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FIFA 10 Performs Well in Japan

FIFA is one of the biggest franchises Electronic Arts puts out every year and the edition released in 2009 is quite an improvement over the previous ones, introducing a better and smoother dribbling system and a more complex tactics section. But if there's one market that still seems unassailable for the FIFA fr...

5 November 2009
03:29 GMT

EA Sports President Peter Moore Sees a Grim Future for Videogames

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

Madden NFL 10 Pre-Orders Are Through the Roof

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

Electronic Arts Announces Madden Arcade

EA Sports is one of the main drivers behind the better than expected results announced by publisher Electronic Arts. Sure, the company has posted a loss and declining revenue but the situation is better than originally projected. EA Sports is set to continue the trend by introducing a new Madden title, labeled Arcade...

5 August 2009
17:31 GMT

EA Sports' Peter Moore Responds to UFC Boss' Accusations

Sports games are extremely popular these days, as they offer regular gamers the possibilities to play as their favorite athletes or leading their favorite team to victory in various competitions. We've been hearing a lot about the upcoming EA Sports MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) game from the prestigious label, prom...

15 July 2009
03:06 GMT

John Madden's Retirement Is Good for the Madden NFL Franchise

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

Peter Moore Challenges Obama to Fitness Face Off

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

Metacritic Scores Irrelevant for Nintendo Wii Videogames

The boss of EA Sports, the outspoken Peter Moore, is saying that players who would like to pick up Nintendo Wii videogames are not looking up to Metacritic in order to make decisions, but are interested in the user reviews that “normal” gamers create for each title.Moore talked to Gamasutra and said that ...

11 June 2009
07:22 GMT

EA Sports Will Alternate Years Between Fight Night and MMA

Electronic Arts is a video game developer and publisher that has created a not so honoring name for exploiting its franchises with annual installments, which don't really bring a lot of new things to the core mechanics of it. Nowhere is this more apparent than with its Sports label, which launches every year ne...

10 June 2009
13:01 GMT

Developers Need to Communicate with Customers, Says EA Sports Boss

Information these days is almost as valuable as gold, and this is also true in the video game industry where people are desperate to find out new and exciting things about their favorite franchises and about titles that will appear in the future. Just check out the amount of controversy and speculation the recent 15-...

20 May 2009
02:45 GMT

Making Wii Games Isn't Rocket Science, Says EA

The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful console, as it is currently dominating its rivals, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which makes it a desirable platform for developers. But third-party games haven't really been very successful on the Wii, as highlighted by id Software. However, companies are indeed trying...

14 May 2009
13:01 GMT

Former Xbox 360 President Talks About Motion-Sensitive Controls

Peter Moore is now the president of Electronic Arts' Sports label, doing everything he can so that fans will get even more excited about the yearly titles that his company produces. But for those of you who don't know, Moore also acted as the president of Microsoft's Xbox 360 division a few years ago a...

8 May 2009
03:03 GMT

EA Isn't Taking Advantage of the Wii, Says EA Sports President

Electornic Arts is one of the biggest companies currently active in the video game industry, owning a wide variety of labels and development studios around the world, all hard at work developing new and interesting properties while continuing to improve old franchises. But, even though the company has worked very ha...

7 May 2009
02:21 GMT

More EA Sports Games for the Masses

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

Madden NFL 10 Will Hit the Sweet Spot of Graphics, Says Peter Moore

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

Wii MotionPlus Will Make People Get Off Their Couches

Gaming has always been considered a hobby for lazy people who don't want to get off their couches or chairs and move around, preferring to do so in the virtual world than the in the real one. But once the Nintendo Wii appeared, introducing never before seen motion sensitive controls, a lot of gamers got off the ...

16 March 2009
16:01 GMT

EA Sports to Learn from World of Goo

World of Goo was the independent break out hit of 2008. The game showed up on a lot of end of the year lists and took home a variety of awards, with some saying that it packed more innovative punch than all the big publisher releases of last year.Launched on the WiiWare service offered by Nintendo and on the PC, Worl...

22 January 2009
03:32 GMT

Peter Moore Is Angry with FIFA 09 Not Making Eurogamer Top

The end of 2008 throughout the beginning of 2009 has been a period of chart making and awarding games for the innovations they brought to the industry. We've seen some charts made by Metacritic, but other sites made their own tops, in which they included some games, and, obviously, left other ones out. It seems...

6 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Talks About Sports Games for the Wii

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest gaming companies out there, having achieved huge profit in the last period of time. This is largely due to the fact that it owns quite a lot of studios developing games on a franchise system, which means that there will always be a fan base for the next Need For Speed game, for e...

4 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Active Will Have Music in It

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

Peter Moore Talks About Nutrition in EA Sports Active

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

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Active Might Become a Franchise

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

EA Sports Boss Talks About the Peripherals in EA Sports Active

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

Peter Moore Talks About the Differences Between Wii Fit and EA Sports Active

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

EA Sports Might Auction Madden Cover Spot for Charity

EA Sports is one of Electronic Arts' biggest divisions, generating massive income with the yearly releases of games based on the most popular sports out there. Be it European soccer, with the FIFA series, or basketball, with the NBA Live franchise, a lot of sports have been marketed by EA. But the most successfu...

28 October 2008
08:31 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Is Moving to Digital Downloads

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

Peter Moore Talks About Madden NFL 2009

Electronic Arts is estimating that Madden NFL 09 has managed to bring in revenue of more than 133.5 million dollars since it was launched on August 12. There is no clear independent confirmation of the numbers, but the August NPD report should be out any day now to provide us with some data.EA Sports says that this i...

10 September 2008
14:11 GMT

Live Season for FIFA 2009 Detailed

EA Sports has recently announced that it plans to introduce a new update system, called Adidas Live Season, which should bring the characteristics of the in-game players in line with those of real life players. The service will have a subscription price which is not yet determined and will cover the most important le...

26 August 2008
17:58 GMT

Peter Moore Wants the Public Back in E3

EA Sports top man Peter Moore has joined the ranks of those calling for a return to the old way of organizing E3, with visitors allowed to enter the show and watch the games being demoed by developers and publishers.The president of EA Sports did not hold back on the criticism. He said that "There was a palpable sens...

28 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Peter Moore Promotes Online Future

Peter Moore, the current head of EA Sports, who recently commented on the state of PC gaming, is again talking about the future of games, this time focusing on the digital distribution model and on the way social gaming will be taking over from single player experience.The people from GamesIndustry caught up with Moo...

22 July 2008
18:06 GMT

EA Sports Games Have Been too Hard

Peter Moore continues to issue statements regarding the future of EA Sports, maybe the most important division that the gigantic publisher has, and is now talking about how difficult sports games should be in the future.Moore talked to IGN and he stated: "With the 360 and PS3 versions, the real movement you're g...

9 July 2008
10:14 GMT

Peter Moore Explains Why EA Sports Snubs PCs

Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Microsoft corporate vice-president, has updated his official blog, explaining why the company is "against" PC game development. We already had a few hints on that - these are mostly the same reasons why everybody ignores PC systems as game platforms: piracy, piracy and a ...

4 July 2008
13:06 GMT

EA Sports President Talks about Sony Home

The last few days have been inundated with news from the PlayStation Day Europe event and with various statements from Sony regarding matters as diverse as the new PlayTV add-on for the PlayStation 3, the possibility of adding new external hard drives to the console or the strength of the games line-up that Sony has ...

9 May 2008
08:17 GMT

Sony Responds to Moore's Resignation - The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

What do you know? Out of all the electronics giants out there, Sony is the first to say a few words regarding Peter Moore's departure from Microsoft. In case you missed out on the latest and probably one of the hottest of today's news, Microsoft's Corporate Vice-President of Interactive Entertainment B...

18 July 2007
04:16 GMT

Shocking - Microsoft Loses Its Senior VP of IEB - Peter Moore Resigns

Yes, you read that right: Microsoft's Corporate Vice-President of the Interactive Entertainment Business division (including the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles), Peter Moore has resigned from his position with the company. He's not unemployed though (I'm sure at least one person asked himself/herself ...

18 July 2007
03:47 GMT

Peter Moore Laughs at Sony's 'Failing' Ten-Year Plan

You have to admit it's pretty funny to hear that Sony is 'failing' in Japan, the territory where the PSone and PS2 have sold wonderfully for the past 10 years. And that's what Microsoft's Peter Moore hints at when dodging (so to speak) a question coming from GameDaily.biz, regarding the compa...

17 July 2007
10:43 GMT

Sony Hasn't Actually Cut the PS3's Price. What!?

This one's a shocker. Well, to those who haven't kept themselves updated anyway. Hear this: Evil Avatar has picked up on an interview over at GameIndustry.biz with Sony's Peter Moore, where Moore claims he doesn't see a price cut occurring with the PS3. Say wha...? That's right. And his state...

13 July 2007
05:15 GMT

Surge Protectors Killing Your 360?

This has got to be the last thing anyone had in mind for the Xbox 360's "red ring of death." Surge protectors (left, click to enlarge)?! It's like something out of a comedy series. Anyway, the ironical thing is that this hypothesis of surge protectors being the cause of 360s crashing has been rolled out jus...

9 July 2007
05:48 GMT

Microsoft's Peter Moore is Having a Good Day

Peter Moore has all the reason in the world to be happy. The Xbox 360 is doing fairly good, especially with the Elite model out now (or at least so he says), laughing indirectly at Sony's mistakes with the PS3 and their PlayStation Home service, knowing that Halo 3's release will provide XBLA with ever more...

17 May 2007
04:56 GMT

Halo 3 Launch Date Confirmed. Rumors Were Right

Rumors about the release of Bungie's highly anticipated FPS have finally been confirmed. Up until now, all signs indicated a September launch and today, Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business has made it official: Halo 3 will be released on September 25. Euro...

16 May 2007
05:13 GMT

Microsoft's Peter Moore on Faulty Xbox 360s

Mike Antonucci and Microsoft exec. Peter Moore had a little chat recently. Among other things, the two talked about the high number of bad operational and non operational Xbox 360s, as Microsoft's claiming a "3% failure rate," sounds a little off the graph to say the least.Antonucci had an example for the execu...

9 May 2007
03:10 GMT

'Games For Windows Live' - Microsoft Will Probably Have to Sell Door-to-Door

People are generally skeptical about new stuff. That's human nature. The phenomenon is taken to even greater heights when that new thing has a price tag too, and a big one at that. It's the case with Microsoft's Games For Windows Live, in short GFW Live. I really don't know why they didn't de...

5 April 2007
11:17 GMT


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