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Playable demos have become an established marketing vehicle in recent years, but Valve is taking it one step further tomorrow by allowing anyone to download and play its hugely popular Left 4 Dead for free. Kotaku reports that from midnight tonight anyone with a PC and a Steam account will …
Read More »Moore: Boxed PC games ‘arent working’
The outspoken boss of EA Sports and former Xbox boss Peter Moore has stated that the current business model of boxed PC games is no longer viable for the publisher. We’ve got to find the right business model for us going forward,” Moore told Edge. We really want to keep …
Read More »UK CHARTS: New DLC lifts Left 4 Dead
The benefits of freely downloadable DLC have been demonstrated this week by the re-entry of Valve’s Left 4 Dead in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 just days after the developer released hyped new DLC for the title. Last week saw the release of the Survival pack, a free …
Read More »Casual-orientated EA Sports Complex arrives on Home
EA’s long-awaited Sports Complex has gone live on Sony’s PlayStation Home service, brining with it a number of multiplayer casual titles. Included as part of the large promotional social meeting place, the EA Sports Complex houses Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, car racing and, in the near future, a multiplayer golf …
Read More »EA Sports transformed by online play
EA is flaunting the popularity of its online game services by announcing that its Sports label has clocked 500m online games since June last year. EA says that an average of 2.2 million online games have been played each day since June; when the publisher first started releasing its 2009 …
Read More »EA Sports â??transformedâ?? by online play
500 million online games since June last year, as FIFA and NFL each clock over 2.4 million registered users
Read More »EA to support Wii MotionPlus with bundles
It has been known for a while that the upcoming duo of EA Grand Slam Sports Tennis and Tiger Woods 10 will support Nintendo’s gesture-enhancing Wii MotionPlus, but now the publisher has confirmed that both titles will include the device in the box. Both SKUs including the MotionPlus will retail …
Read More »Brutal Legends rocks on this October
Publisher EA has confirmed that Double Fine Productions’ upcoming Xbox 360 and PS3 outing Brutal Legend will be released in the UK on October 16th. The action adventure, which stars Jack Black, sees players assuming the role of rock roadie Eddie Riggs who, when knocked unconscious, emerges in a rock-themed …
Read More »BioWare exec moves to Disney Interactive
Dan Tudge leaves role as executive producer on the delayed Dragon Age: Origins, joins Turok developer Propaganda Games
Read More »John Madden announces retirement
Legendary US sports broadcaster John Madden has announced that he is to retire from TV commentating, but publisher EA has insisted that it doesn’t mean the end of their long-running relationship between Madden and its NFL games franchise. As you can imagine, we’ve had dozens of questions today about what …
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