Posts Tagged ‘EA’
Written by Chip Loan on 15 February 2010
EA’s skateboarding sim Skate knocked Tony Hawk off his pedestal (sorry Tony but your last few games were garbage) back in 2007 and hasn’t look back since. It’s kept gamers and skateboarding fans flicking their analog sticks and injuring thumbs with it’s sequel Skate 2. Now EA is getting us all riled up again with [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 10 February 2010
It looks like EA is finally going to pull the plug on it’s struggling NCAA Basketball franchise. The series has had dismal sales in the last five or so years (not that it was ever hugely popular) and hasn’t kept critics or fans impressed either. The game was glaringly vacant from the publisher’s financial filing [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 01 February 2010
EA is spending some serious cash to get the word out on their upcoming release Dante’s Inferno. And that trend will continue when they showcase a spot in this weekend’s Super Bowl match up between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. Estimates have a regular 30 second spot during Sunday’s game costing around [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 28 January 2010
It’s official, EA has released a multiplayer demo for their upcoming release Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the Xbox Live Marketplace. From today until February 25th (almost a full month!) you’ll be able to enjoy playing “Rush Mode” on the Port Valdez map. The download will hog about 1.4 GB of your memory but I’m [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 18 January 2010
Earlier this week word spread that EA Sports was working on a Wii version of the über successful basketball game NBA Jam from back in the day. If you were like me than your imagination went postal trying to conjure up what the new game will look like. Well you can give your brain a [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 21 July 2009
Pandemic Studio’s stylistic 1940′s spyfest makes the short list of games NOT to be delayed until 2010. In fact it’ll be around just in time to wreak havoc under your Christmas tree. The Saboteur takes place in a Nazi occupied Paris. It’s up to you, the French resistance and other allies to fight and back [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 17 July 2009
The only officially licensed NFL game you can buy has gone gold…can you believe it! Yes Madden NFL 10 pre-order numbers are quickly climbing, and as an act of good faith from EA Sports a demo is on the way. Of course those of you who pre-ordered the game at GameStop are already privied to [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 15 July 2009
It’s been less then a month since Battlefield Heroes came out of beta and was officially released on June 25. And now comes news that EA’s free to play browser based game has passed the one million player mark. Not bad. “The team is really proud to have hit one million registrations at this early [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 14 July 2009
In less than a week over 43 million people found themselves on the wrong end of a gun while playing Battlefield 1943. The good news? At least getting butchered unlocked the new Coral Sea map along with the new Air Superiority mode. This new map and mode will give you carrier campers a serious hard-on. [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 08 July 2009
Someone at EA UK had a little too much coffee today. Maybe making their index finger to spasm and cause a pre-mature tweet? Earlier today I got a tweet from their account officially announcing Command & Conquer 4. Unfortunately when I went back to check their Twitter account the update had already been deleted. I [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 06 July 2009
A little over a week ago EA released it’s free to play game Battlefield Heroes to almost no fanfare (at least on EA’s part). But for a free to play game the overall experience is surprisingly deep and fun. A quick look at the game and you might think that the cartoonish styling is a [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 04 May 2009
EA Sports announced today that they will be pushing up the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis to coincide the the June 8th release of the Wii MotionPlus. EA’s Todd Sitrin had this to say: “Fans deserve great games that use the new accessory, and now they’ll have two that [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 24 April 2009
EA dropped some news on us today about the latest game in the Madden franchise. This year two players will be featured on the cover. And both defense and offense will be represented. Both firsts for the franchise. Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald were the players tapped for the [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 23 April 2009
The four covers for EA’s NCAA Football 10 have been released. Why four covers you ask? Each platform is getting a different athlete on the cover. Here’s the list: Brian Orakpo – University of Texas (PS2) Mark Sanchez – USC (PSP) Brian Johnson – Utah (PS3) Michael Crabtree – Texas Tech (Xbox 360) [Continue]
Written by Chip Loan on 21 April 2009
Yes that’s right. Finally we have a set date to get our grubby little fingers on this game. The EA title will drop on October 13 (insert cheesy Rocktober phrase if you’d like because we won’t) in North America. Get your leather jacket and other cliche’ rock attire ready! // [Continue]