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GAMESCOM: Valve has a responsibility to show Electronic Arts why it’s smarter business to add its games on Steam instead of remove them, studio president Gabe Newell has said. Newell suggested the struggle with EA is complicated, but nevertheless reconcilable. "I don’t think Valve can pick just one thing and …
Read More »Kingdoms of Amalur out February
GAMESCOM: An excitable Ken Rolsten announced that EA’s action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will hit UK shelves on February 10th 2012. The veteran game designer enthusiastically led attendees to EA’s Gamescom 2011 press conference through the game’s features. These include a fast-paced addictive combat system,” variety of attacks and …
Read More »Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes announced
GAMESCOM: EA is to give another major IP the social network treatment with the announcement of Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. The game will be free-to-play and available to all online, with Google+ Games in particular mentioned by BioWare’s Ray Muzyka as he took to the Gamescom stage for EA’s …
Read More »PopCap likely to work with existing EA IP
Speaking at GDC Europe PopCap’s director of online business Bart Barden has said the casual gaming company may look to work with EA’s established IP in the wake ofthe buyout by the publisher. "Everything will improve with EA," said Barnden at the Q&A session following his talk on localisation and …
Read More »THQ’s admiration for EA’s console strategy
Fewer, bigger, better. That seems to be an increasingly common trend amongst traditional console games publishers, and THQ’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson is all for it. That’s all we can really do,” he told VG247. It’s not just Activision or us; look at what EA’s doing on …
Read More »PopCap: Leveraging EA IP ‘would make sense’
GDC Europe: Casual gaming giant may look to cross-brand its titles with the intellectual property of its new owner
Read More »Karp "quits" EA Play for Zynga
Jeff Karp, an executive at the centre of EA’s social games output, is in the process of leaving the company to join Zynga, Develop understands. A US source, who engages with EA at senior levels, said Karp has signalled his intention to leave and will imminently join the San Francisco …
Read More »EA casual boss ‘quits for Zynga’
Farmville creator to hire Jeff Karp following its John Schappert swoop
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: BBC seeks software engineer, EA promotes Moore and Gibeau
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, BBC North is hiring a software engineer and Electronic Arts promotes Peter Moore and Frank Gibeau. DEVELOPMENT JOB AVAILABLE AT BBC NORTH BBC North is currently recruiting for a software engineer that wants to develop games and …
Read More »Mojang team ‘would split’ if bought
Minds behind Minecraft say their independent spirit is key to their success
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