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Maxis’s city-building sim is being adopted into US classrooms, and aims to teach child about pollution and its knock-on effects
Read More »EA’s Gibeau: ‘Zynga blew it’
The boss of EA’s mobile business has delivered a scathing verdict on its casual gaming rival Zynga. Speaking to The New York Times, head of mobile development Frank Gibeau said of the company: Zynga blew it. They’re not a mobile business. We’re six or seven times their size in mobile. …
Read More »EA working on ‘high-end’ Battlefield mobile game
Frank Gibeau reveals the publisher has an app in production that will exchange data between home and mobile platforms
Read More »VIDEO: This is the Battlefield 4 TV ad
EA has gone live with its big TV ad for upcoming shooter Battlefield 4. It fuses gameplay footage with a narrator and is suitably loud and explosive. Yesterday MCV posted a load of short TV ads for Battlefield 4’s big rival Call of Duty: Ghosts – in fact, there’s another …
Read More »NFS Rivals slips past Wii U and Vita thanks to poor sales
Previous release doesn't justify work of port, says Criterion creative director
Read More »EA reveals "high performance" Battlefield mobile game in the works
EA’s Frank Gibeau has announced the company is working on a ‘high-end’Battlefield mobile game. In an interview with the New York Times, Gibeau revealed that EA is already developing a mobile title that aims to operate with franchise games (such as Battlefield 4) on other systems – similar to Battlefield …
Read More »Poor Wii U sales behind reason not to bring Need for Speed Rivals to console
Need for Speed: Most Wanted did not put in the commercial performance on Wii U that EA was hoping for. And that, according to the game’s creative director Craig Sullivan, is the reason why the publisher is not bringing the upcoming Need for Speed Rivals to Nintendo’s machine. We did …
Read More »PS4 version of Need for Speed Rivals looks better than PC – report(s)
Although there’s a certain amount of cryptic messaging to get past, it looks like EA’s next-gen racer is looking impressive on PS4 – going by what critics have been shown so far. Polygon reports that Need for Speed Rivals is a more visually impressive” on PS4 than even on PC, …
Read More »DICE considered Battlefield 4 delay on PS4 and Xbox One
By the sounds of it the next-gen consoles came close to losing another high-profile launch title. Hot on the heels of the delay of both multiplatform outing Watch Dogs and PS4 exclusive DriveClub, DICE executive producer Patrick Bach admitted that the EA studio nearly postponed the launch of Battlefield 4 …
Read More »DICE: Linux needs one killer app to take off
'We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason,' says creative director
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