Never doubt the power of cross-marketing popular franchises. Electronic Arts and Microsoft today announced a partnership with Mojang to merge the worlds of Mass Effect and Minecraft into something completely new and unique. The first-ever Mash-up pack add-on for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Why is EA involved, you ask? Because the DLC will be none […]
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The jury in a lawsuit brought against Electronic Arts (EA) regarding its Madden NFL franchise ruled yesterday that the game’s original programmer is owed royalties on the Madden NFL games published by EA. By ruling in the plaintiff’s favor, the jury awarded Robin Antonick a multi-million-dollar judgment and set the stage for another phase of
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E3 2013 provided some phenomenal sights, sounds and experiences thanks to the upcoming launch of the PS4 and Xbox One. Yet identifying the best games of E3 can’t really be done on the last day of the show or the following week. With all the big screens and bigger marketing campaigns, it’s too tempting to
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Insomniac Games has expanded well beyond the Ratchet & Clank franchise during this console generation, beginning with the PS3’s Resistance: Fall of Man and continuing with their newest game, Fuse. Published by EA, Fuse marks Insomniac’s most public multiplatform escapade, shipping on Xbox 360 in addition to the developer’s traditional PlayStation home. But even with
Forza Motorsport 5 and The Crew got a lot of attention at E3, but I couldn’t resist the all-out arcade fun of Need for Speed Rivals. I’ve been a fan of the NFS series for years now, and Rivals looks to put the NFS series on steroids. For 15 minutes of behind-closed-doors time at E3,
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Battlefield 4 needs no introduction – unless you’re talking to gamers who are more enamored with single-player games than multiplayer ones. In that case, BF4 — if not the entire Battlefield franchise — may very well be foreign ground. Much like the Call of Duty series, the Battlefield games have a massive multiplayer following and
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No matter what outsiders may say, E3 should be taken seriously. Booths cost millions of dollars, events cost hundreds of thousands, and the stability of half-finished video games could make or break the careers of hundreds of family-wage developers. Maybe it’s that very pressure that causes such funny things to be said. It’s important to
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Microsoft in its E3 media briefing said the Xbox One will release “this November” for $499, and Sony indicated in its E3 media briefing that the PlayStation 4 (PS4) will release “this holiday” for $399. Neither company announced a specific release date for its respective console, but did one of their valued partners accidentally release
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The survival-horror genre gets such a bad rap these days that it’s tempting to overlook them for games with a frantic gunplay, co-op multiplayer elements, customizable weapons or … wait, that’s actually what Dead Space 3 offers. Not often one to take franchise risks, EA made a massive gamble years ago on an untested studio
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EA may be known for the phrase “it’s in the game,” but the game publisher’s CEO is no longer living that motto. EA CEO John Riccitiello today turned in in letter of resignation, with his last day at the helm of Electronic Arts being March 30. Larry Probst, taking the temporary position of Executive Chairman,
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