Obama Campaigning on Xbox 360? (4)
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This is either a brilliant Photoshop job, some canny viral political campaigning, or both: An Xbox 360 gamer playing Burnout Paradise spotted an Obama campaign billboard with a “Paid for by Obama for President” caption as he whizzed by in his turbocharged sports car, Game Politics is reporting. The site was unable to confirm the ad’s authenticity with Burnout publisher Electronic Arts; I’ve left messages with both EA and the Obama campaign and will update ...
Behind the art in EA’s Dead Space video game (2)
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Want to know what’s behind making the art for a video game? It might sound boring, but Dead Space from Electronic Arts is no boring game. This brings a whole new lighting engine that lets artists do things that no other video game can do. Plus, a whole lot of scary monsters. Listen to Ian Milham, art director, who goes into all sorts of aspects of how his team made it all happen.
FIFA is the new Madden, in the UK (1)
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports, Business Some interesting statistics about Electronic Arts' recently launched FIFA09 in the U.K. (via Chart Track): It is currently beating the sales rate of FIFA08 -- itself a bestselling UK game last year -- by 37.5%. It debuted at the top of the PlayStation 2, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360 charts. Of those sales, 42% were ...
RockBand.com updated, custom merch now available (3)
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm The Rock Band website has received a rather massive overhaul. Navigation has been streamlined, a catalog of every RB song has been added (each with a written description) and the long-awaited Merch Booth section has opened up, allowing you to take pictures of virtual band and purchase merchandise -- buttons, stickers, posters and shirts. Perhaps the coolest addition is the ability to order 6" ...
Lawsuit: Retired NFLers Cheated by EA, Union [Lawsuits] (1)
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A suit brought by retired NFL players not only alleges they're due money for Electronic Arts' use of their likenesses and career stats, but also that their own union brokered a below-market deal as a favor to EA, helping it secure exclusive NFL rights for its Madden franchise. Via Ars Technica and GamePolitics, former Buffalo Bills defensive back Jeff Nixon has written an open letter to John Madden (also a Hall of Famer and former ...
Capturas de pantalla de Skate 2 (1)
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En VideoGamer han subido cinco nuevas imágenes de Skate 2, la secuela de ese juego con tan buenos escenarios / problemas de clipping / inserte aquí su chiste favorito de Anait TV. Así como del primero pasé guapamente niano niano, esta segunda parte caerá sí o sí. Prometido. Las imágenes en cuestión son las que siguen. Para que no tengáis que salir ni un segundo de esta, vuestra página amiga.
WAR's first city siege: The king is dead. Long live the king. (1)
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Filed under: Fantasy, Events, in-game, Forums, Game mechanics, Guilds, PvP, Endgame, Warhammer Online, News items It was only the other day when we reported that the first Warhammer Online city siege endgame had begun. Initial reports indicated that a relatively small group of players, in average gear, managed to capture Altdorf on the EU server Karak Eight Peaks, partially due to bugs in the game. However, rumors of the death of Emperor Karl Franz have ...
Mevio, née Podshow, replaces cofounder with new CEO [Hires] (4)
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As they say in fashion: One day you are in, and the next day, you are out. And the same is true even for podcasting startups long after podcasting went out of style. Ron Bloom, cofounder of then Podshow, now Mevio, just touted the rollout of a site redesign on Monday. Now a tipster tells us that Bloom has been replaced as chief executive by Jeff Karp, the SVP of marketing at video game publisher ...
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This is great news as I think Ron Bloom is not the greatest guy in the world. To put it mildly.
Rock Band 2 Registration for 20 Free Songs Now Open (1)
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If you picked up Rock Band 2, you may have noticed a code on the back of your manual with instructions on how to get 20 bonus songs for free. Well now it seems Harmonix has opened the way for you to be one step closer to getting those free tracks. Registration has now opened so that you can enter your code a receive an e-mail with another code once the tracks become available. Sadly, ...
Rock Band 2 bonus track registration is online (2)
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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, Rock Band 2 Free. Is there any word half as awesome in the English language? Harmonix agrees and is now accepting redemption codes for the twenty downloadable tracks that were included with the purchase of Rock Band 2 (the code is located on the back of your game manual). Once the registration information is filled out and you receive your confirmation email you get to play the game ...
Why a War on Virtual Gold Sellers Makes No Sense (6)
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Call me a radical, but when launching a big-budget online game, it doesn’t strike me as a very good idea to risk alienating nearly a quarter of your user base right out the gate. That, however, is likely to be the consequence of an extreme anti-gold selling policy at Mythic Entertainment, the studio that developed Electronic Arts’ new MMORPG Warhammer Online, which is widely seen as World of Warcraft’s best competitor. As part of the ...
EA Hid Identities of Retired Players in Madden, Lawsuit Document Says (1)
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Although Electronic Arts isn't a defendant in Parrish, Adderley et al vs NFL Players, Inc., the megabucks generated by its Madden NFL series are at the center of the legal dispute.The case, which will go to trial next month in San Francisco, alleges that the National Football League Players Association and its marketing wing, Players, Inc., prevented retired players from earning their fair share of licensing revenue. Money generated by EA's enormously popular Madden NFL ...
Amazon showers 1600MS points upon Rock Band 2 buyers (1)
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Filed under: Deals and Bargains, Rock Band 2 In what could be described as the awesomest (it's a word, believe) promotion Rock Band 2 related, Amazon is offering a free 1600MS point card with the purchase of the rhythm title. Those who purchase the standalone software will also be treated to a free points card which could be used to purchase even more "Rock."The offer is available until October 4 but Amazon warns the promotion ...
Mass Effect Movie Optioned [Rumor] (1)
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Avi Arad, the man behind the recent spate of good comic book movie franchises, is rumored to have optioned the rights to Bioware's sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect, Variety is reporting. Both EA and Arad declined to comment, but Variety reports that numerous sources have confirmed their report and speculate that Arad is in the the throes of trying to land a writer, director and studio for his freshly-minted deal. For some reason the game ...
Harmonix: 'No immediate plans' to put Jukebox Mode back into Rock Band 2 (2)
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm We were admittedly pretty bummed when our copy of Rock Band 2 was lacking a Jukebox mode, which would let our game go on autopilot while our virtual avatars rock out and we have some jamming party tunes and some fun visuals. The official word from Harmonix via a forum post is that the mode "was removed ... in the final stages of development. We have no immediate plans ...
Spore census results: Editors, Creatures and Space loved,... (9)
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Filed under: Features, Mac, PC, Polls Last week we asked you, dear reader, to tell us what precisely you liked did not like about Will Wright's "SimEverything" Spore (now also known as a beacon of DRM debate). The results are in, and overwhelmingly Space and Creature phases were voted as favorites, while conversely, the Tribal phase was voted least favorite. We also took the average score, from 1 to 5, as voted on each individual ...
Want a perfect vocal in Rock Band 2? Recite the Declaration of Independence (2)
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Filed under: News, Rock Band 2The Joystiq post talks about "phonemes" and how Rock Band 2 recognizes them in a different way than Rock Band 1 thanks to a different "detection system." This "detection system" is what recognizes the spoken word sections of any given song. It seems that making any sound during spoken word section in Rock Band 2 is read as good. But forget all of that. The point is that it's possible ...
Mercenaries 2 demo explodes onto Xbox Live (2)
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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace Three days after Pandemic announced that a Mercenaries 2 demo was on Xbox Live Marketplace, it finally emerges. Where was it hiding? We're not sure. Venezuela perhaps. Regardless of where it's been, it's available now for anyone who wants to give its particular brand of open world destruction a try. Be warned though, the demo only lasts for twenty minutes, and the timer doesn't reset when you die, and ...
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Electronic Arts is hunting to rebuild its connection with the hardcore by releasing a plethora of new IP’s titles that appeal specifically to a certain section of the gaming arena. Their recent deal with an internal Epic Games Studio “People Can Fly” (creators of Painkiller) and Grasshopper ...Xbox 360 Fanboy found this 2 days ago on www.gameguru.in Find more top gaming news, videos, and blogs on GamerBlips: Gaming, Epic Games , Unreal , Electronic Arts ...Shared by Wratty (79)Contribute comment
