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Over the decades, the global video games industry has seen some fierce rivalries. Sonic vs Mario. FIFA vs PES. Xbox vs PlayStation. But the fiercest and bitterest of all conflicts has to be the one between EA and Activision. The two super-powers of game publishing have been locked in battle …
Read More »GamesAid gets a cut of EA’s Humble Origin Bundle
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 admits that Medal of Honor: Warfighter was not good enough, but series will be back
Medal of Honor may have been taken out of rotation”, but expect to see more of the series in the future. Last month EA confirmed that the series has been shelved with the intention being to make Battlefield a Call of Duty-rivalling annual series. Yet despite claiming in October that …
Read More »EA shelves Medal of Honor
FPS pulled 'out of rotation'
Read More »EA ditches Medal of Honor IP as Battlefield goes annual
The Medal of Honor series has been taken out of rotation” by EA after sales of the most recent release Warfighter were well below expectations”. Medal of Honor made its gaming return in 2011 after a three-year hiatus. The game, developed by both Danger Close and DICE, received a lukewarm …
Read More »Over 2m games sold at UK retail last week
UK retailers sold 2,075,634 games last week, generating over 50m in revenue. Sales have been steadily rising throughout December as Christmas approaches, and last week sales were driven by significant price reductions on games such as Medal of Honor, Halo, Hitman, Need for Speed and more. Unit sales rose 11 …
Read More »US Navy Seals in hot water for Medal of Honor work
Seven members of Team Six reprimanded for revealing classified materials
Read More »Seven Navy SEALS in trouble for leaking info to Medal of Honor devs
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is out next week. Anyway, Medal of Honor: Warfighter is in the news. Coincidentally, we’re sure. The Associated Press reports that seven members of the secretive” Navy SEAL Team 6 – one of whom was involved in the mission to capture and kill Osama …
Read More »EA expected a better critical reception for Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Internal company reviews at EA has predicted a far better response to Medal of Honor: Warfighter than the game eventually received. The game, which came out in the UK last Friday (Friday October 26th) currently has a 57 per cent Metacritic average on PC, 56 per cent on PS3 and …
Read More »Serious Sam publisher hands out free game to those who criticise Medal of Honor
The publisher of Serious Sam 3 has urged fans to openly criticise Medal of Honor in return for free copy of the game. During this busy season of video game releases the team at Devolver Digital realize that not every game will live up to expectations. One such game has …
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