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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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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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Electronic Arts has announced that it is developing a new game in the Skate series, with the aim of releasing it to the public in May 2010. The main new feature of the third title in the series is the addition of team-based gameplay as players will need to build their own skating crews, compete against other groups a... |
16 September 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Dante's Inferno is an upcoming videogame partly based on the epic poem The Divine Comedy written by Durante degli Alighieri. One of the main elements of Hell as envisioned by the poet is a segmentation of those condemned related to the sins they committed.In an effort to promote the videogame, the good people wo... |
15 September 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Dragon Age: Origins is the project BioWare is set to release next, in the run up to Christmas and with the development studio well known for its complex story lines, gamers have set it high standards when it comes to the narrative of the videogame. So, it's a good thing to see one of the people working on Dragon... |
9 September 2009
14:01 GMT |
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This week has been oddly dominated by news related to Take Two and its biggest franchise, Grand Theft Auto. The company released its financial results for the third quarter of the financial year and things are not looking good, with losses of about 55.5 million dollars and with Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2 and Max... |
5 September 2009
08:41 GMT |
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One of the most interesting developments in videogaming in late summer has been the acquisition of Marvel Entertainment by Disney. The impact on videogaming might not be immediately apparent but consider that super hero games have been doing rather well lately and you might see how Disney can leverage properties like... |
4 September 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered a law suit against the estate which manages the interests of John Dillinger, the early XX century gangster who is now being portrayed on the big screen by Johnny Depp.The company is filing the suit in a preemptive manner, it is saying, mainly because the est... |
4 September 2009
14:14 GMT |
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NASCAR is still very popular in the United States but it seems that for the first time in years fans will not be able to get a game in 2010 that uses the franchise to offer some realistic or arcade driving experience. While this might seem like a rather depressing prospect Electronic Arts, which has previously used t... |
3 September 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Sony has announced that it will introduce, on September 1, the PlayStation 3 Slim, a new console variant which is cooler, uses less energy, has a slicker profile and costs just 299 dollars, 100 less than the version that is now available.Shortly after that, Microsoft announced that it was cutting the price of the Xbo... |
2 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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These seem to be tough times for all videogame developers. Raven Software, which has put together the newest Wolfenstein title, has announced layoffs amounting to around 60 people, and now Maxis, the Electronic Arts subsidiary in charge of creating last year’s Spore and this year’s The Sims 3, is said to ... |
27 August 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Video games are a form of entertainment, just like TV shows or movies, meaning that they must follow certain guidelines in order to prevent exposing younger people to images that might have a lasting impact on them. That is why there are plenty of rating systems, with the two most important ones coming from the ESRB... |
26 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Racing games are quite popular these days as many people are in love with the idea of driving around fast and expensive cars on race tracks all around the world, thus proving their superior driving to everyone involved in the respective races. Adding much to the bragging rights that racers will earn in the upcoming ... |
26 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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After Sony announced last week that it would release the PlayStation 3 Slim, a new hardware revision of its home console, reactions kept pouring in. Now, John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, has praised Sony's move saying that the new price is right and that the timing of the announc... |
25 August 2009
03:10 GMT |
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The Command & Conquer RTS franchise from EA Los Angeles has been a staple of a classic strategy series for quite some time. Even in the most recent iterations from various franchises like Tiberium Wars or Red Alert 3, the mechanics weren't drastically different than the ones featured in the first titles, which a... |
24 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is a big publisher in the gaming industry, owning a lot of studios where talented teams are working with many famous brands for the large corporation. An example of such a thing is DICE, which is working almost exclusively with the Battlefield brand. One of the upcoming results of the Scandinavian st... |
20 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise has been a staplemark of the racing game genre for quite some time, ever since the first title arrived from EA Canada many years ago. Since then, we've been host to a variety of NFS titles, each one aiming to improve the recipe of its predecessors but also bring new... |
20 August 2009
04:08 GMT |
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There are a lot of first person shooter franchises out there, as it is a very popular genre and many people want to experience just what it is like to enter a battlefield and try to turn the tide in your favor and eventually win the battle. One of the most proficient franchises in the genre is Electronic Arts' ... |
17 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of video game genres out there, from the action intensive shooters to the methodical Role Playing Games, but a particularly special one is the Real Time Strategy genre, with hallmarks like StarCraft or Warcraft from Blizzard. However, another big franchise in the realms of strategy titles i... |
14 August 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the world, owning a lot of development studios and a lot of franchises that it spreads to these smaller companies from its portfolio. One of the biggest series is Need For Speed, which, after a few years of being developed and published on a yearly basis, has now b... |
14 August 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Bullfrog was one of the great companies in videogaming in the '90's, creating games like Populous and Theme Park. The problem is that Electronic Arts acquired the studio and, much as it did with Westwood, pretty much dismantled it and left the intellectual properties it had for dead, only issuing some ports... |
13 August 2009
03:48 GMT |
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A listing for a job on Gamasutra seems to indicate that The Sims 3 is being ported to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and to the PlayStation 3 from Sony. Neither of the two consoles has seen any Sims games adapted for them, which means that a wide array of gamers have never been exposed to the addictive quality of life s... |
10 August 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies out there, owning a lot of high-quality and extremely popular franchises. Most of them were made to compete with the ones from Activision, and, for some time, have really gone against the ones from the large corporation. Such is the case with EA's Medal of Honor s... |
10 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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At this year's E3 trade show, both Sony and Microsoft tried to woo gamers and developers by presenting motion tracking solutions. Project Natal from the latter will allow players to use hand gestures and no controller to guide their gaming experience, while the new wand and camera system from the former will per... |
7 August 2009
13:31 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 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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Electronic Arts is announcing that the first of what will indisputably be many expansion packs for The Sims 3 is set to arrive on November 16, 2009 bearing the rather uninspiring name World Adventures. The game is in development at the moment and it will be outed for both the PC and Mac platforms, although the releas... |
4 August 2009
18:11 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
11:01 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the biggest new projects coming out this fall, guaranteeing to take players on a heavy metal-themed ride through a thrilling land of fantasy. Set to feature rock stars like Jack Black, Ozzy Osbourne or Lemmy, the game will definitely make a nice sum of money for Double Fine, its developer, and... |
31 July 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming, and it manages to ship a lot of new and interesting games on almost every platform conceivable. That is why, when its Visceral Games studio announced that it would be creating Dante's Inferno, a new property, based on the Dead Space engine, ever... |
31 July 2009
02:23 GMT |
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Motion controls are one of the newest trends to hit the gaming industry. From the ground work laid out by Nintendo with its Wii console to the new improvements touted by Microsoft and Sony through their own systems, it seems that gamers will be in for quite a lot of movement in the future. One developer who is extre... |
30 July 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The NPD console charts have come and gone, but the sales analysis groups have also revealed their stats about the PC gaming market and how it fared during the month of June. To almost nobody's surprise, the game that reigned supreme was Electronic Arts' The Sims 3 title. The game, which is exclusive to the... |
29 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Success on the Nintendo Wii has been something of a mystery to many third-party developers and publishers, as it seems that the user install base is only interested in video games that come straight from Nintendo itself. But Electronic Arts is beginning to achieve such a thing, as it has a number of decent selling f... |
29 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Everybody's getting with the motion sensitive trend, as all the major consoles of this generation have received or are preparing to receive new technologies that will allow them to detect the movements of the player and imitate them in the games made for the platforms. Speaking with VideoGamer on this subject, ... |
28 July 2009
11:11 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is now the most popular current-generation console, thanks to its innovative motion sensitive controls, its fun nature and the fact that it introduced a lot of people previously unattached to the gaming industry and to video games. Electronic Arts, as any smart company, has really pushed to bring in... |
28 July 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Battlefield franchise, handled by its DICE studio, is one of the most popular first person shooter series in the world. While we have seen full-fledged installments, the franchise is now sharing its brand with smaller and simpler titles, like Battlefield Heroes. But one of the latest titles to ... |
27 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Strategy games are quite numerous these days, but only some of them go on and achieve critical and fan acclaim. One such franchise is Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer, which has given birth to many separate universes like Red Alert or Generals. But the most iconic one is without a doubt Tiberium, which ... |
24 July 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the most interesting titles to appear this fall season, and one of the few new properties to still be scheduled during that particular busy period of the year. Set to tell the story of roadie Eddie Riggs and his epic saga through a fantasy land based on heavy metal motives, the title's ma... |
24 July 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Racing games make a lot of money these days, as every gamer wants to unwind by pushing a virtual car to its limits and eventually come out on top and beat his opponents. Without a doubt, one of the most exciting racing franchises is EA's Need For Speed, which is preparing to receive three new titles in the follo... |
23 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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During this fall season, a lot of great blockbuster titles will appear and will try to capture the attention of gamers. One of the most interesting ones is Brutal Legend, which is currently being developed by Double Fine and will be published by Electronic Arts. But, as many of you know, there has been a lot of deba... |
23 July 2009
15:11 GMT |
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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
11:01 GMT |
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Charts and sales rule the world around us, and now, thanks to the NPD group, we can see how they ruled the world of video games in the month of June. Don't forget that what was said in the hardware chart is also true for this software one. Drops were registered across the board and a comparison to the month of ... |
17 July 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a lot of success with its Madden NFL franchise. The game sold very well every year since it was released and its launch date is a cause for celebration and queues every year for gamers. Sony, one of the big three console manufacturers, is rumored to even be using this year's date as an oc... |
16 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Strategy fans are certainly extremely excited these days, as two of the biggest franchises in the genre, StarCraft and Command & Conquer, will deliver new titles in the near future, either at the end of 2009 or in 2010. But as StarCraft II fans were disappointed to see that no LAN support would be added in the first... |
16 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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There are a lot of trends these days in the video game industry, with one of the most interesting ones being free-to-play titles, which are endorsed by ads and/or microtransactions. Electronic Arts is the most recent company to try this model, in its latest Battlefield Heroes downloadable game. The title, which has ... |
16 July 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Racing games are extremely popular these days, as players are eager to get behind the virtual driving wheel of a car and do whatever they want with it. Despite many titles guaranteeing a lot of options and driving modes, most of them focus only on racing, even though there are a lot of other things you could do with ... |
13 July 2009
03:42 GMT |
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A lot of people were skeptical about DICE's decision to create and release Battlefield 1943, a game that would only be launched via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for now, aimed at offering an experience similar to that of Battlefield 1942 while making it easier for players to get into the game and do dam... |
10 July 2009
04:40 GMT |
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