Category Archives: EA

EA’s confirmed the full line-up of music for SSX, including tracks from DJ Shadow and Skrillex. There’s a load of other people I’ve never heard of there, but that doesn’t mean they’re not rinsin’, or whatever the fuck people say these days. Get the lot below. SSX, EA Canada’s snowy reimagining, releases for PS3 and 360 on February 28.

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Todd McFarlane, Spawn artist and art lead on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, has said a social buzz is needed around the just-released RPG if it’s to sell well enough to open up possibilities of developing a sequel.

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Mass Effect 3′s first DLC will be called ‘From Dust’, according to a gamer who picked up a code for it at GameStop.

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Buckle-up soldier; the Reapers are at the door and Shepard’s got a universe to save. Stace Harman goes hands-on with the first 90 minutes of Mass Effect 3 and chats to Bioware’s Mike Gamble about the evolution of a franchise.

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PopCap’s next game is a Facebook-only affair, according to IndustryGamers. Solitaire Blitz joins the casual developer’s other social network efforts, Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz, in March. A social version of Solitaire seems like an oxymoron, but PopCap has promised to work its magic on the classic single-player card game. Expect a small-scale beta soon, and see a trailer through the break.

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EA announced Mass Effect: Infiltrator iOS during a press event today in New York, as well as a companion app called Mass Effect Datapad, both of which will tie-in with Mass Effect 3 upon its release.

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EA’s detailed House of Valor, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’s day one DLC, an addition which locks out seven single-player quests for those with owned copies of the game.

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Reviews for 38 Studio’s first foray into the market, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, have gone live and below the break are many a link to click full of opinions on the RPG.

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BioWare has confirmed that no more collector’s editions of Mass Effect 3 will be made ahead of the game’s launch next month, meaning if you didn’t pre-order, you’re out of luck sucka’.

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Dragon Age: Redemption, the six-part live-action mini-series featuring Felicia Day, is coming to DVD next week for Valentine’s Day in the US. The show runs in parallel with Dragon Age II DLC Mark of the Assassin, and was previously internet-only. The product will include the full series, commentary, bloopers and behind the scenes stuff adding up to 40 minutes of extras.

Thanks, Joystiq.

EA’s sent out invites for a press event for the next Medal of Honor overnight in the US following speculation the sequel is about to be announced soon.

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On a sliding scale of RPG to shooter, the Mass Effect series has made sorties on both ends – but is aiming right for the middle.

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BioWare has apologised for and promised to fix the startlingly prevalent errors in the latest Mass Effect tie-in.

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EA’s to release a new update for the PS3 and 360 versions of Battlefield 3 today, fixing exploits and VOIP support. Mortars won’t be available to deploy in spawn areas, while the M-Com defender ribbon will be easier to achieve and tons more. Game Revolution has all the details.

EA’s released a new video of Shank 2′s survival mode ahead of the game’s launch this week. Comes with a bit of a twist: you don’t just have to die in order for it to be game over. How? Get watching over at Joystiq.

The Klei action-scroller launches tomorrow in the US for PSN and PC and on Wednesday for EU PSN and XBLA.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is almost upon us, and early reports are highly favourable – but what exactly is this new IP? We get the skinny from lead designer Joe Quadara on a revolutionary RPG.

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“There’s just south of 300 maybe in the Providence studio, which is the core of the [Copernicus] MMO team. I’s set in the same universe [as Amalur], so it will become obvious over the next, I don’t know how many months and years of time. This game exists in the same world. In a small way, if you think of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and World of Warcraft, those were tied together because they were in the same IP, but there will be story connectivity between what we’re doing in the games. In the MMO, there will be races that you can play are monsters in the RPG. Things like that. Same locations, there will be cities and places, there will be a familiarity to it that… Nobody else, I think, has gone in with the intent to do that like this.” – 38 Studios head Curt Schilling to VentureBeat regarding the Kingdoms of Amalur-based MMO Copernicus.

Bioware has announced plans to release a series video guides and weekly features for Star Wars: The Old Republic players. The videos are designed to help new players get acquainted with the MMO, and the first one, hosted by social media coordinator Eric Musco and posted below, explains how to create a character and how to participate in conversations with NPCs. The weekly features will consist of a blog post rounding the various forum posts by developers over the week, as well as a Q&A session pulling 10 questions from a community thread. Thanks, Massively.

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A couple outlets have gone live with reviews for 38 Studios’ Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and so far, it sounds promising.

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EA has confirmed a “small” round of layoffs in its Vancouver offices due to the location undergoing a “transformation” of EA Canada and Black Box studios’ home.

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