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A new study from the Consumer Electronic Association shows that the spread of technology-based fitness programs, with video games like Wii Fit, Your Shape or EA Sports Active leading the charge, have helped quite a few users keep their New Year's resolutions of dropping a few pounds after the holidays.
The st... |
4 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has been sued by The Active Network, an online workout network accusing the company of copyright infringement. The trademark in question is EA Sports Active, the publisher/developer's highly successful fitness game. The plaintiff claims that it has the rights to use the word ‘Active’ ... |
7 June 2010
17:21 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by the University of Wisconsin through the person of Dr. John Porcari concluded that EA Sports Active and EA Sports Active: More Workouts, distributed by Electronic Arts, did make for an effective workout. Both games passed the fitness guidelines imposed by the American College of Sports Medi... |
3 June 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered into agreements with companies like Sakar, Sunflex, Accessories 4 Technologies and IMG in order to create a line of peripherals that will have the EA Sports brand and that will be sold worldwide beginning with this year. The deal between the companies is applicable to... |
13 January 2010
03:05 GMT |
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EA Sports has announced that the newest in its line up of fitness videogames, called EA Sports Active More Workouts, is now out in stores in North America and is slated to also arrive in Europe on November 20.The new title, which has been created by the team at EA Canada, is set to enhance the exercise line up offere... |
18 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Reggie Fils-Aime, the man who heads up Nintendo of America, has announced that Wii Fit Plus is set to be released on October 4 in the United States. The game will be packaged with a Balance Board and will be retailing for a suggested 100-dollar price.The announcement came at a conference that GameStop organized in La... |
1 September 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers on the market but in recent years, its archrival, Activision, is consistently making more money than it, prompting the executives in charge of it and its various labels to come up with new strategies. One such plan is the push on the hugely popular Nintendo Wii platfo... |
10 August 2009
02:47 GMT |
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The summer months are long and hot and the relative lack of movement in the United Kingdom videogame chart seems to reflect that. Still, it makes sense to take a look at it and see which games perform in these tough economic times.The top position remains in the hands of Wii Sports Resort from Nintendo, which is bein... |
6 August 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced a loss for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, saying that it has a budget gap of 234 million dollars, which is significantly more than the 95 million loss reported for the same period of last year.Overall sales have also dipped, with the publisher only selling videogames worth... |
5 August 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Barack Obama is young. His daughters use a Nintendo Wii gaming console. He mentioned Grand Theft Auto IV on his campaign trail. And now he is again talking about videogames in not such flattering light.In a written feature released on the occasion of Father's Day, President Barack Obama stated that “We nee... |
22 June 2009
07:33 GMT |
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In May, no videogame release managed to sell more than 1 million units in the United States and this number alone manages to offer a quick, simple view at the overall state of the videogaming industry. The NPD Group numbers for the month of May paint a picture of an industry that lost 23% of the value of its sales ye... |
12 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Sims 3 is set to be huge. On its first day on sales, the Electronic Arts and Maxis made life simulator managed to go to the top of the United Kingdom videogame chart, displacing UFC 2009: Undisputed, the THQ made fighting game.THQ must be a little upset that Red Faction: Guerrilla, its open world shooter set on M... |
11 June 2009
03:46 GMT |
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THQ unveiled its entry in the fitness game market at this year's E3 trade show. The publisher partnered up with NBC to create a title based on the hit TV show The Biggest Loser. The release date is set for the autumn of this year and THQ is really pulling all the stops to make the game competitive with titles li... |
5 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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With the E3 videogame expo taking place in Los Angeles, most of the news this week is focused on the announcements coming from big videogame companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Activision.But a quick look at the charts is always interesting and the United Kingdom videogame one is right on ti... |
4 June 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Fitness titles are slowly becoming the hottest trend in the gaming industry as Nintendo has paved the way for games that make people get up and start doing exercises in front of the TV thanks to its hugely successful Wii Fit.In response to that, Electronic Arts has launched, through its Sports label, a new Wii exclus... |
3 June 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Finally, a new videogame release has managed to kick Wii Fit, the Nintendo best seller, off the number one spot in the United Kingdom chart. The move was perfectly executed by UFC 2009: Undisputed, the THQ published fighting game that is the beginning of a new franchise for the company, one that could go over WWE to ... |
28 May 2009
04:25 GMT |
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Peter Moore is now the soul of EA Sports. He's very active in talking about the developments at his company and also interested in laying out a vision related to gaming in general and to the sports simulation in particular. Recently he said, again, that the future of games distribution lied with digital download... |
6 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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We have seen some very interesting new game genres appear this year, as the music one really took off in terms of popularity, but none of them reached the same level of hype as the fitness one. Although only the massively popular Wii Fit is available at this moment, other games are being developed, which will certain... |
28 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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The fitness game market is definitely on the rise these days, as more and more people find that they don't have the time to go to a real gym, so games like Wii Fit are the best alternative to the daily exercises.Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said recently that the demand for Wii Fit was... |
1 December 2008
02:10 GMT |
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EA Sports is clearly a busy company these days, largely due to the fact that all of the employees are hard at work on the new EA Sports Active project, which promises to take fitness games to a whole new level. Dubbed a Wii Fit killer, the future title will employ new sports routines and exercises that will emphasize... |
24 November 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is a company well known for the fact that if it has a successful game, it won't hesitate to make it a franchise, and produce more similar titles, even though they bring very small changes to the original, only to make a quick profit. Yearly franchises like the Need For Speed or the sports ones li... |
19 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Fitness games are becoming more and more popular these days, with Nintendo's Wii Fit holding a massive percent of the market and managing record sales in the countries where it has been launched. Seeing the massive success of the Japanese game, Electronic Arts decided that a more Western-oriented title would def... |
17 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that EA had just announced that it would develop a rival for Nintendo's very popular fitness game Wii Fit, which would be produced by its EA Sports label. The game, which will be cleverly entitled EA Sports Active, will be launched early next year and promises to give players a totally diff... |
14 November 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is quite a versatile little console, as a wide variety of games from different types of genres have appeared on the small white Japanese game console. From shooters to RPGs (Role Playing Games) or even musical games like Wii Music or the more successful Rock Band, every niche has been covered by game... |
13 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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