in the next few days someone will step forward to claim responsibility that will surprise us…

… Or maybe it’ll turn out to be the work of a dissatisfied consumer. Who knows?