EA wants to make you all a deal. The Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer is, at this moment, sitting on around about 395,000 views. EA have announced that they will dish out some free DLC vehicles for NFS: Hot Pursuit if and when the trailer hits 1 million views. That seems like a fair trade to me, not to …
EA Boss Frank Gibeau says that two of the company’s biggest new IP’s this generation fell short of the gaming empire’s expectations. If you haven’t been paying attention, the two “big†new IP’s that failed to set charts alight were space survival horror Dead Space and First-Person free-running platformer Mirror’s Edge. They have both gone on to attain quite a …
At this current point in time, there have been approximately 21 Need for Speed titles released since its initial debut on the Panasonic 3DO somewhere in the early 17th Century (Okay, I really mean 1994). While Need for Speed was once the most beloved racing franchise available it slowly slipped deeper and deeper into mediocrity thanks to its descent from …
Bulletstorm was one of my top titles of E3 2010 and while I am not utterly convinced yet it is one that I feel we should be keeping an eye on in February 2011. They released a brand new trailer today that shows us a little more gameplay and apparently somewhere in here you get to see a dinosaur? The …
No, EA aren’t just gunning for the Worst Game Title Of The Year award. As we reported last week, EA was to announce a brand new Battlefield title on Friday, and announce it they did. Titled Battlefield Play4Free, the new game allows you to – you guessed it – play for free. While you might be thinking that they already …
By Peter Carmody EA sports first jab at the world of Mixed Martial Arts has pushed its way into a genre previously dominated by THQ. While there are obvious similarities, considering both MMA and UFC are built around the same sport, this game does well to differentiate itself from its opponent. One of the most noticeable differences on first inspection …
Ben Cousins of EA has announced that they will be announcing an all-new Battlefied this Friday. Just to be clear, by “all-new”, I mean a completely new Battlefield series of games. In other words, this will not be Battlefield 3, or Bad Company 3, or Battlefield Heroes or even a nineteen-forty-something-or-other either. Last Updated: November 4, 2010
The Medal of Honor reboot was released alongside mixed reviews as it made its first attempt to attack the throne belonging to Modern Warfare 2 a few weeks back. That’s not to say that the review scores were terrible, just that they weren’t fantastic. EA CEO John Riccitiello has said that Medal of Honor outperformed the expectations that they had …
A good loot box never feels like a coupon. It feels like a moment. …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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