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The Sims 3 Video Mocks Twilight
Explaining that "Sims fans around the world build their own stories and machinima and are acting out their own vampire love stories all over the Web," Electronic Arts has produced one of its own: "LOVE TRIANGLE UNDER THE SIMS MOON." "In the end, it's not about who Bella chooses in the book th...
Church Simulator 'Mass: We Pray' Revealed To Be 'Dante's Inferno' Publicity Stunt
Once again, Electronic Arts has exploited Christians to help promote its upcoming video game adaptation of Dante's Inferno. The official website for Mass: We Pray now unsurprisingly reveals the Church-centric mini-game compilation to be a hoax.
Monday, Nov 16
EA Sports Active: More Workouts Trailers Remind of What You Look Like Exercising
Back when EA Sports Active arrived--all of six months ago--Electronic Arts was helpful enough to issue a trailer so you knew what you'd look like while you were playing the Wii fitness game. So with EA Sports Active: More Workouts, the sequel to the leg strap-packing game, due in North Amer...
Monday, Nov 9
EA Cost-Reduction Layoffs and Closures a Signal to the Videogame Industry
It's been a tumultuous day for videogame publishing giant Electronic Arts. This morning we reported on their acquisition of social game developer Playfish in a $300 million deal that could climb to $400 million. This afternoon word comes in their fiscal second quarter results of a $100 mi...
Opinion: FIFA 10 EA's Best European Launch Ever
Electronic Arts' Q2 earnings report reveals that FIFA 10 became their strongest selling launch title in European history, selling 4.5 million units in its first week and achieving a Metacritic ranking of 91. The report further states that EA currently has seventeen released titles this...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Altered Carbon Author Working with EA on Three Games
Author Richard Morgan, best known for his cyberpunk sci-fi novel Altered Carbon, revealed on his blog that he's been working with Electronic Arts as a consultant on three upcoming games (via A Dribble of Ink). He explains that the relationship started with an email from John Miles at EA ab...
Fight Night Round 4 December DLC Detailed
Some new boxers and two more gameplay modes are headed to Fight Night Round 4 as downloadable content in "early December," publisher Electronic Arts has revealed. Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360, the $9.99 / 800 Microsoft Point download adds Bernard Hopkins, Sonny Liston and Evander Holyfield...
Friday, Oct 30
Dead Space 2 Due Next Year, Claims Report
Though we still don't know much regarding Dead Space 2, it appears we'll know more relatively soon, as Reuters has pegged the horror sequel for a 2010 release. While technically unannounced, the sequel has been mentioned by both job listings and staff members of series publisher Electro...
Monday, Oct 26
First EA Sports MMA Screenshot Released
Close to five months after the game was announced, Electronic Arts has issued the first media from its upcoming MMA fighter. The shot arrived today via Facebook, with Electronic Arts noting: "First EA SPORTS MMA screen shot that ran in SI this week....and yes...actual game footage."
Wednesday, Oct 21
Dead Space Extraction Sales Slow, Analyst Points to Poor Marketing
Sales of Visceral Games' Dead Space Extraction--the Wii rail shooter adaptation of the original Dead Space--have been unimpressive following its September 29 release, leading one analyst to blame a lackluster EA marketing campaign. The game sold only 9,000 copies in the US between Se...
Need for Speed Franchise Passes 100 Million Sales
Electronic Arts' racing franchise Need for Speed has now sold over 100 million units worldwide since the series' debut in 1994, with over $2.7 billion in sales accumulated in those 15 years. "The main thrust of the sales has actually come in the last six years, where we've averaged over 12 mi...
Tuesday, Oct 20
Need for Speed Nitro Getting Earlier Release
EA Montreal's arcade-style racer Need for Speed Shift will be in stores a few weeks earlier than expected, Electronic Arts has revealed. Once slated for November 17, the racer is now due on Wii and Nintendo DS come November 3 in North America and November 6 in Europe.
Thursday, Oct 15
New 'EA 2D' Studio Creating Flash-based Dragon Age
A new Electronic Arts studio dedicated to creating Flash games has revealed its first project, a browser-based take on BioWare's upcoming RPG Dragon Age. "At EA 2D it is our mission to create blockbusters for the browser," wrote EA 2D producer Ethan Levy in a dev diary. "Some will be origina...
Thursday, Oct 8
Will Wright Joins 'Play Industry,' Still Developing Games
Spore and Sims creator Will Wright left Electronic Arts to found Stupid Fun Club in April, and now a new interview has shed some light on what his team may be up to. "We are expanding what we call the 'play industry,'" Wright told VentureBeat. "Games are limited in some ways. Play can be applied t...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Rumored 'Ripper' Details: Jack the Vampire Slayer
While the project is still unconfirmed, word of "The Ripper" began making the rounds yesterday after Electronic Arts filed file and game-related trademarks on the title, with an overlooked rumor naming Dead Space maker Visceral Games as the developer.
Tuesday, Oct 6
Battlefield 2, Five Other EA Games Hit Steam
Continuing to expand its Steam offerings, Electronic Arts today released six more titles on the distribution platform, including DICE's classic multiplayer shooter Battlefield 2. The new additions are listed below. Sadly, there's no discount to celebrate the new arrivals, which Ste...
Jack the Ripper Game Coming From Dante's Inferno, Dead Space Makers?
Evidence is mounting that well-known serial killer Jack the Ripper is to star in a new game from Dead Space and Dante's Inferno maker Visceral Games--an Electronic Arts-owned studio dedicated to "creating intense action-oriented intellectual properties." Superannuation notes tha...
Friday, Oct 2
'Ice Age' Veterans Handling 'Spore' Film
Chris WedgeYet another Electronic Arts franchise is headed to the big screen, as the video game publisher has signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox for a film based off critter customizing series Spore. Variety reports that the movie is set to be an animated affair helmed by Ice Age and R...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Actual EA Sporting Goods Arrive in October
The first fruits of the recent partnership between sports game developer Electronic Arts (Madden NFL, NBA Live, NHL, FIFA) and Toy Island will be on North American store shelves within the next week or so--"by early October"--the two announced today. Among the various lines of EA SPORTS...
Tuesday, Sep 15
Red Alert 3: Commander's Challenge Arrives in the PlayStation Store Next Week
The standalone downloadable release of Red Alert 3's "Commander's Challenge" mode will arrive on the PlayStation 3 come September 24, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. Developed by EA LA, the $10 download packs the 50 challenge maps that originally premiered in the game's PC...
Skate 3 Announced, Brings Skate Crews
Electronic Arts today announced Skate 3, set in the brand new city of Port Carverton and expanding the "social and community aspects" of Black Box's skateboarding series. [video]15211[/video] EA boasts that the skate.Create feature suite "empowers gamers to truly express their skate...
Friday, Sep 11
NBA Live 10 Gets Xbox 360 Demo, New Trailer
Assuming that you just can't wait until October 16 to get your ball on, Electronic Arts today released a downloadable demo of NBA Live 10 on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Per usual, the demo is currently limited to those with an Xbox Live Gold membership. That exclusivity period tends to end aft...
Wednesday, Sep 9
Madden NFL 10 Arrives on iPhone
Just in time for the start of the new season, EA has brought its popular football franchise to the iPhone and iPod Touch with today's App Store release of Madden NFL 10. The 102MB download packs "32 unique fields" and "nearly 2,000 players from all 32 NFL teams," according to Electronic Arts....
Wednesday, Aug 26
EA Confirms Maxis Layoffs
It seems that today is not a good day to be a game developer for a successful studio, as publisher Electronic Arts has now confirmed a series of layoffs at Spore developer EA Maxis. "Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions," EA told...
Wednesday, Aug 19
Mass Effect 2 Screenshots: Your Pal Grunt
Alongside yesterday's new trailer, BioWare and Electronic Arts are further celebrating Mass Effect 2's GamesCom presence with new screenshots. This batch is meant to provide a look at Grunt, your new Krogan companion. He's said to be rather violent. Described as "the dark second chapter...
Tuesday, Aug 18
Dante's Inferno Drags Players to Hell in February
North America and Europe will respectively "go to hell" with the retail debut of Dante's Inferno on February 9, 2010 and February 12, 2010, publisher EA said today. Senior producer Justin Lambros made the release date announcement for the poetic hack and slash during Electronic Arts' Ga...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Coming in March
EA DICE's shooter sequel Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is to arrive in North America on March 2, 2010 and in Europe on March 5, 2010, the company revealed today. Electronic Arts made the announcement today during its GamesCom press conference, but did not specify if all three versions--PC, P...
Monday, Aug 17
Spore Hero Mounts Retail Assault in October
Sticking true to the original fall projection, Electronic Arts today announced that the latest entries in the Spore franchise--Spore Hero for the Wii and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS--are due in North America on October 6 and internationally October 9.
Thursday, Aug 13
July NPD: Electronic Arts, Nintendo Pick at the Bones
Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii) - 508.2K NCAA Football 10 (EA, 360) - 376.5K NCAA Football 10 (EA, PS3) - 237.4K Wii Fit W/Balance Board (Nintendo, Wii) - 164.3K Mario Kart W/Wheel (Nintendo, Wii) - 156.6K Mario Kart DS (Nintendo, DS) - 132.2K Pokemon Platinum Version (Nintendo, DS) - 116.4K Fi...
Wednesday, Aug 12
Eighth Ultima Online Expansion Launches Sept. 8
The next expansion pack for Electronic Arts' long-running PC MMORPG Ultima Online will debut as a digital download on September 8, developer Mythic confirmed today. Bundled with 30 days of game time for $39.99 or available individually at $29.99, the Stygian Abyss expansion adds Gargoyl...
Tuesday, Aug 11
EA Open to More Bullfrog Revivals
Populous, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park--Bullfrog Productions churned out a large amount of original IP during the early 80s and 90s, all of which is now owned by Electronic Arts. EA is already known to be producing a sequel to Bullfrog's classic tactical shooter Syndicate, b...
Friday, Aug 7
Dragon Age: Origins Delayed?
Those that have been waiting years for Dragon Age may have to wait a few more weeks, as it's beginning to look like BioWare's latest RPG won't hit consoles in October. While BioWare and studio owner Electronic Arts have yet to officially acknowledge a delay, online rental hub GameFly is now...
Tuesday, Aug 4
Downloadable 'Madden Arcade' Coming This Holiday
During today's Electronic Arts conference call, EA Sports chief Peter Moore revealed that the company is working on a downloadable version of Madden dubbed "Madden Arcade." Now imagine the ice being green, and take away the sticks and nets. The game will be similar to EA's "3 on 3 NHL Arcade...
EA Beats Estimates on Strong Sales of The Sims 3
Electronic Arts reported a $644 million first quarter today, a revenue take that beat expectations thanks to impressive sales of The Sims 3 and EA Sports Active. The Sims 3 has sold 3.7 million copies so far, with 59% of those sales coming from the international market, according to EA. So far...
Friday, Jul 24
Evening Reading
First Commander & Conquer 4 trailer arrives Borderlands trailer has a lot of gameplay Mass Effect 2's use of save data explained Electronic Arts' marketing of Dante's Inferno is getting old Tim Sweeney says Unreal Tournament is on hiatus
Dante's Inferno Comic-Con Contest Offers 'Hot Girls' for Committing 'Acts of Lust' with Booth Babes
Electronic Arts is running a Dante's Inferno contest at Comic-Con that promises "a sinful night with two hot girls" as a reward for snagging multiple pictures with booth babes--or, as the contest puts it, committing "acts of lust." The promotional flier (shown left) asks entrants to Fac...
Wednesday, Jul 22
June PC Sales Predictably Dominated by The Sims 3
EA Maxis' The Sims 3 debuted in June with over 800,000 unit sales in the United States, according to Gamasutra. The citizen-management sequel topped all console and PC games in June, easily besting Prototype's 600,000 sales across two platforms.
Double Fine Countersues in Brutal Legend Legal Mess, Says Activision Dodging Guitar Hero Competition
With publisher Activision suing Double Fine to block the release of Brutal Legend, the developer has now filed its own countersuit, claiming that Activision is unfairly attempting to avoid competing with the title. Activision, Double Fine's countersuit claims, aims to "not only to ca...
Tuesday, Jul 21
Need for Speed Nitro Shifts to Retail November 17
Electronic Arts today announced that Need for Speed Nitro (Wii, DS) will ship off to retailers worldwide on November 17, giving racing fans a bit of time to recover after the September 22 release of Need for Speed Shift on PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP. Whereas Slightly Mad's Shift is more of a rea...
Wednesday, Mar 18
Godfather 2 To Receive Release Day Multiplayer Patch
You can then go against other players to win the money they gained in the singleplayer campaign. Should you lose, any money you placed on the game will be removed from your singleplayer account. The Godfather 2 will be released for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 April 7.
Tuesday, Mar 3
Patch: EA Announces Downloadable NCAA Basketball 09: March Madness Edition
Electronic Arts today announced NCAA Basketball 09: March Madness Edition, a downloadable version of its NCAA Basketball series centered around the March tournament for Xbox 360. Though apparently not a full-featured version of NCAA Basketball, the game will include all 65 teams sel...
Monday, Dec 8
Opinion: Analyst: Weak Sales of Mirror's Edge, Rock Band 2 Could Mean More EA Cuts
Electronic Arts titles such as Mirror's Edge, Rock Band 2 and Need for Speed Undercover are expected to underperform this holiday season, and could spell more product and personnel cuts for the publisher, according to Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian.
Monday, Nov 17
Spore Patch 1.03 Released, Adds 24 New Limbs
A new patch for EA Maxis' Spore is now available to download from FileShack. The update resolves a few bugs and adds 24 free exoskeleton limbs for enhanced creature creation, bringing the PC lifeform management game up to v1.03 in the process. Bug Fixes Fix for esc key not bringing up Options i...
