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Mass Effect 3’s Extended Cut DLC will not arrive when expected for PS3 owners in Europe. The PS3 version of the free content will now arrive for Europe regions next week, on July 4th reports CVG. The add-on expands on the endings of Mass Effect 3 through additional scenes and …
Read More »UPDATED: FIFA 13 Ultimate Edition revealed; Game dated
EA has revealed what it is describing as its most extensive global pre-order incentive in the history of the FIFA franchise”. The company has announced that the FIFA 13 Ultimate Edition will be available for just one day – September 28th, the day that FIFA 13 will be released in …
Read More »Criterion takes control of Need for Speed franchise
The UK developer behind this year’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted has revealed that EA has handed it complete control of the IP. The franchise has been farmed around various EA studios in recent years, including EA Black Box (Carbon, Pro Street, Undercover, The Run), EA Canada (Most Wanted) and …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 ‘Extended Cut’ DLC arrives next week
Mass Effect 3’s promised ending-altering DLC will arrive next week, BioWare has announced. Dubbed ‘Extended Cut’, the free downloadable content update will hit next Tuesday, June 26th for Xbox 360 and PC along with PS3 in North America. PS3 users in Europe will receive the update on Wednesday July 4th. …
Read More »EA VP joins Marmalade
Harvey Elliott joins engine outfit as MD and COO
Read More »EA Origin: ‘Our aim is to be a better version of Steam’
EA says it wants its Origin download platform to be a better version of all the other portals on the market. The firm’s senior VP of global ecommerce David DeMartini has also responded to Valve and Steam boss Gabe Newell’s criticism that Origin has yet to do anything ‘super-well’ – …
Read More »Amazon App Store lands in Europe
Devs in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain set to benefit from distribution platform's EU debut
Read More »EA: We’re going through "an unbelievably difficult transition"
Outspoken former Xbox exec and current EA COO Peter Moore has admitted that the industry is experiencing more turbulence now than at any other period in its history. "We’re going through, as an industry, just an unbelievably difficult transformation, that is not from one business model to another but from …
Read More »Microtransactions ‘will be in every game’
More to E3 'anxiety' than console cycle, says Peter Moore
Read More »EA: Frostbite 2 ‘built for next-gen’
'What you see in Battlefield 3 is only the beginning', claims exec
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