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Electronic Arts is giving a slice of the cash raised by its current Humble Bundle to UK games industry charity GamesAid. Found at HumbleBundle.com, the pay-what-you-want download package includes some of the biggest games in EA Origin’s catalogue, including Dead Space and Dead Space 3, Crysis 2, the 2010 Medal …
Read More »EA wants to emulate Batman Arkham success with new Star Wars games
Publisher EA has said it wants to mimic the successful reinvention of the Batman video games franchise with its fresh take on the Star Wars universe. "The most important thing for me is that we take the Star Wars license and come up with games where peoples’ jaws drop," EA’s …
Read More »Vita version of FIFA 14 is re-skinned version of last year’s release
FIFA 14 on Vita will not feature any of the gameplay improvements found in many of the game’s other versions. "There will be a Vita version, and it’ll be the same great gameplay," EA Sports’ David Rutter told Eurogamer. "It’s the same great gameplay and new kits." Although it has …
Read More »VIDEO: Titanfall impresses at Gamescom 2013
There’s lots of positive noise coming out of Cologne today surrounding EA and Respawn’s multiplayer title Titanfall. A new Gamescom gameplay demo, which can be seen below, shows off some more of the game’s vertically empowered gameplay that sees confrontations quickly switch between street level and rooftops. It also illustrates …
Read More »EA wants to gauge interest in possible women’s football inclusion in future FIFA titles
You think that women’s football should be a feature of future FIFA titles? Then let EA know. That’s the message from the publisher, whose GM of Sports Matt Bilby told Polygon that the company first looked into the possibility five years ago, only to discover that there was little interest. …
Read More »Lineker! Bergkamp! Seaman! Neville? Classic players come to FIFA 14
EA has announced the inclusion of a host of classic players in next month’s FIFA 14. The list of stars will be available in the Ultimate Team modes of the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions. They will randomly be found in Gold Pack downloads. Names the jump out of …
Read More »Origin unveils Great Game Guarantee
EA is offering full refunds for all its titles purchased on the distribution service
Read More »FIFA 14 demo gets solid release date
FIFA fans will be able to try out this year’s iteration of the UK’s best-selling video games franchise in just a few weeks. Electronic Arts confirmed during its Gamescom conference that a demo will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on September 10th. There has been plenty of …
Read More »Battlefield 4 Premium gives players early access, server priority
DICE and EA have given the first details of Battlefield 4 Premium, a service that gives fans access to extra content for the hotly-anticipated shooter. The paid content follows the success of Battlefield 3 Premium, which was launched back in 2011. During its Gamescom press conference, Electronic Arts promised Premium …
Read More »Plants Vs Zombies 2 racks up 16m downloads in five days
Tower defence title EA's 'biggest mobile game launch ever', says Peter Moore
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