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A court in the United States state of California has announced that the lawsuit that was filed by retired National Football League players against video game publisher Electronic Arts over the Madden NFL series can go ahead.
The judge has dismissed a motion from the publisher, which aimed to strike the lawsuit launc... |
2 April 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Video game developer EA Sports and sports channel ESPN have announced that they are starting the process that will deliver the next athlete for the Madden NFL American football simulation. Fans have until March 21 to cast their votes in the bracket that will then determine the 32 players who are able to battle for ... |
8 March 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The developers at EA Sports who are working on the arcade oriented NFL Blitz said that they were not willing to include late hits in the game because they felt that it would send the wrong message about player safety and health.Dave Ross, who is the project leader working on NFL Blitz, told Games Radar that, “W... |
21 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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The EA Sports division at publisher Electronic Arts and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have announced that they are working together to offer two fellowships for post-graduate students that are interested in sports.
They will be fully employed for 16 weeks at the EA Tiburon studio, the creator of the... |
5 September 2011
04:18 GMT |
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EA Sports is home to some of the most important Electronic Arts franchises, like FIFA and Madden NFL, and the leader of the division says that the developers working on them are forced to move ever faster in order to keep up with the player's ability to devour new content.
Andrew Wilson, who is the new presid... |
22 August 2011
17:41 GMT |
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EA Sports is one of the most important divisions of video game publisher Electronic Arts, creating game series like FIFA, Madden and Tiger Woods, and it seems that at some point in the future players might have the option of paying a monthly subscriptions in order to enjoy their sports simulations instead of paying e... |
26 July 2011
17:41 GMT |
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The Wii U home console from Nintendo has been one of the big launches seen at this year's E3 and it seems that only now do video game publishers have the time needed to play around with prototypes of the platform and seen what kind of gaming experiences they can craft on it.
John Riccitiello, who is the chief... |
11 July 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Sports division has been doing extremely well in the last few years, thanks to the FIFA soccer and Madden NFL football simulators, so the company isn't ruling out the possibility of seeing new, more arcade-like titles appear that focus on the two disciplines.EA Sports is once again looking ... |
16 June 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that Mark Ingram, who played as a running back for the University of Alabama, has been chosen to be the cover athlete for the upcoming college football level simulation game NCAA Football 12.
The athlete was the winner of a Facebook-based vote which invited fans t... |
20 April 2011
13:41 GMT |
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A number of high level sources inside Sony are saying that the video game publisher and hardware maker is preparing to launch its new generation of handheld, the PlayStation Portable 2, in time for the crucial Christmas shopping season of this year.
The rumors came courtesy of MCV, which has also reported that the... |
14 January 2011
04:38 GMT |
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The FIFA Ultimate Team mode has been a huge success for EA, as the company managed to rake in around $45 million from that respective mode in FIFA 09 and FIFA 10, according to its Chief Financial Officer.EA's been extremely pleased with its digital content profit margin this year, as more than 20 percent of... |
10 December 2010
18:01 GMT |
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EA has just announced that it will be bringing its blockbuster Madden NFL Football franchise next year on the Nintendo 3DS, with special features and a lot of regular game modes.The Nintendo 3DS is shaping up to be one of the biggest handheld consoles of next year, as it will be supported not only by Nintendo, but al... |
11 November 2010
03:00 GMT |
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The NPD Group, a market research firm which tracks hardware and video games sales for the United States market, has talked about its decision to limit the actual sales figures that it is offering in its monthly reports, which some have criticized as making the public less aware of the trends and tendencies in the vid... |
26 October 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment of America has commented on the NPD Group figures released last week, saying that for more than one year the PlayStation 3 has seen growth in sales when year over years comparisons are used, with the launch of the Move motion tracking system and the introduction of full three dimensional c... |
14 September 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, as the publisher, and Playfish, its newly acquired division which focuses on social gaming, have announced the official launch of the new Madden NFL Superstars, a Facebook based experience that allows gamers to manage a new NFL team, select their superstar players and then face off against their frie... |
1 September 2010
08:01 GMT |
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A new study coming from ESSEC aka École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales, a high profile French business school, shows that players who are interested in sports video games also participate more than others in real sports competitions, with the effect especially prominent among... |
13 July 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has apparently changed the name of its basketball-oriented franchise from NBA Live to NBA Elite, if reporting done by the Official Xbox Magazine is accurate. The Live name has been used for the series for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time for a videogame and makes the decision taken by th... |
27 May 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to introduce, starting with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, the golf simulation coming out on June 8, Online Passes, which will allow players who have them to gain access to the online sections of its sports titles. The passes will be free for those who get the videogames new and ... |
13 May 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has made a profit in the final fiscal quarter of the year, on the back of strong sales of videogames like first person shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2, action role playing game Mass Effect 2 and action adventure Dante's Inferno. The company managed to get sales ... |
12 May 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it is planning to bundle one time use codes with all the sports titles that it launches on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, allowing access to the online content linked with that game. All those who pick up the titles second hand will have to pay 10 do... |
11 May 2010
16:51 GMT |
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We already know that Drew Brees will be on the cover of Madden NFL 11, with fans probably hoping he will be able to break the dreaded curse that is said to be linked to it. We also know that the game has an official launch date of August 10 but close to nothing about how the people at EA Sports are planning to change... |
26 April 2010
14:41 GMT |
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NCAA Football 11 might live in the shadow of Madden NFL but there are plenty of sports fans interested in seeing how EA Sports tackles the different mechanics of college-based football. And now, it seems that the company is ready to talk about this year's installment of the long running series, with the first im... |
1 March 2010
08:26 GMT |
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A judge has ruled that a lawsuit in which a group of college athletes are suing Electronic Arts for using their images in a series of games without permission could go forward, after dismissing a motion that the publisher filled in order to take down the legal action. Electronic Arts is in the dock together with the ... |
15 February 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Tired of seeing a variety of messages pop up on your Facebook page without them actually meaning anything to you personally? Soon, some of them will be Madden-themed if EA Sports has its way and manages to move the complete American football simulation experience to the popular social gaming platform.Peter Moore, who... |
9 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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A lot of people have wondered why Electronic Arts, as besieged by poor financial performance and by eminent layoffs as it is, would buy Playfish, the second biggest player on the market of social gaming, for the price tag of about 300 million dollars. But John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, ... |
14 December 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered into an agreement with VISA in order to offer a new debit card co-branded with the EA Sports logo that will allow those who use it to get bonus points that can then be employed to purchase some of the videogames released by the publisher.The official name of the produ... |
9 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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One of the big news stories of the last week was the driving accident in which Tiger Woods, the best known golfer in the world, was involved, which then spun out to show his personal life trouble. The star sports person has now apologized to his family and fans for his indiscretions but a lot of people are saying tha... |
7 December 2009
08:09 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a rather tough year, with losses mounting up and with even more people being laid off by the publisher. But the company has managed to shell out about 300 million dollars in order to snap up Playfish, one of the leading players in the field of casual Facebook games.EA is saying that the acquis... |
3 December 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Electronic Arts seems to be pleased with the performance of Madden NFL 10, after initial reports that it was disappointed with sales, and has decided to announce a new spin off based on the same game engine, called Madden NFL Arcade, which is set to be released via the Xbox Live Marketplace and via the PlayStation Ne... |
16 October 2009
03:48 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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One of the big fresh features that EA Sports pushed before the release of NCAA Football 2010 has been the new Season Showdown mode, in which players can score points for the teams supported in real life. Now, the pre-season is over for the mode, and Electronic Arts has lauched a top of the teams that got the mos... |
2 September 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest video game publishers out there, owing much of its yearly revenue to hit franchises like Need For Speed or its sports series that tackles everything from soccer to basketball and anything in between.But without a doubt one of its biggest money makers, at least in the United State... |
7 August 2009
02:39 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 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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Electronic Arts is an extremely important publisher, owning a lot of big money marking franchises like Need for Speed or FIFA. But one of the biggest, at least in North America, is its Madden NFL one, which generates huge sums every year it is launched.Bearing the name of famous NFL player and commentator John Madden... |
24 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, through its EA Sports division, could be on the receiving end of quite a few law suits. And the main reason is, ironically, the very popularity that series like NCAA Football and Madden NFL, which arrive each year complete with likenesses of players, team T-shirts and stadiums modeled after the real ... |
11 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, has announced that it has lost no less than 42 million dollars in the last fiscal quarter of 2009, which is quite a big sum but a narrower loss than analysts expected. In the similar period of the previous year, the company had reported a loss of ... |
7 May 2009
03:57 GMT |
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EA Sports has just sent word that no less than 500 million on line matches have been played since June 2008, when the company implemented a tracking system. Gamers continue to increase that number by about 2.2 million matches each day, logging in around 4 billion gameplay minutes. The increase over last year is of 17... |
23 April 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Sports titles generate a lot of money, largely because there are a lot of people passionate about sports and video games around the world. If you take up an activity that has a lot of fans, like American football or European soccer, then the success of a video game based on it and bearing the likenesses of famous pla... |
22 April 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Although not very popular in Europe and in the rest of the world, the American football is nothing short of a religion in the United States, and one of its biggest “preachers” was footballing legend and famous commentator John Madden.His fame was so impressive that Electronic Arts decided to accompany his... |
21 April 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Peter Moore has delivered a speech at the MI6 conference in San Francisco, which is centered on the videogame marketing, showing how the EA Sports brand must grow and adapt in order to continue to be significant in the future. His vision for the company is quite broad, focusing on keeping hardcore sports gamers inter... |
10 April 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Sports games are always popular because a lot of people want to lead their team to victory over its rivals. That is why the EA Sports label is one of the most profitable ones for Electronic Arts. With yearly franchises like FIFA, Madden NFL or NHL, the division guarantees big sales at the end of each year. We'v... |
24 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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We live in some very harsh economic times and the global recession is affecting almost everything around us. Despite analysts' optimistic claims that the crisis won't affect the gaming industry and that everything will be alright, we've already seen a lot of things happen in this field of entertainment... |
23 January 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Tired of paying the same 60 dollars each year for an EA Sports produced game to just get the same core game mechanics with a coat of extra graphical polish and a roster update? Well, truth be told, the 2009 sports games from Electronic Arts seem to have some nice under the hood changes as well, but the company i... |
22 September 2008
18:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts launched a new partnership with ESPN designed to further expose the public to how detailed Madden NFL 2009 is while allowing the sports network to use the game engine to create an elaborate presentation of the American football matches that is transmits.Electronic Arts and ESPN have an exclusivity con... |
9 September 2008
08:13 GMT |
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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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Both Electronic Arts and Sony, as creators and publishers of the Madden NFL series of videogames, are being sued in the Supreme Court by Jim Brown, one of the great players of American Football, one of the people that entered its Pro Football Hall of Fame. As a player, Brown wore the no. 32 T-shirt in an NFL career t... |
4 August 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has recently gone public announcing that Madden NFL 08 En Espanol has shipped to retailers, being available for systems Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox 360. The Spanish version of Madden NFL 08 features exclusive Spanish language content, including additional music tracks, and Spanish play-by-pl... |
17 December 2007
04:17 GMT |
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A poster on the official PlayStation forums has recently come up with a technique for squeezing a few extra frames out of the PS3. How can you do this? Apparently, you don't even have to add any other pieces of hardware, but merely manage a few settings within the system's upscaler and HDMI audio. According... |
16 October 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Experience everything you've come to expect from the most groundbreaking franchise in sports video game history in a whole new way with Madden NFL 06 for the PSP handheld. A fully-featured Franchise mode lets you build a team and call the shots or import and play an entire week of games from your PlayStation 2 f... |
26 September 2007
09:37 GMT |
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