Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Arts’

Battlefield 3 to Carry a Boatload of Foul Language
Friday, May 27th, 2011

Electronic Arts has had a strong hand in the first-person shooter market for the past decade with its Battlefield series. Part of its excellence has come from the war-replicating audio that has brought the war experience to life. It’s only natural that this quality carries over to the upcoming title, Battlefield 3.

Battlefield Wake Island Comparison Shows Just How Far Games Have Come
Saturday, May 21st, 2011

Battlefield 3 has been one of the hottest online topics during the past couple of months, primarily due to some outstanding trailers that EA has released. One of the major underlying factors for the hype is that the game looks visually stellar in its current form, with animations, lighting, textures, and effects all impressing to [...]

Canadian Videogame Awards Show Results From Vancouver
Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Bioware/Electronics Arts walked away from the second annual Canadian Videogame Awards in Vancouver last night with four awards for Mass Effect 2 including the shows highest honor, Game of the Year. Ubisoft Montreal’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood was the only other multi-award winner taking the top spots in the categories of Best Audio and Best Visual Arts.

Madden NFL 12′s Franchise Mode Fully Detailed
Monday, May 16th, 2011

EA Sports’ Madden NFL series has long been one of the most popular in video games. In fact a June 2008 article appearing in Forbes Magazine listed the Top 10 best selling video games to that date and the Madden NFL series took four of the ten spots (coming in at positions three, five, seven and ten. For those interested, [...]

New Shadows of the Damned Screens Are Action-Packed
Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Shadows of the Damned, an upcoming survival horror game, originally begin life as a vague concept by Goichi “Suda51” Suda (of Killer7 fame). Originally announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2010, it was finally given a release date at GDC this past March. We’ve got some new screenshots that will show you just how bizarre [...]

E3 2011 Show Floor Plan in Detail
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

It’s that wonderful time of the year again – less than one month until the annual Superbowl of videogame industry tradeshows, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 for short. Wondering where your favorite developers and publishers are exhibiting in this gigantic show? Find out after the jump.

ESRB Reveals Burnout Crash! Details
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

You may not even be familiar with the title Burnout Crash! yet, and we wouldn’t blame you, since the ESRB has just revealed the largest chunk of details on the game yet.

EA Dominates Metacritic, Boasts Multi-Million Selling Franchises
Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Financial figures released by Game Publishers aren’t always the most exciting thing to read, and EA must think the same thing.  Early this week,  the company highlighted what matters most to gamers: Are EA’s games any good?

Enjoy Mass Effect 3 Gameplay Screens to Help Ease the Painful Delay
Friday, May 6th, 2011

Chances are you were majorly disappointed yesterday when Casey Hudson announced a delay for Mass Effect 3. If this is the first time you’ve heard about it, sorry for ruining your day. BioWare’s trilogy ending title was previously one of the most anticipated video games of the year, following in the successful footsteps of two [...]

Mass Effect 3 Won’t Be a Walk in the Park
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

Mass Effect 2 showed PlayStation 3 gamers what all the fuss was about when it finally hit Sony’s platform in January, and will be a tough act to follow for its successor later this year. Mass Effect 3 is one of the biggest releases of 2011, and given that it’s the finale for an award-winning [...]

Dead Space 3 is Currently in the Lab; Visceral Games is Hiring
Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Survival horror has evolved rapidly over the years, and while Resident Evil was the undisputed king roughly a decade ago, that crown now belongs to Dead Space. Visceral Games shocked the industry back in 2008 with the original Dead Space, which arrived in a timely fashion when its genre was in a severe slump. Since [...]

Memory Insufficiency Blamed for Crysis 2′s Subdued Console Versions
Saturday, April 16th, 2011

It’s no secret that the Crysis series is the cream of the crop when it comes to graphical quality. It was surprising to see a sequel to 2007′s Crysis, a game so graphically intense that it took years for PC hardware to become available that would run it on maximum settings at HD resolution, make [...]

Muffling Tiger Woods Propels PGA Tour 12 to Sales Victory
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

For the first time in history, EA Sports launched a Tiger Woods PGA Tour title that didn’t include a giant picture of Tiger Woods along with his name in big letters on the cover. Instead, the golf simulation series added and showcased The Masters, a golf tournament unlike any other. Was this a smart move [...]

New Burnout Title Spotted, Billboards Everywhere Cringe
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Criterion Games‘ last entry in their long-running Burnout series of reckless racers was Burnout Paradise, released in 2008 (though supported well through 2009 with updates). The developer took a detour and developed Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and it looks like they may finally be ready to return to their revered flagship franchise.

PS3 Review – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Tiger Woods is back, and this time he’s after the prestigious Green Jacket…