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EA renegotiates NFL deal

Publisher EA has successfully renegotiated the terms of its deal with the NFL that affords it the lucrative rights used to make its American football series true-to-life. Sports Business Daily reports that the new contract "significantly reduces the video game maker’s contractual obligations" for the season ahead but at the …

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Mirror’s Edge 2 ‘on hold’

Hopes of a sequel to 2008 first person platform outing Mirror’s Edge appear to have diminished with word from EA-owned developer DICE that the project has been put on hold. In an interview translated from Swedish games site Vicachu, DICE boss Patrick Soderlund says that sales of the first game …

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Take-Two ‘would accept Acti bid’

One US analyst has predicted that publisher Take-Two would accept a takeover bid of around $20-$22 per share from rival company Activision. MCV exclusively revealed last Friday that there’s increasing noise about a possible move amongst some of the industry’s highest level execs. And now speaking on Twitter, US analyst …

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EA: Mobile needs more core games

Travis Boatman, EA Mobile VP of Worldwide Studios, claims there is huge market potential for core-focused mobile games. Speaking at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, the man who helped to bring Dead Space to the iPhone and iPad claimed the notion that mobile games are for casual consumers is …

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Mass Effect 3 gets Black Swan composer

Black Swan composer Clint Mansell has joined BioWare to write the musical score for Mass Effect 3. The musician revealed the news in an interview with The Quietus. With something like Mass Effect you’re more like a DJ with all these musical elements,” he said. You’ve got the holding pattern, …

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EA responds to Fox News piece

Publisher EA has spoken out for the first time since US broadcaster Fox News went live with a piece attacking upcoming shooter Bulletstorm. In the story, Fox quoted psychologist and author Carol Lieberman who claimed: The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of …

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