Electronic Arts Acquires Social Gaming Company Playfish For $400m

Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired the rights to Playfish, a social gaming company in a deal that could be worth up to $400 million. This should prove to be lucrative for EA as Playfish has already gained great...

Gamers Can Submit their Ideas for FIFA 11

After a record-breaking launch for FIFA 10, now EA Sports is looking for user-submitted ideas and suggestion for its next version of football game, FIFA 11. FIFPlay which is a feedback community for FIFA game,...

E3: Dante's Inferno Protested by Churchgoers

A group of protesters holding signs stood outside the entrance of the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) video game conference at the Los Angeles Convention Centre earlier today. They were protesting the...

'Sims 3' Launches and Lives Up to the Hype

The Sims 3 lauches worldwide tomorrow, June 2. With the early reviews coming in the game seems to have lived up to its hype. The Sims 3 will be revolutionary in the series and is expected to reinvigorate Electronic Arts. Will Wright's original Sims changed the notion of video...

Fable II M Rating Overly Conservative – New York Times

"Here are some of the best games of the year, each of which could be the perfect gift for the right person" "FABLE II Ideal audience: emotionally mature children and most fans of delicate entertainment design....

FIFA 09; More than 1.2 million Copies Sold in Europe in Week One!

EA today announced a strong opening to its FIFA 09 season. More than 1.2 million copies of the critically-acclaimed game were sold through in its first week on shelves at European retail, making it the fastest...

EA signs director Zack Snyder

Zack Snyder, the director behind the 2006 movie 300 and the upcoming Watchmen has signed a deal with Electronic Arts (EA) to oversee the creation of three new game titles.  EA will own the intellectual...

Spore's European Launch Hit By Bugs

The European launch of the year's most eagerly anticipated video game has been tarnished by a mysterious bug. Countless Spore players found themselves unable to login to the game's servers and share their creature...

David Rutter: Visible Referee in FIFA 09

In an interview with the line producer of FIFA 09 (PS3 / Xbox360 versions), said David Rutter that finally the referee and his assistants will be on the pitch.In FIFA 08, the referee is not visible in the game,...

Universal Petroleum

A Texas-based American oil company, Universal Petroleum made a deal with the Venezuelan Government 50 years ago. In the decades since, U.P. made billions of dollars from the arrangement. When, in recent years, the P.L.A.V. began sabotaging Universal Petroleum's equipment...

Electronic Arts' Takeover Bid Rejected Ahead of GTA IV

Ahead of the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take-Two Interactive Software is rejecting a hostile takeover bid from media giant Electronic Arts. In this case, pressing the Y-button doesn't work*.Take Two's...

Fugitive fundraiser Hsu captured in Colorado

One of the Democrats favorite contibutors captured in Colorado. Hillary money man going to jail with no bail. "(09-06) 20:52 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu, who skipped out on San...

Spore's magic crayon and magnetic poetry

Along with everyone else, I'm frothing at the mouth waiting for Spore to release later this year. Design lead Chaim Gingold's talk at this year's Game Developer's Conference mentions both magic crayons and...

Apple Embraces Casual Gaming

"As iconic as Apple may be in consumer electronics—from personal computing to digital music and, now, mobile phones—it hasn't exactly set the gaming world on fire. The Mac lags behind competing brands in...

Nokia, EA Team Up for Gaming on the Go

"Mobile communications company Nokia and game developer Electronic Arts have inked a collaboration deal that will see EA becoming a major supplier of games for Nokia mobile devices. Customers will be able to access video games through a collection of e-stores from their...

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