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Acclaimed film director and current EA employee Steven Spielberg has given a huge thumbs up to Microsoft’s Natal motion tech system, claiming that the technology has changed the way he will approach the games genre. Natal changes the paradigm of what I would have written last week, now all that …
Read More »EA Partners signs up Realtime Worlds
E3'09: New MMO APB is publisher's latest dev deal
Read More »MICROSOFT: Exclusive Beatles Rock Band DLC on Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced Xbox Live exclusive downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band. The song, All You Need Is Love, will be the first track on offer through Xbox Live, and was announced during Microsoft’s Pre-E3 press conference. The Beatles: Rock Band will be available on multiple platforms worldwide on …
Read More »Crysis 2 confirmed for consoles
Publisher EA has confirmed that it has entered into an agreement with developer Crytek to publish its upcoming shooter Crysis 2 on both Xbox 360 and PS3 – as well as the already announced PC release. Examples of Crytek’s game engine, dubbed the CryENGINE3, had previously been shown running on …
Read More »EA turning to browser games with Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods abandons physical media for its next title, but will it be free-to-play?
Read More »Tiger to drive EA online
A somewhat vague story on The Wall Street Journal claims that EA will use its upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 to push its console digital distribution ambitions. The piece states that EA believes its can achieve better revenues online than in can through retail, as the growth of online …
Read More »Piracy has already cost Sims 3 $9m
The party that’s sure to follow EA’s release of The Sims 3 next week is likely to be a little subdued thanks to the news that the game is being pirated at a faster rate than ‘the most pirated game of 2008′ Spore. Bloomberg reports that an illegal version of …
Read More »Moore calls for ‘strut and swagger’ at E3
EA Sports president Peter Moore has called for E3 to claim back some ‘strut and swagger’ at next week’s expo. In an exclusive interview with MCV, Moore requested that E3 "return to its roots" after two years of downsizing and disappointment. He said: If there was ever a time when …
Read More »‘Large female presence’ in Sims 3 dev team
Speaking exclusively to MCV’s sister CasualGaming.biz as part of its Girl Gaming Month, The Sims 3’s associate producer Grant Rodiek has stated that the game’s development team deliberately houses more females than you’d normally find in such a group. We have a large female presence throughout our team – more …
Read More »Publisher pack joining EGS 2009
Latin America’s largest video game event, the Electronic Game Show, will return this year at the Expo Bancomer centre in Santa Fe; one of Mexico City’s key business districts. The event will take place from October 23-25 with companies such as Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Activision and THQ already signing …
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