Hey Rugby fans – your 4 year wait is nearly over. HB Studios has confirmed that it’s developing what’ll be the very first rugby game to hit current HD systems. It’ll be the first Rugby game available since 2007’s release of Rugby 08. HB Studios – responsible for a host of EA sports games over the last decade – are …

According to the financial records of the world’s richest swine Wayne Rooney receives £200K from Electronic Arts every year, just for the use of his likeness. That’s just under 2 and a half million Rand, or 30 803 kilograms of Pick ‘n Pay streaky bacon. Rooney – undoubtedly of porcine heritage – striker for Manchester Utd and England earns more …

EA has announced the blatantly obvious 2010 FIFA World Cup game that will be arriving pre-WC 2010 which is obviously taking place in South Africa in June this year. One of the best features that has been announced is an authentic 2010 FIFA World Cup online tournament mode where you will be able to compete online 24/7 with your favourite …

I have a house full of crappy plastic peripherals, something I pretty much blame Nintendo for. As demonstrated by games like Tony Hawk Ride and the perpetual onslaught of rhythm games, peripheral based gaming is hot business right now. Ea it seems, is keen to jump on the bandwagon, as they signed deals with multiple accessory providers – Sakar, Sunflex …

Midway is dead. Warner Bros. picked up its festering barely re-animated corpse, along with most of its intellectual property (Braaaaaaaaains!). One licence that they didn’t acquire though is a particular favourite of mine, and if the rumours are right is one that we may see again – courtesy of EA Sports. According to ESPN, EA sports have been tasked with …

Next Year we’ll see EA Sports MMA – Electronic Arts’ foray in to the exciting, brutal realm of large sweaty men touching each other. THQ, of course, recently did pretty good business with their UFC licenced MMA title, UFC : Undisputed. Little is known of EA’s MMA – and it’ll be quite some time before we know if their game …

Since the dawn of time, man has always cherished the concept behind beating their fists into each others faces to prove their dominance. Since nothing has changed, boxing is still a very popular sport worldwide that has shown us some of the most strategic, heroic and downright brutal head to head match-ups from many of the greats. Naturally, we all …

Standby football fans because I have just come across some new FIFA 10 screenshots for the PC version. If you know anything about English football then you will probably recognize the two teams as Chelsea and Arsenal. The new title is said to feature more responsive gameplay, more animations and a refined online multiplayer game. The title is said to be scheduled for release on October 2nd of this year. But enough banter, hit the jump to check out the screens, there's some good stuff.