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EA expects its Wii U launch titles to get plenty of attention next week. Both FIFA 13 and Mass Effect 3 Special Edition will be releasing alongside the console on November 30th. It’s always an exiting time for the industry and consumers when new hardware is introduced,” said product marketingboss …
Read More »London Games Conference 2012: All the news here
All the stories from leading industry execs including Phil Harrison, John Clark and Sean Decker
Read More »Decker: Less than 20% of F2P users typically pay
LGC12: Customers that spend $1 are three times more likely to spend extra money
Read More »EA: 70% of free-to-play gamers give up after a day
Free-to-play games on average lose 70 per cent of their userbase within the first day, says EA’s play4Free VP Sean Decker. Speaking at the London Games Conference 2012, Sean Decker provided a wealth of information for developers about how to become a success in the F2P market. He said that …
Read More »70% of free-to-play users leave after first day
LGC12: EA Play4Free VP Sean Decker shares his secrets and advice for being an F2P success
Read More »"Mirror’s Edge 2 is in production at DICE"
It’s at the top of many gamers’ want list, and now Mirror’s Edge 2 looks a lot closer to fruition than ever before. That’s according to ngmoco’s Ben Cousins, who formerly served as boss of free-to-play at EA, who took to Twitter to state: It is general knowledge in the …
Read More »US: Golf legend Arnold Palmer joins Tiger Woods on PGA Tour 14 cover
The US edition of the next Tiger Woods game will see the title star share the cover of the game with golf legend Arnold Palmer. Palmer is one of the most successful golfers to ever grace the green with 92 professional recorded victories, 62 of which happened on the PGA …
Read More »The Old Republic goes free-to-play
New microtransactions and virtual currency system options implemented into MMO
Read More »EA wins LGBT equality award
The Human Rights Campaign has awarded publisher EA a 100 per cent rating in its LGBT workplace equality report. To receive the award businesses must demonstrate policies, benefits and practices that are best-in-class demonstrations of corporate commitments to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees”. Only companies that score 100 per …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic is now, officially, free-to-play
After what can rightly be described as a mixed first year, EA and BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic is now a free-to-play title. Throughout the game’s early life subscriber numbers hit a reasonable 1.7m, although within six months that number had fallen to 1.3m and as of July this …
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