Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Arts’
By John Walker on August 16th, 2011.
The headline says it all, really. The single-player game of Battlefield 3, which hasn’t had much attention so far, will be playable with a chum. The demonstration was shown on PS3, meaning it looked nowhere near as good as the trailer that followed, with the two developers pretending to not know what they were doing (and to be playing). They totally rescued a hostage! They drove a tank together! They revived each other! But there you go – co-op. In Battlefield 3. Got it? Good. And new screenshots! Added below.
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Battlefield 3, Co-op, Dice, Electronic Arts, Gamescom 2011.
By John Walker on August 16th, 2011.
Freshly announced at Gamescom from EA comes Warhammer Online: Wrath Of Heroes. It’s an attempt by Mythic to take their MMO tech and reinvent it as a three-way, 6 v 6 v 6 battle game. It will also be free-to-play. The graphics are changed, with a more cel-shaded theme, which you can see in the trailer below.
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Electronic Arts, Gamescom 2011, mythic, Warhammer Online: Wrath Of Heroes.
By Alec Meer on July 27th, 2011.
Oh, I hope this isn’t a sign of a dark, headline-writing times to come. I don’t want to spend the rest of 2011 writing ‘Game X Gone From Steam’ every other day. The latest departure from the packed ranks of Steam is EA and Bioware’s Dragon Age II – and right on the eve of the launch of its new DLC Legacy.
Something which may be no coincidence.
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Dragon Age II, Dragon Age II: Legacy, Electronic Arts, origin, Steam.
By John Walker on July 27th, 2011.
EA did one of their financial phonecalls last night. I’m so glad I don’t have to do those, telling lots of people I don’t know that I spent all my money on gadgets and Chinese takeaway. But within their announcements that The Old Republic is out-pre-ordering even Battlefield 3, there was one even juicier tidbit of information. When measured by EA’s non-GAAP accounting methods, PC is making them more money than either console.
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Electronic Arts, financial nonsense, PC is best.
By Alec Meer on July 22nd, 2011.
Riding high on the wave of fan contentment generated by news that upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will absurdly cost between £45 and £130 (depending on which increasingly bonus-fatted version you want), EA/Bioware have dropped some more major news. Hopefully, this one isn’t quite so distressing.
Eurogamer brings word from EA of the closest we’ve had yet to a release date – “the second half of 2011.”
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Bioware, Electronic Arts, MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star-Wars.
By John Walker on July 21st, 2011.
Those keen-eyed newshawks at VG247 have spotted seven minutes of Battlefield 3 footage posted on YouTube, via BF3Blog. It’s a leak, and EA will surely stamp on it faster than an elephant doing a do-si-do, so look below as fast as your fingers can carry you.
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Battlefield 3, Electronic Arts, footage, leak.
By John Walker on July 21st, 2011.
Update: GAME are now selling the Collector’s Edition for… £130!
Yesterday’s leak of the Star Wars: The Old Republic special edition has proven, not surprisingly, to be accurate. With ComicCon starting today, EA have somewhat pre-empted their in-show announcement by going official with the various packages on their site, perhaps in response to the rumours that swirled yesterday. However, while confirming everything that was expected (including that spunky mouse), they’ve yet to add a proper price to it all, despite claiming you can pre-order now. And as for the regular versions – the prices out there are looking ridiculous.
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Bioware, Electronic Arts, pre-order, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
By John Walker on July 20th, 2011.
How much do you think you’d pay for Star Wars: The Old Republic? Signs point toward BioWare/EA opting for an old-school subscription model, as well as charging for a boxed copy of the game to start – so very 2007. So, perhaps £30 for the game and £8-£10 a month thereafter? You’d be happy with that? Well, some rumours revealed by NeoGAF, as posted on BetaCake, seem to suggest you could opt to pay an awful lot more for a special edition. A special edition with an awful lot of stuff.
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Bioware, Electronic Arts, rumour, spunky mouse, Star Wars: The Old Republic, swtor.
By John Walker on July 18th, 2011.
Forget about the blah blah Modern Warfare 3 site battle yawnwhocaresfest. There’s some important news (via CVG) that’s come out of the Battlefield 3 camp: a novelisation by none other than Andy McNab. OH YES. Read on for RPS’s world exclusive and completely false excerpt!
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Andy McNab is way bigger than me, Battlefield 3, Electronic Arts.
By John Walker on July 13th, 2011.
EA’s latest wave of games having their internets switched off only grazes the PC this time. Beyond the demo for Battlefield 2142, the only PC title in there is 2005′s Need For Speed: Most Wanted. The full list is below, with the PC games in bold. Thanks to Eurogamer, from whom I’m wantonly stolen the list.
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Electronic Arts, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Online Shutdowns.
By John Walker on July 12th, 2011.
Further proof that you should believe every rumour you read comes with the non-shock news that EA have bought PopCap. Perhaps the real shock here is for how much: $750 million.
Man, Simon PopCap and family are rich tonight!
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Electronic Arts, financial times, PopCap, why I should work for a business paper.
