Posts Tagged ‘EA’

Sep
0

Stationed on a military base? You won’t be buying Medal of Honor easily

Written by Phil Meza posted under Games,Industry,News,PC,PS3,Xbox 360
Stationed on a military base? You won’t be buying Medal of Honor easily

In a surprising move today, the Army and Air Force Exchange Services has confirmed that EA’s Medal of Honor will not be stocked in any videogame retail store located on a military base. The AAFES requested that the 49 GameStops around or on U.S. bases (as well shopmyexchange.com) pull the shooter, due to its inclusion [...]

Aug
0

Criterion pitched “stunt racer” Need For Speed: Split Second to EA

Written by Phil Meza posted under Games,Industry,News,PS3,Xbox 360
Criterion pitched “stunt racer” Need For Speed: Split Second to EA

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit will, hopefully, be the long-overdue return to the franchise’s roots that gamers have been wanting for years, and we have Burnout developers Criterion Games to thank. In the latest issue of GamesTM (via GamerZines), though, the studio reveals that Hot Pursuit isn’t the first time they attempted to create an [...]

Aug
1

Gamescom: EA deploys new screens for Medal of Honor

Written by Phil Meza posted under Events,Galleries,Games,News,PC,PS3,Xbox 360
Gamescom: EA deploys new screens for Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor is just one of the three big shooters competing for your time and dollars this fall, and the modern-day reboot is definitely shaping up well. The Danger Close Games/DICE joint effort might not topple the Call of Duty or Halo juggernauts, but it could very well snatch a good portion of the [...]

Aug
0

Gamescom: Dead Space 2 screens bring the “OMFG what is that?!”

Written by Phil Meza posted under Events,Galleries,Games,News,PC,PS3,Xbox 360
Gamescom: Dead Space 2 screens bring the “OMFG what is that?!”

Issac Clarke. In space. Blowing up creatures. Need you know anything else toget you more pumped to play Dead Space 2? Visceral Games’ new demo of the sequel at Gamescom centered around Issac journeying out into zero gravity to repair some solar panels, and then getting his ass back to Mars the Sprawl while encountering [...]

Aug
0

Gamescom: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows uses Kinect, looks magically awkward

Written by Phil Meza posted under Events,Games,News,Xbox 360
Gamescom: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows uses Kinect, looks magically awkward

Rumored just a month ago, Electronic Arts revealed to the public at Gamescom that November’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will let aspiring wizards of all ages use their hands to wave invisible wands, via the magic of Xbox Kinect. The publisher revealed the hands-free mode by having James and Oliver Phelps, [...]

Aug
0

Three new Syndicate trademarks filed for by EA

Written by Phil Meza posted under Games,Industry,News,PC,PS3,Xbox 360
Three new Syndicate trademarks filed for by EA

EA’s trio of copyrights relating to the upcoming reboot of Syndicate were discovered earlier this year, followed by an OFLC rating, and now we have a set of proper trademarks to back up the still-unannounced project. The publisher filed for three Syndicate trademarks with the USPTO this month, associated with “Entertainment services, namely, providing an [...]

Aug
0

Dead Space film director talks script, says it’s “almost a prequel”

Written by Phil Meza posted under Games,Movies,News,PC,PS3,Xbox 360
Dead Space film director talks script, says it’s “almost a prequel”

The situation surrounding the live-action Dead Space movie has gone dark in the last year, but speaking with MTV , director D.J. Caruso has shed a bit more light on the horrific (hopefully not because of its quality) big screen venture. Caruso, director of Eagle Eye and Disturbia, snagged the Dead Space project last summer, [...]

Aug
0

EA announces Need for Speed: SHIFT 2, The Sims Medieval

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EA announces Need for Speed: SHIFT 2, The Sims Medieval

All-but confirmed for a while now, EA officially revealed the existence of a sequel to Need for Speed: SHIFT (pictured) today during their financial report. SHIFT 2, developed by Slightly Mad Studios, is on the docket for Q4/early 2011, or sometime between January and March of next year. The same period in which Crysis 2 [...]

Aug
0

Dead Space: Sabotage domain secured by EA

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Dead Space: Sabotage domain secured by EA

EA has gone on record saying that the lead-up to Dead Space 2 would be chock-full of various tie-in material, and a new domain registration looks to have outed yet another. XBLA/PSN mini-game Dead Space: Ignition is due later this year, followed shortly by animated film Dead Space: Aftermath and and comic Dead Space: Salvage, [...]