At EA’s Studio Showcase event yesterday, Red Sox pitching great Curt Schilling finally got to reveal the first glimpses of his long-brewing action-RPG. Formerly known as “Project Mercury”, the title’s been revealed to be Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and is being published through EA’s EA Partners division. The game will be appearing on …
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Curt Schilling’s Project Mercury Takes the Mound at Comic-Con
Curt Schilling won’t be eligible for Cooperstown until 2013, but he’s already a Hall-of-Fame nerd. The former Boston Red Sox pitcher has confessed his love for strategy board game Advanced Squad Leader and has been a regular EverQuest and World of Warcraft player. Even before he retired, Schilling formed 38 Studios (formerly Green …
Dragon Age 2 Announced: New Character, Revamped Combat on the Way
With a game as successful as Dragon Age: Origins was, it’s probably inevitable that a sequel would be coming. But today’s announcement of Dragon Age 2 indicates that Bioware and Electronic Arts plan to take the fantasy RPG into a somewhat different direction than its predecessor.
It appears that you won’t be reprising the …
FIFA 11 Ships This September
Another year, another FIFA title from EA but this time its different. Like Konami’s PES, FIFA 11 will allow faux footballers to edit teams and players with the introduction of Creation Centre. But it’s not all its cracked up to be.
Sure, you can manipulate players, teams, crowd chants, crests and kits, but you still can’t take …
Deathspank Coming to Consoles on July 13
While the summer months tend to be a wasteland for new packaged games, it’s been a booming time for digitally distributed ones. Last year saw Shadow Complex and Battlefield 1943 hit XBL and PSN, where they became big hits in the process.
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The latest hopeful for summer success is …
E310: Electronic Arts Press Conference Highlights
Video game giant Electronic Arts took the stage at E3 to announce a bevy of upcoming titles. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Criterion games will “take the game back to its roots” with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit “for a connected generation.” You play through a full career as a …
EA Bringing RISK to iPhone
A little world domination in your pants, if you please. Electronic Arts is bringing RISK to the iPhone and iPod Touch sometime this summer, although an exact availability date and pricing haven’t been announced. No mention of a high-res iPad version either.
EA is promising “the real RISK experience,” perhaps in a nod to the …
Poll: Funny or Gritty? What Should Insomniac Games Do Next?
Yesterday, the news broke that Insomniac Games would be pairing up with EA to develop a new game that’d be appearing on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Insomniac’s been turning out high-quality games–Spyro the Dragon (yes, Spyro. I said it), Ratchet & Clank and Resistance–for more than a decade. But all those games lived on the …
Killing with Skill: Trailer and First Look at EA & Epic’s Bulletstorm
Cliff Bleszinski thinks shooters take themselves too seriously. This may be a dubious claim from the guy who’s the public face of the mopey Gears of War franchise. But he’s looking to add some snark to all the sobriety and lighten things–literally–up with Bulletstorm.
(More on Techland: The Techland Interview: Cliff …
EA Announces Bad Company 2 Sales, Looks Ahead for FY 2011
Electronic Arts may not necessarily be the top dog in third-party video game publishing any more, but they’re still no slouch when it comes to moving units.
In earnings summaries for their previous fiscal year, which ended on March 31, EA reported that five releases broke the 5 million mark in terms of sales. Battlefield: Bad …
The Forecast Calls For Death: Epic Games and EA Unleash Bulletstorm
So, hear anything about Epic Games this weekend? The House That Gears of War Built had its secrecy spoiled by a flurry of leaks, but it’s finally been confirmed that they’ll be co-publishing Bulletstorm with Electronic Arts. The sci-fi FPS is being developed by People Can Fly, the Polish dev studio responsible for Painkiller. …
Modern Warfare Drama Continues As Former Heads at Infinity Ward Respawn at EA
The bitter rivalry between Activision and EA–which has seen developers move from one publishing giant to the other and has had Activision try to block the release Brutal Legend, a game that they rejected–has just kicked up a notch.
According to various sites, Jason West and Vince Zampella, formerly of Infinity Ward, announced the …