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Andy Tomkins has been promoted to marketing director for Northern Europe at Electronic Arts. He replaces Stuart Lang. Lang moved to EA’s United States offices in April to become VP of North American marketing. Tomkins will report to Northern Europe VP and general manager Keith Ramsdale. Prior to this role, …
Read More »EA free-to-play boss joins Eve Online developers CCP
EA Play4Free VP Sean Decker has joined Eve Online and Dust 514 developer CCP as senior VP of product development. In his new role, Decker will be responsible for leading the company’s worldwide game development and will oversee the company’s studios in Newcastle, Reykjavik, Shanghai and Atlanta. He will be …
Read More »Digital-only Euro 2012 game was ‘ahead of its time’, says EA
Next year’s FIFA World Cup tie-in could be a full game, after EA admitted that its Euro 2012 download didn’t meet expectations. The publisher decided against building a boxed game for last year’s European Championships, and released a downloadable add-on for FIFA 12 instead. But the firm told MCV the …
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: UFC goes next gen in 2014
The UFC series will return next year as a PS4 and Xbox One title. Titled EA Sports UFC, this will be the first entry in the series since Electronic Arts took over the licence from THQ last year. As was announced at the Xbox One reveal two weeks ago, the …
Read More »EA: Rivals is this year’s Need For Speed
Electronic Arts showed off the first footage of the latest Need For Speed at tonight’s E3 press conference. As announced last month, NFS Rivals is being developed by new studio Ghost Games in partnership with Criterion. It is built on the Frostbite 3 engine, and is due on Xbox 360, …
Read More »EA: Mirror’s Edge 2 officially announced
In the least surprising news from the EA press conference, Mirror’s Edge 2 has been confirmed. A trailer was shown during EA’s press conference depicting the game’s protagonist, Faith, receiving a tattoo. All mixed together with pretty gameplay footage. The free-running first person game has generated a cult following, although …
Read More »EA: Peggle 2 is coming later this year
Nothing was shown, by EA quickly announced a sequel to Peggle will be out this year. The casual game is one of PopCap’s titles with a big cult following, famous for its use of music and unique ball-and-peg gameplay, and iconic characters – including its unicorn hero. PopCap boss John …
Read More »EA: Dragon Age: Inquisition due Christmas 2014 for PS4 and Xbox One
EA’s hit RPG series Dragon Age will launch on next generation consoles next year. Dragon Age: Inquisition was shown via a trailer during the EA E3 press conference. Fans of the BioWare-developed RPG has a long time to wait, however, with the game not due until the end of next …
Read More »EA: PopCap confirms Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
Despite some early leaks from ad meterial on the E3 showfloor, EA impressed press conference attendees with its Plants vs Zombies spin-off today. Called Garden Warfare, and introduced via a gritty trailer spoofing the likes of Call of Duty and EA’s own Battlefield, the game is a team-based shooter inspired …
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