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Activision has recently announced that Modern Warfare 2 managed to bring in 550 million dollars for the company in just five days, becoming the biggest entertainment release in history, beating not just Grand Theft Auto IV but also The Dark Knight. And Booby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision, has take... |
20 November 2009
02:55 GMT |
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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
14:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is set to be released in stores on March 16 in North America and three days later in Europe. The real time strategy title should be the last outed in the Tiberium universe by the publisher and aims to provide a fitting end to the struggle among... |
16 November 2009
08:04 GMT |
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If there is one thing, not that there is just one, but the one big thing that survival horrors can't do, that is online multiplayer. A co-op might work, it's close enough to the spirit of the genre and it's also a plausible concept. But full-out online multiplayer is a bit of a stretch as far as the co... |
16 November 2009
07:16 GMT |
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Need for Speed seems poised for a second Golden Age. The series, which captured the hearts of casual racing interested players with the Porsche based title and then with the cops and robbers mechanics inserted into the Hot Pursuit title, has this year returned to its racing roots, after a couple of disappointing rele... |
12 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has bought Playfish, a company specialized in delivering social casual videogames, for the price of 300 million. The importance of the acquisition is underlined by the fact that on the same day it was announced, Electronic Arts has also posted mounting losses, which came close to... |
11 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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The Second World War has been the Holy Grail of first-person shooters for some time now. It might have started well before it, but a big series that has stuck to its guns and has remained strictly in this time period is Medal of Honor. Before Call of Duty and its infinite regeneration came into play, Medal of Honor w... |
10 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Games with mature content are usually those that involve a certain degree of either explicit violence or romantic development of a situation. In order to protect the fragile minds of the young, games have to pass a strict rating approval from a certified commission in order to be sold. There are a lot of such ratings... |
10 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it did not return to profitability in the last fiscal quarter, saying that its losses have reached 391 million dollars for the last three months. In the same period of 2008, the publisher, which is going through a tough restructuring process, precipitated by the worldwide econo... |
10 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has taken some drastic measures to try to mend its financial status. The company has laid off a very large number of its employees from various studios and will continue to do so until March 31. Only just nine months ago did the company do a very similar thing, when 1,100 employees, amounting to 11 pe... |
10 November 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and its development studio Maxis have announced that the Spore franchise has successfully made the move to Facebook, the most popular social networking platform on the Internet. The new game is called Spore Islands and is set to offer all the fans of the series an easy way to connect with others and t... |
9 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the videogame business and John Riccitiello, the chief executive officer of the company, is one of the people most concerned with the future of the industry and with how customers will be getting their gaming fix in the coming years. And it seems that he envisions a... |
9 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Like every new idea that is born, downloadable content is something that was received with mixed reviews. Some people like the idea of prolonging a game's life by steadily adding new features, while others complain that it's just a money-steal, and the features present in the DLC could have been implemented... |
6 November 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced that it planned to release a new downloadable-content pack for its boxing simulator, Fight Night Round 4. The pack will be ready in the early days of December for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The DLC is priced at 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbox Live, while the PlaySta... |
4 November 2009
05:43 GMT |
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There's some strange appeal when a classic work of literature is turned into a video game. Dante's Inferno is a perfect example and the title has managed to stir a lot of attention. But, when it comes to a strange adaptation of literature, few things top American McGee's Alice. His adaptation of the 18... |
2 November 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Responsible for the publishing of the original Dead Space on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Electronic Arts hasn't announced anything about the critically acclaimed horror game receiving another addition to the series. Even if the developer that worked on the first title, Visceral Games, has already started... |
2 November 2009
03:06 GMT |
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The Australian rating board has confirmed that the original version of Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie shooter from Valve and Electronic Arts, will not be allowed under any circumstances to be sold and marketed in the country. Its recent decision upholds the initial judgment related to the video game that said that the lev... |
23 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
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1994 was the year in which the most popular racing game franchise was born. In that year, Electronic Arts released the first Need for Speed game for the 3DO console, but it would have never guessed just how much of an impact it would have. Right now, the game has gathered 14 sequels spread across 14 consoles. Today, ... |
22 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The videogames industry grew, by only a small margin, in September mainly on the strength of the price reductions for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and with strong help from the sales of Halo 3: ODST. But most analysts believe that the rebound is not something set to last.Doug Creutz, who is an analyst for the C... |
21 October 2009
17:21 GMT |
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PSP Go's decision to head more towards digital distribution and discard the physical support for most of its products has received harsh criticism. But at least one other person out there thinks that Sony's new console is making the right decision. EA Sports president Peter Moore didn't make any direct... |
20 October 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has revealed that Battlefield 1943, its multiplayer shooter offered as a digital download through the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade, is the best sold videogame that is has put out on the Japanese market. Rex Ishibashi, who is the president of EA Japan, told Gamasutra in an interview tha... |
19 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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After Mass Effect proved to be a huge success, BioWare embarked on a journey to create a sequel. This second installment in the new series was first announced in February this year, and had a time stamp of "early 2010," but now it seems that it's going to be a lot earlier than even the most optimistic speculatio... |
19 October 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Dragon Age: Origins has received a brand-new trailer and, unlike the previous one, it is a bit more in line with classic trailers role-playing games usually have. It's also a lot more fluid than the others, it's action packed and it's long. At 4 minutes this clip is pretty long for a trailer. The game ... |
13 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The Russian site of Electronic Arts and the official site of the Australian videogame retailer GAME have listed Mass Effect 2 as coming to the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony. Since other retailers do not have this listing, it's not clear whether it's an error on the part of the two above source... |
13 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, as the publisher, and Visceral Games, as the developer, have announced that they have hired Will Rokos as the writer who will shape the narrative of the upcoming Dante's Inferno. Rokos is an Academy Award nominee for the original screenplay of Monster's Ball in 2001 and his main task in the... |
13 October 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to release a series of titles called Flips, which will bring interactive children's books to the Nintendo DS platforms. The stories themselves will be provided by United Kingdom book publishers Egmont Press and Penguin. It's not clear how many titles Electronic Ar... |
13 October 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Everybody who played games back in the day has to remember Road Rash. The day pretty much means the beginning of the last decade if anybody has any doubts. Road Rash was the embodiment of violence – pure, unprejudiced, brutal and gory violence – and the first iteration was released in 1991. The game was a... |
12 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The fact that Will Wright left Maxis and Electronic Arts to create something called Stupid Fun Club, a self-described think thank focused on entertainment, caused a small earthquake in the videogaming world.The man who has designed such franchises like The Sims, Sim City and the more recent Spore could be in a positi... |
12 October 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Australian Left 4 Dead fans specifically and videogame enthusiasts all over the world should be happy to hear that, in some form or another, Left 4 Dead 2 will be outed in the Land Down Under on the official release date. A modified version of the game has been approved by the Classification Board, which needs to put... |
9 October 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Game Developer Research has announced that Nintendo has topped the chart of publishers that it outs annually, hanging on to number 1 for the third year in a row. The Japanese company is followed by Electronic Arts and by Activision Blizzard.The top 20 that Game Developer Research offers is based on a variety of metri... |
8 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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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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Electronic Arts may be a game publisher, but when a company becomes as big as it has, money is never enough. So EA expands its line of products with comic additions. Forming a partnership with IDW Publishing, the company plans to create two comic books inspired from video games. The Army of Two and Dragon Age franchi... |
7 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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All blockbuster games nowadays have gigantic budgets, worthy of a Hollywood counterpart, but most of it is kept as low-profile information. It's not a secret and it's not hidden in any way, it's more that nobody really wants to share just how much money they spent on making the game if it turns out to ... |
6 October 2009
05:35 GMT |
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As any gamer knows, there is no substitute for the mouse when it comes to fast-paced first-person online gaming. As much as the gamepad struggles to accommodate and the Wii-remote could improvise and make do, they just don't offer enough precision. And Battlefield 1943 is finally going to put the mouse to good u... |
5 October 2009
10:01 GMT |
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When a game keeps being associated with a different one of the same genre, sparks are bound to happen. Either the publishers will try to distinguish their game as better or more innovative, or the fans will start a fan-boy war wherever they can. But the team that works on Dante's Inferno doesn't seem to be ... |
2 October 2009
06:55 GMT |
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It seems that Fight Night Round 4, the rather successful boxing simulator from Electronic Arts, is splitting the world of boxing into two sides. Some of the fighters have supported a law suit from Fighter Inc., an organization that represents the interests of the boxers, saying that the videogame publisher effectivel... |
2 October 2009
03:06 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, the on-demand game-streaming service OnLive entered its beta testing stage and it seems to be keeping the pace the development schedules has set for it. Expected to be ready somewhere this winter, the program opened its servers to receive gamers with all types of gaming rigs. The variety in tester sy... |
1 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Jim Brown, a legendary running back for the Cleveland Browns, was known for being an unstoppable freight train on the football field. Still, it seems the athlete present in the NFL Hall of Fame and star in movies such as Three the Hard Way and The Dirty Dozen got a crushing tackle in the court of law. Last year, Jim ... |
1 October 2009
06:49 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 announced that it plans to release a new update for Battlefield Heroes, called Heroes of the Fall, set to arrive on September 30. All those who have downloaded the free-to-play videogame and plan to play it should download the update, which comes packed with a fresh map, yet to be named.EA is also... |
29 September 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Valve Software, which has developed Left 4 Dead 2, and Electronic Arts, which is set to distribute the video game, have appealed to the refusal of Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification to rate the title, which effectively means that it cannot be marketed or sold in that country. The board has ... |
25 September 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is announcing that the AFL Legacy Pack is now available on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and on the PlayStation Network, offering players a chance to celebrate 50 years since the birth of the American Football League. The package is priced at 560 Microsoft Points or 6.99 dollars. The biggest impact ... |
25 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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At a Tokyo Game Show event during which it showcased Project Natal, Microsoft unveiled a pretty impressive list of developers and publishers that were interested in creating video games that took advantage of the new device. The list includes names like Activision Blizzard, Bethesda Softworks, Capcom, Disney Interact... |
24 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to give away to gamers a brand-new, top-of-the-line BMW M3. The interesting thing is how the publisher aims to do it. The whole process will take place through the popular messaging service Twitter and will consist of challenges that will be announced during the next five d... |
24 September 2009
03:08 GMT |
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The Beatles: Rock Band – Two Microphone Pack release for the PlayStation 3 was announced today by MTV Games, Harmonix game developer and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. The game will facilitate two SingStar microphones from Sony and promises to create a unique interactive singing experience that will ... |
23 September 2009
15:01 GMT |
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After being forced to leave the MI6 for unscrupulous and ruthless behavior in an MI6 simulator, you quickly find a new source of income. You begin to work for Auric Goldfinger, changing sides from super agent to henchman. After the first mission, the one that also gets you expelled from the British secret agency, you... |
23 September 2009
10:08 GMT |
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It hasn't even come out of the box completely and Need for Speed: Shift already gets an update. Released today, the first patch will add two new features to the game. The first, which is a major one, brings an improvement to the multiplayer, with the addition of the Local Area Network support. The second, more a... |
23 September 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is announcing that it has released two new video games for the Nintendo DSi, called SUDOKU and MySims Camera. They are just the beginning of a wider move on the part of the publisher to create video games that are uniquely suited to be played on the new device created by Nintendo, which sports two new... |
23 September 2009
02:36 GMT |
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After being forced to leave the MI6 for unscrupulous and ruthless behavior in an MI6 simulator, you quickly find a new source of income. You begin to work for Auric Goldfinger, changing sides from super agent to henchman. After the first mission, the one that also gets you expelled from the British secret agency, you... |
22 September 2009
09:50 GMT |
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The Australian Classification Board, the body that is responsible for rating all the video games that are to be released in the country, has refused to award a rating to Left 4 Dead 2, the upcoming zombie, cooperative shooter from Valve, which was set to arrive in November. The decision basically means that the game ... |
17 September 2009
05:30 GMT |
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