Mass Effect 2, BF: Bad Company 2 Coming Q1 2010

Why EA, why? In a conference call earlier on today, it was revealed by EA CEO John Riccitiello that both Mass Effect 2 and a sequel to DICE’s Battlefield: Bad Company would be releasing within the first three months of 2010.
According to Shacknews, who originally reported the story, Riccitiello, during the conference call, said that [...]

Dante’s Inferno Coming In 2010

Electronic Arts announced today that they have decided to change Dante’s Inferno’s release target from within this year to sometime within 2010.
They have also confirmed that Starz Media will be creating an animated feature film based on the title – though no release date for the project has been given. If you remember, Starz Media [...]

BioShock 2 Revealed In 200th PC Gamer Mag

We have been patiently waiting for sometime now, but still they haven been candid on releasing any details on the title. But, now it looks like they plan to change that with the release of the 200th anniversary edition of PC Gamer mag.
In an CVG report it revealed that in the 200th anniversaryedition of PC [...]

Riccitiello: Recession ‘Blessing In Disguise’

At the DICE ‘09 conference, John Riccitiello told the attendees at the conference that the current recession has been ‘a blessing in disguise [so that] we can clear away junk’. Stating that the overall goal from this is that the developers can ’stop sending pointless product to retail stores’. ‘Junk is hard to compete with,’ [...]

Activision Debates Brutal Legend Rights

Well, you know what they say ‘you really never miss something until it’s gone’ and it seems that Activision has got that feeling all over. Although heavy metal roadie fable Brutal Legend was let go in the Activision-Vivendi merger, Activision still thinks that it has all the rights for the game.
According to the industry weblog [...]

The Godfather II Box-Art Revealed

‘The Godfather’, altogether, is one the film industry’s most recognized, and most acclaimed, films and when some in the gaming industry embraces, or finds, that it well make a great game they will go after it. Thus was born The Godfather: The Video Game, the game, being the first game, was a very interesting first [...]

CES ‘09: No Rock Band 3 in 2009

If you were wondering why EA was planning to put their upcoming Beatles/Rock Band hybrid against a number Music games that would be released this year, here’s why.
According to Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopolous, who spoke at a Billboard CES session today, the company will be taking a break from the release cycle of Rock Band [...]

EA Veteran Gets Hired By Infogrames

For some reason EA just can’t seem to keep its head out of the spotlight, but that doesn’t mean that it’s bad thing. Anyway, French publisher Infogrames, who is the parent of Atari, announced today that an EA Veteran, that was most likely recently laid off, has join their distribution team.
According to GameDaily, Jackie Fromion [...]

Need for Speed Studio Is Officially Closed [Updated]

Before you start reading please take note that the story has been updated below.

Independently, Black Box Studio was a great studio that produced many great games for one of the industry dominant publishers, EA – which is also a developer. There was a rumor going around that the company had plans to close Black Box [...]

Mirror’s Edge Sequel Still Likely

Well, this holiday season isn’t as white as it should of been for video game publisher and developer EA, but besides all of its problems they processed to try an fulfill the needs of their Mirror’s Edge fans.
Yesterday, EA confirmed that Mirror’s Edge will be seeing a follow-up, but on the downside, it’s sad to [...]