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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
11:01 GMT |
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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
14:11 GMT |
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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
14:21 GMT |
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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
14:11 GMT |
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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
06:09 GMT |
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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
03:13 GMT |
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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
12:31 GMT |
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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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In an exchange with MTV Multiplayer, Electronic Arts CEO, John Riccitiello, talked about the company's balancing licensed titles with original developments and the developers' creativity being what really drives EA forward.Riccitiello pointed to titles like Mirror's Edge from DICE and Dragon Age from B... |
6 August 2008
13:56 GMT |
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EA Redwood is developing what could prove to be the Bioshock of 2008, a game called Dead Space, that puts the player in the gravity boots of one scared and alone deep space miner and engineer that needs to solve a mystery concerning aliens, evolution, a cult and his own weird past.The game is set on a mining ship on ... |
28 May 2008
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Marvel, a company best known for superheroes like Hulk (who is getting an Edward Norton starring movie) and Iron Man (who is also getting a movie, starring Robert Downey Jr.), has announced that Ira Rubenstein would be its new Global Digital Media executive vice president. The move signals a desire by the comic book ... |
24 April 2008
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Dead Space is a survival horror game from Electronic Arts. More than 5,000 years into the future, the player is cast as an engineer, named Isaac Clarke, alone in a shuttle heading for the vast depths of space where the mining ship Ishimura has gone missing. In classic space horror fashion, the ship, when found, is wi... |
24 March 2008
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Electronic Arts have just announced that the release date, on the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles, for their Dead Space title, is October 31. It is a bit unusual to present a release date in such advance, but the date itself is so well suited to the game, that EA probably thought it was a nice touch.Executive producer Glen... |
26 February 2008
08:54 GMT |
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It looks like developers still have faith in developing games for the PlayStation 3. EA has just announced that they've been working on a game called Dead Space for quite some time now, over at their Redwood Shores Studio. The game is set for a Fall 2009 release, jumping from the sci-fi horror genre on to Sony&#... |
24 September 2007
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