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This week’s MCV isnow available to download– and it features blockbuster interviews with Nintendo’s Shelly Pearce and Sony’s entire UK senior management team. Also in this edition is an exclusive chat with Rovio’s EVP of games, to discuss how Angry Birds Star Wars came to be. We’ve listed the contents …
Read More »MCV Investigates: How FIFA conquered the UK
FIFA 13 is not just the fastest-selling game in the EA Sports series to date – it is also the most profitable. In just two days, the game sold over 1.23m copies in the UK alone. That’s an increase of 27 per cent over last year’s record-breaking FIFA 12. FIFA …
Read More »FIFA 13 sells 4.5m in five days – making it year’s biggest game yet
This week’s million-selling UK superhit continues to impress on the global stage. EA last night announced that FIFA 13 has now sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. In just five days. By EA’s reasoning that makes it the ‘biggest video game of 2012’, and so far that’s not wrong. (We’re sure …
Read More »Söderlund: The day EA stops doing new IP is the day we go on life support
INTERVIEW:Patrick Soderlund is not your usual EA exec. While the likes of Riccitiello and Moore are famously focused, fierce and have an FMCG background, the Swedish label boss worked his way up from a role at developer DICE, acquired by EA in 2006, to eventually oversee all of the EA …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Million-selling FIFA 13 is No.1
There’s claiming the UK No.1. Then there’s claiming the UK No.1. EA’s FIFA 13 is not only top of the charts, but it sold an incredible one million plus copies in its first week according to the UKIE Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track. It’s not the first game to do …
Read More »Maxis opens new mobile studio in Finland
EA Playfish VP of global studios heads up Helsinki branch
Read More »GAME enlists Premiership footballers for FIFA 13 launch
Newcastle and West Ham fans are in for a treat. The UK’s leading video games retailer GAME has revealed that both clubs will be lending one of their top stars for the launch of FIFA 13, which finally arrives in the UK tomorrow. Newcastle’s Metre Centre GAME store will from …
Read More »Original Mass Effect arrives on PS3 in new Trilogy pack
All three Mass Effect games will be bundled into one retail pack this Christmas. The pack is coming to Xbox 360, PC and PS3, which means that the original Mass Effect will launch on PlayStation 3 for the first time. To coincide with the launch of the game, a special …
Read More »EA acquires Swedish online tech firm ESN
Cloud and web service provider to work with DICE on Battlefield 3
Read More »FIFA 13 demo downloaded 4.6m times
The anticipation could hardly be any bigger ahead of the release of FIFA 13 this Friday. EA has revealed that the FIFA 13 demo it released has been downloaded a staggering 4.6m times. That’s an EA Sports record, and it’s also a rise of 42 per cent compared to the …
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