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Tuesday, Nov 3
Sci-Fi Author Writing Not One, Not Two, But Three Games For Electronic Arts [Ea]
Acclaimed British science fiction author Richard K. Morgan has announced that he's teaming up with EA to help pen the stories for three of the publisher's upcoming titles. Interesting he specifically mentions that they're "separate" titles. So...one is probably a Dead Space game, the other...
Never Gonna Give You Up... [Note]
Xbox 360 with $100 Card for $200 This Weekend? Console Arcade, DJ Hero, Rock Band Set for Colorado Child's Play Fundraiser The 10 Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of Nov 1) Review Round-Up: Tekken, Forza, GTA And More Dedication To Dedicated Servers Earns EA At Least 60 Bucks
Watch Me Dissect Swag While Being Repeatedly Rick Rolled [Clips]
The folks at Electronic Arts are putting a lot of time into developing fun, sin-themed marketing for their upcoming release of Dante's Inferno.
Dragon Age: Origins Review: Tripping The Blight Fantastic
Dragon Age: Origins was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 3. Retails for $59.99 USD ($49.99 PC). A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Reviewed the PlayStation 3 version. Played through t...
Monday, Nov 2
Fight Night Gets Three New Fighters, Price Cut [Dlc]
Three new fighters will be offered in the latest round of downloadable content to be offered for Fight Night Round 4, Electronic Arts announced on Monday. Bernard Hopkins, Sonny Liston and Evander Holyfield will join the game. The DLC pack will release "early December," nothing more spec...
Sunday, Nov 1
NBA Live Micro-Review: More than Pick-Up Hoops [Review]
NBA Live by EA Sports was developed by EA Mobile published by Electronic Arts for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Oct. 23. Retails for $9.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played all game types and difficulties.)
Monday, Oct 26
The Nintendo Download: Zombies Ate My Monkeys [Downloadables]
Zombies eating neighbors, giant manatees eating pirates, and ghostly mini-games in this week's spooktacular Nintendo Download update. As always, check out the official descriptions below to learn more about the games you will or will not be spending your Nintendo points on this week.
Sunday, Oct 18
EA, Dawg Apparently Settling $25,000 Madden Lawsuit [EA Sports]
By the end of this month, Cleveland supafan John "Big Dawg" Thompson should resolve his civil suit against Electronic Arts, alleging the unauthorized use of his likeness in the publisher's Madden NFL series. Browns Superfan John 'Big Dawg' Thompson's Case Against Game Maker Likely to b...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Did EA Just Drop $250M On Social Gaming Dev Playfish? [Rumor]
Electronic Arts may be expanding its empire with a big buyout of social games developer Playfish, the UK-headquartered company that makes games for Facebook, MySpace, iPhone and Android. Cost to EA is rumored to be a quarter billion bucks.
Tuesday, Oct 13
Brutal Legend Review: Testing Its Metal
Brutal Legend was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Rocktober 13th. Retails for $59.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played though the campaign mode on normal difficult...
Chat With Tony Hawk Ride Developer Wednesday... LIVE! [Podcast]
Before co-founding Robomodo in 2008, Tsui worked at Midway Games on the Mortal Kombat series. He went on to co-found Studio Gigante in 2000, which developed both Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus and WWE WrestleMania 21. He later went to work for Electronic Arts Chicago where he worked on Fight Nig...
Sunday, Oct 11
NBA Live 10 Review: Amen for a Revival [Review]
NBA Live 10 was developed by EA Vancouver and published by Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and PS3 on Oct. 6. Retails for $59.99 USD. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played all game types in singleplayer mode and tested online multiplayer.
Friday, Oct 9
And The Oscar Nominated Writer Goes To... Dante's Inferno? [Electronic Arts]
Dante Alighieri will have to share writing credit with screenwriter Will Rokos, should the game win any awards for its screenplay. The Academy Award nominated Rokos has been pegged as responsible for the story line for Dante's Inferno.
Wednesday, Oct 7
Next Bourne Game Titled 'Ascendancy'? [Electronic Arts]
Electronic Arts will be handling the next video game iteration of the Jason Bourne series, since the last one failed to deliver anything compelling, and a developer's online resume briefly revealed its title to be "The Bourne Ascendancy."
Mobigame's "Edge" is Back on iTunes [Mobigame]
Papazian expressed confidence that Electronic Arts will prevail in its recent appeal for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel five Edge-related trademarks held by Langdell, on grounds they both have been abandoned and were fraudulently obtained. EA's suit arises from a disput...
Monday, Oct 5
The Other Wii Nerf Gun [Wii]
Electronic Arts isn't is the only company selling a Nerf gun that doubles as a Wii remote holder. The gun doesn't come with it's own game, so I haven't had a chance yet to check out how well it works with Wii shooters. I did test out the Nerf aspects of the gun and managed to ping my son two out of thre...
The Other Wii Nerf Gun [Wii]
Electronic Arts isn't is the only company selling a Nerf gun that doubles as a Wii remote holder. Performance Designed Products sent me this N-Strike Switch Shot Ex-3 last week (which they produced...
Saturday, Oct 3
NHL 2K10 Review: Thin-Ice Capades
NHL 2K10 was developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii on on Sept. 15. Retails for $59.99 USD on Xbox 360 and PS3, $49.99 on Wii. Rated E10+ on all three platforms. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Played on all singleplayer and multiplayer modes except for "My Team."
Thursday, Oct 1
Hunting For Innovation in Dante's Inferno [Tgs09]
To do more than use Dante's Inferno as a colorful setting for a generic game the Electronic Arts developers have to find interesting ways to tap into the themes of the poet's nine hells. At least that's what I told executive producer Johnathan Knight during a chat in Tokyo last week.
Wednesday, Sep 30
Oil Giant Greener than Activision, Says Newsweek [Environment]
Newsweek's methodology draws on ratings in three different categories and, interestingly, Activision is the leader in its sector ("Consumer Products, Cars") by a scant margin over Electronic Arts, in the "Environmental Impact Score" category. Respectively, Activision and EA rate...
Madden iPhone Micro-Review: The Biggest Small-Time Football
EA Sports' Madden franchise didn't hit the iPhone until the NFL's first week, trailing Gameloft's NFL 2010 by a month. Does it deliver what longtime fans should expect? Or is it just a big-name brand's toehold on a new platform? Madden NFL 10 was developed and published by Electronic Arts f...
Tuesday, Sep 29
Why We Love To Hate Activision — And Might Be Wrong [Feature]
Hating EA is so last year," CEO John Riccitiello told Kotaku at E3 in 2008, talking to us about what Electronic Arts had learned from its old ways of doing business – ways that look an awful lot like how Activision appears to conduct itself these days. All across the internet, it's clear: Game...
Electronic Arts Sues to Cancel Langdell's Trademarks [Controversy]
Electronic Arts is asking the United States to cancel five trademarks held by Tim Langdell's Edge Games, saying the marks have been effectively abandoned. In comments to Kotaku, EA portrayed its...
Electronic Arts Sues to Cancel Langdell's Trademarks [Controversy]
A lot of small developers who are faced with this situation settle claims because they don't know how, or can't afford to fight for their rights," said Brown, the EA spokesman. "We hope that as a result of this action, other developers will be less intimidated by unwarranted legal threats."
Dante's Inferno PSP Impressions: A Handful of Condemnation [Tgs09]
Electronic Arts didn't go to the Tokyo Game Show this year, instead the mammoth developer and publisher held a nearly day-long event at the Mado Cafe in Tokyo's exclusive Roppongi Hills. The cafe, perched on the 52 floor of the Mori Tower in the back of a museum, was stuffed with copies of mos...
Monday, Sep 28
Federal Judge Rules Video Games are Protected "Expressive Works" [EA Sports]
The news here isn't that Jim Brown, a man who certainly knows his rights, is supporting college players suing Electronic Arts over the use of their likenesses. It's how he lost his own claim against...
Federal Judge Rules Video Games are Protected "Expressive Works" [EA Sports]
Brown wants to file a friend-of-the-court brief in Keller's case, which is before federal court in California's Northern District, up in Oakland. Brown's attorney is also the same one who represented retired player Herb Adderley - the lead plaintiff in a successful $26 million class ac...
Tokyo Game Show Slump Casts Shadow Across Industry [Well Played]
Western developers Microsoft and Ubisoft both had large booths at the show this year, though Electronic Arts wasn't in the show this time around. Other big booths included those for Sony Computer Entertainment, portable game developer Level 5 and Japanese developers Square Enix, Kona...
Friday, Sep 25
EA Spokeswoman Hits Back at Australian Classification Board [Electronic Arts]
Electronic Arts, the retail distributor for Left 4 Dead 2 weighed in against The Australian classification board's refusal of Left 4 Dead 2, and it's not as mild as the "pretty bummed" Valve offered last week EA Responds to L4D 2 Banning Down Under [GameSpot AU via Game Politics]
Need for Speed Shift Review: Switching Gears [Review]
Need for Speed Shift was developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic Arts, released in North America on Sept. 15 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PSP, Windows PC, and iPhone. Retails for $59.99 USD on Xbox 360, and PS3, $49.99 on PC, $39.99 on PSP. Reviewed on Xbox 360. Completed sing...
Wednesday, Sep 23
Microsoft Announce Natal Partners: Everyone Plus Kojima [Tgs09]
Activision Blizzard Bethesda Capcom Electronic Arts Konami MTV Games Namco Bandai Sega Square Enix THQ Ubisoft While some of the larger companies could be working on anything, others given an insight into some possible first-wave Natal titles. MTV Games? Rock Band. THQ? UFC.
Asia’s Other Game Convention: Singapore Shines in September
Electronic Arts has a booth, which sells The Beatles: Rock Band and the latest FIFA game, and Nintendo is represented by their local distributor. Sony exhibited in a previous year, but this year Sony and Nintendo are only participating in the business side of the show where developers and...
Tuesday, Sep 22
Let's Electronic Arts TGS Press Conference
The Tokyo Game Show doesn't start until tomorrow, but don't tell that to EA! They're kicking things off early this year, with a pre-TGS press conference. We're there. You should join us. EA TGS Presser
Monday, Sep 14
Peter Moore: EA Sports Tennis To Use Natal, Sony Motion Control [EA Sports]
Electronic Arts "indefinitely" delayed the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its foray into pro tennis, citing the success of EA Sports Active as root cause of the high-def Grand Slam Tennis slip. Turns out there was another reason.
Thursday, Sep 10
Madden Tops Charts Again, But Sales Plummet On PS2, Wii [Npd Group]
01. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) - 928,000 02. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 754,000 03. Madden NFL 10 (PS3) - 665,000 04. Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) - 303,000 06. Madden NFL 10 (PS2) - 160,000 08. Wii Fit (Wii) - 128,000 09. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 120,000 10. Fossil Fighters (DS) - 92,000
EA Boss Does Not Seem Pleased With Madden 10 Sales [EA Sports]
This year's sales of Madden NFL football may not be living up to Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello's expectations. He calls sales of Madden NFL 10 "discouraging," indicating they're down from the previous year's. Electronic Arts Says ‘Madden,' Industry Sales Drop (Update3) [Bloomb...
Wednesday, Sep 9
Taking Army of Two: The 40th Day To The Zoo [Electronic Arts]
Our two-player session, played with Electronic Arts own Matt Turner, producer on the Army of Two sequel, dropped us into a Beijing zoo. Probably the worst zoo ever, considering the dead wildlife scattered about and the fact that everywhere we looked, everything seemed to be on fire.
Internetz [Note]
What you missed: Gamer Movie Review: More Second Life Than Counter-Strike Commenters Hang At Microsoft HQ Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Review: My Cup of Tea Madden iPhone Impressions: Thank You For Slow-Mo Electronic Arts Tests Journalists' Greed With Cash
Electronic Arts Tests Journalists' Greed With Cash [Marketing]
Not one to back away from controversy, Electronic Arts today mailed out real checks payable to game reviewers for $200. Each check, mailed in wooden boxes decorated with twin skeletons and the words Dante's Inferno, was affixed to a velvet pillow inside a box. Inside the top of the box is a we...
Monday, Aug 31
Bang Bang, Is Creativity Dead? [Feature]
Risk-taking is a key element – Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello called Brütal Legend a "significant creative risk" — just before the publisher announced it'd be the one to rescue the title from its post Acti-Blizzard limbo. Fervent gamers now look forward to its breath of fresh air.
Friday, Aug 28
Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker [Maxis]
Electronic Arts' recent attempt to "focus" Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him?
Thursday, Aug 27
EA Exec: 'PS 3.5', 'Xbox 560' will Precede Next Gen [Electronic Arts]
I expected we'll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox 560 before we see an Xbox 720," Rich Hilleman told Dean Takahashi and VentureBeat."The biggest shift is how fast packaged goods games are changing and going away."
Wednesday, Aug 26
Maxis Hit With Job Cuts, EA Confirms [Disturbance]
The layoffs were in the Emeryville studio, which is Maxis headquarters and the base of operations for Spore development. The Sims franchise, which was born at Maxis, is built out of EA's Redwood Shores offices, where The Sims 3 was created by the Sims Studio team.
Monday, Aug 24
EA Germany Exec Accuses Gov't of Game Censorship [Violent Video Games]
Electronic Arts' top many in Germany, Gerhard Florin (pictured) says enough is enough. In an interview last week with Spiegel, Florin called Germany's USK rating system "censorship" and called on the country to use the PEGI ratings, used across the rest of Europe.
Sunday, Aug 23
Madden Suit Seeks to Gang-Tackle EA [Madden Nfl 10]
Did you buy a copy of Madden NFL from its 2006 version forward? You too can be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Electronic Arts, over its exclusive-rights arrangement with the NFL. The case recently survived a dismissal motion by Electronic Arts. At last mention, this was set to go to trial...
Saturday, Aug 22
Gallery: The Wonders of Gamescom's Hall 6 [Gamescom]
The show is actually spread out over four massive public halls, each packed with booths from a number of game developers. Here's a look at Hall 6, home of Blizzard, Activision, Electronic Arts, Rockstar, 2K Games, Microsoft and others.
Thursday, Aug 20
APB Impressions: Financial District In Conflict [Gamescom]
As the Enforcers and the Criminals clashed throughout the Financial District of city San Pero, APB looked like a mix of a traditional MMO and Grand Theft Auto IV, with stats like player names and "threat rating"—essentially a player's level of skill—displayed above their heads.
Wednesday, Aug 19
Konami's Gamescom Presser Liveblog [Gamescom]
With Microsoft, Sony and Electronic Arts liveblogs out of the way, its time now to sit down and listen to a bit from Konami. I wonder if they'll have any exciting news? Konami's Gamescom Press Conference
Tuesday, Aug 18
Mass Effect 2: Meet Grunt [Gamescom 09]
The Mass Effect trilogy is an epic, action-filled saga with consequences that will carry through from chapter to chapter," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Group General Manager and Senior Vice President, Electronic Arts, and co-founder and CEO, BioWare. "Building out a diverse and loyal party is o...
Dante's Inferno Dated For February 2010 [Gamescom 09]
Dante's Inferno now has a hard date of February 12, 2010 in Europe, and a date of February 9, 2010 in the United States, the company announced today. Check our EA Gamescom liveblog for much more information about new Dante's Inferno gameplay mechanics.
Monday, Aug 17
Kotaku Gets To Gamescom, GDC Europe [Gamescom 09]
Tomorrow, expect big announcements from Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Both companies will be holding press conferences prior to the show's official opening, so make sure you're here at 8 AM Kotaku Time to get a dose of Gamescom news.
Friday, Aug 14
Madden Launch Returns to Its Roots — for One Weekend Only? [Stick Jockey]
Console Madden, from its Genesis and Super Nintendo days up through the PlayStation, went out on a Friday - before the entertainment industry, through a decision sort of made by acclamation, proclaimed Tuesday the day of the week for video game and DVD releases. EA followed the shift with...
Thursday, Aug 13
Madden NFL 10 Review: Slow and Steady Wins the Game [Review]
Madden NFL 10 was developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts for PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 and Wii. Releases Aug. 14. Retails for $59.99. Tested on Xbox 360. Played entire season in franchise mode and tested all single- and multiplayer modes save Online Franchise, which is unavailab...
Friday, Aug 7
"Office Politics" Delaying BF2 Patch [Battlefield 2]
A DICE associate producer, commenting over on the U.K. Electronic Arts forums, said the final version of Battlefield 2 v 1.50 is ready , except that "We have a little bit of office politics to sort out." BF2 Latest [EA UK Forums via Blue's News]
Wednesday, Jul 22
Actually, The Sims 3 Was The Biggest-Selling Game In June [The Sims]
1. The Sims 3 (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts) 3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts) 8. Spore (Maxis, Electronic Arts) 15. SimCity Box (Maxis, Electronic Arts) 17. The Sims 2: Apartment Life (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts)
Friday, Jul 17
EA Brings Ten Titles To Comic-Con [Comic-con 09]
EA will also host the "EA Gaming Lounge presented by Xbox 360" at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Hotel during Comic-Con. That off-con event will feature Dragon Age: Origins, Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Loungers will be able to test drive the second c...
Saturday, Apr 11
Kotaku Originals: Knuckleheaded [News]
Wii Sports Resort, MotionPlus Out In July Rock Band Unplugged Dated Rumortaku Harmonix Designer Unwittingly Confirms LEGO Rock Band Three Companies Eye Midway For Buy Out Amazon Selling Xbox 360 Digital Games, Wii, PS3 Incoming?
Wednesday, Apr 8
Will Wright Talks Fighting Robots, Movies and New Games [Stupid Fun Club]
Will Wright may be leaving Maxis and Electronic Arts, but that doesn't mean he's leaving gaming. In fact some of his biggest ideas are for future games, he told us today. They started showing some of the ideas to Electronic Arts and the publisher got interested. "They were the perfect VC for us...
Tuesday, Apr 7
Will Wright Leaves EA, Does Something Stupid [The Sims]
Will Wright created Maxis with Jeff Braun in 1989, which was acquired by EA in 1997. Will is the visionary designer of blockbuster game concepts like Spore™, The Sims™ and SimCity™. Lucy Bradshaw, VP and General Manager at Maxis™, will continue to run Maxis and the Spore franchise. Lucy's te...
Friday, Feb 6
Battlefield 1943: Pacific Preview: A Much Needed Upgrade [Preview]
Battlefield 1943: Pacific is a download only, multiplayer game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The game, while new, is essentially a high-def remake of Battlefield 1942, and focuses more on pickup and play style gameplay. This is the first public demo available for fans to play.
Saturday, Jan 17
Kotaku Originals: Obi-Wat? [Original]
Nintendo Responds To December NPD Sales, Seems Pleased Microsoft Responds To December NPD Sales, Seems Pleased Nintendo Breaks More Sales Records, Sells Over 5 Million Consoles In December What Was 2008's Best Selling Game In The U.S.? Nintendo's Wii And DS Sales Numbers Conquer Europe
Tuesday, Jan 13
Frankenreview: Mirror's Edge (PC) [Round Up]
While the console versions of EA DICE's ambitious first-person action adventure game Mirror's Edge might have slipped past the Frankenreview monster, the recently released PC version encounters no such luck. Now Mirror's Edge is finally available for the PC gaming crowd. Let's see how...
Thursday, Jan 8
CES 09: EA Moves Into PlayStation Home [Playstation 3]
EA ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR PLAYSTATION®HOME BETA “PlayStation”, “PLAYSTATION” and “PS” Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Wednesday, Dec 17
Opinion: SimCity Now Reticulating Your iPhone's Spline [IPhone]
As promised, EA have released SimCity upon Apple's App Store. Unsuspecting iPhone owners the world over are now downloading the game, unaware that...this may be an iPhone game that actually delivers. The graphics look like SimCity 3000, the gameplay's closer to SimCity 2000, and everythin...
Monday, Nov 17
Opinion: Massive Sims 3 Q&A Tells All [Questions & Answers]
The Sims 3 Q&A 9.What kind of player activity have you planned for The Sims 3? 12.Can we expect to see our favourite Sims families return, having grown, as they did between The Sims and The Sims 2? 15.What challenges did you face in the creation of The Sims 3?
Thursday, Nov 13
EA Sports Active Trailer Channels The Infomercial [EA Sports Active]
This is not the trailer for a video game. No, this debut video for EA's Wii fitness program EA Sports Active has much more in common with early morning extended commercials for Bose Wave Radios than it does anything we've ever seen for a game product.
Thursday, Oct 30
EA Loses $310 Million, Sees "Weakness At Retail" In October
While we're very bullish long term, we're very cautious in the short term," Riccitiello said, saying the company was investing more than ever in digital distribution and its EA Partners program. EA Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Results EA Announces Cost Reduction Plan
Wednesday, Oct 29
Rock Band 2 360 Gets Solid Euro Release Date [Release]
MTV GAMES, HARMONIX AND EA ANNOUNCE ROCK BAND®2 FOR XBOX 360® COMING TO EUROPE Award-Winning Rock Band 2 Shipping in November to the UK and Europe Developed by Harmonix, MTV Games is the publisher of Rock Band. EA is the exclusive distribution partner for Rock Band.
Thursday, Oct 23
Opinion: Skate 2 Soundtrack Is All Ecletic [Skate 2]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Black Box, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio, today revealed the soundtracks that will power the award-winning Skate It and Skate 2. These two skateboarding games bring the sport’s incredible tricks, epic moves and high energy to gamer...
Tuesday, Oct 14
Frankenreview: Dead Space
Dead Space comic books. Dead Space animated films. Electronic Arts' marketing push behind their new survival horror IP has been nothing short of epic. To put this much faith in an untested product, EA must be pretty sure they've got something special on their hands, but then again parents of...
Thursday, Sep 18
EA And 1C Deliver Jewel-Cased Games To Russia
Another important stage in the cooperation of Electronic Arts and 1C Company is the distribution of EA games for PC in economy jewel packs in Russia. For the first time ever part of new games released by world's leading publisher will be distributed in economy packs (CD jewel case). Electro...
Sunday, Sep 14
EA Take-Two: The Wedding's Off
About Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Comments on EA Announcement About Take-Two Interactive Software
Friday, Aug 15
Tetris, Spore, Scrabble and Sudoku – EA’s iPhone lineup
The most amazing iPhone game at the EA Showcase was Spore Origins – even if it hadn’t been up against such visually uninteresting things as Scrabble and Sudoku. Keep your eyes on the iPhone app store for each of these titles, but remember, Spore could be a while…
Wednesday, Aug 13
Crysis Warhead Launching Next Month
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Crytek GmbH announced today that Crysis Warhead®, the pulse-racing new installment of the Crysis® universe, will ship to retail stores in North America on September 16th and in Europe on September 12th. Begi...
Saturday, Aug 2
Kotaku Originals: Early Builds R Us
Ghostbuster The Video Game Very Much Alive, Sitting on My Desk Forget Wii Fit, It's Mario Kart That's Buttering Nintendo's Bread Battlefield Heroes Not Coming This Summer Why Penny Arcade Took so Long to Go PSN and May Never Go Wii Ware
Wednesday, Jul 2
Battlefield: Bad Company Review: Going For The Gold
Battlefield: Bad Company addresses just that issue, adding a full single-player experience to the Battlefield series, complete with colorful characters and questionable moral choices on top of the usual multiplayer mayhem. It's uncharted waters for EA DICE – lets see if they sink or s...
Tuesday, Jul 1
Frankenreview: Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360)
EA DICE's Battlefield series has been providing PC gamers (and eventually console owners) with solid, entertaining online multiplayer battles for a good six years now. Now that they've proven they can deliver the multiplayer goods they've taken on the single player experience with Ba...
Friday, Jun 13
Opinion: The Peter Moore Challenge
Big talk Moore, but lets put a little reality into this pie-in-the-sky promise. Why not say that if you don't have an overall Metacritic increase (yes I hate review scores) on all four of those games you've failed to deliver and it's time to ink up? We've even found this swell logo for your pos...
Sunday, Feb 24
Opinion: EA Or Not EA - The Take-Two Question [Original]
So EA wants to buy Take-Two Interactive, to the tune of $2 billion, and while to a certain degree I agree with EA's CEO John Riccitiello - this would be a major win for Take-Two stockholders, who've hung on for a rather bumpy ride over the past few years, I'm not sure how good it would be to the pe...
Wednesday, Aug 22
Opinion: FIFA 08 Gets 10 Player Online
FIFA Soccer 08, developed by EA Canada in Vancouver, B.C., will be available in North America on October 9 for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, PC and mobile, and on...
Friday, Aug 17
EA Makes Good On Mac Gaming [Ea]
Mac gaming may be the punchline of many PC gamers jokes, but it's kept alive by a handful of Mac OSX publisher holdouts. Only the biggest games make their way to the Apple OS, like World of Warcraft, The Sims, Doom III, Halo and Civilization. But, EA's pledge to bring more of its games to the plat...
Friday, Jul 20
A Week In Comments (With Ban Info)
One upshot of all this, though, that's not really being explored by the press, is that all this developer attention you see being put on the Wii right now is probably going to backfire. Because developers are going to learn that all these casual gamers are not buying the Wii to play anything o...
Thursday, Nov 30
Analyst: EA Brand "Tarnished" By Poor Reviews, Quality
Citing dropping review scores for EA's stable of yearly roster updates disguised as new games (Madden, NCAA, NBA Live), Wilson says that if scores continue to fall it could spell financial trouble for EA: The widespread industry belief is that one or two bad iterations can ruin the long-...
Tuesday, Feb 14
EA Releases Battlefield 2 Patch
Can you hear it? It's the sound of girlfriends and wives everywhere howling in righteous fury at boyfriends and husbands hunched over their computers testing out the latest Battlefield 2 patch. A few things in the patch notes worth mentioning: it looks like tons of guns have been retuned,...
