EA are the devil blah blah blah ripping us off blah underhand business practices blah blah won’t someone think of the children blah de bloody blah. Shut up, stop moaning and listen to yourselves for for a minute. In the past week the astonishing act of trying to make money once again shocked gamers to their cores as EA once [...]
Christmas is not far around the corner and with that comes the video game release rush – all the big names staking their claim for the biggest success over the holiday period. Whilst Electronic Arts have their yearly sports releases, THQ have their own baby – the WWE franchise. Indeed, since securing the rights to WWE in 2000, there has [...]
A few weeks ago I was invited down to EA’s Guildford headquarters and plied with soft drinks and cookies to preview Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. This new open-world RPG comes from Big Huge Games and 38 Studios. Traditionally a strategy house (Rise of Nations, Catan), Reckoning is their first foray into role-playing games. With hugely successful creators involved, like R. [...]
Bioware and LucasArts have announced on both their twitter feed and website a change to the release date of their highly anticipated MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game will now launch worldwide on the 20th December 2011, with the European release date having been pushed forward 2 days.
Sony Ericsson have announced that Xperia PLAY owners can now download the following 4 EA games for free: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Need For Speed: Shift Dead Space Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit To download the games, simply open the Xperia PLAY icon on your phone and you should see the 4 EA games listed amongst other stuff like Minecraft. [...]
Recently at Gamescom 2011 I got to play a pre-alpha build of Battlefield 3: Aftershock running on an iPad. As DICE is a little bit busy finishing off the blockbuster PC, 360 and PS3 versions of Battlefield 3, Digital Legends is in charge, the developer behind the iOS versions of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. If you’ve ever played Dead Space [...]
Afternoon all. Here’s a mix of news from yesterday and today, because I forgot to post it last night. D’oh! More news coming later, thanks to this morning’s Nintendo press conference at the Tokyo Game Show. Eurogamer Expo: Microsoft have finally announced their line-up for the expo. These are the games that will be playable: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Forza [...]
At E3 2011 I talked with Drew Hahn, community manager for the Need for Speed games to ask him about the balance between the driving / on-foot sections in Need For Speed: The Run and the Autolog system which has become such a big feature of the Need For Speed franchise. Has the addition of the on-foot sections really turned [...]
Yep, it’s news time… Battlefield 3: The Battlefield 3 beta will be taking place during September 2011. At the moment access to this beta is limited to people who have bought the Medal of Honor Limited Edition. You can also keep an eye on EA’s Battlefield 3 beta page for more information. Avatar Kinect: Available as the newest gadget in [...]
On the day that witnessed the final launch of the Space Shuttle program, what better way to end it than with some top gaming news. Eric Chahi, Naughty Dog’s Lead Game Designer Richard Lemarchand and thatgamecompany’s Robin Hunicke will all be presenting their games at this year’s Gamecity 6 videogames festival which takes place in Nottingham between 25th – 29th [...]
This morning I got a press release from EA promoting their latest competition; the chance for two female gamers from the UK and Ireland to win a job as spokesperson on Need for Speed: The Run. It is nice to see that EA are thinking about their female fans, even though I’m not personally a supporter of positive discrimination. Hot [...]
All the major players in the games industry have a media briefing/press conference before E3 starts on the 7th June at 12pm. Microsoft’s event starts the ball rolling on the morning of the 6th June 2011 (or 17:30 BST) followed by EA, Ubisoft and Sony’s 5-hour monster press conference at 1am BST on the 7th June 2011. Nintendo has its [...]
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