EA Opens DICE Studio in L.A. To Develop Star Wars Titles

EA Opens DICE Studio in L.A. To Develop Star Wars Titles

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News On: 15 May

When news broke last week that EA had partnered with Disney for an exclusive contract to develop all upcoming Star Wars games, the world clamored for more details. EA announced that the first new Star Wars game, which will run on Battlefield 3‘s Frostbite Engine 3, won’t be out until 2015; presumably to coincide with [...]

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Ouya launch delayed, company secures private funding

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On: 09 May

Today Ouya announced that the launch of their upcoming console has been delayed by three weeks, slipping from June 4th to June 25th. Ouya’s CEO Julie Uhrman says the delay was necessary in order to meet “unanticipated demand” for the new, indie focused console.

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EA to Shut Down Rock Band for iOS and Leave Users in the Dark

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, Handheld, Mobile Phones On: 03 May

With companies pushing digital games over physical copies of games they actively control when can and can not play games which they were previously unable to do with physical copies of games. However,Electronic Arts is making an unclear move now by shutting down their Rock Band game for iOS but that is not stopping them [...]

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Need For Speed: The Run Review – I can has load screen?!

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Reviews, Xbox 360 On: 21 Nov

Electronic Arts yearly installment of their Need for Speed Hot Pursuit-esque racing game has finally come out. The game was originally shown off at E3 and it brought me nothing but joy playing it as an action packed driving game and heavy duty policing to add a nice twist to my racing game addiction. However, [...]

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Battlefield 3 Textures Pack vs. No Textures Pack on Xbox 360

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Console News, Gaming News, Xbox 360 On: 24 Oct

Sometimes I just don’t understand DLC sometimes and why it’s optional / not included in the game and the “optional” textures pack for Battlefield 3 is no different. The video below the break will show that even if you have the 4gb Xbox 360 (don’t know how you live) then you are going to have [...]

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EA Norway Caught Trying To Handpick Favorable Battlefield 3 Reviewers

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 20 Oct

EA is under fire recently after reports from Norwegian video game media outlets sites received a semi-straight forward survey trying to show how they like past Battlefield games. This wouldn’t have been such an issue, if it wasn’t so they would only send the review copies of the game to outlets they felt would be “favorable” to [...]

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[Update]Battlefield 3 Beta Hacked to Show True Potential to Support 250 Players

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, PC On: 02 Oct

The Battlefield 3 beta has been under way for about four days now and already some of EA’s servers have been hacked to support up to 128 players, however, those taking part in those “unofficial servers” could get the ban hammer on their EA account.

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EA CEO Believes Battlefield Can Beat Call Of Duty

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 03 Dec

Electronic Arts has been going after the Call of Duty franchise for sometime, what with their aggressive (if not entirely successful) Medal of Honor reboot. However, it’s not the Medal of Honor series that EA’s top man thinks has the best chance of overtaking Activision’s crown jewel.

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EA: Medal Of Honor Didn’t Meet Our Quality Expectations

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 03 Nov

Well if you have played the game this shouldn’t be a giant surprise to you; Electronic Arts Europe vice president Patrick Soderlund has admitted that the recently released Medal of Honor “didn’t meet our [EA] quality expectations.”

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Zynga’s Value Now Surpasses Electronic Arts

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 26 Oct

Electronic Arts recently splurged on social gaming developer Playfish; but they themselves have now reportedly been eclipsed by the biggest player in the emerging industry — Zynga.

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EA Will Continue To Pursue FPS Game

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 16 Oct

With its 75 MetaCritic score, the recently released Medal of Honor certainly didn’t live up to its hype, but this doesn’t seem to have deterred EA from developing more FPS games.

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Little Big Planet 2 Delayed Until January 18

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 25 Sep

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010, Sony announced a host of PlayStation Move-compatible titles that would be available by the end of the year. Included on that list was Media Molecule’s Little Big Planet 2, the unexpected follow-up to the studio’s hit PlayStation 3-exclusive platformer and user-generated content platform.

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