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The next instalment in the EA-owned Firemonkey’s Real Racing series is going to be free to play. A release date of February 28th has also been confirmed for Real Racing 3 on iOS devices. It should also hit Google Play and Amazon Appstore on the same day. It’s a stark …
Read More »EA on the fence about pre-owned; Next-gen not backwards compatible; Market will never be 100% digital
Publisher EA has admitted that it would in some ways like to see an end to pre-owned games, but has also admitted that the market could suffer were they to vanish. That’s according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Technology …
Read More »Used games can be good for industry, says EA CFO
What's good for retail helps publishers argues Blake Jorgensen
Read More »EA keeping next-gen R&D under $100m
Publisher to maintain a tight focus for new consoles, says CFO Blake Jorgensen
Read More »BioWare founders to receive lifetime achievement awards
Founders behind the Mass Effect studio to be honoured at GDCAs
Read More »EA Origin nears 40 million users
Digital distribution platform makes way to Mac
Read More »Origin approaches 40m users as Mac client goes live
EA’s digital download service Origin is approaching 40m registered users across PC and iOS. A decent jump, that, from the 30m registered users it reported in October 2012. Around 500 titles are currently available on Origin including key EA exclusives such as Battlefield 3 and the upcoming Crysis 3. Interestingly, …
Read More »Dead Space 3 claims simple No.1
EA’s action horror title Dead Space 3 has, in the words of UKIE GfK Chart-Track, comfortably” claimed the No.1 spot this week. Nonetheless, sales of the game tracked 26.2 per cent lower than its predecessor Dead Space 2, which also claimed No.1. The Xbox 360 version of the new title …
Read More »BioWare: Don’t think of the next Mass Effect as Mass Effect 4
The Mass Effect game currently in development will not star Commander Shepard and will likely not be a prequel or a sequel to the existing trilogy. "To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," …
Read More »Metacritic names EA as 2012’s top publisher
EA has been named as the most critically successful publisher of 2012 by reviews aggregation site Metacritic. The report included all publishers who had released 15 or more titles and factored in metrics including average review score and the number of good (75%+), bad (49%-) and great (90%+) titles published. …
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