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In a major move, Activision has announced that Glen Schofield and Michael Condry, best known for leading the development team that delivered last year's Dead Space, are now part of the newly formed Sledgehammer Games team, based in Foster, California. The two were previously part of the Visceral Games team, whic... |
18 November 2009
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Yesterday, news of a Jack the Ripper game began to surface. According to Superannuation, a trademark filing was spotted, which covers the name of “the Ripper” in relation to entertainment services, movie production and games. Older rumors started by the Los Angeles Times back in July regarding a possible ... |
8 October 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Visceral Games may be adding the last-minute touches to Dante's Inferno but it is already thinking of the future. Besides the Dead Space 2 project that was revealed last week through a job listing made by the developer, the company has another trick up its sleeve. This week signs of a new game have emerged, as t... |
7 October 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Right after the Dead Space spin-off for the Wii, Dead Space Extraction, got released, Visceral Games is getting right back to work. Electronic Arts' recently rebranded Redwood Shores studio wastes no time basking in the glory of a new release and reveals that Dead Space 2 has entered the "later stages of preprod... |
1 October 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just posted the financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year but the publisher is already looking to the lead up to Christmas 2009, the sales period that pretty much can make or break the fortunes of a videogaming company.John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of Elect... |
6 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies in gaming today, but it seems that it also wants to extend into other branches of the entertainment industry. As such, it has been involved with the Hollywood movie-making scene for quite some time, offering plenty of its franchises to willing directors and film writers... |
3 August 2009
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The gaming industry is a tough one, with people constantly moving from different studios to other companies, and large corporations want to do everything they can in order to get their hands on the brightest and most experienced talent. One recent example of corporate shift has been made by former Visceral Games bos... |
23 July 2009
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One of last year's most interesting titles was Electronic Arts' Dead Space, which took the action-survival genre to a new level by introducing some interesting mechanics, in the form of dismemberment, and also in terms of space-themed horror sequences. Developed by Visceral Games, former EA Redwood Shores, ... |
7 July 2009
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A lot of analysts are saying that only Nintendo creates successful videogames for the Wii, even if the publisher is adamant about the fact that third-party games can sell well on its platform.One of the biggest games coming to the Wii is Dead Space: Extraction, and Frank Gibeau, the president of EA Games, is well awa... |
1 July 2009
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Electronic Arts is a big video game publisher that, a few years ago, gained a reputation of exploiting its franchises and never releasing any new Intellectual Properties onto the market. But in recent years, especially in 2008, the company managed to change and create a lot of new projects, which were released in th... |
30 June 2009
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Dead Space was one of the most hyped up games of the end of 2008. Even though it was a brand new franchise, which led to the fact it lost in sales to holiday blockbusters like Gears of War 2, Fallout 3 or Resistance 2, it managed to generate a lot of fan response due to its pretty elaborate use of horror mechanics an... |
2 June 2009
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The whole economy is passing through a period of recession and a lot of companies are afraid to reveal new things or products, because people will largely go for the things they are accustomed to and know what they will get from them. Such is the case with titles, as sequels and new versions of historic IPs are alway... |
8 May 2009
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EA Redwood Shores isn't a very catchy name, to say the least, and the abbreviation, EARS, is even worse. That is why its parent company, Electronic Arts, has just announced that the studio behind the very successful Dead Space horror, survival shooter has been renamed Visceral Games. The name change was needed ... |
6 May 2009
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When Dead Space was initially released last fall, it was not exactly what publisher Electronic Arts had wanted it to be. The combination of shooter action and horror flick felt stitched together at times, but the combat was solid, the scares interesting in the first few hours and the zero gravity sections were a... |
14 April 2009
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Electronic Arts is slowly but surely becoming an entertainment company, not limiting itself to gaming anymore but also branching out in the movie-making industry. It has now become a great strategy to create new types of media that will accompany a game's release, as was the case with Dead Space, which received ... |
31 March 2009
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The first Dead Space was a very solid over-the-shoulder shooter that introduced some interesting mechanics to the ordinary horror survival genre, with the most important one being dismemberment. The is why a lot of people believed that the great experience was only suited to high-end platforms like the Xbox 360 and P... |
23 March 2009
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Last year, Dead Space brought together a lot of elements from classic horror titles and offered a high-definition perspective of a humble space engineer being forced to battle huge numbers of alien mutants that had taken over a space ship. As soon as Electronic Arts' CEO John Riccitiello announced that a versio... |
19 March 2009
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In a rather weird twist, Call of Duy 4: Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, has won three awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Game Awards, which were presented in London. The game was released in November 2007 and some people might wonder why the title was eve... |
13 March 2009
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Dead Space can be looked at in two ways: on the one hand, we have a competent shooter that played around with some interesting concepts, like zero gravity, upgradeable weapons and scary elements (scarier than F.E.A.R. 2); on the other hand, Electronic Arts was disappointed with the sales of the title and few players ... |
10 March 2009
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Electronic Arts seems to be still affected by the rather disappointing sales that Dead Space and Mirror's Edge, two new intellectual properties that were well received by reviewers, registered in the Christmas sales period. But the company believes that it has done the right thing creating these two games and th... |
5 March 2009
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2008 was one of the most successful years for gaming as we've seen quite a lot of stunning triple A quality titles launched by various publishers and developers. But although there were quite a lot of new IPs making their appearance, with a big part of them coming from Electronic Arts, a publisher infamous for i... |
4 March 2009
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Electronic Arts has learned quite a lesson from the disappointing sales of titles like Dead Space, the space based horror shooter, and Mirror's Edge, the free running dystopian experience. The admission comes from Glen Schofield, the general manager of the Redwood Shores developer studio Electronic Arts has in S... |
27 February 2009
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As with previous weeks, the gaming industry is always on the move and quite a lot of things have happened during the last few days. We've seen everything from new toys based on movies based on games to arguments between companies to new DLC being launched for a variety of titles. Without further ado, here are th... |
21 February 2009
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The Nintendo Wii is a true sales phenomenon, which offered a lot of people the chance to get into gaming despite the fact that they weren't very interested. It opened up a new market for gaming companies, which they are still barely beginning to exploit. One company that realized the importance of the Wii is El... |
19 February 2009
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The gaming industry is changing with every moment, with platforms or games being the most interesting at one point, but with customers or fans losing interest in them after a short amount of time. Considering console sales charts and how dominated they are by Nintendo with its Wii, it seems quite obvious that major d... |
5 February 2009
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It seems that fans of simulated life will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on The Sims 3, which just might be the most anticipated title coming from Electronic Arts this year. The publisher is saying that the process of reevaluation has begun and a new release date will only be announced when the compa... |
27 January 2009
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The gaming industry, although well known for its innovative franchises and IPs (Intellectual Properties), isn't going through a great time right now, as a lot of companies are relying on old franchises, which guarantee a profit, in order to be sure that money invested in development wouldn't be thrown out t... |
27 January 2009
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Electronic Arts is, apparently, in a tight spot. It has laid off people from both Madden powerhouse EA Tiburon and from the Mythic Entertainment team handling development and maintenance of the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. And it seems that the company is still short of its restructuring goal of laying off... |
22 January 2009
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Far Cry 2 is a game that makes you part of a war you never intended to fight, shows you how people can die around you, makes you feel helpless and very powerful at the same time, allows you to have tactical flexibility while making you do more stuff with your own hands than any game until now. It’s a shooter ai... |
29 December 2008
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After quite a while since the rumors first started appearing, Electronic Arts announced that it was indeed working on a videogame called Dante’s Inferno based on the epic poem The Divine Comedy, written sometime in the XIV century by the renowned poet Dante Alighieri. Only the first part of the work, in which H... |
17 December 2008
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Electronic Arts isn't keen on developing games, as it has a nasty reputation of exploiting titles for every last penny and delivering lower than average products hoping that fans will buy them thinking of the original release.But now, it seems that EA has finally realized that franchising every game and rel... |
11 December 2008
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, competing for number one with Activision Blizzard, which was only created this year. Still, the current economic situation and the big number of AAA titles released in 2008 mean that the company has seen some of its flagship titles flounder and ... |
9 December 2008
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Thanksgiving will take place tomorrow and people in North America can hardly wait to celebrate one of their country's most important holidays. Turkeys are now becoming more and more scarce as families gather to honor this very special day.Sony hasn't neglected this holiday and is really pulling out all the ... |
26 November 2008
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Dead Space is one of the most popular games at the moment, largely due to the fact that it brought a wide range of innovations to the survival horror genre of games and gave players a pretty frightening experience on the Ishimura space ship.As we already mentioned in our review of the game, Electr... |
11 November 2008
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The horror survival game genre is a pretty interesting one, with the likes of Resident Evil or Doom becoming the benchmark that other titles need to match. That being said, it's pretty hard for a new game to bring innovation, especially in the very cliché setting of outer space, but the new horror surviva... |
4 November 2008
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Electronic Arts doesn't really have a good reputation amongst the gamer community, partly because it is committed to launching titles in its major franchises on a yearly basis, a strategy that makes the games very repetitive and similar to the old ones.But things are starting to change for the major company beca... |
3 November 2008
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During the week ending on October 26, the United Kingdom videogames market was dominated by two sequels. Fable II, from Peter Molyneux and Lionhead, which is published by Microsoft, comfortably settled in the top spot and is followed by Far Cry 2, developed and published by Ubisoft. Following the sequels are ot... |
31 October 2008
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Dead Space is one of the most innovative games this fall and marked a new beginning of IP development for its publisher, Electronic Arts. This game is the first to be developed with a comic book volume and a prequel movie in mind, a very risky endeavor considering it was a completely new title with no loyal fan base ... |
31 October 2008
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Dead Space is a very interesting title originally conceived as part of a whole experience that also included a comic book and an animated movie, designed as a prequel to the action of the game, both of which really gave the action onboard the Ishimura a sense of realism and emphasized certain details that might attra... |
31 October 2008
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Electronic Arts is definitely a busy company these days, shipping out a lot of great games which have been eagerly anticipated by fans, like Dead Space or Red Alert 3. While EA's holiday season lineup of games is very strong, possibly one of the best ones in a few years, it is looking into the future and already... |
31 October 2008
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Electronic Arts doesn't have a very decent reputation in the gaming industry. People often think of the big corporation as something that wants to squeeze every last penny out of a franchise and release yearly games in most of its series that rarely bring something too innovative. Such is the case with its EA Sp... |
27 October 2008
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Dead Space is shaped up to be a very gruesome title. The action of the horror survival game is set on an isolated space ship where an alien invasion took place. These aliens have taken over the bodies of the crew members and began devastating the ship. You will be put in the shoes of an engineer, Isaac, who must navi... |
20 October 2008
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Electronic Arts is really trying to do something new with Dead Space, its survival horror shooter which is supposed to arrive this week. Even if the game is practically not out yet, the publisher, eager to push its new intellectual property, has already offered two new suits for the game protagonist on the Xbox 360.T... |
15 October 2008
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Dead Space is shaping up to be a pretty interesting game. It promises a lot of innovations and from what we have seen until now, it will deliver on most of them. With just a few weeks until its official launch, on October 14 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and October 20 for the PC, Electronic Arts, the developer... |
2 October 2008
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Well after yesterday's Dead Space collector's edition you would think that Electronic Arts would take into consideration some more reasonable pricing, or at least offer something with a lot more value. Well guess what? We were seriously wrong. After 150 dollars' worth of DVDs and artwork offered w... |
26 September 2008
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For those of you who don't know, Dead Space is a third person survival horror game developed by Electronic Arts. It puts you in the shoes of a space ship engineer called Isaac Clarke who is forced to battle a race of aliens called Necromorphs, and all of his battles will take place on a ship gravely damaged by t... |
25 September 2008
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The gaming industry is really, really suffering. And the name of the disease is not piracy on the PC, restrictive DRM from the publisher or the impossibility of adapting RTS mechanics on gaming consoles. These are trivial matters with little or moderate impact on the gaming world. The big issue with the whole industr... |
22 September 2008
21:41 GMT |
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The idiocy of videogame banning is still alive and well. Just a short while after having reported that Fallout 3 could be banned from sales in Australia because of its drug references, it seems that another long awaited title, Dead Space, could be banned in China, Japan and, most surprising of all, Germany.Andrew Gre... |
8 September 2008
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So Electronic Arts thought that if it launched space based horror title Dead Space on Halloween people might be a) too scared because of the costumes and the pumpkins or b) too full because of all the candy and the lavish dinners to play it, so it has decided to put the game out a week earlier, on October 2... |
5 September 2008
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Most modern games get delayed. PlayStation Home, while not technically a game, is a PlayStation 3 linked social service/open world which might be more than one year late. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, which launches this month, has also seen several delays while Duke Nukem 3D is the most delayed game of all tim... |
2 September 2008
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