MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
"Why haven’t you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront." That was the reaction from Swedish developer DICE when it discovered that EA was in talks with Disney regarding the Star Wars video game right. The DICE guys Karl Magnus Troedsson and Patrick Bach were …
Read More »VIDEO: See some of Frostbite 3’s advanced features
EA has released a video detailing some of the technical advances made possible with its new Frostbite 3 engine. The software will allow developers to trust the game environment to react accordingly. For instance, a large explosion will cause ripples of movement in the surrounding vegetation. There will also be …
Read More »Mirror’s Edge sells 2.5m copies
DICE’s first-person action platformer Mirror’s Edge has sold 2.5m copies to date, according to EA’s Patrick Soderlund. Soderland revealed the figure to CVG during a discussion on how the game’s upcoming reboot is only possible with the advancement into next-gen hardware. I’ll be honest with you: we’ve been looking at …
Read More »EA Sports: ‘We must not screw up our next-gen titles’
The boss of EA Sports has warned his teams not to ‘screw up’ its next gen games. EVP Andrew Wilson is wary of the impact new technology can have on the sports genre, describing new consoles as an ‘inflection point’. Our first objective for the next generation is not to …
Read More »EA’s Online Pass won’t return
Xbox One, PS4 announcements doesn't mean publisher will reinstate program
Read More »EA Sports: Online pass was impeding our games
EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson says that the firm ditched online pass because it damaged the games. Speaking to MCV at E3 last week, the label VP said that forcing gamers to put codes in to access content had become too big an impact for fans. And he denied that …
Read More »EA dismisses reports of AMD exclusivity for Battlefield 4 on PC
Talk that left many Nvidia graphics card owners worried last night has been roundly dismissed by EA and AMD. Word spread across the internet last night that EA and AMD had joined forces for a PC gaming collaboration. The talk was that EA’s entire slate of Frostbite 3-powered games – …
Read More »Report: More layoffs at EA
Latest round of cuts reportedly affects fewer than 20 workers
Read More »EA: No next-gen FIFA 14 on PC because users have low-spec machines
It sounds like PC gamers may face a bit of a wait for true next-gen FIFA to be released on PC. The publisher disappointed the PC market when it confirmed that while the new Ignite engine will be used to power the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game, …
Read More »EA will return to Wii U if Nintendo "can sell more boxes"
Nintendo has been told that it must sell more Wii U’s if it wishes to win back the affections of third party publisher EA. That’s the verdict of EA Labels president Frank Gibeau, who told Joystiq that money is of course the ultimate deciding facts. And Wii U’s numbers don’t …
Read More »