Post Tagged with: "Electronic Arts"

by / on May 24, 2013 at 11:48 am / in Featured News, News

EA Confirms SimCity Amusement Park Expansion

Earlier this month, a leak revealed SimCity’s next expansion but EA never confirmed the leak; until today. EA has just confirmed that amusement parks will be coming to SimCity as DLC on May 28th. At this point in time there is no pricing information available. Amusement parks have to be built and organizing it is almost a game in-and-of itself. [...]

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 4:01 pm / in Featured News, News

EA to Support Current-Gen Consoles to 2017

With the unveiling of both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, questions have been raised concerning the remaining life of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. During the Stifel 2013 Tech Conference, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said Electronic Arts plans on supporting current-gen consoles until 2017. This makes sense considering the massive install-base the current generation has. What do you [...]

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 11:00 am / in Featured News, News

Need for Speed: Rivals Announced for PS4 and Xbox One

EA’s newest studio, Ghost Games, has come forward and revealed what they’ve been working on. That game is Need for Speed: Rivals and it will be coming out in November for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, current-gen versions will be available sooner. The game is being worked on at Ghost Games but Criterion Games is collaborating on the [...]

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by / on May 22, 2013 at 10:45 am / in Featured News, News

Rumor: Pack Art for Battlefield 4 May Reveal PS4 & Xbox One Style

Pre-orders for Battlefield 4 have gone live, and surprisingly, PS4 and Xbox One placeholders were shown which may have given us our first look at what game boxes for both formats might look like. While these placeholders have not been confirmed as the final box design, it may give us some details. Take a look at the image and let us [...]

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by / on May 20, 2013 at 2:34 pm / in Featured News, News

Kingdoms of Amalur IP Generating Interest

As part of the agreement between 38 Studios Bankruptcy Filing and the State of Rhode Island, the Kingdoms of Amalur IP is currently for sale. Luckily for Curt Schilling, the IP offering is generating some interest among a few unnamed sources. This is particularly important to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios because they are on the hook for $130 million [...]

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by / on May 20, 2013 at 12:00 pm / in Featured News, News

Plants vs Zombies Adventures Hits Facebook

PopCap’s smash hit Plants vs Zombies has officially launched today after the closed beta ended last week. If you want to play the game for free, go to the page here. If you were a fan of the original game, you’ll be happy to know that there is more to this version of the game. There are ten new zombie types, new [...]

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by / on May 15, 2013 at 11:00 am / in Featured News, News

EA Announces New LA-Based Studio for DICE to Focus on Star Wars

EA has announced a new LA-based branch of Battlefield developer DICE that will focus on creating Star Wars games. The exact games this new studio will create is still up in the air, but it is open to creating brand-new Star Wars games or even continuing old ones. This new “Star Wars” studio will join EA’s Danger Close which is [...]

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by / on May 8, 2013 at 2:27 pm / in Featured News, News

EA Registers Domains for Battlefield 13 to 20

In an effort to future-proof the franchise, EA has registered domains for Battlefield 13 to 20. EA hired a brand protection company called Corporations Service Company (CSC) to do the domain registering just under a week ago.  EA already owned the domains for Battlefield 2 to 9. Unfortunately, none of the websites are functional, but when Battlefield 13 comes out sometime [...]

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by / on May 7, 2013 at 11:30 am / in Featured News, News

Gears of Wars Head Marketer to Lead Halo Marketing Campaign

Formerly of Epic Games, Kendall Boyd has moved on to become the Chief Marketer of the Halo franchise. Boyd served as Director of Marketing for the Gears of War franchise in 2010. To get an idea of how he got his position, let’s analyze his resume. During his tenure at Epic, Boyd not only oversaw the marketing of Unreal Engine: key games [...]

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by / on May 6, 2013 at 4:30 pm / in Featured News, News

EA and Disney Sign Exclusive Deal for Star Wars Games

EA and Disney have just come together to sign a multi-year deal that would allow EA to publish Star Wars games. EA has already decided that Visceral, DICE and BioWare will release their own games based on the Star Wars universe. No further details were provided, but you can rest assured that more information will be coming soon. Let us [...]

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