Judging by an NPD report yesterday, the U.S. video game industry is relatively healthy. We're still growing, up 13% from last January to $1.33 billion dollars for the month. While the lion's share of those dollars are still flowing into Nintendo's coffers, the Xbox 360 still ekes out a very reasonable existence, and Sony's consoles combined [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
EA announced today that "The Godfather II," an upcoming open-world third-person shooter previously slated for February 27th, has now been delayed to April 7th in North America, and April 10 in Europe. EA CEO John Riccitiello originally mentioned the game's delay in an investor's conference call on February 3rd, citing the need for a better launch [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
EA has confirmed it is developing the official tie-in game for Paramount's upcoming live-action G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie, scheduled for release this August. The game will be a continuation of the movie's narrative, blending in elements of the film, Hasbro's original toy line and the popular cartoon. The game will feature a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
We never figured it'd be particularly hard to compare "Dante's Inferno" to "Dead Space" or "God of War." The first two games both come from the same EA Redwood Shores studio, and the first and third have practically the same premise: both are 3rd-person action adventure games that explore an individuals' journey from hell towards [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
At this point in time, nine months after the game's release on PC and more than a year after its Xbox 360 debut, it's hard to believe that BioWare's sci-fi RPG "Mass Effect" is still being patched -- and harder still to imagine that many players have stuck around long enough to care. But according [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
"Burnout Paradise" developer Criterion today announced the last of its Friday DLC reveals for the long-toothed online racing game: the "Cops and Robbers" pack. Readers of the Criterion Games news blog were today directed to another recent "Burnout Paradise" update, the in-game PS3 and PC news feed, where AutoGaming.net found the following words from Criterion:
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
Eight months after the son of "Godfather" author Mario Puzo slapped Paramount Pictures with a one million-dollar-lawsuit, their claims to royalties from EA's "The Godfather" video game have come to an amicable end.
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Though developer EA Black Box has reportedly been dissolved, Electronic Arts was adamant that this would not mean the end of the "Need for Speed" racing franchise. Today, they've made good on their promise with the announcement of not one or two, but four new "Need for Speed" titles in development for FY2009. One's for current-gen [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
Electronic Arts announced today that "BOOM BLOX Bash Party," a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-produced motion-controlled blockbuster, will arrive on Nintendo Wii in spring 2009. Though the game will feature a reported 400 new levels, some of which will play with gravity (space and underwater environments, natch), new team-based challenges, a variety of new blocks and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
"I was totally convinced that game needed to be third-person and not first-person, because I wanted to see Faith," said John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, in an Gamasutra interview earlier this year. “I was really wrong about the third-person thing.” But now, you don't have to take Riccitiello's word for it. If you have the PC [...]
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