And the EA earnings call keeps delivering. Company CEO John Riccitiello just revealed that the company's well-received XBox 360 / PS3 horror game "Dead Space" will be coming to the Wii. The implied timeframe was some time in the next year or so. Riccitiello immediately signaled that the game wouldn't ...
EA's CEO John Riccitiello just announced the release date of "Mass Effect 2." Rattling through a list of EA games he's excited about for the next year during a conference call -- and right after name-checking the newly-delayed BioWare role-playing game "Dragon Age: Origins" for Q3 (the fall, we assume) ...
EA has announced that two of the company's biggest upcoming PC games are now shipping later in 2009. "The Sims 3" is now slated for June 2. "Dragon Age" has slipped from early 2009 to the second half of 2009, matching the release window of the console verison.
***
The wait's going ...
There weren't a whole lot of new games this week, but remember -- it's not the size of the release that counts but the quality of its box art. We look at the covers of "Imagine Fashion Party," "Rygar: Battle of the Argus" and more.
***
"Imagine Fashion Party" (Wii)
What the ...
Just when we thought the great art style controversy of "Diablo 3" had died down, the game's community manager posted a pair of altered screenshots featuring unicorns, rainbows and... the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
***
You may remember the huge controversy surrounding the new art direction of "Diablo 3" that we ...
The trailer leaked two weeks ago. But that was only a concept trailer. Today, we can finally see what the next Indiana Jones game -- "Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings" -- will look like, coming this spring for Wii, PS2 and PSP.
***
LucasArts confirmed today news that leaked almost ...
Nothing says "I love you" like Valentine's Day cards based on a zombie-shooter video game. Check out these adorable renditions of "Left 4 Dead"'s characters in fan-made, holiday-themed artwork.
***
Last year, artist Alexandria Neonakis made "Team Fortress 2" Valentine's Day cards, and this year, she continues creating love notes inspired ...
Shooting hasn't started on "Iron Man 2," the sequel to 2008's surprise smash "Iron Man," but Sega and Marvel are already moving forward on the game for a 2010 release, with development once again handled by Sega's San Francisco studio, Secret Level.
***
Sega's "Iron Man" game may not have received ...
Once "Guitar Freaks" and "Guitar Hero" established the basic interface for music sims, there was a natural extension to bass and drums, but one reason hip-hop games haven't caught on, a "Scratch: The Ultimate DJ" designer told me, is because hip-hop doesn't naturally lend itself to gameplay.
***
The popularity of ...
Tucked into the announcement of a new Ubisoft Vancouver studio is information that Ubisoft has more sports gaming plans to follow up the company's "Shaun White Snowboarding" game of last year. It's not the first time I heard Ubi wanted to get into sports.
***
About five years ago I heard that ...
