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There’s been no Rage Against The Machine-style upset in the video game charts, as Modern Warfare 2 easily takes 2009’s Christmas No. 1 spot in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack Top 40. The record-breaking FPSwas the runaway favourite to take the Christmas crown, and betting agency Paddy Power even started paying out …
Read More »EA reclaims top spot in disappointing Euro market
Electronic Arts’ senior vice president of European publishing, Jens Uwe Intat, has told MCV that the firm is ‘disappointed’ with the market’s performance in 2009, and that he expects it to remain flat at best for the next 12 months. He believes sales of packaged goods decreased by around 10 …
Read More »3m play Battlefield Heroes
Publisher EA and Swedish developer DICE have announced that over 3m players have no signed up to the online free-to-play Battlefield Heroes. Battlefield Heroes continues to grow fast with well over 50,000 new players joining us every week,” Battelfield Heroes’ general manager Ben Cousins stated. The full story is over …
Read More »Bethesda Softworks to publish id Software’s Rage
EA no longer part of the set up following the Zenimax buyout
Read More »ZeniMax swipes Rage rights from EA
ZeniMax Media has won the rights to publish Rage, the anticipated first-person shooter currently in development at id Software. The company, which parents both id and Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda, has revealed Electronic Arts will no longer be involved in the sales and marketing surrounding Rage’s release. Rage will now …
Read More »Florin to leave EA
Electronic Arts’ executive vice president of western world publishing, Gerhard Florin, has elected to leave the company at the end of the current financial year (March 31st, 2010), MCV can confirm. Florin has been with EA for 15 years, initially playing a key role in establishing the publisher as the …
Read More »Playfish relishing EA franchise projects
Does EAâ??s social games studio have new plans for established IP such as The Sims?
Read More »EAâ??s new Plaything
Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstrale discusses the studioâ??s new direction
Read More »Green Day: Rock Band confirmed
A Green Day Rock Band game is coming, it was confirmed during the Spike TV VGAs. The game was rumoured earlier in the year, when lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong mentioned it on US rock radio station KROQ. A trailer was shown during the VGAs, which featured Armstrong, drummer Tre …
Read More »Will Tiger’s time out hurt EA?
Tiger Woods has confirmed he is going on an ‘indefinite break’ from professional golf following various revelations about his infidelity – throwing doubt over his many licensing and endorsement deals. But games publisher Electronic Arts, which releases the hugely successful Tiger Woods branded PGA Tour golf game every summer, says …
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