If you were jumping up and down about yesterday’s “Dungeon Keeper” MMO announcement, you might want to read this.
The franchise had been dormant since “Dungeon Keeper 2″ was released in 1999, but rights holder Electronic Arts recently granted the license to Chinese MMO developer NetDragon for a “Dungeon Keeper” MMO specifically targeted at the Asian [...]

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Electronic Arts has apparently learned its lesson, realizing that its seemingly endless parade of sequels and spinoffs is far from the best way to march into our hearts. In fact, Glenn Schofield, the general manager at Dead Space developer EA Redwood Shores, tells Variety that more than half of the company’s ongoing development efforts will [...]

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Gametrailers has put together a very comprehensive retrospective on Fallout that fans will very much enjoy, and neophytes will find educational. The 15-minute video covers the entire history of games set in post-apocalyptic environs, beginning with 1986’s Wasteland, by Electronic Arts and Interplay. Then comes a very detailed look at the first two Fallouts, plus [...]

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Space is a frightening place, even without the monsters; a soundless, airless void where nothing can survive. Even in the most well-fortified spaceship, you’re still moments away from death. Science fiction movies and novels have explored this primal fear on numerous occasions, with classics films like Alien capitalizing on the fact that the only [...]

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Electronic Arts’ recently released survival horror game Dead Space is, after Boom Blox, Spore, and Army of Two, the fourth game the publisher released this year that was built on an entirely new IP — and there’s still Mirror’s Edge on the way in November. For a company that has become inexorably linked to licensed [...]

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Obviously, when any new massively multiplayer game hits the market, there’s no avoiding the fact that it’s competing with World of Warcraft. But with the recently announced Star Wars: The Old Republic, Electronic Arts and LucasArts are not only accepting the competition, they’re welcoming it — and they’re using some fightin’ words to do so.
“We [...]

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In a move that isn’t likely to shock readers of this website, EA’s Frank Gibeau recently told Variety that Electronic Arts is planning sequels to Battlefield: Bad Company, and Army of Two. Dead Space executive producer Glenn Schofield also confirmed that a Dead Space sequel is in the works as well. Dead Space [...]

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Electronic Arts and Midway have shelved their competing arcade-style basketball franchises, as ESPN reports that both NBA Street and NBA Ballers have been benched.
Regarding NBA Street, EA Sports boss Peter Moore explains to ESPN that the division is reevaluating its mixture of licensed and original IP, adding that “we need to [...]

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Electronic Arts and Midway have shelved their competing arcade-style basketball franchises, as ESPN reports that both NBA Street and NBA Ballers have been benched.
Regarding NBA Street, EA Sports boss Peter Moore explains to ESPN that the division is reevaluating its mixture of licensed and original IP, adding that “we need to [...]

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Electronic Arts and Midway have shelved their competing arcade-style basketball franchises, as ESPN reports that both NBA Street and NBA Ballers have been benched.
Regarding NBA Street, EA Sports boss Peter Moore explains to ESPN that the division is reevaluating its mixture of licensed and original IP, adding that “we need to [...]

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Space is a frightening place, even without the monsters; a soundless, airless void where nothing can survive. Even in the most well-fortified spaceship, you’re still moments away from death. Science fiction movies and novels have explored this primal fear on numerous occasions, with classics films like Alien capitalizing on the fact that the only [...]

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Electronic Arts announced this morning that an Army of Two movie is on the way!
The flick will be produced by Universal Pictures, EA and Scott Stuber beginning in 2009. Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, who co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum, will adapt the game for the screen. No stars or director have been announced as of yet, but here’s how the [...]

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Next week’s Rock Band and Rock Band 2 downloadable content comes from way out of left field. A track pack featuring eighties proto-punk-goth legends Siouxsie and the Banshees will be yours to jam along with next week. And there’s more: A track each from Blink 182 and Psychedelic Furs as well as two Silversun Pickups songs.
Here’s [...]

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While Take-Two chairman, Strauss Zelnick, may be the king of Men’s Fitness right now, there’s one place where he’s not so revered at the moment: Jim Cramer’s Mad Money. If you’ve ever flipped over to CNBC, odds are you’ve seen Cramer bring a wild amount of drama to the unlikely topic of stock trading. Part [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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I firmly believe that the most important aspect of a skateboarding title is its soundtrack. There was a point in time where my MP3 collection consisted solely of music from Activision’s Tony Hawk series, and now EA has revealed the soundtrack for both Skate 2 and Skate It, consisting mainly of songs I already [...]

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Electronic Arts and Midway have shelved their competing arcade-style basketball franchises, as ESPN reports that both NBA Street and NBA Ballers have been benched.
Regarding NBA Street, EA Sports boss Peter Moore explains to ESPN that the division is reevaluating its mixture of licensed and original IP, adding that “we need to [...]

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The E3 Media and Business Summit is dead. Long live the E3 Expo, which returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2nd to 4th next year, with “all qualified computer and video game industry audiences, including international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners” in tow.
That means we should expect big [...]

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The E3 Media and Business Summit is dead. Long live the E3 Expo, which returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2nd to 4th next year, with “all qualified computer and video game industry audiences, including international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners” in tow.
That means we should expect big [...]

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The E3 Media and Business Summit is dead. Long live the E3 Expo, which returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2nd to 4th next year, with “all qualified computer and video game industry audiences, including international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners” in tow.
That means we should expect big [...]

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Electronic Arts has named Steve Jablonsky as the man setting the musical tone for The Sims 3. Jablonsky was recently honored with a BMI Film Music Award for his contribution to the soundtrack for Transformers. He also includes the soundtrack to Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath in his repertoire.
Since Sims 3 takes place in [...]

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The E3 Media and Business Summit is dead. Long live the E3 Expo, which returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2nd to 4th next year, with “all qualified computer and video game industry audiences, including international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners” in tow.
That means we should expect big [...]

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Composer Gerald Willis is suing Electronic Arts for using the University of Nevada Las Vegas fight song in ten different EA Sports titles without permission. Willis has held the copyright for the song “Win With the Rebels” since 1990. EA never approached him about using the fight song, although it’s used in NCAA Basketball 2009, [...]

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It may seem like publisher Electronic Arts is giving all the MMORPG love to PCs lately with Mythic’s Warhammer Online and the upcoming BioWare MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. However, EA executive Frank Gibeau said that both titles are "under consideration" for home console versions.
In Gibeau’s interview with EuroGamer, he said:
"We’ve got this product, [...]

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Gerald Willis, who composed the University of Nevada Las Vegas fight song “Win With the Rebels,” has filed suit against Electronics Arts over the company’s commercial use of his song in ten video games. The NCAA licensed titles under contention include NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, NCAA March Madness and NCAA Baseball series, spanning from 2005 [...]

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Filed under: PC, Online, RPGs, MMO

Looks like someone snuck in ahead of everyone else! Don’t even pretend you’re surprised. Before today’s LucasArts and BioWare press conference, IGN and Gamespot let slip Star Wars: The Old Republic — you know, the MMO based on BioWare’s massively successful Knights of the Old Republic series whose name was [...]

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Third-party megapublisher Electronic Arts was sued for copyright infringement involving the company’s NCAA sports games series. The publisher allegedly used an official University of Las Vegas team anthem without composer Gerald Willis’s permission. Willis, who works as a high school music teacher, now demands $1.5 million USD from EA.
The plaintiff claims that he heard the [...]

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Filed under: PC, Online, RPGs, MMO

Looks like someone snuck in ahead of everyone else! Don’t even pretend you’re surprised. Before today’s LucasArts and BioWare press conference, IGN and Gamespot let slip Star Wars: The Old Republic — you know, the MMO based on BioWare’s massively successful Knights of the Old Republic series whose name was [...]

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Just a few moments ago, LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez confirmed their rumored collaboration with BioWare for a “Star Wars” PC MMO.
It’s called “Star Wars: The Old Republic.”

“There’s been some rumors recently in the past few months,” joked BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka. “We thought about ‘Howard the Duck’ MMO, but maybe that’s a little too [...]

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