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Following claims earlier in the week that we’d seen the last of the Mirror’s Edge series, publisher EA has seemingly offered some hope to fans of the game. On Monday MCV reported that DICE boss Patrick Sodurland had claimed sales of Mirror’s Edge"were not as good as expected" and that …
Read More »Monopoly heads to Facebook
Hasbro’s family board game Monopoly can now be played on Facebook online for free. Facebook users can play Monopoly Millionaires in a web browser on PC and invite friends to play together. As usual the aim is to buy hotels across the board and amass the biggest fortune in Monopoly …
Read More »Correction: EA Bright Light project
UK studio was not involved with axed game
Read More »EA cancels My Garden
Publisher EA has announced the cancellation of 3DS title My Garden. That’s according to Joystiq who says the announcement was made in New York yesterday. The game was first revealed last September at the Tokyo Game Show and was at the time pitched as a launch game for Nintendo’s machine. …
Read More »EA learnt from Sports Active 2 RRP
Publisher EA has admitted that it made mistakes with the launch of last year’s fitness title EA Sports Active 2. The game failed to chart in the UK when it arrived at the end of November – complete with a 79.99 RRP. However, it wasn’t until the week ending January …
Read More »‘There’s no such thing as free-to-play’ – EA
Publisher lauds the silent success of the freemium model
Read More »EA CEO Riccitiello: We made mistakes
Publisher boss admits fall from grace but believes the firm is rising fast
Read More »EA hit by BioWare VP departure
EA has today lost three heads from major studios Playfish and Bioware. BioWare Austin VP Gordon Walton has left the US company in favour of an executive producer role at Playdom. In a statement EA emphasised it is business as usual” across BioWare’s studios. The studio which Walton has departed …
Read More »EA stung as three studio bosses leave
Leading Bioware and Playfish managers depart
Read More »EA: We dropped the ball
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, EA CEO John Riccitiello has admitted that the publisher has made mistakes in the last few years, but believes that it is now in a stronger position than it has been for some time. If you go back …
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