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Moore: Metacritic a slippery slope

EA Sports boss Peter Moore has warned that the development world’s obsession with high Metacritic scores may leave gamers in the dark. Metacritic scores have previously been worked into the development teams’ objectives, and the hardest task fell to the FIFA crew, who were challenged by Moore to go out …

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EA announces new RPG

Having confirmed in March that it had entered into a publishing deal for developer 38 Studios’ mystery RPG Project Mercury”, EA has officially confirmed details of its new fantasy title. Called Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the title is an open-world RPG set in a new world created by popular author …

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New Fight Night announced

EA his lifted the lid on the fifth iteration of its popular boxing series with the announcement of Fight Night Champion, which is due to hit Xbox 360 and PS3 some time in 2011. Details remain thin on the ground, but the publisher seems to be making most noise about …

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Has Tiger been damaged for good?

Though EA has stood firm by Tiger Woods as the sordid scandal surrounding his personal life has unravelled in the media, one analyst has claimed that the golf star’s dented image has damaged the viability of EA’s console series. June sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 in the US …

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EA sells stake in Ubisoft

Bloomberg is reporting that American publishing giant EA has sold its 15 per cent stake in rival company Ubisoft, ending a sometimes uncomfortable business partnership that has lasted almost five years. The deal should make EA, who was until this point Ubisoft’s largest shareholder, in the region of $122m. As …

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