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Q&A: Electronic Arts' Spielberg link

News Last autumn, Electronic Arts said it had entered into a deal to create three original games in conjunction with Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg. These are not to be games related to Spielberg's films, but will in fact be entirely new...

15 May 2006, 10:49 > More matches in News

Battlefield 2: Two tribes go to war

Crave Every once in a while, a computer game comes along that takes over your life. Perhaps it's because we're pretty new to online gaming, but we're eating, sleeping and drinking Battlefield 2 at the moment.

Tags: electronic arts, attack, enemy, pilot

11 July 2005, 11:29 > More matches in Crave

Downtown and Zboards

Crave If our egos weren't already inflated from having killed our way to Lance Corporal ranking in Battlefield 2, we're now going to seriously bring the pain to the infidels with our Zboard. The latest in a long line of peripherals for totally l33t...

Tags: keyboard, battlefield, face, adjust

9 August 2005, 10:23 > More matches in Crave

Back to the front: Battle for Middle Earth II

Crave Where the real-time strategy game genre was once thought moribund and repetitive, the 3D achievements of games like Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and the Total War series in particular have pushed the RTS into new areas.

Tags: electronic arts, earth, war, battle

20 February 2006, 16:18 > More matches in Crave

Take-Two rejects EA buyout bid

News Electronic Arts revealed it has made an all-cash offer of nearly $2bn (£1bn) to acquire rival publisher Take-Two Interactive. Arts to go public with the deal to inform the Grand Theft Auto IV publisher's shareholders exactly what their corporate...

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25 February 2008, 8:36 > More matches in News

Sony could delay PS3, says games analyst

News A note buried deep in an analyst's eight-page memo about Electronic Arts has gotten videogame console gossips buzzing with the possibility that Sony might delay the launch of its much-awaited PlayStation 3.

8 August 2005, 9:39 > More matches in News

Online game makes a welcome comeback

News Originally released in 1993, Myst became perhaps the best-selling PC game in the world prior to the release of Electronic Arts' The Sims. According to Celia Pearce, who wrote her media arts Ph.D.dissertation on the phenomenon for the SmartLab...

19 May 2006, 9:34 > More matches in News

Will next-gen sink small game publishers?

News The games that hit the market in the earliest days of the Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution will largely be franchise titles -- those that publishers update again and again, like Electronic Arts' FIFA -- and not the massive...

21 November 2005, 9:51 > More matches in News

Gamers fight back against Spore copy protection

Crave After years of anticipation, the coming-out party for Electronic Arts' new evolution game, Spore, seems to be getting rained out. Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that limited the number of times a user can install the game to three.

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15 September 2008, 9:56 > More matches in Crave

500,000 Spore creatures created

News Will Wright's evolution simulation game Spore might not be getting its first releases until 5 September, but Electronic Arts on Wednesday launched part of the game -- the Spore Creature Creator. Electronic Arts noted that breaks down to more than...

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20 June 2008, 8:49 > More matches in News

EA invests vast amounts of cash in the future

News I think Electronic Arts are very shrewd in their licensing, particularly for sports titles," said Simon Carless, editor of Game Developer magazine, "and their recent deals have only reinforced their position.

25 August 2005, 9:45 > More matches in News

More overtime tussles for US tech companies?

News Electronic Arts has been the subject of much of this criticism and is the target of two class-action lawsuits claiming it failed to pay proper overtime wages to game developers. The decision earlier this year by computer-game titan Electronic Arts...

19 May 2005, 14:47 > More matches in News

E3 slogan: 'Everyone's a gamer'

News Electronic Arts focused its entire press conference on casual gaming, too. At the [E3] show it's highly fixated on the Nintendo platforms, which in the console world have really defined casual and brought people in," said Kathy Vrabeck, president...

16 July 2007, 9:59 > More matches in News

News.blog: EA pegs Nintendo's Wii at $170

News While many gamers are getting ready to decide whether they want to shell out as much as $600 (£425 in the UK) for Sony's PlayStation 3 this Christmas, one Electronic Arts executive thinks Nintendo's own next-generation console offering, the Wii...

23 August 2006, 9:48 > More matches in News

News.blog: EA move means the Mac is back for games

News When Electronic Arts and Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday that the publishing giant would be bringing a host of its biggest-name games to the Mac, it signalled that the platform is being taken increasingly seriously...

12 June 2007, 8:30 > More matches in News